Next Manager?

Would like a manager with some longevity. Frank does fit the bill. He has had a shot at a supposed bigger club and it hasn't worked. Laid good foundations at Brentford where Andrews has continued well. Left there with the club in good shape. Southgate may be in a similar vein and may well get the nod due to his Palace ties, although I feel Frank would be better as he has shown more in club roles than internationally.
 
Booted Eagle said:
Would like a manager with some longevity. Frank does fit the bill. He has had a shot at a supposed bigger club and it hasn't worked. Laid good foundations at Brentford where Andrews has continued well. Left there with the club in good shape. Southgate may be in a similar vein and may well get the nod due to his Palace ties, although I feel Frank would be better as he has shown more in club roles than internationally.
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I think Frank is a bit ordinary and I think as a fan base we'd get bored fairly quickly. Don't think Johnson would be too happy either considering Frank froze him out at Spurs... Though saying that if Johnson continues to play the way he has then he'll be lucky to get a look in with any manager.

Southgate should be no where near the management position. He proved tactically inept with a talented squad against some pretty lowly opposition. Our squad is not as talented and our opponents are a lot better, so that's a big no from me.
 
Dyche if he will sign is the obvious choice . Sack Glasner , His substitutions the other day were bizarre , I don’t think I would want him in charge if relegation came down to the last game of the season ..
 
TheBigToePunt said:
I think, perhaps for the first time, the criteria upon which the new manager should be decided is whether he has a clear plan, possibly already proven to work elsewhere, to get value from the expensive group of forwards we have already bought.

Mateta possibly aside, those players aren't likely to be bought by anyone, certainly not for anything close to what we paid for them. I can't imagine there is much money left now to bring in anyone new, so a tune must be gotten from some combination of Larsen, Nketiah, Pino, Johnson, Sarr, possibly Guessand, maybe even Esse.

That suggests a front 3, perhaps with two wide and one central, rather than the current system.

The guy at Bournemouth would be my clear preference, just on the above basis alone.
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Bournemouth in a much better position than us in the league at the moment and more than likely at the end of the season so can't see us poaching Iraola. Either a manager who has never been in the PL like OG or somebody who has managed a similar club and done well but not in employment like Frank seems more realistic.
 
Booted Eagle said:
Bournemouth in a much better position than us in the league at the moment and more than likely at the end of the season so can't see us poaching Iraola. Either a manager who has never been in the PL like OG or somebody who has managed a similar club and done well but not in employment like Frank seems more realistic.
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I believe Iraola's contract expires this summer and so far there seems little talk of him signing a new one, so he could be available as things stand.

I doubt the few league places between palace and Bournemouth will mean much come summer. Both clubs have built good sides but then had to sell the crown jewels. Difference is, palace seem more inclined to spend there profits on replacements than Bournemouth. Perhaps that'll be enough to entice Iraola.
 
TheBigToePunt said:
I believe Iraola's contract expires this summer and so far there seems little talk of him signing a new one, so he could be available as things stand.

I doubt the few league places between palace and Bournemouth will mean much come summer. Both clubs have built good sides but then had to sell the crown jewels. Difference is, palace seem more inclined to spend there profits on replacements than Bournemouth. Perhaps that'll be enough to entice Iraola.
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Bournemouth sold 3 of their back 4 after the end of the season but acquired 7 new players in the summer 'Window' including :
Petrovic £25 Mill, Diakite up to £35 Mill, Doak up to £25 Mill, Adli up to £25 Mill.
 
Willo said:
Bournemouth sold 3 of their back 4 after the end of the season but acquired 7 new players in the summer 'Window' including :
Petrovic £25 Mill, Diakite up to £35 Mill, Doak up to £25 Mill, Adli up to £25 Mill.
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Yes, but they spent about £130m less on new players than they made on sales. I don't know what their overall spending/sales over the last few years looks like, but iraola could be forgiven for thinking he's developing unheralded and cheaper players into valuable assets for sale, and then being asked to repeat the trick.

He might look at palace spending all our player sales profits on more ready made replacements and think, that's a better deal than I'm getting at Bournemouth...
 
TheBigToePunt said:
Yes, but they spent about £130m less on new players than they made on sales. I don't know what their overall spending/sales over the last few years looks like, but iraola could be forgiven for thinking he's developing unheralded and cheaper players into valuable assets for sale, and then being asked to repeat the trick.

He might look at palace spending all our player sales profits on more ready made replacements and think, that's a better deal than I'm getting at Bournemouth...
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I know what you're getting at but Rayan currently looks more ready for Prem football than Johnson 😂 so Iraola could also decide not to join us as he sees we put all of our eggs in one basket by spunking our funds on overpriced 'prem ready' players instead of developing the squad!
 
samprior said:
I know what you're getting at but Rayan currently looks more ready for Prem football than Johnson 😂 so Iraola could also decide not to join us as he sees we put all of our eggs in one basket by spunking our funds on overpriced 'prem ready' players instead of developing the squad!
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Oh yeah, I'm certainly not suggesting the money we made on sales was spent well! At least we spent what we made, though.

I think the greater probability is iraola having his sights set higher than palace or Bournemouth. I'm surprised he isn't more strongly linked with big jobs.
 
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