Next manager poll

Next manager (latest odds)

  • Thomas Frank 5/1

  • Roger Schmidt 8/1

  • Roberto Martinez 10/1

  • Jose Bordalas 10/1

  • Southgate 10/1

  • Frank Lampard 12/1

  • Kieran Mckenna 12/1

  • Brendan Rodgers 14/1

  • Sean Dyche 12/1

  • Robbie Keane

  • Andoni Iraola 4-1

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If it is Sage he will likely have a couple of players to recommend, as with Glasner and Kamada and Lacroix. Knowing next to nothing about Lens I await developments with interest.
 
Canterbury Palace said:
So these markets are actually losers from the bookies generally, because they'll typically take bets at decent odds when 'info' leaks which is why they will hurry to shorten them as soon as they see a few bets come in for a particular manager.

For example, Jose Bordalas is currently 20/1 but if some ITK journo claimed he's on our list, you'd immediately get a flurry of bets on those odds which would trigger a liability alarm in the office and he'd quickly go 3/1 or shorter. As we've seen, in the last few days Iraola, Lampard, Toppmoller and Sage have all been favourites at different points.

From a betting perspective, if you know which journalists are reliable and which just talk nonsense (most of them), you could make money if you are quick enough but it's hard because it really doesn't take much to move the odds so it's fastest finger first.

The reason they persist with those markets despite them not being very profitable is that they're quite good for marketing and it gives them things to talk about on social media, blogs and if their PR person gets invited on SSN or Talksport or something to discuss the latest odds.

To reiterate from my earlier posts though, nobody should ever use the bookies as an indicator of knowledge. They know less than us and just react to the bets.
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I'm sure they don't know less than me!
 
Larmpard is being spoken about a lot in the media, as is the Lens guy. I know nothing about that latter, in the same way that I knew nothing about Glasner, and that worked out ok.

What worries me about Lampard is him being the sort of guy to walk away from Coventry after getting them promoted, and what that says about his character. I listened to a podcast interview with him once and he spoke about not saying no to challenges or opportunities when they're presented to him. So what's stopping him leaving us if he gets a better offer after a year. We've had enough of those sort of managers over the years.
 
Frickin Saweet said:
Larmpard is being spoken about a lot in the media, as is the Lens guy. I know nothing about that latter, in the same way that I knew nothing about Glasner, and that worked out ok.

What worries me about Lampard is him being the sort of guy to walk away from Coventry after getting them promoted, and what that says about his character. I listened to a podcast interview with him once and he spoke about not saying no to challenges or opportunities when they're presented to him. So what's stopping him leaving us if he gets a better offer after a year. We've had enough of those sort of managers over the years.
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Feels like most modern managers. Does anyone stick around now? Iraola and Glasner for example. Hardly the only ones.
 
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