Next Manager Speculation and wishful thinking thread

[andyh]

Yeah, but we find ourselves in a relegations crap and we need to make sure we get out of it before we start thinking of Europe.

It’s not like it’s March. There’s plenty of time we can get a better long-term prospect in and be miles away from relegation.

No it’s not March.
But there are only 2 more games before we hit a very busy and incredibly tough December.
We have got to get away from those lower places in the league before we are entrenched down there and we all know happens then.

If the club is going to act, they have to do it now.

[KevinGage]

These look like the vaguely likely/ not totally Sci-Fi runners and riders list:

John Terry.  Meh.
Graham Potter Brighton under contract until 2025
Steve Gerrard. No thanks
Frank Lampard. FRO
Nuno Espirito Santo
Roy Hodgson
Brendan Rodgers Leicester under contract until 2025

Jesse Marsch RB Leipzig under contract until 2023
Bo Svensson  Mainz under contract until 2025
Lucian Favre out of contract

Christophe Galtier OGC Nice under contract until 2024
Vladimir Petkovic Bordeaux under contract until 2024
Peter Bosz Lyon under contract until 2023

Gian Piero Gasperini Atlanta under contract until 2022
Maurizo Sarri  Lazio under contract until 2023
Luciano Spalletti Napoli under contract until 2023
Gennaro Gattuso out of contract

Unai Emery Villareal under contract until 2023
Manuel Pellegrini Real Betis under contract until 2023
Ronald Koeman  out of contract

International managers
Roberto Mancini   Italy
Kasper Hjulmand   Denmark

[KevinGage]

Wouldn’t want Uncle Woy anywhere near the club personally. But might just be a safe pair of wellies to wade through the shit and keep us up if this bad run continues. Knows Purslow and that might work in his favour.

The Danish lad that Reluctant Niko has linked has an underwhelming record at club level to say the least. But Nixon gets far more wrong than he gets right, so no major worries on that score.

Bosz at Lyon could be an interesting choice. A Cruyff disciple apparently (yes please). But dodgy defensively. Same as it ever was.

Terry would be an obvious link based on recent history. But there’s a certain amount of bollocksology floating around suggesting that won’t happen. He advised Girlish to leave, according to the twittersphere. Him and ROK. And Sawiris personally intervened to off them both. It would explain the shite timing of their departures if nothing else.

Out of all that lot, Rodgers and Mancini are the only vaguely realistic ones that if we got either now - or in the summer -  would be seen as a major coup.

[Luke8]

Think it’s highly unlikely that either Rogers or Mancini leave their current jobs to come here.

[chrisw1]

As much as i think Dean should go if all we can replace him with is managers like Dyche then why bother.

That's not all we can replace him with.  We'll have our choice of literally hundreds of managers.  There are people who are paid a hell of a lot more than us to work out who that should be, but the pool is a lot bigger than Dyce & Potter.

[ozzjim]

And hopefully not the Denmark manager because he's mates with Lange

[chrisw1]

But Rogers isn't one of them unfortunately.

[RamboandBruno]

Mancini a year before taking Italy to a world cup they have a realistic chance of winning, seems Geordiesque in its delusion.
It’ll be someone not in work now.

[London Villan]

The criteria will be around who is currently out of work and who would see us as a step up from where they currently are. That rules out a lot a good managers.

[chrisw1]

Mancini a year before taking Italy to a world cup they have a realistic chance of winning, seems Geordiesque in its delusion.
It’ll be someone not in work now.

Of course it won't be Mancini.  But a club with our potential should not be accepting we can only get someone out of work at the moment.

[Scott Nielsen]

Terry would be an obvious link based on recent history. But there’s a certain amount of bollocksology floating around suggesting that won’t happen. He advised Girlish to leave, according to the twittersphere. Him and ROK. And Sawiris personally intervened to off them both. It would explain the shite timing of their departures if nothing else.

It would explain those departures but who's making those claims? Are they credible?

[Small Rodent]

Think it’s highly unlikely that either Rogers or Mancini leave their current jobs to come here.

Did Rogers and Mancini write The Sound of Music?

[TonyD]

They need to act soon. 

[SamTheMouse]

I wonder whether the powers that be are mulling someone who very recently became available and is known to be able to get a tune out of our record signing...

[nigel]

From that list Manuel Pellegrini could be an interesting one.