Mateu Alemany (with added Alberto Benito and Pablo Rodriguez)

[Brazilian Villain]

Succession-planning for managers is ridiculously difficult as practically every top club discovers.

No matter what our billionaires do, there's a pretty stong chance that the day Emery leaves will cause worry and panic.

To my knowledge the only club that ever solved the problem of succession was Liverpool in their boot room era. That was a dynasty.

Yanited tried to replicate that by naming their training ground Carrington but it didn't work.

[OCD]

Brighton already had De Zebri planned in the event that Graham Potter was ever headhunted.

[garyellis]

This in my opinion is a special moment in our recent history
In my “supporter lifetime” the two managers we needed to nurture and keep were Ron Saunders and Sir Graham
We did not because the club lacked stability and/or ambition.
This time it feels different

[bob]

Who's our next manager gonna be then?

[bob]

Shirley De Zerbi!

[bob]

Maybe Emery has taken us as far as he can.

We lose the first 6 (six) games of the season. Nas doesn't pause for his allocated pint.

He storms out of The Terrace View and De Zerbi is scrolling yellow before the final whistle of Emery's last game.

Full moon I think.

[bob]

This in my opinion is a special moment in our recent history
In my “supporter lifetime” the two managers we needed to nurture and keep were Ron Saunders and Sir Graham
We did not because the club lacked stability and/or ambition.
This time it feels different

Up The Villa garyellis!

It's the best feeling!

[not3bad]

Who's our next manager gonna be then?

Dwight Yorke. By then he will be ready.

[Mister E]

Hmm, I'm not at all sure of that but we can only hope.

Yep, these wet behind the ears billionaires haven’t got a clue how to run a sports business.

Succession-planning for managers is ridiculously difficult as practically every top club discovers.

No matter what our billionaires do, there's a pretty stong chance that the day Emery leaves will cause worry and panic.

Brighton managed their succession planning pretty well with de Zerbi.

[pauliewalnuts]

I wonder if UE will be asked about Alemany at his press conference later today.

[eamonn]

Hmm, I'm not at all sure of that but we can only hope.

Yep, these wet behind the ears billionaires haven’t got a clue how to run a sports business.

Succession-planning for managers is ridiculously difficult as practically every top club discovers.

No matter what our billionaires do, there's a pretty stong chance that the day Emery leaves will cause worry and panic.

Brighton managed their succession planning pretty well with de Zerbi.

As did Brentford but they are clear outliers.

How long have Yanited been floundering since Siralix retired? Arsenal bodged-up big-time after Wenger with Unai Emery, not sure what happened to him. Chelsea flitted from Tommy Tippee to Graham Potter, that went pretty well...

[pauliewalnuts]

Worth remembering, Brighton didn't just lose Potter and his team, they also lost a few important members of their 'back office' team.

[PaulWinch again]

Hmm, I'm not at all sure of that but we can only hope.

Yep, these wet behind the ears billionaires haven’t got a clue how to run a sports business.

Succession-planning for managers is ridiculously difficult as practically every top club discovers.

No matter what our billionaires do, there's a pretty stong chance that the day Emery leaves will cause worry and panic.

Brighton managed their succession planning pretty well with de Zerbi.

As did Brentford but they are clear outliers.

How long have Yanited been floundering since Siralix retired? Arsenal bodged-up big-time after Wenger with Unai Emery, not sure what happened to him. Chelsea flitted from Tommy Tippee to Graham Potter, that went pretty well...

Arsenal it didn’t matter who went in they had been run down for a number of years with Wenger in charge. Chelsea are a shambles. United are a shambles.

Getting the transition right is so much about the underlying stability at the club.

[eamonn]

But at massive clubs "the transition" usually just means firing an expensive manager and his army of coaches that take up 15 seats on the bench and replacing them with another expensive manager and his entourage. Big egos, their own way of managing, expecting a lot of freedom from the club hierarchy.

Well-run clubs at a non-elite level but with an upward trajectory like Brighton and Brentford can do this because the managers they appoint are usually coming from lower clubs/other countries and are happy to buy-in to the existing philosophy. 

If we're successful under Emery, chances are that we will go for a name appointment which suggests someone from the first ("big club") volatile category than the latter.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I'm a pessimist, how do we afford him under FFP and also Barca have been a shitshow from a business perspective recently. Please disabuse me of these sentiments.

We may have made him an offer that blew Barca's out of the water for an accountant/executive, but it's probably only the same as the salary for one of our higher paid players. Plus the owners will hope that they'll more than cover his salary with money saved in negotiations, and profits generated on savvy player acquisitions.

From what I've understood from an interview with some Barca journalist on For the Love of Paul McGrath podcast, Alemany may set out the strategy, may be involved in the negotiations but he's not the man to be recommending players. He'll be deciding how much we can spend and how best to spend it.