cityfanlee23

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.

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.