cityfanlee23

Question for everyone (and i'm not for or against just curious) If we play for the rest of the season how we did today, would you accept Ruud being here next season?

Someone massively going under the radar at the moment is Liam Manning at Bristol City. Nobody can doubt the job Pearson did in stabilising them as they sold off everyone and refused to reinvest, the Bristol city fans didn’t want Pearson to go. But since arriving Manning took Bristol to 11th after taking over in 15th, and now has them in the top 6 with a budget of £10m. He's done a fantastic job building on Pearson's foundation. Prior to that he did a great job at Oxford, MK Dons and Lommel in Belgium. Was part of the city group so has contacts at Man City and its clubs. I would add, he has got Bristol City there with quite a low number of wins at 16 with 5 to play but there’s no doubt he’s improved the club this season and is taking advantage of a very competitive mid table. Not completely sold on him but definitely worth keeping an eye on him for the summer if our main targets don’t come. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Manning

Yeah I think fundamentally although he has accepted some mistakes, ultimately in the interview he did say that if anything he believes in his style more than ever, so as much as it was a brilliant interview and he's better than Ruud. No thanks.

Yep can't fault the interview at all. Silly really but I was surprised by his vocabulary, he comes across as an intelligent guy and very well prepared and planned.

He comes across really well (as most managers do Infront of camera) but he seems like a really sound person who have a clear identity and a really methodical approach, I just dislike his style personally, if he came here and said he's learned from his mistakes and he wants to keep possession but play more freely and attack more, i'd accept it. (He's not on my list at all, but I'm mentally preparing myself for him coming)

Fully expecting Russell Martin to be our next manager, I quite liked him as a player, he was a bit of a rogue and was a hard hitter, so watching this to get his side. God I hope he has changed his ways if he ends up here though, his football was a snooze-fest.

World 18 Edgeville and Mage bank pking was so fun too! the awful RS pking videos on youtube probably with something like Linkin Park playing and "unregistered hypercam 2" in the corner

I guess this depends on how much of a rebuild we can afford, if we manage to offload the 10-12 players including contracts ending and we have room to spend, we could potentially get a more sophisticated manager with an identity and a system (that could be replicated by other managers after him) My main worry would be us going for someone like Dyche who plays quite a rigid system without much dynamic fluency, we then spend 18 months signing players for that system, sack Dyche, then the new manager coming in arrives to a team full of workhorses without the tactical flair to adapt to anything else. One thing Puel did well is buy players who could play in multiple different styles if needed, Dyche typically tends to go for players I would consider quite "one dimensional" though there are a few examples that don't fit that mold like Ndiaye. Just need a bit of balance really.

Yep quite a few of us pointed him out.

There are a few rumours online that Spurs have made contact with Glasner, I doubt Ange would drop down to us, but we absolutely should be in immediate contact if he does lose the spurs gig.

The thread related to Jeremy Monga and what we were doing at 15 had me on a nostalgia trip, I was 7 when this came out, but it was one of my first Albums and i've been listening to it again today. Fantastic memories of childhood and listened to this album for years after it came out on repeat. Fantastic entertainer. It should be a link to the full album playlist.

Tielemans on loan with an option to buy was also a fantastic piece of business for us, as was Evans for under £5m. We won’t talk about the goalkeeper he signed though 🤣

This is it I think. Puel is perfect for a DOF role, has a clear eye for a good value player, has a history of promoting youth so we would be signing players aged 16-23 for the most part, handled the Vichai situation like a pro and he’s a guy who actually has a vision and the convictions to stick to it.

I miss that game sometimes, completely burned myself out on it between about 2004-2009, I miss standing in World 2 Falador park spamming whatever the hell I was selling 33,023,128 times Cyan:Wave2: SELLING LOBSTERS 350 EACH

Ruud. Rudkin is a long term problem, if he's here at the beginning of next season, he's probably here for the next 5 seasons. If Ruud is here for the next season, it's only a handful of bad results before he's gone.

Can we get him to put a bid in?

I don't think Enzo is anywhere near as special as many think, and I wanted him to be replaced because I didn't believe his style would work, but there is absolutely no doubt he is better than SC and RVN, I think we would have gone down, but it would have atleast been fighting, and I think we would be in a far healthier situation now regarding players on the books and would likely be going down without the likes of BDCR, Ayew, Skipp and Edouard on the books.

Come on mate, you can do it. Just say it, say those magic words. "King. Power. Ou......"

Ruud looked to have given up, the tactics arent working, but defensively for as bad as the tactics are, a huge portion of blame has to go on the players, and to some extent I feel sorry for Ruud. Even with his awful setup, the players just don't care. The players are on the beach.

I haven't seen much about Mousinho but will have a look at him later!

Lampard is an interesting one, did well at Derby, great job at Chelsea first time around under a difficult embargo, 2nd time around an obvious disaster, by that point the club was a circus. Everton job didn't really work out, then goes to coventry and has barely put a foot wrong. Massively intelligent guy and not afraid to step down and work his way up. Not sure I'd want him next season if he was a possibility but he's a manager I like.

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I need to take a break from this forum if we do actually sign him

Yep I remember you mentioning him and I was alongside you there. I love the Red Bull system that Rangnick pioneered which is why I've often said the club should go all out to offer Rangnick anything he wants to become DOF, I also still quite like Hassenhuttl despite the disappointments at Southampton and he's done a decent job turning around Wolfsburg who were going down before he arrived and are now 6 points from Europe albeit in a very tight mid table. Marco Rose was also on my list when Rodgers left, as was Adi Hutter and Roger Schmidt (I would love to see us contact Schmidt in summer as he's taking a break for the rest of the season, I think he's above our level though), Kovac was a manager multiple people mentioned here over the last few years. The Red Bull network just constantly produces talent on and off the pitch and has one of the best scouting networks in the world, and with Jurgen Klopp now "Head of Global Soccer" there the sad thing is, right now, I would happily take Red Bull as owners. I genuinely believe that network would see us return to the top half of the premier league. Sorry, went off on a bit of a tangent there!

This. This. This. This. Got hammered so many times last season because I was bored of the sideways and backwards ball, Opposition camping in their own box mainly because of our painfully slow buildup giving them all the time in the world to settle into a deep block, then having fans lazily branding anyone who disagreed with the style as some sort of dinosaur fans who wanted route 1 football. Absolutely not. Give me Red Bull ball, Give me German heavy metal football used by the like of Klopp and Rangnick, I want to see players breaking their neck to get to the ball first and press, I want to see players who can run for 90+ minutes like KDH could. I want to see players who will "F'ing die to get 3 points" in the words of Neil Warnock. I want route 1 football like I want a hole in the head.