5 hours ago, Bob stark said:

I am pre sure De Zerbi left Brighton because Brighton signed kids when he wanted more ready player.

That's the widely accepted view. I think De Zerbi's rigid tactics, which were increasingly found out, might have played a part on the club's side of things.

I find it so weird anyone on here is happy with the idea of Iraola.

Id genuinely rather have Maresca another season than getting another "Potter"

We need a manager who has won something. Glasner obviously fits the bill. Id also be happy to see Alonso come here as he won't be at Madrid for long.

However I would put a decent amount of money on Maresca still being our manager on 1st day of next season.

15 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

I find it so weird anyone on here is happy with the idea of Iraola.

Id genuinely rather have Maresca another season than getting another "Potter"

We need a manager who has won something. Glasner obviously fits the bill. Id also be happy to see Alonso come here as he won't be at Madrid for long.

However I would put a decent amount of money on Maresca still being our manager on 1st day of next season.

He's only 43 and it's difficult to win anything at the sort of clubs he's managed up to now. But the football he has Bournemouth playing, despite the fact they're a club always selling their best players, is so much better than Maresca-ball and he would be a massive upgrade on Maresca.

That said my choice would be Glasner. If it were back in the days of Roman, I would imagine we would be announcing Glasner as our new head coach sometime soon, alas, under these f**kwits, I think you're right - the bald one will still be here next season.

17 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

Rumours that Xabi Alonso is on borrowed time at Real Madrid ...would anyone want him as manager for us ?

The knives are certainly out for Xabi. He has run into the problem that Carlo juggled with and largely overcame due to his great man management skills. A dressing room full of egos. Xabi wants to implement a disciplined strategy. The egos don't want to be told how to play.

2 minutes ago, dermott said:

The knives are certainly out for Xabi. He has run into the problem that Carlo juggled with and largely overcame due to his great man management skills. A dressing room full of egos. Xabi wants to implement a disciplined strategy. The egos don't want to be told how to play.

It's widely know that managing Real Madrid is very, very difficult. And this has been so for decades, since the 80s-90s as far as I can remember. Talk about player power, Real Madrid is the worst for it. Having a massive twat like Vinicius in the team, hasn't helped Alonso either. If you have the chance, watch Celta's first goal last Sunday. Embarrassing how the Real Madrid are miles away from the Celta players and watching the ball being passed around. They are certainly trying to get Alonso sacked.

1 minute ago, RMH said:

It's widely know that managing Real Madrid is very, very difficult. And this has been so for decades, since the 80s-90s as far as I can remember. Talk about player power, Real Madrid is the worst for it. Having a massive twat like Vinicius in the team, hasn't helped Alonso either. If you have the chance, watch Celta's first goal last Sunday. Embarrassing how the Real Madrid are miles away from the Celta players and watching the ball being passed around. They are certainly trying to get Alonso sacked.

All true. Makes trying to manage PSG of the Mbappe/Messi/Neymar era look like a cakewalk.

13 hours ago, 19seventyone said:

Not good enough and all the more galling with who we are dropping points against.

We are now level with Utd and two points better off than Liverpool. Both have had very poor seasons so far.

Maresca will have us in contention in the cups I reckon but we won’t ever win the league with him in charge.

I’ve been pretty supportive of him until the last two games but it’s exactly the same as last season.

We are going to have to get lucky if we sack him because no top tier manager is taking that job. It’s going to be Rosenior or maybe Iraola or Glasner. No chance S&W are giving up control of transfers.

I'm also very dubious that Maresca will get us any Cup of relevance. In the domestic Cups, as soon as we played any good team we got knocked out, Newcastle in the Carabao Cup and Brighton in the FA Cup.

Liverpool likely favorites anyway

10 hours ago, dkw said:

To be fair whenever ive seen Stuttgart they dont play anything like the tedious, borefest we do, they actually try and attack with pace. Ok ive only seen small bits of games but from what I can tell its a fairly decent style.

Is that still Hoeness?

1 hour ago, WhiteWall said:

Is that still Hoeness?

Sorry, meant Strasbourg under Rosenior.

Stupid useless bald moronic c**t.

Every part of his coaching is a crime against football.

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Too clever for his own good.. every week platers play out if position.. we are really struggling to create any attacking threats.. don’t see the idea or patterns..

2 RBs in centre midfield. Amazing.

f**k this bald fraud.

Don't let this egotistical stubborn w**ker ruin your holidays lads.

50 minutes ago, dkw said:

Sorry, meant Strasbourg under Rosenior.

Strasbourg may well have been Stuttgart if it weren't for the British

Get out my club fraud

Terrorist

Delusional twit thinks he can defy the norms of elite football established over a century plus and is the second coming of Pep

Delusional owners back him

everybody else on the planet can see that in fact he's a championship level coach at most, and we are to be tortured by him for the foreseeable future, its a very sick joke from Clearfake

Complete f**king clown

Don't think hes good enough BUT.....

I think he has an impossible job.

He's come into a club that have signed 100 young players instead of first building a solid spine. Roman gave Jose the pieces from day one. Cech, JT, Lamps, Drogba

Why make an impossible job harder by ignoring the basics of football and trying to be a hipster and prove much smarter you are than everyone else.

He should be replaced now, but I suspect nothing will be done until our season is over. Either way we won't be getting any improvement as the same clowns will pick the replacement. It will be another 'learning' manager to go alongside all the 18 year old potentials in the farm.

How is he not under more pressure. Slot and Amorim both have been under pressure and we are pretty much on the same points.

What other manager makes them subs tonight. f**king bizarre.

James constantly in midfield. The odd bog game then fine, but he is by far our best full back, and one of the best attcking outlets in the team. Even the goal came from James in a wide position.

Just sick of this inverted nonsense. No other team plays this way. Even pep has packed this sh*t in.

Cant wait until he is gone, and he can take the sh*t SD's, Tosin, Gittens, Badiashille,Garnacho, Sanchez, and the rest of sh*t with him.

He could coach the will to attack out of a suicide bomber.