Next Manager Speculation/Hopes

[SteveN]

It's going to be Dyche isn't it. I've got a horrible feeling.

You and me both.  On the plus side it's not Big Sam.

[cdbearsfan]

Evening Standard reporting with melodramatic confidence that Poch would say no.

Fucking BOOOOOO.

[chrisw1]

It has to be someone who makes people take us seriously

Anything less and people will stop believing any of the ambition talk

Last time we could have got away with appointing a Frank type person but we spun the wheel on Steven and now we can’t show anything less than absolute ambition

I agree with this. It needs someone who's done something of note, that isn't avoiding relegation.

re Frank - I don't think taking another PL teams highly regarded manager when they're doing well is any sort of Mickey Mouse apppointment.  If he was managing in Germany or Spain and achived what he has for a small club people would be calling it a very astute appointment.  I think the familiarity makes people overlook just what a fantastic job he has done and is doing there.

We've seen this kind of appointment before.  Yes, Frank is doing well at Brentford, but doing well for Brentford is finishing mid-table.  That is all he has achieved so far and although it's obviously better than where we currently are, it would just smack of another Paul Lambert type of appointment.

Before Poch went to Spurs he was at Southampton.

I know what you mean re Lambert, but top managers have to come from somewhere and if we can't get someone right at the top then we have to identify those who would be a safe bet and with potential to get there.  Frank is by no means my first choice, but he does seem to have done an excellent job at Brentford.  And don't forget he was the coach behind Smith's success there, so at least you know you are getting someone with a tactical brain.

[MattW]

Would have thought they would have kept McAllister and Critchley on until a successor was found. Unless they've already got someone lined up.

Not on the basis of the portrait of bereft cluelessness they brought to the bench last night.

[MattW]

Would have thought they would have kept McAllister and Critchley on until a successor was found. Unless they've already got someone lined up.

Yeah, I think the mass binnings this morning suggests they've got someone lined up already.

I think it's more the understandable urge to evict all manifestations of the Gerrard experience from the club asap.

[Monty]

Someone like Emery would obviously, obviously be a fine, normal, competent appointment.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Telegraph has Mauricio Pochettino, Thomas Frank, Ruben Amorim and Sean Dyche as the candidates.

Had never heard of Amorin, but looks like has done a good job in Portugal.

Please not Dyche, although I have a nasty feeling it will be.

[cdbearsfan]

I think the wording "Aaron Danks will take charge of our match against Brentford" suggests we have nobody lined up. It would have been "Aaron Danks has taken charge of first team affairs" or something like that, if we had.

[cdbearsfan]

Why the fuck would Dyche even be a candidate. Don't even think about it, Villa.

[cheltenhamlion]

Nobody is lined up and the sacking wasn't Purslow's decision.

[AV82EC]

The list should be

Pochettino
Mancini
That bloke from River Plate.

If the owners ambition is Europe then start paying serious money for the best appointment and as Risso said earlier at least £150m+ over the next two windows to upgrade the first team.

[Chris_Jephcott]

I really don’t want it, but I can see it being Dyche.

[Beard82]

I think we have someone lined up - you wouldn't sack off everyone otherwise - certainly not Critchley yet.

[Clampy]

I think the wording "Aaron Danks will take charge of our match against Brentford" suggests we have nobody lined up. It would have been "Aaron Danks has taken charge of first team affairs" or something like that, if we had.

Some managers rarely come in and take charge straight away. They tend to sit in the stand and access things.

[Beard82]

I really don’t want it, but I can see it being Dyche.

That would be death of the dream