Manager suggestions - Now with added poll

[ozzjim]

Can we remove Bielsa? As much as he would be amazing he's only just joined Lille and they are building entire training complexes etch for him so it's as likely as Mourinho.

My concern with Smith is thast he's not defensively very astute. Jokanovic seems to have been able to mould good attacking play with decent defensive resilience. Wyness stated before the season  started we need 70 to 80 goals this season. That's never, ever going to happen under Bruce. We need to get him out and get someone capable of playing in a style that will achieve that.

[manic-road]

I voted for Warnock, I know he can be an absolute nob but he gets results wherever he goes and with far less money to spend than he would at most clubs. With 7 promotions and more recently how he turned around a shit Rotherham side cast adrift at the bottom of the Champioship in a short space of time to safety was a minor miracle.

No thanks.  Bruce was seen as having those type of attributes and has failed badly so far.  We need a different, fresh approach.

What type of fresh approach? A foreign manager (Garde) a young English manager with lots to prove (Sherwood)?

[German James]

Thomas Tuchel. Fantastic at Mainz05 (my German team) and won the cup with Dortmund. He's a bit highly strung, but he's young (tick), foreign (tick) and I should think hungry (tick). Klopp-lite, if you will.

[Sexual Ealing]

It really doesn't matter where they were born. Sherwood wasn't shite because he was English. Garde is not the sole representative of the land of 'Abroad'.

[manic-road]

It really doesn't matter where they were born. Sherwood wasn't shite because he was English. Garde is not the sole representative of the land of 'Abroad'.

I know, I was getting at what the fresh approach is?

[Monty]

It really doesn't matter where they were born. Sherwood wasn't shite because he was English. Garde is not the sole representative of the land of 'Abroad'.

I know, I was getting at what the fresh approach is?

Appointing a good manager at a time when he might be able to do something would be a start.

[Sexual Ealing]

It really doesn't matter where they were born. Sherwood wasn't shite because he was English. Garde is not the sole representative of the land of 'Abroad'.

I know, I was getting at what the fresh approach is?

A fresh approach is not related to the kind of passport its progenitor holds.

[AVH87]

Love how the thread goes from 'let's remove Bielsa, we've got no chance' to 'Thomas Tuchel' - who has just spent 2 years managing Borussia Dortmund.

[ozzjim]

Lol yes Tuchel is as likely or unlikely as Bielsa.

[paul_e]

Not really, Tuchel is unemployed whereas Bielsa has just taken a new job a couple of months ago.

I think both are unlikely but they're far from the same.

[Jimbo]

Time to whittle the poll down to something a little more realistic.

Sam Allardyce
David Moyes
Nigel Pearson
Dean Smith
PWS

[German James]

How come? He's available; it's not like we'd have to prize him away from another club. Villa's a pretty good shout for the first English job for an ambitious young manager, if that's what he wants. It doesn't matter - we'll likely end up with another dullard or lightweight. We go again.
*edit* Like the ones on Jimbo's list.

[paul_e]

Time to whittle the poll down to something a little more realistic.

Sam Allardyce
David Moyes
Nigel Pearson
Dean Smith
PWS

Honestly if that was the options I'd go for PWS at least he's likely to listen to reason and dump c**ts like Gabby and Richards.

[KRS]

My concern with Smith is thast he's not defensively very astute. Jokanovic seems to have been able to mould good attacking play with decent defensive resilience. Wyness stated before the season  started we need 70 to 80 goals this season. That's never, ever going to happen under Bruce. We need to get him out and get someone capable of playing in a style that will achieve that.

Just as a matter of interest, how many goals did the sides that Bruce previously managed score in their promotion seasons? Obviously more goals are nice but its winning games that matters, so is this figure of 70-80 goals realistic? Given that you need to score 46 goals to win all the games 1-0 then I wouldn't be surprised if his previous sides scored more like 50-60 goals.

[Monty]

Time to whittle the poll down to something a little more realistic.

Sam Allardyce
David Moyes
Nigel Pearson
Dean Smith
PWS

In a division which Aitor Karanka joined, why are Basic Brits from the past pretty much the only 'realistic' options? Why is Sam Allardyce - retired - more 'realistic' than someone from abroad who isn't retired?

We absolutely have to stop going for the same old dull dour old-fashioned outdated 'do a job' dinosaurs in a division where that is so clearly not a guarantee of success anymore, and at a time when the club needs something seriously different.