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[curiousorange]

I said this on Twitter during the game, with hyperbole I suppose, but a fifty million quid contract for a brilliant manager negates having to spend the other fifty. But I stand by the point - I'd rather just shell out there than set up a finishing school, especially since it sounds like Gerrard is intent on shopping at John Lewis and not Aldi despite the outlay on the academy.

[Steve67]

Give us a manager of Conte's quality one day and we might finally get somewhere.

Until then it will be lots more money wasting and crossing of fingers I suspect.

It's a fair point.  I wonder what other Managers were available to us when Gerrard was appointed.  We are going to have to build a couple of players at a time and be patient. 

[Three Spires Villa]

Conte was going to walk a few weeks ago.

[richtheholtender]

Give us a manager of Conte's quality one day and we might finally get somewhere.

Until then it will be lots more money wasting and crossing of fingers I suspect.

I think the last time we had a big name manager was Ron Atkinson. He was box office and we finished second and won a cup under him.

[curiousorange]

Spuds are in a different place to us expectation wise, but it's frustrating how easy it seemed to be for them to sort a Conte when they were in trouble. Ditto United with Ten Haag, Chelsea with Tuchel...

[Beard82]

Give us a manager of Conte's quality one day and we might finally get somewhere.

Until then it will be lots more money wasting and crossing of fingers I suspect.

It's a fair point.  I wonder what other Managers were available to us when Gerrard was appointed.  We are going to have to build a couple of players at a time and be patient.

Apparently we had a shortlist of 5.  But we all knew it was going to be Gerrard the second smith went

[eamonn]

Conte was going to walk a few weeks ago.

Now look at him, even his hair is starting to suit him.

[SoccerHQ]

Give us a manager of Conte's quality one day and we might finally get somewhere.

Until then it will be lots more money wasting and crossing of fingers I suspect.

I think the last time we had a big name manager was Ron Atkinson. He was box office and we finished second and won a cup under him.

O'Neill would be classed as one imo. Like it or not but he'd won plenty and got all of football talking about us again positively.

To a degree Gerrard has elements but O'Neill had about 15 years of management at various levels behind him when he turned up so way more experienced.

What I like about Conte is he's pretty quickly drilled his 3-5-2 and he's making it work with Spurs despite indifferent spells of form. I'd imagine since he turned up start of November they're comfortably top 4 in that table.

[SoccerHQ]

Give us a manager of Conte's quality one day and we might finally get somewhere.

Until then it will be lots more money wasting and crossing of fingers I suspect.

It's a fair point.  I wonder what other Managers were available to us when Gerrard was appointed.  We are going to have to build a couple of players at a time and be patient.

Apparently we had a shortlist of 5.  But we all knew it was going to be Gerrard the second smith went

Wasn't Hasenhuttl mentioned right at the start. Mind you Saints were doing their best to get their annual 9-0 defeat today so perhaps not best time to mention him!

[Beard82]

Give us a manager of Conte's quality one day and we might finally get somewhere.

Until then it will be lots more money wasting and crossing of fingers I suspect.

It's a fair point.  I wonder what other Managers were available to us when Gerrard was appointed.  We are going to have to build a couple of players at a time and be patient.

Apparently we had a shortlist of 5.  But we all knew it was going to be Gerrard the second smith went

Wasn't Hasenhuttl mentioned right at the start. Mind you Saints were doing their best to get their annual 9-0 defeat today so perhaps not best time to mention him!

I think martinez was too

[SoccerHQ]

Give us a manager of Conte's quality one day and we might finally get somewhere.

Until then it will be lots more money wasting and crossing of fingers I suspect.

It's a fair point.  I wonder what other Managers were available to us when Gerrard was appointed.  We are going to have to build a couple of players at a time and be patient.

Apparently we had a shortlist of 5.  But we all knew it was going to be Gerrard the second smith went

Wasn't Hasenhuttl mentioned right at the start. Mind you Saints were doing their best to get their annual 9-0 defeat today so perhaps not best time to mention him!

I think martinez was too

Not great options then.

I assume Poch will still be out of Paris at some point in next 12 months so given Man. United have overlooked him you never know.....

He'll probably be Newcastle manager this time next year.

[Beard82]

Give us a manager of Conte's quality one day and we might finally get somewhere.

Until then it will be lots more money wasting and crossing of fingers I suspect.

Yeah a manager of that calibre would be amazing.  I dont know whether we could get someone like him.

It's a fair point.  I wonder what other Managers were available to us when Gerrard was appointed.  We are going to have to build a couple of players at a time and be patient.

Apparently we had a shortlist of 5.  But we all knew it was going to be Gerrard the second smith went

Wasn't Hasenhuttl mentioned right at the start. Mind you Saints were doing their best to get their annual 9-0 defeat today so perhaps not best time to mention him!

I think martinez was too

Not great options then.

I assume Poch will still be out of Paris at some point in next 12 months so given Man. United have overlooked him you never know.....

He'll probably be Newcastle manager this time next year.

[Steve67]

If I was Wes or Nassef, I would be asking if my money is safe with Gerrard at the helm?  Does he improve the players he has at his disposal? Or do we throw more money at him because, deep down, we believe in him? The fact that he isn't getting the best out of the players he has, would make me worry.

[PaulWinch again]

If I was Wes or Nassef, I would be asking if my money is safe with Gerrard at the helm?  Does he improve the players he has at his disposal? Or do we throw more money at him because, deep down, we believe in him? The fact that he isn't getting the best out of the players he has, would make me worry.

I’d say you can’t reasonably answer the question yet. Does he improve players? He might given time, he might not. The key bit is time.
Nassef and Wes have placed their trust and money in their management structure. They need to give it a bit of time.

[PaulWinch again]

Jack Grealish hasn’t been great for Citeh yet does that mean Guardiola is a poor manager? I don’t think so, things take time sometimes.