Next Manager Speculation/Hopes

[Scovilla]

Pull? No thanks. Boring as fuck..

[ldavfc4eva]

Poch for me, quality manager and coach. If the 3 or 5 year plan still exists then he should be the go to.

Right age and background, well respected in the game too

We need another MON appointment IMHO, someone who will come in and won’t take mid table mediocrity, but who wants to go forward and get us back as a top 8/6 team.

[Hillbilly]

Gallardo is leaving River Plate…

[N'ZMAV]

Rafa Benitez - fuck, imagine that? God, no.

[steamer]

Genuine question
Why did spurs dump Potch

[Richard E]

Genuine question
Why did spurs dump Potch

They were unhappy with the plans set out in his mini budget.

[olaftab]

Yes and he walked out of a Press Conference because reporters were asking questions.

And he was getting dangerously close to winning an actual trophy.

[Clark W Griswold]

I read up a little on him yesterday. The conclusion for me was that it has to be him next. In answer to your question though, the season after he took them to the CL final they were sitting 14th in the November so they pulled the plug. Prematurely I would say, since he’d been there 5 years and pretty much been a huge success.

We need another one like Big Ron / MON, an experienced no fucking about big profile manager that you just know will improve us, and I think he’s the one.

[ChicagoLion]

It all started to go wrong with the decision to play an unfit Kane and drop the bloke who got them into the final.

[tomd2103]

Puel plays even more boring football than Gerrard, had Leicester 13th in league when he got sacked.

I'd probably take 13th now, TBH.

I don't see another 8-9 wins playing this way under the current incumbent.

Not that I'd want Puel either, in an ideal world.

I'd take 17th if the current malaise continues.  We're bang in trouble if things aren't turned around. 

[Beard82]

Poch for me, quality manager and coach. If the 3 or 5 year plan still exists then he should be the go to.

Right age and background, well respected in the game too

We need another MON appointment IMHO, someone who will come in and won’t take mid table mediocrity, but who wants to go forward and get us back as a top 8/6 team.

I fear that if he was interested he would already be our manager

[N'ZMAV]

If I was Poch I'd ride this out and wait for a bigger job.

[Richard E]

If I was Poch I'd ride this out and wait for a bigger job.

There is no bigger job!!! Tsk.

[Clark W Griswold]

I think there is an argument for whether he’d come here or prefer a club that is already in the CL or currently higher profile but I wouldn’t read too much into the fact that he’s not ‘already our manager’ since there isn’t currently a vacancy. I think we’d be in with a shout personally.

[KevinGage]

Poch, Tuchel and Mancini are all in the elite level category and I'd hope we'd at least have the conversation when the time comes. If you don't ask you don't get.

On Poch in particular, his record was far from stellar when he got the Soton gig. He'd been fired by Espanyol and the Saints fans weren't keen, as odd as that seems now. They were quite happy with Nigel Adkins.

Then he goes to Tottingham and there was a feeling at the time that he wasn't a big enough 'name' for the club with the ultimate delusions of grandeur. In both instances he was hungry and had a point to prove. I'd wonder if he still has that fire.  I'd still chance it, mind.