Who's next after Benitez - Poll reset 25th Jan

[Theoneandonly]

He did drive Rodriguez and Digne out of the club though. At least his scumbag predecessor, was able to manage a top 10 finish.

His remit was to get the club back on sound financial footing. Digne and James were on ludicrously High wages and saleable assets due to their ages.

They would have been sold no matter who was in charge.

 

[meagher94]

No manager gets us up the table with a season of the attackers and our best CB in the treatment room.

Our last manager beat Wolves away with this XI ffs.

 

[Curtis]

No manager gets us up the table with a season of the attackers and our best CB in the treatment room.

I honestly tempered my expectations with him, I would understand mid table or slightly lower with our current woes but we had won like 2 games in 13 that's inexcusable and the performances were not encouraging either suffice to say somehow more punishing to the eye than Carlo's style. Yet he actually provided some defensive stability. But anyway back on topic besides Martinez who would your ideal managerial candidate be?

 

[meagher94]

His remit was to get the club back on sound financial footing. Digne and James were on ludicrously High wages and saleable assets due to their ages.

They would have been sold no matter who was in charge.

His remit was also to win games though which is why he was sacked

 

[BlueToff]

Exactly. It's a transitional phase.

No, he's replaced the assistant manager who has recently left...

 

[BlueToff]

His remit was to get the club back on sound financial footing. Digne and James were on ludicrously High wages and saleable assets due to their ages.

They would have been sold no matter who was in charge.

His remit was to win games.

 

[nsno-chris]

The worst of us are still defending the kopite

Horrible behaviour

 

[Kev The Rat]

Appointment needs making by midweek

 

[Jimishorts]

Rafael is blameless

 

[BlueStevie35]

No manager gets us up the table with a season of the attackers and our best CB in the treatment room.

Good managers adapt to injuries, Benitez never

 

[brieverton]

I actually think its fine to employ people at the club who have played for us.

However, they need to have the actual attributes for the role.

If you look at Ajax, they brought in Van Der Sar as CEO. Overmars as DOF and of course have a mix of the best Dutch coaches along with old players at the club.

Im hoping that Cahill was there yesterday to negotiate his package to come in as CEO or DOF.

But im also hoping that we bring in coaches, scouts and recruitment specialists from overseas and boot Unsworth out of the academy.

I would hope Cahill would be an exception if returning to the club that he would feel a greater degree of freedom in being truthful and acting on his opinions.

Most of the time, jobs for the boys means a job for keeping your mouth shut and the status quo going.

Cahill seems to be the one guy I'd be in favour of giving a role to. It's an advantage he loves the club, but he has got to have the necessary skill set as well.

 

[PhilEFC]

His remit was to get the club back on sound financial footing. Digne and James were on ludicrously High wages and saleable assets due to their ages.

They would have been sold no matter who was in charge.

Whatever way you look at him he was a massive failure. A master tactician who didn’t have any tactics.

 

[davek]

Our last manager beat Wolves away with this XI ffs.

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What's your point? Benitez beat Arsenal at home with this:

 

[Theoneandonly]

His remit was also to win games though which is why he was sacked

We was on a downward trajectory from Carlo's time. 3 wins in his last 11 matches. We had no money to spend and had to balance the books. Sure we could keep Digne, James, Bernard etc etc but next season we would face sanctions. Yeah results didn't go our way, but when you have players like Kean making calamitous mistakes which cost us games, what can you do, no amount of work on the training field can prepare you for that.

Rafael identified key problems in the team and tried to rectify them, he should be praised for bringing in Gray, having belief in Gordon, bringing in new fullbacks, getting rid of Brands, balancing the books etc

 

[Theoneandonly]

Whatever way you look at him he was a massive failure. A master tactician who didn’t have any tactics.

We will see how good his tactics are at his next job. You'll find that he wasn't the problem.