Next manager poll

[Linford]

Why?

What would you prefer. Agreeing a deal with any old manager quickly, or taking a bit more time to get the right man?

Sage is very highly rated and under contract. We are likely not only negotiating his release, but his first team coaching staff too.

I expect the four Austrians to follow Oli out the door, with McCarthy, Holland, and Quy remaining in post.

3-4 close confidents of the new man to fill those vacancies. Presumably.

 

[MrRobbo]

All of those names didn't have "EPL experience", until they did.

We should never get hung up on it; it's a faulty way of thinking that eventually jusy leads to a revolving door of cast-offs when taken to it's logical conclusion.

100%

This prem experience requirements couldn't be more untrue. Almost all of the successful Prem managers did not have prem experience

 

[Linford]

This Sage fella has done nothing massive gamble reminds me of FDB risk we took and he had a far better CV.

Frank de Boer started out well enough with Ajax, but had lost the last two seasons in an otherwise one-horse league before he left them. He then followed that with a failed spell at Inter Milan before joining us.

I was in a minority that was happy to give FDB more time than he got, and his initial appointment was exciting at the time, for pure name-recognition from his playing days... but he didn't have much of a managerial CV when he joined us.

Sage has just taken Lens, where the expectations are way less than Ajax's, to within a whisker away from PSG's league record, and to their first ever cup title. Basically making him the Oli Glasner of the Pas-de-Calais. Prior to that he turned Lyon around and secured for them European football.

Arguably Sage's experience, field of work, and CV is way above what FDB's was when he joined us.

 

[Linford]

100%

This prem experience requirements couldn't be more untrue. Almost all of the successful Prem managers did not have prem experience

Precisely. None of Ferguson, Guardiola, Mourinho, or Wenger had EPL experience before working their magic and writing their names in the annuals.

Fergie had a similar record to Sage in fact. Wenger's wasn't that far above the pair. They were both obviously walking into bigger clubs and it was enough.

 

[silvertop]

Precisely. None of Ferguson, Guardiola, Mourinho, or Wenger had EPL experience before working their magic and writing their names in the annuals.

Fergie had a similar record to Sage in fact. Wenger's wasn't that far above the pair. They were both obviously walking into bigger clubs and it was enough.

And there the similarity ends
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