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Next Manager (Poll)

Next Manager

  • Arteta

    Votes: 214 18.4%
  • Gallardo

    Votes: 42 3.6%
  • Howe

    Votes: 66 5.7%
  • Benitez

    Votes: 216 18.6%
  • Mourinho

    Votes: 173 14.9%
  • Dyche

    Votes: 26 2.2%
  • Potter

    Votes: 6 0.5%
  • Wilder

    Votes: 12 1.0%
  • Simeone

    Votes: 128 11.0%
  • Mancini

    Votes: 34 2.9%
  • Marcelino

    Votes: 29 2.5%
  • Blanc

    Votes: 12 1.0%
  • Wenger

    Votes: 30 2.6%
  • Moyes

    Votes: 86 7.4%
  • Other, please state

    Votes: 89 7.7%

  • Total voters
    1,163
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Well they are names in the poll, so felt like I needed to comment, and 2nd place Arteta has zero management experience

This century, several top Bundesliga and La Liga clubs have promoted ex-players who were youth/reserve team coaches. Since Unsworth came in after Koeman, Chelsea have appointed Lampard and United have employed Solskjaer, both with focus on youth and Lampard had Mount, Tomori at Derby

When things turn to pants and you have a team of strangers, you can often find some continuity, familiarity and structure by introducing hardworking, talented youngsters
 
Why is Graham Potter in this poll? Embarrassing. Almost as bad as hiring a bloke who relegated Wigan.

Well, why not? He is relatively highly educated, including in management. Have previously played professional football. In other words, he knows the game from the inside. Did an excellent job with Østersund and Swansea. He prefers to play an offensive and expansive football. Furthermore, he has a modern management style, and he is known for being innovative in terms of training methods. Still, he has just been hired by Brighton, so it would be wise to wait to see what he can accomplish with them. The downside is that he is English and does not have an exotic name.
 

Well, why not? He is relatively highly educated, including in management. Have previously played professional football. In other words, he knows the game from the inside. Did an excellent job with Østersund and Swansea. He prefers to play an offensive and expansive football. Furthermore, he has a modern management style, and he is known for being innovative in terms of training methods. Still, he has just been hired by Brighton, so it would be wise to wait to see what he can accomplish with them. The downside is that he is English and does not have an exotic name.

It’s the exact same mistake we made with the other managers. Teams like Newcastle and West Ham are looking for trophy winners with European experience. Our criteria seems to be ‘who has had a brief period of lighting up the lower end of the premier league table’. Potter hasn’t done anything yet to suggest he is ready for what should be one of the biggest jobs in English football. It’s our own fault we’ve devalued it from what it once was. If Potter does a long term at Brighton, establishes consistent finishes in mid table and shows progress in the cups then maybe maybe he could be considered. But currently he has even less to his CV than Silva and Martinez had.
 
Well, why not? He is relatively highly educated, including in management. Have previously played professional football. In other words, he knows the game from the inside. Did an excellent job with Østersund and Swansea. He prefers to play an offensive and expansive football. Furthermore, he has a modern management style, and he is known for being innovative in terms of training methods. Still, he has just been hired by Brighton, so it would be wise to wait to see what he can accomplish with them. The downside is that he is English and does not have an exotic name.


excellent job with Swansea?

they finished 10th last season, to put that into perspective, they are currently 2nd?

how did he do a excellent job?
 
excellent job with Swansea?

they finished 10th last season, to put that into perspective, they are currently 2nd?

how did he do a excellent job?

Swansea lost a number of key players before the season. The starting point was not easy. He got Swansea to play offensive and expansive football while employing a number of players from the academy. He laid the foundation for the new coach, Steve Cooper, who has about the same football philosophy as Potter.
 
Swansea lost a number of key players before the season. The starting point was not easy. He got Swansea to play offensive and expansive football while employing a number of players from the academy. He laid the foundation for the new coach, Steve Cooper, who has about the same football philosophy as Potter.

I know he would have had a tough job as Swansea had just come down, but finishing 10th isn't excellent, gutting the team and getting play offs or something would have been excellent
 
I did plenty of reading. After the failed spell at WB, Pulis was very vocal about him not being a PL-caliber player. The next season he's back at Arsenal, where he's quickly sold to Bremen for (lol) £5m, How did he go from being a top academy prospect to sold for peanuts in 2 years? Because Arsenal didn't, or wouldn't, recognize his potential. Revisionist history at it's finest.

Oh, and I read perfectly well, mate. Can you say the same?
Revisionist history, are you sure you do any actually reading ?
Serge Gnabry started and was a sub in matches for Arsenal in the 2013-2014 season , had a man of the motm performance against Spurs in the FA cup and against Swansea when we beat them in Wales.
He stopped playing when he got injured,after his injury,to get him back to fitness they made the wrong decision to send him to Pulis, where he didn't fail(unless you are as much a Neanderthal as Pulis) but had his confidence wrecked by a clueless fool of a manager.
Arsenal got him back and tried to extend his contract but by then he'd already had his head turned by Bayern who engineered the move to Bremen on the cheap then to Munich for a song.
Here are the words of the man himself(in 2016 when he made his move) and his former manager but I'm sure you know better.

 

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Revisionist history, are you sure you do any actually reading ?
Serge Gnabry started and was a sub in matches for Arsenal in the 2013-2014 season , had a man of the motm performance against Spurs in the FA cup and against Swansea when we beat them in Wales.
He stopped playing when he got injured,after his injury,to get him back to fitness they made the wrong decision to send him to Pulis, where he didn't fail(unless you are as much a Neanderthal as Pulis) but had his confidence wrecked by a clueless fool of a manager.
Arsenal got him back and tried to extend his contract but by then he'd already had his head turned by Bayern who engineered the move to Bremen on the cheap then to Munich for a song.
Here are the words of the man himself(in 2016 when he made his move) and his former manager but I'm sure you know better.

A) why are you such a prick?
B) it took you 1/2 a day to Google all that, kudos
C) why are you such a prick?

Cheerio, have a lovely day
 
A) why are you such a prick?
B) it took you 1/2 a day to Google all that, kudos
C) why are you such a prick?

Cheerio, have a lovely day

So he's made you look daft, and your response is to give him abuse?

Think Marco Silva has a long-term prognosis as Everton boss than you on here tbh
 
So he's made you look daft, and your response is to give him abuse?

Think Marco Silva has a long-term prognosis as Everton boss than you on here tbh
I suppose you can interpret that as being made to look daft, as I said, anyone's a Google scholar and there's a whole lot of conjecture and opinion in there

But you don't have to be a prick in how you discuss. If you followed the conversation, I certainly wasn't the aggressor. You have a lovely day now as well.
 
A) why are you such a prick?
B) it took you 1/2 a day to Google all that, kudos
C) why are you such a prick?

Cheerio, have a lovely day

And we will thank you to keep the personal abuse and name calling elsewhere, any more of this childish behaviour will result in an enforced holiday !!
 

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