Brainy

Re. Faes, if he's good enough for Belgium he's good enough for someone at a higher level than us out there, regardless if none of us would put him in our children's u7s side. Kristiansen should attract someone and so should Daka. Soumare will probably just be one of those no one wants on a permanent.

Losing Maresca derailed us and Marti in the same situation would too, especially with how the club is currently run. If he absolutely kills it here this season to the point where a bigger side has no choice to poach him then it'd be daft to complain, but I'd rather he only does a good enough job that doesn't warrant him leaving next summer

Fofana did well for us I sorta get your point but doubt the general reaction will be "good luck you earned this opportunity" it he suddenly decides to down tools.

I think it's a tad unappealing that he looked to have his head turned by WBA (not exactly a giant step up either) to the extent QPR decided to can him. Look at Fofana, us rejoicing when he sulked his way out of St Etienne and now hated because he did the same to us? Hope this has a happier ending

Phil Brown has not long left Kidderminster Harriers, not sure if he's joined anybody else yet

In theory this should be an ultimatum from the Verstappens saying that either Horner goes or I go, and unsurprisingly they chose Horner

And you bet that why? In order of the ones strongly linked I'd go for Rohl, Cif, GON, Dyche, Wilder. Rohl and Cifuentes id say are intriguing because less is known about them. O'Neil and Dyche meh. Wilder no. However I'm just more open minded to believe that just because someone had a below average experience somewhere else doesn't mean they're guaranteed to stink the place out here.

Well 1) I wouldn't call not building on their first season form "a failing" and 2) I'm not against hiring them. Just not gushing over them like most are

I might have this wrong (particularly with Rohl) but Rohl and Cifuentes didn't seem to really build on their first season form. Rohl perhaps has more excuses. QPR last season (from memory) started poorly, were in hot form maybe two thirds of the way through the season and then fell apart again? You're right though if this was Martin Clements and not some cool foreign name it'd be all "meh" at best. That and we're petrified of a manager that has ever failed.

In the same way we turn a blind eye to positive points to the "less desirable" managers.....

It's an absolutely fair point

We're not so quick to put a positive spin on negative things around certain other manager prospects

Wonder what sort of influence he will be on the team

We twatted 5 past his team a few months back with even Wout scoring, but yeah sure deffo him over promotion expert D.I Gravelthroat

Steve Gerrard's turn to leap to the top of the betting surely?

Would be our first O'Neil manager

Boo Rudkin, boo the board. But where does booing the manager from day one honestly get you?

It's just not that simple is it. If Pearson returned tomorrow many of us would be ecstatic yet he'd hardly got rave reviews from Derby fans will he? We wouldn't recommend Cooper in the PL but Forest would. Sometimes the club fits the manager. Wilder Sheff Utd is another, stunk out Watford and Mboro. And managers are capable of learning from their own failures, O Neill particularly is new enough in the game to be doing that

Makes you wonder then how managers cycle works then, once they show they're incapable of working at X level, no one will or should take them below that level because their past experiences mean they're guaranteed to not be able to take them forwards

So who is the ready made PL standard manager who we can attract right now that your crystal ball tells you that we won't need to be sacking in 18 months time?

Jon Rudkin has proven he can work with youth

Cooper was an even bigger punt

Cryptic ITKs are 🤮

Genuinely hilarious that people harp on with the "600k for Rohl or 2m for O'Neill when he gets sacked before Christmas" as though Rohl is a guaranteed success and O'Neill is a guaranteed failure. Open your eyes, as much as we hate most of our players we have one of, if not the best squad in the division. Only someone truly dreadful will have us fighting anywhere except the top of the table this season, and as miserable as a lot of you are, O'Neill is not truly dreadful. Neither is Wilder or Dyche. They'd very possibly achieve our goals this season and then next year is the conundrum. Even then there's nothing to suggest Rohl stands a better chance of solidifying us as a PL side more than the others

When did you last see them in meaningful running