Next Manager Speculation/Hopes

[paul_e]

A couple of names to throw in ther pot from down here:

Rúben Amorim, the Sporting Clube de Lisboa Coach may only be 37 but has incredible maturity. Plays attacking football and has completely turned Sporting around. He's a humble, intelligent, educated man that is tactically smart and can adapt. What's crazy is Sporting paid €10m to take him off Braga despite him only managing them for 13 games. It was the best 10m Sporting ever spent. He now has a €30m release clause.

Sérgio Conceição, Porto Coach. More experienced, despite being a top player in Porto and Italy he's done it the hard way before replacing Nuno at Porto. He's contracted until summer 2024 and he's been tempted to leave Porto several times including Spurs where he was shortlisted when they appointed Conté. The Plastics were also said to be interested when they sacked Solskjaer.

I'd take Conceição, big name, plays good football from what I've seen and has plenty of experience whilst still being young enough to be 'up-to-date'.

I don't have the slightest idea about either one but if it means no Rodgers, I'm in.

One of the main criticisms of Gerrard is that he only managed in Scotland, yet we're now suggesting a manager from the Portuguese league instead? Exactly the same thing applies, two or three behemoths and the rest made up of small Championship/League One or Two sized teams.

The difference is Gerrard had done nothing but manage one of the behemoths. Conceição has managed 6 clubs, including Nantes so not just in Portugal anyway. I've said many times now I was nervous of Gerrard because he'd never had to work a way out of a bad run, Conceição has been at clubs where he's had to experience that and that will have shaped him as a manager. In fact his 'journey' is exactly the sort that I'd want most managers to go through.

None of this is to say he'd be perfect but he's nothing like Gerrard.

[villadelph]

It would be soul crushing to be in 19th, sack the manager because of it, and then appoint the bloke in 20th.

While the current optics don't look great.. I'll take European football and an FA cup, though.

If he can do it with LC he can do it with us.

[Risso]

I've said many times now I was nervous of Gerrard because he'd never had to work a way out of a bad run

He has now!

[TonyD]

Rodgers just feels wrong. 

[paul_e]

I've said many times now I was nervous of Gerrard because he'd never had to work a way out of a bad run

He has now!

And his inexperience is showing. If he was as destined for greatness as some think he'd have fixed things and we'd be talking about challenging for Europe. As is he'll be sacked and, for his sake, hopefully he will have learnt from his mistakes.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

A couple of names to throw in ther pot from down here:

Rúben Amorim, the Sporting Clube de Lisboa Coach may only be 37 but has incredible maturity. Plays attacking football and has completely turned Sporting around. He's a humble, intelligent, educated man that is tactically smart and can adapt. What's crazy is Sporting paid €10m to take him off Braga despite him only managing them for 13 games. It was the best 10m Sporting ever spent. He now has a €30m release clause.

Sérgio Conceição, Porto Coach. More experienced, despite being a top player in Porto and Italy he's done it the hard way before replacing Nuno at Porto. He's contracted until summer 2024 and he's been tempted to leave Porto several times including Spurs where he was shortlisted when they appointed Conté. The Plastics were also said to be interested when they sacked Solskjaer.

I'd take Conceição, big name, plays good football from what I've seen and has plenty of experience whilst still being young enough to be 'up-to-date'.

I don't have the slightest idea about either one but if it means no Rodgers, I'm in.

One of the main criticisms of Gerrard is that he only managed in Scotland, yet we're now suggesting a manager from the Portuguese league instead? Exactly the same thing applies, two or three behemoths and the rest made up of small Championship/League One or Two sized teams.

You needn't worry, I doubt neither are attainable for us right now. I was just 'throwing them in the pot' rather than recommending we sign them up tomorrow. Bruno Lage has far less experience (one season at Benfica) and success than the boy Amorim yet has done a surprisingly decent job at Wolves, all things considered.

As somebody mentioned earlier, we need to search far and wide to find the right person. Rather than limit our search by geography we should look for anybody that ideally has or at least the potential to manage a big club. More than anything, it comes down to the coaching. Good coaches can adapt to any country. Shit ones, well it's there in front of you, at least this week.

For the record, I'd rather keep Gerrard than hire Rodgers.

[villadelph]

A couple of names to throw in ther pot from down here:

Rúben Amorim, the Sporting Clube de Lisboa Coach may only be 37 but has incredible maturity. Plays attacking football and has completely turned Sporting around. He's a humble, intelligent, educated man that is tactically smart and can adapt. What's crazy is Sporting paid €10m to take him off Braga despite him only managing them for 13 games. It was the best 10m Sporting ever spent. He now has a €30m release clause.

Sérgio Conceição, Porto Coach. More experienced, despite being a top player in Porto and Italy he's done it the hard way before replacing Nuno at Porto. He's contracted until summer 2024 and he's been tempted to leave Porto several times including Spurs where he was shortlisted when they appointed Conté. The Plastics were also said to be interested when they sacked Solskjaer.

I'd take Conceição, big name, plays good football from what I've seen and has plenty of experience whilst still being young enough to be 'up-to-date'.

I don't have the slightest idea about either one but if it means no Rodgers, I'm in.

One of the main criticisms of Gerrard is that he only managed in Scotland, yet we're now suggesting a manager from the Portuguese league instead? Exactly the same thing applies, two or three behemoths and the rest made up of small Championship/League One or Two sized teams.

You needn't worry, I doubt neither are attainable for us right now. I was just 'throwing them in the pot' rather than recommending we sign them up tomorrow. Bruno Lage has far less experience (one season at Benfica) and success than the boy Amorim yet has done a surprisingly decent job at Wolves, all things considered.

As somebody mentioned earlier, we need to search far and wide to find the right person. Rather than limit our search by geography we should look for anybody that ideally has or at least the potential to manage a big club. More than anything, it comes down to the coaching. Good coaches can adapt to any country. Shit ones, well it's there in front of you, at least this week.

For the record, I'd rather keep Gerrard than hire Rodgers.

On what grounds? Honest question..

[Allan C]

Rodgers, spiky? Seems that he's held his tongue against the backdrop of not being given funds this summer.

That’s because he largely wasted the vast majority of the funds he was given previously

[Allan C]

A couple of names to throw in ther pot from down here:

Rúben Amorim, the Sporting Clube de Lisboa Coach may only be 37 but has incredible maturity. Plays attacking football and has completely turned Sporting around. He's a humble, intelligent, educated man that is tactically smart and can adapt. What's crazy is Sporting paid €10m to take him off Braga despite him only managing them for 13 games. It was the best 10m Sporting ever spent. He now has a €30m release clause.

Sérgio Conceição, Porto Coach. More experienced, despite being a top player in Porto and Italy he's done it the hard way before replacing Nuno at Porto. He's contracted until summer 2024 and he's been tempted to leave Porto several times including Spurs where he was shortlisted when they appointed Conté. The Plastics were also said to be interested when they sacked Solskjaer.

I'd take Conceição, big name, plays good football from what I've seen and has plenty of experience whilst still being young enough to be 'up-to-date'.

I don't have the slightest idea about either one but if it means no Rodgers, I'm in.

One of the main criticisms of Gerrard is that he only managed in Scotland, yet we're now suggesting a manager from the Portuguese league instead? Exactly the same thing applies, two or three behemoths and the rest made up of small Championship/League One or Two sized teams.

You needn't worry, I doubt neither are attainable for us right now. I was just 'throwing them in the pot' rather than recommending we sign them up tomorrow. Bruno Lage has far less experience (one season at Benfica) and success than the boy Amorim yet has done a surprisingly decent job at Wolves, all things considered.

As somebody mentioned earlier, we need to search far and wide to find the right person. Rather than limit our search by geography we should look for anybody that ideally has or at least the potential to manage a big club. More than anything, it comes down to the coaching. Good coaches can adapt to any country. Shit ones, well it's there in front of you, at least this week.

For the record, I'd rather keep Gerrard than hire Rodgers.

On what grounds? Honest question..

Because, in my view, it would be another sideways move rather than a forward one. Neither Rodgers or Potter are sufficiently improvements on either Gerrard or Smith

[luke95]

Rodgers is a massive step up on both Smith & Gerrard

[TonyD]

I've said many times now I was nervous of Gerrard because he'd never had to work a way out of a bad run

He has now!

And his inexperience is showing. If he was as destined for greatness as some think he'd have fixed things and we'd be talking about challenging for Europe. As is he'll be sacked and, for his sake, hopefully he will have learnt from his mistakes.

Inexperience has nothing to do with the way he has been managing.  He is mind bogglingly awful. Most of us on here wouldn’t keep making the same howlers time and time again.   

[Rudy Can't Fail]

For the record, I'd rather keep Gerrard than hire Rodgers.

On what grounds? Honest question..

We can get rid of Gerrard any time we want. If we hire Rodgers we're stuck with him.

[KRS]

I doubt we’d get Pochettino (we should at least try), but I struggle to understand how anyone could think that either Rodgers or Potter wouldn’t realistically be better options than Gerrard.

[N'ZMAV]

my hope is Gerrard makes it work.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I doubt we’d get Pochettino (we should at least try), but I struggle to understand how anyone could think that either Rodgers or Potter wouldn’t realistically be better options than Gerrard.

Potter yes, Rodgers no. I think you'd struggle to find a fan of his current or former clubs that have a good word to say about him, least of all his transfer dealings. His number one fan is himself. His best days were at Swansea riding on the coat tails of Jackett, Martinez and Sousa. He's not even loved at Celtic despite winning so much. the more I find out about him the more I'm convinced his days are over.

I'd like some quality for a change and Pochettino seems the obvious choice. He wants to return to the PL and I think with the squad and owners we have, he'd be interested.