cheshamfox17

This is why I am much more into the NFL when it comes to US football, it feels like it's going to be about money and relationships. In the NFL, you can make a case for literally any team to win the Super Bowl in the next 5 years, teams can rise from right to the bottom to the top with good drafting and coaching. Now with NIL and then dominance of certain conferences, I worry CFB will lose the thing that makes US sports magic

Brescia have been fully kicked out of their league, Sampdoria were only spared double relegation because of that. Östersunds, that team Graham Potter used to manage, ended up going down in the regional leagues. As I said, don't get me wrong our situation is very bad but being a middle table Championship club wouldn't be the worse fall

This is an incredible level of hyperbole. Bordeaux were in Ligue Un three years ago and now are no longer a professional team. The club is headed in the wrong direction but the biggest decline ever is just not true

Exactly yeah!

Obviously things ended badly with Rodgers but I think you have to say with two top five finishes and a cup, he was a good appointment

I do not want Dyche but I think some of the comparisons here are outrageous, he built Burnley from a Championship team to playing in Europe. If a manager came in and did that for us we would worship the ground they walk on, to compare him to Gary Megson is wild.

Which of the young progressive managers mentioned do you think is a good fit then?

In the longer video he says he isn't retiring so will be fun to see where he goes next!

I means he's had less than 50 games at a top club, I think it's way too early to make any conclusions about Hellberg

Rydstrom could be more realistic soon, he's had a bad start to the season for Malmö so might want a new challenge

I admire his football but we would need a good succession plan, he would be off the first good offer he got. He left Sirius to go back to Kalmar to 'be closer to his daughter' then took the Malmo job a year later. Funnily enough with all the Winks stuff recently, he basically said he didn't want to commute between Uppsala and Kalmar anymore when he left, then magically turned up in Malmo a year later.

Europa league run with Östersund, good spell at Swansea and transformed Brighton to such an extent that his style is still used now. I think it's very underrated how he took them from playing defensive football to being one of the best footballing sides in the League. As I said, give him a pre season and then lets talk

He took over a terrible squad and hasn't had a pre-season, seems a bit odd to write him off.

The ceiling is much higher here and he will probably want a new challenge after winning the league a few times in a row in Malmo.

I'd love us to bring in Rydstrom for Malmo, he has a real way of doing things and of building a team but after being interviewed by Brighton I wonder if he wants something bigger

I wonder, has there ever been a time where we (or really any team) have played attractive entertaining football but got relegated? This isn't meant to be a jibe I just can't really think of anyone

I think with Potter, Brighton were on an upward path when he left, so I am not sure if they have improved as such more just kept on the same path. Chelsea have also spent loads and sacked a manager in the meantime.

He scored four times for the second worst team in the league, crap is a bit over the top

Forest completely altered their style of play at the start of last season then changed back when it didn't work hahah

Took a team from 10th to back to back playoffs. Took a team from bottom of the Championship to Premier League survival. If that is not solid, what is?

Or they don't agree that appointing a manager with a solid track record is a bad thing?

I am not sure if suggesting ruling a manager out from the moment they are appointed is the same as backing Rodgers to the end.

I concede that I am very much in the minority here but I am relatively happy with this. He has had two club management jobs and improved the league position of both clubs he took over. Swansea were 11th favourites in his first season and he finished 6th, then 7th favourites in his second season and finished 4th. Of course with Forest he did a very good job I would say. His style of play, is of course, a concern but I think we have been very focused on 'philosophy' managers when he is a more pragmatic, Forest played well in the Championship, then he adapted in the PL, tried to change it to be more attacking but pulled back when it failed. If you look at Kompany and to be honest even Maresca, I worry that a more stubborn philosophy based manager wouldn't have changed the way we played if it was clearly not working. I don't think it is possible to judge exactly how we will play until we see it. There were without doubt better options but I don't see this as some kind of huge disaster