JimJams

I'm on crack. I apologise.

So Sinisterra who has been a bit parter at Bournemouth scoring a massive 2 goals in his time there, Jack Harrison at Everton who has hardly set the world alight but has chipped in with an amazing 3 goal tally for the toffees, Aaronson who has mustered a whopping 2 goals in 30 games for Union Berlin. Not to be outdone by those quite frankly frighteningly impressive attacking stats is centreback Koch who has matched the output of Sinisterra and Aaronson with a 2 goal haul playing for Frankfurt. And these are the picks of their loans out. So realistically they're getting them all back. No dough.

I think it's generally blamegame fans.

Che Adams on. Saints given up then?

Bednarek will see red.

Or maybe it's a little bit naughty and is referring to someone for the womens team!

They've literally appointed one manager. Pochettino. And his stock doesn't seem to have fallen massively.

He's got 4 years on his contract. At a pound a year that's still too rich for us. Surely this can only be done on a loan to buy deal.

How many times a day do you change your av?

Ok, so here's how that goes. Does he have plenty of time on his contract? Yes. Do we have a pot to piss in? Erm...

Typical in that we've signed up loads of England managers after they've left the international post? That kind of typical?

It's very much a coping mechanism by fans to disregard the rumours.

I reckon Potter holds out for the England job.

There is a clamour to find the next big thing before anybody else does now at the top clubs. It used to be just players, but it's extended to managers now. None of the also-rans can buy Pep, so they need to find the next Pep before anyone else does and tie him down.

Imagine Kompany goes to Bayern after getting relegated, Enzo goes to Chelsea, and we get Poch! Then McKenna replaces Ten Haag. And Mourinho goes Ipswich! Ok, getting carried away a bit there.

3 at the back!!! A forum favourite!

No they probably wouldn't have. But perhaps now they would. Man Utd I think would have. They have stuck by Ole and Ten Haag way longer than most would have expected given their results under the pair. And when it comes to risk for either of the pair, they're both going up for a likely season long relegation battle. It's more than conceivable that they'll be out of a job by Christmas if they just stay where they are, so why not work at the bigger clubs with the bigger budgets if the potential downside is the same? Except it won't be the same because if you get sacked from Chelsea or Utd you're getting a ridiculous payoff compared to us or Ipswich getting rid. And so then you weigh up the potential upsides, it's a no-brainer for either manager to jump ship.

I was thinking more of the fans, I suppose it would be with the higher ups but they probably won't be in attendance anyway.

That might be a stretch.

Yes. But as it was (officially) mutual consent, I don't see why it'd be awkward.

It's not though is it? Look at Arteta. No managerial experience, lands one of the biggest jobs in the English game. To a degree he's a success as they're getting better year on year. When the likes of Kompany and Enzo have had resources in advance of most of their competition, they've pissed it. They're applying the logic that it works at any level. Now they may be wrong, but there's little evidence to the contrary to be fair. Alonso will be another example of an inexperienced manager doing (extremely) well. McKenna I do find more odd as I never really saw a set system in play with them and thought their success was largely down to character, attitude and application over a particular football philosophy, but I suspect that'll be my own ignorance on it because that's the kind of credit we were given whenever we were successful for a long time rather than being credited with actually being talented. When you say our level of manager, there's no such thing is there? Obviously he's our manager, but what does our level mean? If a player is at our club and doing well you don't dismiss a transfer because they're our level? Without him having a go for us in the Prem then we don't know what level he is, really.

If they want him, he'll go. This is the price of success. You would hope that all this has been factored in and we already know who to appoint if he does leave. This just shows how great the importance of succession planning is. It's the same for managers as it is for players.

Two birds, one stone. New badge AND sponsorship rolled into one. We'd be nuts not to....

...to?

So they're looking to sell him. Not really a deal for anyone. His fitness is an issue and he's 32. I've always liked Wilson but he's just too unreliable. Like you say if you can keep him fit he's a goalscorer, but if you could keep him fit Newcastle would keep him.