Next manager discussion (poll reset 21/05/2016)

Who would you want?

  • Frank de Boer

    Votes: 302 17.0%

  • David Moyes

    Votes: 56 3.2%

  • Manuel Pellegrini

    Votes: 152 8.6%

  • Ronald Koeman

    Votes: 286 16.1%

  • Other (please state below)

    Votes: 109 6.1%

  • Unai Emery

    Votes: 870 49.0%
  • Total voters
    1,775
  • Poll closed .
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Maybe we'd be better going for the Have I got News For You model and have a guest manager every week. The panic on this thread could replicated throughout the whole season. Much like the Hunger Games, the inaugural GOT Games is a fight for survival. Last one left to type 'Moyes' on the final day of the 2016-17 season wins.

Oh the humanity!

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Lanolin said:
Was it? Why?

Leicester have just won the league with Wes Morgan, Andy King, Robert Huth, Danny Simpson and Marc Albrighton. Southampton finished in the top 6 with Shane Long up front and players like Yoshida, Davis and Fonte key members of the team. All those mentioned are average journeymen, most of them have spent half their careers outside the top flight, and yet they all finished in this year's top 6.

Yes some clubs have signed the odd marquee player, but they always have. West Ham have signed Payet, wow! But they used to have Tevez and Mascherano, and before that Di Canio. And the majority of their squad is still made up of the likes of James Collins, Mark Noble and Aaron Cresswell. Stoke have signed Shaqiri and Bojan, but what have they actually done? They're the sort of names loved by FIFA and Football Manager players, but in reality both their careers have been massively underwhelming. I'd say it was actually a bigger statement when they signed Crouch years ago, when he was still a regular for England.

We shouldn't get Moyes back simply because there are better managers out there, but I see no reason to believe that it's harder to get into the top 6-8 than it used to be. If anything, the huge drop in the quality of the squads of the top teams has made it easier.
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It's harder because there are 6 teams that will definitely finish above us. City, Arsenal, Utd, Spurs, Liverpool and Chelsea. In the past we used to be comfortably better than the rest however that's not the case now with Southampton, West Ham and Leicester all having better squads than us.
 
nsno-chris said:
That reads to me a Everton showed a bit on an interest, maybe through his reps, but he wasn't on the high list of priorities.

And we're probably waiting for the right candidate. This is like the Bobby sacking, people expect it to be done asap, sit back and enjoy the ride.

All hail the MOSH
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I get that, he probably wasn't high on the list of priorities, but the list does seem to be narrowing. As does the managers who potentially could be available. If we where waiting for the right candidate to make his mind up it could bite us on the arse if they say no.

I am not too bothered about waiting, if we get the right man then thats fine - just thinking we are running out of men that could be right!
 

Adscum said:
Whoever said this reminds them of 1997 must have read my mind. Loads of exciting names mentioned....then they fall away one-by-one and you're left with Kendall 3.

For all the talk of Moshiri's project........still Everton.
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We're in a hell of a better situation than we were in 1997. Kendall wasn't the manager he once was. Also he didn't have any sort of a transfer budget. It went on for weeks and weeks with no manager. Waiting on Andy Gray, who had never been a manager. This is very different, although I agree I think we'll end up with Moyes.
 

Lanolin said:
Was it? Why?

Leicester have just won the league with Wes Morgan, Andy King, Robert Huth, Danny Simpson and Marc Albrighton. Southampton finished in the top 6 with Shane Long up front and players like Yoshida, Davis and Fonte key members of the team. All those mentioned are average journeymen, most of them have spent half their careers outside the top flight, and yet they all finished in this year's top 6.

Yes some clubs have signed the odd marquee player, but they always have. West Ham have signed Payet, wow! But they used to have Tevez and Mascherano, and before that Di Canio. And the majority of their squad is still made up of the likes of James Collins, Mark Noble and Aaron Cresswell. Stoke have signed Shaqiri and Bojan, but what have they actually done? They're the sort of names loved by FIFA and Football Manager players, but in reality both their careers have been massively underwhelming. I'd say it was actually a bigger statement when they signed Crouch years ago, when he was still a regular for England.

We shouldn't get Moyes back simply because there are better managers out there, but I see no reason to believe that it's harder to get into the top 6-8 than it used to be. If anything, the huge drop in the quality of the squads of the top teams has made it easier.
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Whether or not it is harder to make the top ten of the EPL now than it was even three years ago is indeed a matter of opinion.

I reckon it is....you reckon it isn't.

No worries :)

The point I was making and why I stated my belief about it being more difficult then than now, was that contrary to what the poster I was replying to believes, there is no guarantee that Moyes would have us in that top half of the table.

None whatsoever.
 
Diego Simeone has in the past expressed an interest to manage in England one day,

If Real Madrid beat A. Madrid in the Final on Saturday night perhaps Diego will feel he has taken them as far as he can, and be up for a new challenge.

And as mentioned before all the top clubs in England have a new or settled top manager so where can he go with an interesting project to match his own ambition?

The only club he can go to at the moment is us! And we should be aiming that high if we do have any ambition with our new found riches!

Could this even be the reason for the delay in appointing a new manager?

We should be going all out for Diego Simeone, come on Moshiri make it happen.

Or maybe I should stop having wet dreams during the day
 

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