Succession Planning - Managerial Wishlist

[Blue peter]

For the first time ever, all the top 6 clubs in the premier league will have managers below 50 years

Manchester United (Carrick)- 44 years
Chelsea (Alonso) - 44 years
Liverpool (Iraola)- 43 years
Arsenal (Arteta) - 44 years
Manchester City (Enzo) - 46 years
Tottenham (De Zerbi)- 46 years

Never mind all that though, it's not like our lot are even in the Big 12.

Five of those six as well will have new managers starting their first season as manager of those clubs. No more Pep as well, so the PL as a competition is seemingly ripe for opening up (possibly more so than this season) but we just want stability.

Business of football is about identifying opportunities and acting quickly. Our board appear to be acting in the way the Blockbuster Video board did when faced with an opportunity to invest in Netflix.

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

For the first time ever, all the top 6 clubs in the premier league will have managers below 50 years

Manchester United (Carrick)- 44 years
Chelsea (Alonso) - 44 years
Liverpool (Iraola)- 43 years
Arsenal (Arteta) - 44 years
Manchester City (Enzo) - 46 years
Tottenham (De Zerbi)- 46 years

Never mind all that though, it's not like our lot are even in the Big 12.

Big stretch calling Tottenham a top 6 club when they have finished 17th two years in a row.

 

[PhilRegan]

Thomas Frank. Available and cheap at the price.

Yes he is

 

[Dwight K Schrute]

Five of those six as well will have new managers starting their first season as manager of those clubs. No more Pep as well, so the PL as a competition is seemingly ripe for opening up (possibly more so than this season) but we just want stability.

Business of football is about identifying opportunities and acting quickly. Our board appear to be acting in the way the Blockbuster Video board did when faced with an opportunity to invest in Netflix.

I worked part time at Kwik Save when I was a kid. And I remember that, at the time, the biggest ASDA store in the country was opening right across from one of Kwik Save's biggest stores. And I remember chatting to the area manager and asking him if he was worried.

He responded: 'no. That ASDA will be too big. No one will want to shop somewhere that big. This isn't America. If anything, we'll pick up most of ASDA's customers because people will turn away from that.' . I thought he was insane. I was a teenager and he was an experienced area manager. He said: 'trust me, I know what the people round here want.'

Less than a year later, the Kwik Save shut down. ASDA was thriving. A couple of years after that, the whole Kwik Save company was gone.

I always think of that WHENEVER we as a club make football or business decsions. We are incapable of forward thinking in any way and are totally afraid of the new.

And that crap attitude has run through the club for decades now. If we don't have a root and branch overhaul, we'll go the way of Kwik Save.

 

[Juissi]

Thomas Frank. Available and cheap at the price.

Too similar to Moyes. Yes, a bit more versatile and even sometimes presses high, but after all just Moyes 2.0.

 

[Drico]

Too similar to Moyes. Yes, a bit more versatile and even sometimes presses high, but after all just Moyes 2.0.

Just rid me of Moyes 1.0, please. I'll deal with the rest afterwards...

 

[canuckblue]

I would love to have Joe Royle back and sign Arsenal's first scorer today just for the chance to shout "Kai Havertz! And let slip the Dogs of War!"

 

[MACCA75]

Big stretch calling Tottenham a top 6 club when they have finished 17th two years in a row.

They are though tbf. Won Europa league last season and finished top 6 in 15 of the 20 seasons prior to that. Top 6 in revenue and attendances.

 

[preposterousvelios]

Glasner, Iñigo Pérez, Marcelino, Thiago Motta all free agents.

Other good managers out there in jobs currently that we could ask about like Pierre Sage, Hoeness, Jaissle.

If we have to get a DoF then get a DoF.

Iraola was a big opportunity that we've ultimately squandered but lots of other options out there.

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

They are though tbf. Won Europa league last season and finished top 6 in 15 of the 20 seasons prior to that. Top 6 in revenue and attendances.

They are circling the drain

 

[T LEAFE]

Slot

 

[riddick]

Go figure, they sack their manager without a replacement but can choose from literally any club because they are well ran. We, on the other hand, are told "be careful what you wish for" and have people saying our possible contenders to replace Moyes would be Thomas Frank, Gareth Southgate or FSA.

Nah lads, we DEFINITELY have ambition.

 

[riddick]

waitwaitwait, so Liverpool didn't even have a successor when they sacked an underperforming manager? Since when are you allowed to do THAT!?