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This, at the end of the day, right now our football club simply has to survive, staying up is part of that process. If Potter successfully uses us as a stepping stone, it more than likely means he kept us up and stabilised us, thus securing the future of the club (potentially). At that point he can give us all the V's as he leaves and will still get my blessing.

Well if we can’t sell players at a profit we might as well sell managers 😂

I get that position, but there is also an argument to say Potter is going to cost us far more than £4m both in the wages he will need over the course of a 3 year deal compared to Corberan, and the wages of his staff, and if we do go down it could cost us more in the long run. Corberan may cost us more upfront, but if we then get hammered by a 10 point deduction and go down, that £4m may end up saving us money. Considering we've just received £10m + compensation for 6 members of staff, I'd personally say go for it and get Corberan in.

Which is probably the area we are potentially weakest and need the most investment. So a manager who can shore up the defence may save us some precious money in the short term. I think with the right system, Kristiansen, Coady, Faes and Ricardo could form quite a solid defence.

Prediction: British public: Lose

Looking at the position we are in, I would doubt there is any manager available that wouldn't raise questions from fans, whether it's Cooper, Potter, Corberan or someone further afield like Hurzeler (will be a real coup for Brighton), all of them will come in with something to prove and a mountain to climb. I would rather we go for Corberan, but i'd be more than content with Potter providing he is fully up for the fight and accepts that he may have to have a season in the championship next year. If he doesn't give us 100% commitment to staying if we go down, then we should be going for Corberan or Cooper and getting this over the line, although there is no football going on, these weeks of freedom would be crucial to an incoming manager trying to prepare us for a points deduction and really analysing the club.

Locking potter is strange, but how has Ancelotti been given 10/3 when he's public rejected us and Reims? Bookies really do pray on the ignorant don't they.

Throw myself off

Do you still have those white trainers?

Ohhh what could have been. What a player he could have been.

Absolutely imperative that we bring in a coach with a track record of promoting young players.

Vesty is a player that I think with the right manager playing to his strengths could be a good squad player for us for the next 12 months, but 3 ****ing years. THREE YEARS

Agree on Hurzeler, part of me does want to roll the dice. I guess the deductions will be important for this sort of manager, If we are expecting -10 or something then go for it, roll the dice and give him a free hit on relegation and rebuilding. I'd imagine if we only expect -6 or something then you'd think with the right appointment we could theoretically stay up, and that's when unproven, largely inexperienced foreign managers become a big gamble. But I really do like Hurzeler and his system would catch a fair few out I'd imagine!

Hopefully we got a good chunk of change for the 6 staff members that have left alongside him, especially if we are going to go in for someone like Corberan who would likely want to bring some staff with him also, could get expensive buying out staff as well as the manager.

I think @Bluearmyfox28's post above regarding Corberan probably explains my position well. To add to his post, our flanks are basically our strongest position at the moment. Ricardo overlapping Fatawu and potentially Kristiansen (who left on loan specifically because he wouldn't be used as a traditional overlapping fullback) back from his loan at Bologna overlapping Mavididi could give us 2 really dangerous flanks during games. Let's face it, I don't think any of us are really "excited" by the mangers we are currently linked with as all of them have points to prove, for me personally Corberan represents one of the better options available but everyone sees things differently.

I think the important context for Corberan is that yes he does have a "style" but he's very pragmatic, he usually sets up in a 4-2-3-1, but his formations change throughout the game where players take up different roles and positions to counter the opponent. This season he has also played a 3-5-2, a 4-4-2, a 3-4-3 and a 5-4-1. Corberan does have a preferred playing style, but he's proven at West Brom that he plays to beat the opposition and get the best out of the squad he has, rather than setting up solely to play "his way" like Enzo did. I'd rather have a pragmatic Corberan than a static manager wedded to a system with the season we face.

I hear that fella at Chelsea is pretty good?

Off the top of my head I can think of Ligue 1, Eridivisie and Primeira Liga, which would put Super Lig 8th, then there’s a debate over whether the championship is a harder league overall, the exact order of the other main 3 I’m not sure as it stands now. Edit: Thanks to posters above, should have read those comments before writing the same thing.

Honestly felt like Puel ended up being a half decent signing for us and he gets a lot of stick. I agree with many that it felt like we didn't have a plan or a direction when we signed him, but in the end he took over an ageing squad that literally could only play 1 style of football, and by the time he left he had signed Maddison, Ricardo, Tielemans (loan but we were in talks of perm) Soyuncu and Evans and had transitioned us into a team that could play on the counter but could also hold the ball (often until we fell asleep) I think Puel left the club in a far stronger position than the one he inherited, and Rodgers came in and benefitted from that ground work.

I was talking more about how the club is run from a financial perspective, not signing players on time, "lying" to managers about the financial situation, and keeping Rodgers for another 12 months when it was clear he was destroying the club from the inside. Giving monumental contracts to very average players etc etc. When it comes to managers I think there were solid cases for each one that we have signed at the time of signing them, I hope we get the next one right because we need it desperately.

No, we just need to get lucky on the manager and hope to god they can pull us through on the pitch whilst the circus upstairs keeps rolling on. Sadly I'm worried that only makes it worse, if a manager comes in and succeeds, Top and Rudkin get to keep patting themselves on the back.

The way we are run at the moment, we could tell Carlos Corberan just to turn up to the club, tell Rudkin that Top signed him, tell Top that Rudkin signed him and he'd probably get away with it with 6 months.

Will be interesting to see what sort of Salary he gets there, I'm sure there will be something else behind the scenes

Yeah for me it's just a personal one, I like him as I've always semi followed Wednesday as a 2nd club and I loved him when he was there, I would have serious reservations but he's the sort of manager who would likely stick around if we went down and has experience of this country. I'd still take Corberan first.

I do agree with you on that it would have been a hell of a task to convince him. Just thought his standards were a bit higher than the Turkish league to be honest. Surely he could have taken over at a Portuguese/Dutch club and been in a similar situation?