Next Manager Speculation and wishful thinking thread

[Duncan Shaw]

This is a VERY wishful thinking thread!!
I really don't think we'd attract anyone considered "top" that hasn't had previous baggage so someone like Koeman would be the best we could get.
However, if they pull the trigger I think it would be Terry.

[ROBBO]

every manager will have his price, like any other occupation if you are offered an amount of money that no other club would dream of offering you would be insane not to consider it. We pay over the top for players so why not managers.
How much do prem managers get these days?

[ozzjim]

This is a VERY wishful thinking thread!!
I really don't think we'd attract anyone considered "top" that hasn't had previous baggage so someone like Koeman would be the best we could get.
However, if they pull the trigger I think it would be Terry.

I think they would target Gerard. Been rumours about us watching him etc even when Smith looked safe as houses.

I think they would end up with Terry though. And he'd do a very good job.

[Three Spires Villa]

Koeman is a good call

[LeeB]

Fuck that fat cheating bastard.

I'd go for Potter.

[Drummond]

Potter is on the up.
Howe kept going down.
Koeman is a no.
Gerrard, please no, I detest him.
Lampard is too inexperienced and unproven.
Fonseca will go to Spurs.
Conte will wait for Man Utd or similar.
Frank?
The Ajax bloke won't come.
Terry, no thanks.
Shakespeare, no thanks.

[AV82EC]

If it came to it the only British based Manager I’d consider would be Potter. Everyone else is either too young, too old or too shit. I’m not sure Potter would be interested either at this stage.

We need a decent foreign manager/coach who can take the work that’s being done across the club at all levels and create something from it. The Ajax bloke sounds like he’d fit quite well and this lad at Mainz.

[Risso]

Don't recognise the tune to that Drummond, but it scans well.

[Drummond]

Don't recognise the tune to that Drummond, but it scans well.

I'm taking up poetry.

[cdbearsfan]

This is a VERY wishful thinking thread!!
I really don't think we'd attract anyone considered "top" that hasn't had previous baggage so someone like Koeman would be the best we could get.
However, if they pull the trigger I think it would be Terry.

I think they would target Gerard. Been rumours about us watching him etc even when Smith looked safe as houses.

I think they would end up with Terry though. And he'd do a very good job.

Based on what? All those other managerial roles he's had? It would be a completely ridiculous gamble just like Sherwood. In fact, more so, as Sherwood did quite a decent job in his brief spell as Tottenham manager.

[Villan82]

If it came to it the only British based Manager I’d consider would be Potter. Everyone else is either too young, too old or too shit. I’m not sure Potter would be interested either at this stage.

We need a decent foreign manager/coach who can take the work that’s being done across the club at all levels and create something from it. The Ajax bloke sounds like he’d fit quite well and this lad at Mainz.

Now is the time to change. My worry would be that if we leave it another few games we will be in the market for a survival specialist. We don't want Remi Garde again- the right sort of manager but not one you would bring in when things are perilous.

[Sexual Ealing]

Gerrard, Lampard or Terry would be mug appointments. They haven't done anything. The Villa job is not one where anyone can/should learn the ropes.

[Rico]

If Smith gets sacked, which I'm still not convinced will happen anytime soon, I think the club will seriously consider John Terry. I think its odd that when he left he was quoted as saying something along the lines of wanting to become a manager this season, and as yet he is still out of work as far as I know. Defensively we have looked terrible this season compared to last, surely that's no coincidence? I also think that from a players point of view he would have their respect in a been there, done it, got the medals to back it up sort of way.

[cdbearsfan]

Gerrard, Lampard or Terry would be mug appointments. They haven't done anything. The Villa job is not one where anyone can/should learn the ropes.

Exactly.

[Sexual Ealing]

I have a horrible feeling that it'd be Lampard. A man who, when it was a level playing field, had his arse handed to him by...Dean Smith.