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Contingency planning : When Ange is sacked, who should replace him?

Agree. 3 at the back is always crap. Well the Venables side in 1996 perhaps an exception, but it had a novelty effect then

Its awful to play in and awful to watch
 
That wasn't really 3 at the back. It was Dier/Wanyama doing what Gray would be doing for us now - dropping in occasionally from DM to cover the two FBs going high. That's different from setting up default with a back 5.

Poch played 3atb for part of the 16/17 season - Dier at CB with both Wanyama & Dembele in CM - other times he played as you described, think it was a pretty even split last time I checked
 
For me Slot was always the one. A pragmatic manager that also coaches the kind of football players like to play. Some people are saying that he used us to get a better deal at Feyenoord, but I think he would have come to us if we had thrown enough money at him and Feyenoord. I was always hoping that he would succeed Ange, but with our luck Klopp decided to call it quits when he did and Pool smartly snatched him up at a time when we were not looking for a manager.

So that leaves us with Alonso as the only up-and-coming manager out there. He's going to be infinitely more difficult to get than Slot back in 2023, but we should go all out for him.
We got zero chance of getting him.
 
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