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Yeah you could be right on that, but that’s only in possession and sitting in CM would mean Justin is probably closer to his position than he usually is where he was often hovering around the opposition box or further forward under cooper where he constantly got exposed on the break. I’m just not sure he would fancy kristiensen to be tucking into midfield since he was pretty vocal to Enzo that he couldn’t do that job and wanted to go out on loan to avoid it.. others pointed out Hamza coming in and that probably makes much more sense.

I'm probably completely wrong but this is how I imagine we will setup, I think Justin will be asked to invert into midfield and Kristiansen will become the left sided CB in a back 3. I have a funny feeling Soumare will feature heavily in RVN's plans, he fits the Sangare role that he had at PSV of being a defensive minded midfielder who can also be quite comfortable on the ball. If all players were fit, I'd guess Ricardo would be at RB inverting to CM, Winks will very much suit RVN and would replace Ndidi, and El Khannouss may be dropped, Buonanotte taking his spot and Fatawu stepping in to right wing. I won't be surprised at all if the Soumare call is wrong and Ndidi returns to his old CDM role, the attacking experiment worked fine in the Championship, but going forward Ndidi has been caught out too often this season.

Even if we defend poorly for a while, if Ruud can actually tell the players to attack, we will improve MASSIVELY. Literally every time we got to 75 mins and were losing and started to attack, we improved.

I did read somewhere a couple of days ago that the club are confident the new manager can be backed in January, need to find the link, but atleast we will be able to sign atleast 1x 500k player

@StriderHiryu Do your thing!

A positive gamble that all of us can get behind. Love this, Get in there Ruud, fire some rockets at this squad and get them fighting for the badge again.

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Best mate is a Wednesday fan so I follow them pretty closely (our group chat is named Super Danny Rohl) The job Rohl has done there has been phenomenal, they definitely had a new manager bounce when he came in, and his form last season would have had Wednesday comfortably mid table with a League 1 squad, their owner makes our board look like masterminds and you can pretty much know who Wednesday have signed days before it happens based on the owners son following the new signings on instagram before it's announced. He was given a budget of about £5m and signed about 10 players (Ben Hamer was one of them funnily enough) This season they've struggled for a bit of consistency but had a big player turnaround in summer and overall I think Danny Rohl is going to be a top top manager in future, I'd love to see him managing us, but I'm a bit wary on the timing and whether now is the right time, if we had a points deduction I'd snap your arm off for him, but I'd worry he needs more time.

@mods what can I report this for?

As long as he doesn’t upset BDCR and Bouba we should be good. In all seriousness we do need someone to come in and show some rockets. We need a leader who is going to demand respect and Ruud does that. I also do think player power is quite strong at this club, it seems like Top often lends an ear to players a bit too often for my liking. It can work in some respects such as with Cooper since it seems to have pushed Top into making a change that we can all see is necessary, but every time someone gets sacked around here it sounds like the players have had a strong role in it happening, which fundamentally I hate. The balance of power at the club has seemed a bit toxic/skewed towards players since Pearson left. It’s about time we had a warrior in charge who isn’t afraid to bash some heads together and put up a barrier between the board and the changing room.

This wouldn't surprise me especially in the early days where Ronaldo was a showboat, Keane was brutal with him, I will say though having watched today the interview he did with Gary Neville from a year ago, Neville and him openly discuss how he managed the transition from being a completely goal driven player who went mental if he wasn't supplied goals (and they spoke about his attitude then) to now where he has to manage a group of players, and to his credit Ruud did acknowledge that he has changed that side of him when going into coaching and management and now understands the bigger picture and says he much more enjoys the focus on the collective compared to his playing days where he would scream at anyone who made the wrong decision if he was near goal.

Yep Schmidt should be a top priority, he won't even be a thought unfortunately.

https://www.footballcoin.io/blog/ruud-van-nistelrooy-tactics/#:~:text=Van Nistelrooy prefers central defenders,central defenders as wide players.

Left back, Right back, Defensive Midfielder (if the new manager doesn't revert Nididi back to a destroyer style CDM, I know Ruud likes to play a 433, at PSV he used Sangare in that role) and I'd love to say Striker, unless new manager can see something in Edouard.

I will say I'm half way through this on my other monitor, and I keep stopping what I'm doing to listen to him. He comes across well here, they spend most of the time talking about United but he also talks about his low points and the importance of players getting psychologists etc. Posting the link again for others, cheers @AKCJ

I hope he can bring someone like Fletcher from United in to help the midfielders.

Ruud is definitely a risk, but let's be honest, it's a far smaller risk/better gamble than continuing with Cooper.

Damn, you're right, we could still afford BDCR though right?... Right???

I completely understand this, but then how do we square that circle of not being able to afford the £4m, whilst signing Cooper and THEN spent £50m in the window + wages + sign on fees etc. Surely by that logic we could have signed Corberan and given him £46m to spend? Am I missing something?

I'm on the fence with RVN, he should be a priority interview alongside others like Schmidt/Corberan etc, I don't like how easily he fell out with PSV (although can understand why) given how badly of a clown show we have upstairs, and I thought he improved United quickly, but was that a manager bounce, he did play against us... The other half of me thinks he's an exciting gamble and we have have time left to sack him in 12 games and go for Big Moyesy

Edit: Already posted.

Haven’t watched it yet, but since Potter is going to be heavily linked, the High Performance Podcast just posted this a few hours ago.

Very pleasant surprise I was fully expecting he would be here until March with us in the relegation zone and looking for a firefighter, I have very little faith in this lot getting the appointment right, but I’m not sure it could be much worse than continuing with this decline!

Not sure how I forgot to add Schmidt and Corberan to my previous list. The managers available at the moment are promising, there’s nothing that forces us to go down the firefighter route, plenty of progressive managers currently out of work or at clubs we could actively poach from given we are still early in the season.

The fact he is “stunned” sums up just how far out of his depth he was. I’m stunned that he is stunned. Anyone could see that he’s under pressure, fans chanting for him to “sort it out”, a 20% win rate, some of the most awful football most of us have seen since Holloway, and he’s “stunned” because he thinks 2 wins in 12 and 1 point above relegation has him safe in the job. If he’s seriously stunned by this, hes living in his own world.