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You realise it’ll be a different manager next season??

Whatever he’s asking is going to be totally wasted if the new manager doesn’t rate him or plays a system that needs pace. It’s a ridiculous and stupid risk to sign anyone, especially JV the player that didn’t play for a year under the previous manager

No players should be signed or resigned until the new manager is in place. The new manager could have a fast, ball playing centre back that’s his first name on the team sheet at his current club, that’s in half the wages of JV and desperate to continue to work with his manager. It’s typical of the board disconnect if they sign JV before a new manager

I actually have a feeling we may be lining up our next manager so that it’s a dual announcement. But then it’s this kind of wishful thinking that leads to so much disappointment!!

First team kit sponsor isn’t really comparable to the tea bags though is it. This will be a board level negotiation, just like severance compensation for 9 staff, the recruitment of a new first team manager, the preparation of a very hefty court case, new contracts for existing players and negotiating with new players (although you’d expect these to be left as late as poss). The bandwidth of the board is being stretched, and whatever your opinion of JR / The Board, they have a lot on their plate right now. Some decisions are always going to be affected by that workload, and Enzo leaving is bad news in this respect

Negotiations with sponsor probably affected by managerial search?

He has Brendan levels of ego and narcissism

Typical Aussie with all that cheerful optimism!!!

Ohhhh errrr Harry, just a sec, come in and sit down, let’s not be hasty eh?

This is brilliant …. I’ve liked him as a manager for a while, his honesty and passion are infectious. It seems his tactics are a great fit - Gerrrrimmmmmin!!!

I do agree with this, but I also really enjoyed having a manager with a plan. The reason him leaving feels so deflating is that I was really looking forward to signing 6/7 players identified to play the exact role he wanted them to. We played well with some square pegs in round holes, I’d allowed myself to hope for some recruitment matched to his plan. I’d bought into the 6 years nonsense Enzo told us when joining. We’ll never know how it turns out now!

I really hope so…. But suspect it may have the opposite effect of Top thinking “blimey, good job I didn’t get rid of Johnny, he’s got to come up with another manager, and I wouldn’t have the first clue how to do that. JR, let’s buy you a car or something, you were right about Maresca all along”!!

Whenever there’s an “if” with our board I now presume we’ll go with the “but” option!!

Exactly. That momentum could have been worth 10 points. It’s so typical of us to squander any advantage

He is Rudkin

A great summary of how I also feel. Instead of celebrating promotion we are searching for a manager, and yet I almost expected something like this to happen. Supporting our club is like having VAR always on… you can’t feel good because there’s always a risk they’ll find a way to disallow it!

Hope so!

Great answer. In response to your last point about bravery, just like with politics, bravery is risky and potentially extremely costly. Hollywood is another example, a film maker can spunk a few hundred mill on a dead cert franchise movie or an actual story…. They pick the former even though nobody actually wants the lack a creativity - it’s that creativity / something different can crash. It’s why I suspect we’ll chase Moyes until he tells us to leave him alone!

That’s the other side to the coin, let’s hope it lands that way!!

Blimey, I’m more deflated reading that summary (which I entirely agree with)!!

That’s the bit that worries me …. We have a reasonable track record of appointing managers, but everytime it’s a risk

We’ve just been promoted, we should be looking forward to next season with excitement, anticipating the signing of the players to fully implement Enzo’s football and plan. Now we’re starting again looking for a new manager. Anyone else completely deflated??

I disagree, he’s just got a Premier League side promoted from a league they should never have been in. That’s got him one of the top (10?) jobs in world football, so keeping us up, despite a points handicap, would only improve on that

Another year of being the best side in the Championship! 😂

London?