Manager suggestions - Now with added poll

[PeterWithesShin]

If we phoned Allardyce today and offered him £3m to become our manager for the rest of the season, do you think he'd say yes or no? Obviously it's guesswork but what would your educated guess be? Mine is he'd be our manager.

[cdbearsfan]

So, whether you want him or not, it's not impossible that he could rock up at Villa park in the next few weeks then?

It's not "impossible", in the same way that it's not impossible that we could beat Barnsley twelve-nil as the first of a nine-hundred game winning spree that sees Steve Bruce voted Manager of the Millennium, while I join the Conservative Party and Peterwithesshin says "I can't really be bothered watching any more zombie films".

I just think it is so unlikely that he will be available in the coming weeks that it isn't worthy of debating his suitability for the post.

I acknowledge that I have somewhat defeated my own object by adding to the bloody debate, though...

[cdbearsfan]

If we phoned Allardyce today and offered him £3m to become our manager for the rest of the season, do you think he'd say yes or no? Obviously it's guesswork but what would your educated guess be? Mine is he'd be our manager.

I expect he'd say "no" as he could easily have got that amount if he'd taken the Palace job this week.

[Matt Collins]

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.

Exactly. And this is the tip of the iceberg

[Clark W Griswold]

To be honest I've been sitting here laughing hysterically at your cocksure bravado for a good while now and it has more than made up for the slightly offensive nature of your original post. For amusing me on an otherwise boring day at work, I thank you.

[cdbearsfan]

It would have to be an unbelievably bad appointment to see us relegated. And I don't think the decision is that difficult. Identify a manager who was won loads of matches, at the highest level possible. Offer him lots of money. Await promotion.

[cdbearsfan]

To be honest I've been sitting here laughing hysterically at your cocksure bravado for a good while now and it has more than made up for the slightly offensive nature of your original post. For amusing me on an otherwise boring day at work, I thank you.

Apologies if any post came across as offensive... It was directed at the sheer number of posts discussing Allardyce and not you specifically.

[Matt Collins]

It would have to be an unbelievably bad appointment to see us relegated. And I don't think the decision is that difficult. Identify a manager who was won loads of matches, at the highest level possible. Offer him lots of money. Await promotion.

Well it worked last year. Simples

[Clark W Griswold]

To be honest I've been sitting here laughing hysterically at your cocksure bravado for a good while now and it has more than made up for the slightly offensive nature of your original post. For amusing me on an otherwise boring day at work, I thank you.

Apologies if any post came across as offensive... It was directed at the sheer number of posts discussing Allardyce and not you specifically.

No problem :-)

[PeterWithesShin]

Okay, £5m, £10m, £30m. He's either retired so will turn them all down, or is really just sort of retired but open to the right offer. Or if Arsenal sack Wenger tomorrow and offer him the job, will he stay retired or be the new Arsenal manager? I know it's taking it to extremes but I think he's sort of retired, not desperate for a job but will take a job he deems the right one, be that wages, right club, or both. And he'd take it tomorrow.

[cdbearsfan]

Di Matteo hadn't won loads of matches, at the highest level possible. He had probably won (guesswork) about twenty games against Premier League or elite European opposition.

[cdbearsfan]

I'm awarding myself a trophy for Worst Attempt to Prevent Further Debate on a Topic.

Yay, go me.🏆

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm awarding myself a trophy for Worst Attempt to Prevent Further Debate on a Topic.

Yay, go me.🏆

Only trophy we'll be seeing around here this year!

[FranzBiberkopf]

Leeds seemed to have done some searching and found what appears to be a decent manager who was unknown to most.

How many failed attempts have they had at doing just that??

The day we hold Leeds up as a paradigm to follow is the day we truly are doomed.

[PeterWithesShin]

Leeds are on their 9th full time manager since they sacked Grayson early 2012. 2 lasted 6 games and another lasted 9.