Just got back off holiday so catching up on the news.
Have we confirmed CA now?
Amazing coup if so - he's a top quality coach, hugely experienced and a winner!
The RS will need to make changes though.
They'll be playing in that club tournament soon too and won't that mean that they've got to fit in the league games elsewhere?
Not been incredible of late - scraping results so you never know - this could be a chance to get one over them.
Would just make things 100x worse. Look at when he was Chelsea...Won the EL and got them top 4 but atmosphere was pretty toxic.
And that was a short term appointment. Imagine if he was signed as permanent here - would start with half the base hating him and even if successful* not sure he...
He would divide the fanbase immediately. For that reason alone it is a non-starter.
Then there's the matter of money of which he's likely earning shedloads in China.
Cost of sacking MS, then paying compensation (?) to the chinese club and then wages for him and his staff would be incredibly...
The increased exposure of the PL in recent years - in places like the US, China, India etc. - probably draws extra interest & maybe some (small) level of additional support. However, anyone who experiences any sort of success whilst these new markets are exploding are the one's likely to make...
Man Utd are a complete mess but it's been on the cards for for a few seasons now.
Read something today about them offloading a bunch of players to bring in £150m and then spending up to £250m+.
Speculative crap and what they don't seem to realise is that it isn't that easy to get rid of the...
He's won stuff - something we crave. Saying it was someone else's team or XX happened before or after a manager joined or left a club doesn't change that.
You're right about JM and that he probably wouldn't be welcomed over there (in the same way Benitez wasn't welcome at Chelsea or here)...
Yes Chelsea expect to compete for a CL place but the fact remains he got the job done under tough circumstances...
Also delivered a trophy - something no Everton manager has done since Joe Royle.
How was he responsible for Newcastle's wage bill when he inherited a squad? Villa and WBA probably...
I think that's wishful thinking - in the current economic climate it will be highly unlikely a deal like that is secured.
There's a large stand recently built not too far away that hasn't been able to get a deal....