Manager suggestions - Now with added poll

[Villa75]

Ok, you bang your head repeatedly against the wall, real hard mind, and Villa sack Bruce and nick Wagner off Huddersfield. Sounds like a win, win, win to me.

Hang on! Who said anything about "repeatedly" or "real hard"?

Look at the damage that has obviously done to you. No thanks.

[German James]

The be fair to CD, although this thread is pure supposition, I think it probably does make sense to rule out someone who's actually said he doesn't want to be a football manager any more.

Re. the candidates who are apparently unlikely because they're apparently too good: if we don't start looking beyond the obvious depressing carousel of has-beens and chancers, we are fucked for the foreseeable.

[PeterWithesShin]

Fat Sam has said he's retired and sounds like he means it, but would anyone really be surprised to see him as a manager again?

[montague]

Eddie Howe may be approachable

[PaulWinch again]

Fat Sam has said he's retired and sounds like he means it, but would anyone really be surprised to see him as a manager again?

Well he said the other day it's a bit soon for him, and wouldn't really be looking before February. So doesn't sound like a man who isn't looking to come back. I'd rather we went for a different approach.

[john e]

He's retired. Not sure how many other times I need to explain this?

If he wanted to work in management, he would still be managing Palace. If he had had a change of heart since managing Palace, he would have gone back there when they sacked his replacement this week.

He has retired.

Banging. Head. Brick. Wall.

I'll have a £10 to the site bet with you he's back in management before the end of the season

[john e]

Leeds seemed to have done some searching and found what appears to be a decent manager who was unknown to most.  Also Hull found Silva so tbey are out there.  We don't have to go down the Moyes, Pardew,Allardyce route.

we don't have to but we probably will do as Wyness is our CEO

[German James]

Fat Sam has said he's retired and sounds like he means it, but would anyone really be surprised to see him as a manager again?

Not really, but if we don't take his self-imposed inavailability at face value (at least until his wife tells him to stop moping round the house and getting under her feet), we might as well start suggesting anyone who's not actually dead! Alex Ferguson, anyone?

[PeterWithesShin]

Difference is, Alex Ferguson taking a manager's job this season would be a surprise. I'd imagine the vast majority of us expect Allardyce to take another job.

[chrisw1]

Leeds seemed to have done some searching and found what appears to be a decent manager who was unknown to most.  Also Hull found Silva so tbey are out there.  We don't have to go down the Moyes, Pardew,Allardyce route.

Yep.  And we found Garde, Wolves found Zenga, Cardiff 'found' Solskjær, West Brom found Pepe Mel, Fulham found Felix Magath and Rene Meulensteen.

It's not as easy as you think.  I'd love the next Wagner, but we really are on the brink and the wrong appointment would see us relegated.  It's a massive gamble.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Eddie Howe may be approachable

We may have tempted him pre season but would have no chance now. He won't do the dirty on Bournemouth. Which is exactly why we should've binned Bruce in the summer as there's always a chance of attracting better managers then.

[German James]

I'd imagine the vast majority of us expect Allardyce to take another job.

It wouldn't surprise me either! But, for the purposes of this thread, it seems to me to make sense to assume that he's not a candidate, seeing as how we're pretty much agreed that we need someone the sooner the better and he's only been retired since May.

[tomd2103]

I'd imagine the vast majority of us expect Allardyce to take another job.

It wouldn't surprise me either! But, for the purposes of this thread, it seems to me to make sense to assume that he's not a candidate, seeing as how we're pretty much agreed that we need someone the sooner the better and he's only been retired since May.

Come on James we need some insider info - any up and coming German managers worth taking a punt on? 

[PeterWithesShin]

If we wanted him badly enough i'm pretty confident we'd get him, even next week. Hopefully we have more progressive candidates in mind than him though!

[cdbearsfan]

He's retired. Not sure how many other times I need to explain this?

If he wanted to work in management, he would still be managing Palace. If he had had a change of heart since managing Palace, he would have gone back there when they sacked his replacement this week.

He has retired.

Banging. Head. Brick. Wall.

I'll have a £10 to the site bet with you he's back in management before the end of the season

I think it's entirely possible that he will miss management and come out of retirement by the end of the season.

However, I think that if he was planning to take a job anytime in the more immediate future, he'd have already taken the Palace job.

If we wait till April to sack Bruce, he might be a contender. Assuming we get rid of the Potato of Sadness in the coming weeks, he isn't.