As @Cuban Pete mentioned, guess it is the DoF that will now be tasked with the long term plan and vision - recruitment of one with a good track record like Monchi would go a long way to reassuring me tbh.
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But he has achieved a lot!
These are his managerial honours:
Ajax
Benfica
PSV
Valencia
AZ Alkmaar
His recent achievements are getting Feyenoord back from scraping the barrel and transforming Sotton into a side that are consistently fighting for the top six (building/improving on the work of Poch following a mass exodus of players).
If you're going to discount that as an achievement, you can't say Poch has achieved anything either - Spurs completely folded when the pressure was on this season...
tsubaki
Player Valuation: £90m
The other candidates were someone who has won this league, and someone who has won the Europa three times on the bounce.
I think we're further away then ever to get to that level and teams will be further in front. He will give us stability top half but I can't see anything else. And 7 mill a year is utter crazy and he's only in it to line his pockets
ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
Isn't that call a straw man argument, Davek tried to set the club up for a fall so he had leverage to criticise. This guy has better what Potchetino did at Southampton despite having his squad ripped apart twice. We'd be fapping from now until eternity if we brought Potchetino in, pound for pound this guy did better.
Mourinho you mean? It's been well documented that he had been paid by Utd to take the job 4 months ago. He was never a candidate.
Emery - we went for - and he looks to have turned our offer down, and it looks to be amidst reports of a move by PSG, Milan and a better offer of backing by Sevilla (who are again in the CL).
£7million. Yeh, it's a lot. But so what? We have the money.
Fans complain when we don't spend it for years, but when we have it and do, they're still whining...
We never saw eye to eye on RM, but agree spot on with this.
People really need to give their head a wobble if they are disappointed with this. It's ridiculous.
Kev The Rat
Player Valuation: £70m
The man is more or less a legendary player who has done extremely well in the premier league. He must be given all the support he needs from board and fans to achieve his specified objectives.
tsubaki
Player Valuation: £90m
I meant Pellegrini. With regards to Emery, I don't think we have displayed anywhere near the intent that we appear to have with regards to Koeman.
As for the money, I think you are doing everyone a disservice. People want us to spend, but on players and staff that will improve us. Spending around £25 million on someone whose main argument is that he will get us back to the level we were at when Moyes was here is daft, we may as well save a good chunk of that money on rehiring Moyes if that is what you want.
This is the best chance we have had in years to turn things around, and handing that chance to Koeman is something that should not sit well with anyone. It is hardly nil satis nisi optimum, is it?
Norwegian Cow
Player Valuation: £35m
be funny if it koeman doesnt come after all, after all the talk about him coming to us on the forum.
Fairs. Though we went for Pel as well. The Esk confirmed. Moshiri wasn't impressed. Believed Pel was just out for a pay-day.
Right, your second point baffles me.
You've said we want the money to improve us, but you're moaning that we're using it to get in a manager that has finished in the European spots for the last two seasons and broke Sotton's record points total - in a period where we have finished 11th.
How is that not the literal definition of improvement?
The 'special' manages are taken by clubs in the Champions League - that's how it is. We interviewed Pelegrinni and it didn't sit right for Moshiri.
funny in a sadistic, horrible way
AaronTheBlue
Player Valuation: £60m
none of those areimpressive, at all.
I'm not anti koeman. I think he'll do better than we have in the last couple of years, get us top 8.
Maybe he'll even surprise me and do better than that.
But it's only an upgrade because we've had an underachieving manger. We could have got this guy 3 years ago easy. We aren't shopping ina different market now, which is what we were promised.
Cuban Pete
Player Valuation: £50k
I'm far more interested in the DoF appointment than the coach, that will tell us everything we need to know about where we're going. I'd be happy to see us pay someone like Monchi a bloated salary, 7m a year for a manager to right the ship is crazy. The next coach will expect more and rightly so. It's Moshiri's money so it's up to him but it doesn't set a good precedent.
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