Next manager?

[pauliewalnuts]

Did I imagine it or did someone say the other week that the new guy is going to be at today's game? Or that his agent is?

[Rudy65]

Alan Nixon on Twitter has said that one very serious candidate isn't even in the bookies' favourites.

Villas Boas?
Van Bronckhurst?
Howe?

DON HOWE  now thats a backard step

Where’s your spade. He’s dead

[Clampy]

Did I imagine it or did someone say the other week that the new guy is going to be at today's game? Or that his agent is?

Kevin Mcdonald mentioned it yesterday apparently.

[Hoppo]

Look at how Mouriniho is failing without Faria..

[john e]

so the two clear favourites this morning are Henry and Faria

if it's a straight choice between the two which one would you go for ?

it's a toss of a Coin for me but I think I'd take the gamble on Henry as the Mourinho stuff puts me of Faria a little bit

[Little Class]

I would be monumentally underwhelmed if it was Moyes.

His record at West Ham :
West Ham United   7 November 2017   13 May 2018   31   9   10   12   29.03

Thats goals / won / drawn / lost / win%

He did okay there but thats the decision west ham made. Keep a guy who may keep you mid-table for 5 years, or try and push on with someone else a bit more progressive. Jury's out at the moment i guess. To me anyway, Moyes carries the scent of failure, probably from seeing his glum mug every 5 minutes after Man U took another beating

he did ok??? 29% win rate   is not ok in my opinion its crap its the same as lambert less than O'dreary and venglos

Show me any mid table PL manager who does better than 29%?  Not an apologist for Moyes but to be fair to him, he rescued West Ham last season with their unbalanced squad.  Monumentally underwhelming sums him up and is the wrong person because we don't need rescuing.

David O'DReary finished 6th 10th 16th with a 35% in rate

Technically better but still monumentally underwhelming

[Dante Lavelli]

A Faria and Terry combo interests me.  Faria name dropping Terry in a recent interview, saying what a big character he is and how easy he was to coach.

Faria is a committed boffin of football, and typically such people are quieter thinkers whereas Terry clearly has charisma and leadership skills.  Between the two you could have a good partnership.  The problem is which would assume the main role, plus there would be an absence of real management experience.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Henry  is now 8/15

[Phil from the upper holte]

Saw this on Twitter

I thought FFP didn't count when it came to paying compensation to clubs for managers?  Would kind of cast doubt over that tweet if that was the case.

I thought it did? Does anyone actually understand FFP just seems to be a load of bollocks when clubs are spending €70m on goal keepers

[ktvillan]

I'm still just revelling in the fact it's not Bruce, and it's not Lerner or Xia choosing the new boss.  The Wenger /Henry axis is something I suggested back in the summer.  Can't really see it happening though. With Faria you do wonder if it's a Clough and Taylor situation - Taylor wasn't great as a manager in his own right and Clough was less effective without Taylor.

[nigel]

I just don't see why Wenger would want that role

Why not?
Perfect, relatively stress free,  position to mentor an up and coming coach

[Clark W Griswold]

True, but wasn't Wagner Klopps assistant and he's done pretty well. I think sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Anyway, my new preference list based on rumours..
1. Wenger DOF, Henry Manager
2. Rafa
3. Faria Manager, Terry Player/Assistant
4. Rogers
5. Fonseca

I woundn't be too disappointed with the most likely option of just Henry coming in as manger on his own but any of the options above would be preferable.

[Clark W Griswold]

Did I imagine it or did someone say the other week that the new guy is going to be at today's game? Or that his agent is?

Kevin Mcdonald mentioned it yesterday apparently.

It's going to be the Millwall manager then i reckon.

[tomd2103]

A Faria and Terry combo interests me.  Faria name dropping Terry in a recent interview, saying what a big character he is and how easy he was to coach.

Faria is a committed boffin of football, and typically such people are quieter thinkers whereas Terry clearly has charisma and leadership skills.  Between the two you could have a good partnership.  The problem is which would assume the main role, plus there would be an absence of real management experience.

True, but Terry as the main figurehead with Faria working alongside him might be an option.  Think Faria wants his own gig though judging by that article that was posted on here. 

[pauliewalnuts]

One thing that struck me was we didn't just bin Bruce, we binned his entire staff at the same time.

I wonder if that suggests firstly that we've had someone lined up, and secondly that they've got their own staff lined up?