cityfanlee23

Don’t care. Play him 😂 yep completely agree with everything.

I think this is the point. All of us want to bring in a young, relatively unknown, exciting manager who plays attacking football and will get us playing as a unit, but for every De Zerbi who comes in to Brighton, there are far more Coopers, given how the club has been run for the last 10 years, we need someone to properly come in, steady the ship, start to build a foundation and move the club forward until we are in a position where even if we take a big gamble on a younger more exciting manager, the foundation will help them succeed. Right now there are plenty of unknowns we could go for, but we have no idea whether they are capable of controlling the clown show we have running the club upstairs. Moyes is experienced, has a track record and builds foundations. The next manager needs to be someone who can offset the boards mistakes.

I'm not sure people are specifically looking for a "good fit", more that he will play to our strengths and get the most out of each player and get us working as a unit. Which will likely immediately improve us by a big amount, Moyes would keep us up imo, but I won't be too excited by the football. So it's not to say other managers might not do a better job, but that Moyes is likely to pose less of a risk.

Moyes would likely drop Justin on day 1 and play Ricardo like probably 99% of managers in the league

None of these in any particular order: Priority: - Urs Fischer (Fantastic job at Union Berlin) - Moyes (Speaks for himself, incredible job at West Ham, would steady the ship, and is an old school manager who prefers to oversee all areas of the club, which is what we need with the clown show upstairs) - Sergio Conceicao (unlikely but should be a priority) - Franck Haise (Fantastic job at Lens, currently at Nice) - Ruud Van Nistelrooy (not completely sold, had a big falling out in Netherlands, and had a good record at United interim but wasn't completely sold by them, hard to judge him) - Potter (not too fussed at all, better than Cooper, doesn't excite me) Interesting outsiders: - Henrik Rydstrom (Malmo manager, studied Marcelo Bielsa and has said his style is to try to "create chaos" with fast attacking play. - Lucien Favre (Decent record and plays attractive, fast paced football) - Danny Rohl (Overall has done a phenomenal job but they are struggling for consistency, had a great new manager bounce and have slightly stepped off the gas a bit, but their club makes Top look like the second coming of christ) Very unlikely (desperate): - Andoni Iraola - Genuinely think he's one of the most exciting young managers in Europe. Unlikely to want to leave but we probably offer a bigger short term prospect than Bournemouth before he inevitably moves to a bigger European club. - Terzic - Seb hoeneß (took over Stuttgart in the relegation zone, saved them, took them to 2nd and a champions league spot, failed to reach those heights this season)

I would also, massively boring football, but we had a direction for the most part, he steadied the ship when he came in and his transfer record was very good overall, I don't want him back, but if you offer him or Cooper right now, i'd take Claude back all day.

Massively offensive to Rodgers tbh.

Such a strange one, I guess this is yet evidence that paper stats can be deceiving, I watched a few of his games at Forest before he was officially announced where he used multiple clearly different formations and it came across as pragmatic, he's been clueless for us.

Low quality game of football from both sides, we've not got any plan, no press, no urgency, nobody cares. Coopers needs to go, either roll the dice on a foreign manager with a bit of flair, or get Moyes in to absolutely rocket these players. Chelsea have spent over £200m, have one of the biggest squads in Europe and they were relatively poor, we could easily have nicked a draw then if we actually turned up. So bored of this club. Genuinely don't see the benefit of watching us at the moment over doing other mundane tasks.

We need a manager to come in and run the show top to bottom. Pearson built a foundation and was a leader, that foundation served us for quite a few years after he was gone as the board did everything they could to undo all of the hard work by blowing money on big transfers on silly wages. I'd love for us to go for a young, dynamic manager, but I'd also snap your hand off for a more "boring" appointment like Moyes who will grab the club by the scruff of the neck.

Tbh I probably would have given a penalty by the laws of the game, but if that's what penalties are in 2024 I want to get off the ride. So bored of modern footballers desperately trying to find contact so they can roll around for 5 minutes.

What a low quality game of football this has been from both sides. I stopped cleaning the kitchen for this.

WTF? ATTEMPTED MURDER Get up Mav you idiot.

Yep, I'm starting to embrace the dark thoughts of wanting games like this to be 6 or 7 to force it. We aren't building anything, time to roll the dice.

It's been a few season since we had a goal a game man though, shame about the end the goals are in though

Chelsea were there for the draw today. They've been relatively poor, all the possession and very little threat. Such a drab performance against this is the worst part.

Those dark thoughts are creeping in where i'm wondering if i'd prefer us to concede 7 more and push the needle on the board, or score a late equaliser and buy him another month. Edit: Ahh okay, 2-0, it's out of my hands now. 8-0 please

Honestly Chelsea are opening us up so easily, and producing very little. There is a draw to be nicked here if we wake up, they are very poor today. With how awful we are they should be 3-0 up comfortably.

It's sort of got to the point I think it might be advantageous to the club if we lose the next 3 (including this one) by massive hammering scorelines. 5-0 each. I'm really bored of Leicester employing managers who huge amounts of fans can see are taking us backwards, who offer up awful football for 4 games in a row, then buy themselves another month from a fluke 1-0 win over someone, only to find 3 months later we are up the creek without a paddle and all of the half decent managers won't touch us. IF we want an experienced manager in who could keep us up like Potter/Terzic/Moyes/Schmidt/Conceicao/Kovac or whoever, we need to ACT NOW. Not in 2 months, NOW. If it takes a couple of hammerings to get the board to make a move, then I'll accept that as a silver lining, I like Cooper, but he's not improving anything, we are regressing.

With what money? He's spent £230m at Chelsea when he already had the biggest squad in Europe and multiple signings have been a complete waste of money, just like Cannon just like Coady, just like KDH. We couldn't afford Enzo. He's better than Cooper for sure, but he's a luxury manager. £200m, signings rotting on the bench or not even in the squad, and he STILL wants more signings.

This, we look exhausted for much of the matches. I don't think it's physical exhaustion though, I think the players are just not behind it.

This. Pretty much my list atm, Fischer, Schmidt and Conceicao as my top 3. Add Ruud to that list, Would take Terzic but not a priority because I can't see him coming.

Ricardo Domingos Barbosa Pereira = CooperOut

I'm torn on this. I think we have enough to stay up, but I feel our chances will increase significantly if we bring in another manager, such as Roger Schmidt among a few others. I think keeping Cooper right now could very well bite us in the near future. Our next 8 games include United, Chelsea, Newcastle, Liverpool, Man City and Villa, we could very well be in big trouble by the new year if we don't improve our performances.

Hopefully cooper has realised he’s costing us a minimum of a goal a game and will be permanently dropped. Even with the stinker Ricardo offered up last weekend, I’m very confident once he shakes the rust off he won’t cost us as many goals as Justin has. I like JJ but I’m considering going back through every goal we’ve conceded this season and counting the number of mistakes he made or times he was easily beaten in the lead up.