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Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
He'll go back to Italy.
jayonenote
Player Valuation: £8m
Yes youre right.
We couldnt
Cork Evertonian
Player Valuation: £50m
Well with your attitude we couldn't anyway.lol We can always ask him.
gorgeousgeorgeEFC
Player Valuation: £25m
How did we go from Warnock to Conte in the space of a few pages?!
evertony
Player Valuation: £50m
Can't argue with that.
However, only the manager is taking the blame currently - there is a significant number of players, mostly the established ones, who clearly don't give a flying one for this club or its manager....Baines and Mirallas being two of the main ones. One we'll past the point where he should be a guaranteed starter and the other with an ego totally disproportionate to his contribution. Whilst Koeman certainly isn't beyond reproach it seems like such players are....Mirallas infuriates and amazes me at the same time. His overall effort and impact since he's been here is frankly poor, his attitude and demeanour stink, yet he clearly has some ability.
It's a collective mess - making the Manager the sole scapegoat is a recipe for disaster - once he's gone the same bunch of them will still be here. Quite typically what happens is there'll be a renaissance in form for 4-5 games, fans will be of the view it was therefore the manager, and within a month or so they revert to type. Leicester are a perfect example....and there's shouts for us to be more like them?
For me it was quite obviously a long term plan. Necking it at the first sign of a falter is not the best solution. However, I suspect like Stones, Martinez and others the current manager will be hounded out. Stones and Martinez are currently showing their ability....one riding at the top of the League playing in a team that by many accounts is verging on being one of the best ever in this country and one who has topped the World Cup qualifying group with a nation with a small but talented pool of players....breaking scoring records along the way. I'm sure plenty will,say it's the players not the manager who are responsible for Belgiums fine form....but tell that to Marc Wilmots who had the same bunch of players...players who simply decided they ruled the roost.
That's my point.....the players are equally culpable.
GwladysBlue
Player Valuation: £70m
Sam Allardyce is second favourite for the job. Please, no!
Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
The correct answer is Tony Pulis. Hear me out.
If Ancelotti will take the job, you have to hire him. It would be a bad idea for any number of reasons, particularly his domestic record. But the reality is that if you have the board's stated ambitions, then you have to at least try to hire the guy that jibes with those ambitions. His agent will tell you that he'd rather retire than take the helm of a non-CL club, which is fine by us.
At that point you regroup and hire the guy most likely to keep you out of the Championship. That's Pulis. He's wrong for the long-term, but you have to take the threat of not getting to 40 seriously. So you hire the expert.
Hs takes the job because of the talent on offer compared to his present job, and because the club can make it financially worth his while.
We can be prideful and take a risk, but ask a Villa fan how well that worked out.
If Ancelotti will take the job, you have to hire him. It would be a bad idea for any number of reasons, particularly his domestic record. But the reality is that if you have the board's stated ambitions, then you have to at least try to hire the guy that jibes with those ambitions. His agent will tell you that he'd rather retire than take the helm of a non-CL club, which is fine by us.
At that point you regroup and hire the guy most likely to keep you out of the Championship. That's Pulis. He's wrong for the long-term, but you have to take the threat of not getting to 40 seriously. So you hire the expert.
Hs takes the job because of the talent on offer compared to his present job, and because the club can make it financially worth his while.
We can be prideful and take a risk, but ask a Villa fan how well that worked out.
jayonenote
Player Valuation: £8m
Thats very true, we could always ask him, we could ask Pep come to that matter.
And get laughed at in return.
Its not about attitude its about being realistic.
bluejohn66
Player Valuation: £15m
Trouble is. when we're in the bottom 3, which isn't that many games away, I'm not too sure what type of 'quality' manager could be attracted. Sure money talks but we might have to go for a short term 'get us out of the brown stuff' specialist.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
The sensible option (if things remain the way they are and we continue to flounder under Koeman) will be to bring Unsworth in until we rally. Then seek a long term appointment.
Blues Harp
Player Valuation: £60m
Its gonna be Bilic isn't it Bill? 
Bringabluehome!!#
Bringabluehome!!#
Blues Harp
Player Valuation: £60m
What happens if we DONT rally with Unsworth?? Its possible isn't it??
AndyC
Player Valuation: £70m
Probably would not be popular, but if we do drop into the bottom three and show little sign of getting out of it between now and Christmas, then Premier League survival becomes paramount and Sam Allardyce is the proven master of this. Short term appointment to stay up and use that time to totally re-assess.
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