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Who will be our next manager?

Who will be the next full time manager ?

  • In house appointment - Bond, Jordan, Allen, Sherwood

    Votes: 20 3.1%
  • Mourinho

    Votes: 201 30.8%
  • Ancelotti

    Votes: 19 2.9%
  • Capello

    Votes: 16 2.5%
  • Hiddink

    Votes: 28 4.3%
  • Van der Aal

    Votes: 4 0.6%
  • Hoddle

    Votes: 12 1.8%
  • Jol

    Votes: 9 1.4%
  • Rodgers

    Votes: 98 15.0%
  • Lambert

    Votes: 20 3.1%
  • Hughton

    Votes: 7 1.1%
  • Moyes

    Votes: 122 18.7%
  • Pardew

    Votes: 4 0.6%
  • Someone else

    Votes: 93 14.2%

  • Total voters
    653

tobi

Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can't Lose
Jun 10, 2003
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Didn't they say a few weeks back or so that they were going to be interviewing two managers for the position!?!?!

I don't know but I haven't paid much attention to it, I just assumed that it was Harry's job.
 

Teddy Klinsmann

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Aug 5, 2008
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England will definitely seek to speak to Harry. They will not interview 1 for the position. They could well be on the phone to Danny Boy as we speak. That would be a great call to hear!

FA: "we would compensate you £2m Daniel for Harry"
Daniel: "change that figure to £10m and I'll speak to you for a further 30 seconds"
 

ItsBoris

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Jan 18, 2011
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Harry Redknapp by the sounds of it.

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spursfan77

Well-Known Member
Aug 13, 2005
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Funny this comes out the same day that redknapp says in a newspaper article that he hasn't been approached.

I bet he has and we have asked the FA to keep it quiet.
 

StartingPrice

Chief Sardonicus Hyperlip
Feb 13, 2004
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I find it suspiciously convenient that the FA have taken this step, which may well unsettle West Brom as we have been unsettled, close to when the Goons play the Baggies (n)
 

sam1972

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Jul 26, 2005
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I find it suspiciously convenient that the FA have taken this step, which may well unsettle West Brom as we have been unsettled, close to when the Goons play the Baggies (n)
you can guarantee they will react the exact opposite way that we did
 

StartingPrice

Chief Sardonicus Hyperlip
Feb 13, 2004
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you can guarantee they will react the exact opposite way that we did

I bluddy hope so...if they don't play an amazing, committed game, I'm gonna kidnap the Whinger and make him to his flappy-arms dance for hordes of vicious tourists.
 

sloth

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Mar 7, 2005
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Redknapp tactically is hugely reactive and I don't think he has any sort of coherent philosophy at all apart from getting the best players he can (which goes for every manager) and then getting them to pass the ball to each other and express themselves. Does that make him more proactive than Moyes or Allardyce? I don't think he's proactive at all in that sense...

What makes you say Martinez or Rodgers are any more proactive than Allardyce or Moyes? They all have definite philosophies - it just seems some people prefer one over another.

And Martinez might plough the money back in but it still damages his squad to consistently lose his best players (Valencia, Palacios, Baines to name a few) and prevents him from ever building anything more than a team that is all about surviving every year...

Sounds like I didn't properly explain what I meant by proactive/reactive. Basically in the context I used it, I meant that imo the likes of Moyes, tends to look at the opposition first and devise a strategy to counteract their strengths, only when he's done that does he then think about how, within the limits of the plan he's devised, he can find a way to maximise his own side's strengths. This is what I think is reactive. Whereas Redknapp will always tend to think first about our strengths, and how to impose them on the opposition (proactive), and only pay lip-service to stopping the other side. A simplification I realise, and very many grey areas, but that's the gist of it.

Whether Redknapp's any good at maximising the strengths of his side is another debate, and one in which my views are well known.
 

steve

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Oct 21, 2003
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Sounds like I didn't properly explain what I meant by proactive/reactive. Basically in the context I used it, I meant that imo the likes of Moyes, tends to look at the opposition first and devise a strategy to counteract their strengths, only when he's done that does he then think about how, within the limits of the plan he's devised, he can find a way to maximise his own side's strengths. This is what I think is reactive. Whereas Redknapp will always tend to think first about our strengths, and how to impose them on the opposition (proactive), and only pay lip-service to stopping the other side. A simplification I realise, and very many grey areas, but that's the gist of it.

Whether Redknapp's any good at maximising the strengths of his side is another debate, and one in which my views are well known.

Agree re Redknapp Sloth and Wenger.

Possibly re Moyes. I think a good manager looks at both and weighs up the oppo, their form, the venue and his own squad and thinks of how best to stop the oppo and maximise their own strengths against them. I think Mourinho falls into that bracket as did Revie most definitely. In which order depends on the strength of the team they play. I'm sure Moyes didn't look at yesterday's game v Fulham in the same way as he did at Man Yoo. And I make him right.

It's harder to weigh up with Rodgers and Martinez as invariably they play stronger teams than themselves the majority of the time. I think they maintain their philosophy but may balance that in the tougher games with more defensive instructions to attacking players. I'd certainly hope so. Most teams double up on Bale now but do they do it for every left winger?
 

beats1

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Feb 22, 2010
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Been surprised that Jol hasn't had many mentions, been playing some good football with a team with a shocking defence when compared to their attacking options
 

Bus-Conductor

SC Supporter
Oct 19, 2004
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It's unusual for there to be this many genuinely interesting candidates available. I can't remember a time when such a range of different but interesting managerial talent was out there on the job market.
 
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