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The next manager appointment (new thread)

The next manager appointment

  • David Moyes

    Votes: 113 18.0%
  • Carlos Corberan

    Votes: 94 14.9%
  • Wayne Rooney

    Votes: 15 2.4%
  • Thomas Frank

    Votes: 72 11.4%
  • Graham Potter

    Votes: 83 13.2%
  • Marcelo Bielsa

    Votes: 13 2.1%
  • Abel Ferreira

    Votes: 9 1.4%
  • Imanol Alguacil

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Henrik Rydstrom

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Kjetil Knutsen

    Votes: 5 0.8%
  • Davide Ancelotti

    Votes: 66 10.5%
  • Sarina Wiegman

    Votes: 20 3.2%
  • Gareth Southgate

    Votes: 11 1.7%
  • Sergio Conceicao

    Votes: 6 1.0%
  • Roger Schmidt

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Edin Terzic

    Votes: 18 2.9%
  • Kasper Hjulmand

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Christian Streich

    Votes: 4 0.6%
  • A caretaker like Big Sam, Warnock etc

    Votes: 9 1.4%
  • Mister X not mentioned

    Votes: 91 14.5%

  • Total voters
    629

I'd rather employ Mike Walker than Graham Potter. It would have the same outcome either which way. He wouldn't see out his contract.

He wouldn't be that bad. Yes he failed at Chelsea but Poch's struggles there shows the chaotic ownership model can be a hinderance for managers.

I was really surprised West Ham didn't go for him in the summer, would be a better fit for their squad than Lopetegui.

Not sure why he's been out of the game for as long as 18 months but ultimately he's one of the better out of work managers that is realistic for this club to appoint mid season.

If Wolves sack O'Neil soon they'll be in for Potter so interested if he accepts that.
 
He wouldn't be that bad. Yes he failed at Chelsea but Poch's struggles there shows the chaotic ownership model can be a hinderance for managers.

I was really surprised West Ham didn't go for him in the summer, would be a better fit for their squad than Lopetegui.

Not sure why he's been out of the game for as long as 18 months but ultimately he's one of the better out of work managers that is realistic for this club to appoint mid season.

If Wolves sack O'Neil soon they'll be in for Potter so interested if he accepts that.

I will acknowledge that people raised similar concerns about Eddie Howe when he was working on the South Coast: that Howe supposedly wouldn’t have been able to hack the pressure of the Northwest footballing cauldron, and perhaps those concerns turned out to be unfounded.

However, I do feel the same about Potter. I don’t think he could hack it in the Northwest. I also think that his idea of doing good would be finishing 9th and expecting the supporters to be doing cartwheels in response, as if we were Stoke or something.

He feels like the type of appointment that we could and perhaps would have made during the Kenwright era, and with a Kenwright budget tbh.
 

Howe over FSW should've been seriously considered in summer 2021. I think that summer he'd turned Celtic down last minute so perhaps there was a feeling he wanted to stay in the south or didn't want to manage a club with far higher expectations than Bournemouth but he's generally done fine at Newcastle with that goldfish bowl atmosphere up there.

Potterball compared to Dycheball is night and day so he'll be on the shortlist and interviewed I suspect if there's a vacancy here in next six weeks.

Fonseca aswell not doing that well at AC Milan so could wait for him to get sacked there and appoint him as he did well at Lille and also managed AS Roma in last few years.
 
This is the first time I've stepped into this thread so he's probably been mentioned before but I'd be doing everything I could to attract Gasperini from Atalanta.

This is a conversation for post takeover and once Dyche has secured our premier league status. He probably wouldn't even answer the phone to us now and if he did come, he wouldn't have the resources he'd require to make a significant change.
 
I will acknowledge that people raised similar concerns about Eddie Howe when he was working on the South Coast: that Howe supposedly wouldn’t have been able to hack the pressure of the Northwest footballing cauldron, and perhaps those concerns turned out to be unfounded.

However, I do feel the same about Potter. I don’t think he could hack it in the Northwest. I also think that his idea of doing good would be finishing 9th and expecting the supporters to be doing cartwheels in response, as if we were Stoke or something.

He feels like the type of appointment that we could and perhaps would have made during the Kenwright era, and with a Kenwright budget tbh.
Well he's from Birmingham and spent a big chunk of his playing career at Stoke.

Why don't you think he couldn't handle the frozen north ?
 
Well he's from Birmingham and spent a big chunk of his playing career at Stoke.

Why don't you think he couldn't handle the frozen north ?

I’m sure that he would be more than happy to sign the contract and receive his compensation when he’s sacked. Who wouldn’t?

I just don’t see him achieving at Everton, and I don’t see him attracting or managing the type of names we wish to attract. In managerial terms, he’s the equivalent of a move to Kirkby.
 

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