Puel goes. Who do you choose?

[Albert]

Brendan Rodgers 

[gurru991]

On 23/09/2018 at 17:20, Albert said:

Brendan Rodgers 

For Sure ..The guy is doing an amazing job with a League one team in a shite league. 

Give your head a shake !!

No other teams are knocking at his door for a reason .. 

[st albans fox]

2 hours ago, gurru991 said:

For Sure ..The guy is doing an amazing job with a League one team in a shite league. 

Give your head a shake !!

No other teams are knocking at his door for a reason .. 

Outside of the top six, he would only go to everton and possibly us. 

 

Everon is out re Liverpool 

 

that kind of limits his job offers ....... 

Edited 25 September 2018 by st albans fox

[Guest]

Hey Puelhaters , Steve Bruce is now available 

[Bristol fox ....]

Steve bruce is available ??

 

Maybe puel is not that bad after all 

 

[Guest MattP]

13 minutes ago, Bristol fox .... said:

Steve bruce is available ??

 

Maybe puel is not that bad after all 

Good day for Cabbage salesmen if he comes in.

[gurru991]

On 24/09/2018 at 23:42, st albans fox said:

Outside of the top six, he would only go to everton and possibly us. 

 

Everon is out re Liverpool 

 

that kind of limits his job offers ....... 

Not sure why only Everton or us outside of the top six, I think he would welcome a return to the Premier. Going from Liverpool to Celtic shows a real lack of ambition for me. He looks good playing in the Scottish league but hasn't shown anything in Europe

[Finnegan]

Eddie Howe is the only one on the list I'd really consider and then only because he seems to have finally learned a bit of versatility this season. 

 

This list of options is why I'm not particularly Puel Out. He's no worse than any of them tbh and I include Rafa in that. I don't care how shit his squad is, there's no excuse for how effortless and shit Newcastle are atm. I thought they were disgraceful the other day. 

[st albans fox]

27 minutes ago, gurru991 said:

Not sure why only Everton or us outside of the top six, I think he would welcome a return to the Premier. Going from Liverpool to Celtic shows a real lack of ambition for me. He looks good playing in the Scottish league but hasn't shown anything in Europe

Brendan loves himself ...... he licks himself to sleep at night ......  no clubs outside the top six would appeal to his ego ...... he could justify us on the basis of our recent history and our current spend on infrastructure etc ...... Everton are a big enough club but with his Liverpool connection this would be difficult 

[gerrytaggart]

Ive got a headache

 

 

[Leeds Fox]

4 hours ago, gurru991 said:

Not sure why only Everton or us outside of the top six, I think he would welcome a return to the Premier. Going from Liverpool to Celtic shows a real lack of ambition for me. He looks good playing in the Scottish league but hasn't shown anything in Europe

 

Career wise it was a very clever move. Taking Liverpool to touching distance of winning the Premier League was brilliant from him.

 

He could have become a PL journeyman, being sacked and moving on from clubs he was at purely for a job. 

 

He went to Celtic where he couldn’t really fail to succeed, became a club hero for a very well supported club. All the while not tarnishing his reputation too much and keeping his stock high enough to be able to wait for the right job to come along.

 

After cutting his teeth as a manager at Watford and Reading, he was successful at Swansea, Liverpool and now Celtic (albeit in a poor league). I’m not saying he’s the best manager in the world, but if he stays at Celtic until he gets a club that he can be given time at to assert his style and mentality, he could be successful yet again. Rather that than bounce around the lower echelons of the Prem and become the new Allerdyce, Pardew, Hughes.

[gurru991]

1 hour ago, Leeds Fox said:

 

Career wise it was a very clever move. Taking Liverpool to touching distance of winning the Premier League was brilliant from him.

 

He could have become a PL journeyman, being sacked and moving on from clubs he was at purely for a job. 

 

He went to Celtic where he couldn’t really fail to succeed, became a club hero for a very well supported club. All the while not tarnishing his reputation too much and keeping his stock high enough to be able to wait for the right job to come along.

 

After cutting his teeth as a manager at Watford and Reading, he was successful at Swansea, Liverpool and now Celtic (albeit in a poor league). I’m not saying he’s the best manager in the world, but if he stays at Celtic until he gets a club that he can be given time at to assert his style and mentality, he could be successful yet again. Rather that than bounce around the lower echelons of the Prem and become the new Allerdyce, Pardew, Hughes.

A very clever and interesting perspective 

[Koke]

11 hours ago, Finnegan said:

Eddie Howe is the only one on the list I'd really consider and then only because he seems to have finally learned a bit of versatility this season. 

 

This list of options is why I'm not particularly Puel Out. He's no worse than any of them tbh and I include Rafa in that. I don't care how shit his squad is, there's no excuse for how effortless and shit Newcastle are atm. I thought they were disgraceful the other day. 

 

I like Howe a lot but his big money transfers have been a total disaster. If he came here with his team of assistants and scouts, and he were given the budget Puel got he would make pigs ears of it. 

[Koke]

Also, Rafa is winning this with nearly 50% of the votes

 

Notwithstanding the lack of funds available to him, his tactics are dire.  Dour defensive rubbish. 

[Ted Maul]

We're stable, we're winning games and we're bringing youth through. Surely that's better than watching, one by one, all decent managers rule themselves out of the running until luring Sam Allardyce seems optimistic and we end up in a blind panic on another Preki thread? 

[Manwell Pablo]

8 hours ago, Leeds Fox said:

 

Career wise it was a very clever move. Taking Liverpool to touching distance of winning the Premier League was brilliant from him.

 

He could have become a PL journeyman, being sacked and moving on from clubs he was at purely for a job. 

 

He went to Celtic where he couldn’t really fail to succeed, became a club hero for a very well supported club. All the while not tarnishing his reputation too much and keeping his stock high enough to be able to wait for the right job to come along.

 

After cutting his teeth as a manager at Watford and Reading, he was successful at Swansea, Liverpool and now Celtic (albeit in a poor league). I’m not saying he’s the best manager in the world, but if he stays at Celtic until he gets a club that he can be given time at to assert his style and mentality, he could be successful yet again. Rather that than bounce around the lower echelons of the Prem and become the new Allerdyce, Pardew, Hughes.

 

Well you say that

 

He's having a good go this season. 

[Alf Bentley]

Cannot understand why anyone would want Puel out now.

 

March/April last year, I could understand - I was heading that way myself, after several months of dull football & poor results, trying to change playing style with unsuitable players.

In December, if we've slid down the table and are not making progress, I could understand it.

In Spring 2019, if we're treading water, players are not gelling or new style isn't working, I could understand it.

 

For now, there are clear signs of progress. We're combining sometimes classy possession football with a continued threat on the break. We have much more threat from attacking set pieces - and are arguably getting better at defending them. 

Certain new players are already performing at a high level (Maddison), others are more hit-and-miss (Ricardo), are still raw (Ghezzal) or have yet to break through (new centre backs)....but new players often take time to gel in, especially yoof.

Existing yoof are improving (Chilwell, Amartey, possibly Gray) - and even assumed failures are coming good (Mendy).

 

Not everything is perfect, but I'd have bitten your hand off if offered this scenario 2 months ago. Every reason for cautious optimism and no reason for Puel out any time soon.

 

[Leeds Fox]

50 minutes ago, Manwell Pablo said:

 

Well you say that

 

He's having a good go this season. 

 

I did think that as I was typing, even with the poor start they should still have enough to win the SPL again. 

[Grebfromgrebland]

This thread feels a bit wrong now seeing as we've won a few games and the players seem to be very happy.  It makes me sad to see it now, though it might have been relevant when it was opened.

[dannythefox]

Can’t see him going for a while so it pointless talking about it if you’d of said to me where would you like to be after 7 games I’d say where we are now, we’re doing well and if we beat Everton I’d say we’re doing very well. Fingers crossed for Saturday.

[Lovejoy]

1 hour ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

This thread feels a bit wrong now seeing as we've won a few games and the players seem to be very happy.  It makes me sad to see it now, though it might have been relevant when it was opened.

Anything but a victory on Saturday and it'll be hot again . We could go on a 10 game winning run, but the moment we falter...

[Sol thewall Bamba]

15 hours ago, Finnegan said:

Eddie Howe is the only one on the list I'd really consider and then only because he seems to have finally learned a bit of versatility this season. 

Disagree with Howe, yes the work that he's done at AFCB is great but I get the feeling those two are just made for each other and when the separate (again), they'll fade badly.

 

Edit: should also point out I'm completely backing Puel.

Edited 4 October 2018 by Sol thewall Bamba

[Stadt]

My biggest concern with Puel is that we still struggle to create consistently good chances, the quality of our players masks the issue somewhat but over his entire spell here it’s been a theme. Newcastle were abysmal but we didn’t score in open play

[WigstonWanderer]

Manager satisfaction is now over 90% last time I looked. Isn’t it time all the threads speculating on a replacement were closed. Someone can always open a new one if things turn bad, but surely for now we don’t need to upset the applecart.

 

The fact is he’s going nowhere and these threads are irrelevant now.

Edited 4 October 2018 by WigstonWanderer

[Manwell Pablo]

4 hours ago, Leeds Fox said:

 

I did think that as I was typing, even with the poor start they should still have enough to win the SPL again. 

 

You'd imagine so.

 

Still doesn't make the current situation tied in with their European failures any less funny.