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New New Manager Poll (The Lets Get It Right This Time Edition)
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Grays_1890
Chris Jones
I like Kompany and he has done a tremendous job but I have heard better talks and more rousing gonadings in the Essex Senior League, I never understood the social media frenzy for this clip TBH
Not a chance that is going to happen. It's going to be someone that has experience in a top league. I do think he looks like a top manager in the making so I personally wouldn't be against it, I just don't think for one second that Levy would risk it as the anti-Enic phalanx will jump on it at the first hint of a bad spell.
tommysvr
Vedran Corluka
Obviously every appointment is risk
But you can still minimise it. I wouldn’t be happy appointing a manager with one Championship season of experience.
Grays_1890
Chris Jones
I honestly (despite the cynicism on here) think Levy will step back and let the new guy and new Fab (which I honestly think will come in summer) make this decision. I feel a step back and therefore a "blameless" future for Levy beckons, thats why he has Munn coming in, over to you sir kinda thing.
Yiddo
Ian Walker
The anti Enic tacos will jump on anyone who loses 2 or 3 games in a row regardless of their reputation.
Bedfordspurs
Vinnie Samways
It’s why I’d go for Slot
Someone like Poch will get more time than Kompany would.
alekaras
The ITK of IDK
I'm liking this guy more and more! From the Telegraph.
The manager every Premier League club should be looking at
Doing a Leicester on a Dutch shoestring: meet the inspirational manager every English top-flight club should covet
ByJason Burt, CHIEF FOOTBALL CORRESPONDENT13 April 2023 • 10:30am
Feyenoord coach Arne Slot has every sporting director on red alert CREDIT: Maurice van Steen/Getty Images
While Napoli have felt like the story of European football this season there is something almost as extraordinary taking place in Holland that even rivals Leicester City’s amazing Premier League title win in 2016.
The Feyenoord team of Arne Slot play some of the most exciting, high-energy, attacking football on the continent alongside Napoli and they have taken the Eredivisie by storm, leading by eight points over Ajax with just one defeat in 28 league games.
They are also into the last eight of the Europa League after beating Shakhtar Donetsk 7-1 at home in the last round and face Roma on Thursday. This brings Slot, who is being looked at by a number of Premier League clubs, back up against Jose Mourinho for a rematch of last year's Uefa Conference League Final, when Roma beat Feyenoord.
And all of this is being achieved on a shoestring.
Feyenoord may traditionally be the third biggest club in Holland behind Ajax and PSV Eindhoven, but that gives a false impression. They are not only far behind the Dutch giants in terms of budget but also have been, in recent years, one of its most boring, defensive teams, especially under Slot’s predecessor dingdong Advocaat. How that has changed.
Arne Slot, Head Coach of Feyenoord, with some typically forceful instructions, here towards Oussama Idrissi CREDIT: Getty Images Europe
Examining the financial disparity gives a sense of how well Slot has done since he left AZ Alkmaar, having achieved their highest-ever points total, to take over at Feyenoord in the summer of 2021.
So impressive has been the work of the 44-year-old former midfielder, who is a disciple of Pep Guardiola, that more Premier League clubs are taking a keen interest. Leeds United tried to hire him in February after sacking Jesse Marsch (and he would be a natural successor to Marcelo Bielsa) but he stayed in Rotterdam.
There are vacancies at Tottenham Hotspur and, in the summer, Chelsea and Crystal Palace – it would be remiss of them not to consider Slot.
It does feel that it is only a matter of time before Slot makes his move to England, where there are strong similarities in the way he coaches and the playing style he demands to Mikel Arteta at Arsenal and Brighton’s Roberto De Zerbi. He is also friends with Liverpool’s assistant manager Pep Lijnders while there is, of course, an obvious comparison with Manchester United’s Erik ten Hag, who moved from Ajax. Except Slot’s football is even more attacking and it was he, not Ten Hag, who won the Rinus Michels Award for Eredivisie manager of the season last year.
The manager every Premier League club should be looking at
Doing a Leicester on a Dutch shoestring: meet the inspirational manager every English top-flight club should covet
ByJason Burt, CHIEF FOOTBALL CORRESPONDENT13 April 2023 • 10:30am
Feyenoord coach Arne Slot has every sporting director on red alert CREDIT: Maurice van Steen/Getty Images
While Napoli have felt like the story of European football this season there is something almost as extraordinary taking place in Holland that even rivals Leicester City’s amazing Premier League title win in 2016.
The Feyenoord team of Arne Slot play some of the most exciting, high-energy, attacking football on the continent alongside Napoli and they have taken the Eredivisie by storm, leading by eight points over Ajax with just one defeat in 28 league games.
They are also into the last eight of the Europa League after beating Shakhtar Donetsk 7-1 at home in the last round and face Roma on Thursday. This brings Slot, who is being looked at by a number of Premier League clubs, back up against Jose Mourinho for a rematch of last year's Uefa Conference League Final, when Roma beat Feyenoord.
And all of this is being achieved on a shoestring.
Feyenoord may traditionally be the third biggest club in Holland behind Ajax and PSV Eindhoven, but that gives a false impression. They are not only far behind the Dutch giants in terms of budget but also have been, in recent years, one of its most boring, defensive teams, especially under Slot’s predecessor dingdong Advocaat. How that has changed.
Arne Slot, Head Coach of Feyenoord, with some typically forceful instructions, here towards Oussama Idrissi CREDIT: Getty Images Europe
Examining the financial disparity gives a sense of how well Slot has done since he left AZ Alkmaar, having achieved their highest-ever points total, to take over at Feyenoord in the summer of 2021.
So impressive has been the work of the 44-year-old former midfielder, who is a disciple of Pep Guardiola, that more Premier League clubs are taking a keen interest. Leeds United tried to hire him in February after sacking Jesse Marsch (and he would be a natural successor to Marcelo Bielsa) but he stayed in Rotterdam.
There are vacancies at Tottenham Hotspur and, in the summer, Chelsea and Crystal Palace – it would be remiss of them not to consider Slot.
It does feel that it is only a matter of time before Slot makes his move to England, where there are strong similarities in the way he coaches and the playing style he demands to Mikel Arteta at Arsenal and Brighton’s Roberto De Zerbi. He is also friends with Liverpool’s assistant manager Pep Lijnders while there is, of course, an obvious comparison with Manchester United’s Erik ten Hag, who moved from Ajax. Except Slot’s football is even more attacking and it was he, not Ten Hag, who won the Rinus Michels Award for Eredivisie manager of the season last year.
alekaras
The ITK of IDK
Radically changing how the team play
Out of the shadow? Coach Arne Slot of Feyenoord could be a big hit at a top Premier League team CREDIT: EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Mention of Ajax draws the most stark comparison. When Slot took over, Feyenoord sold top-scorer Steven Berghuis, with 18 goals, to Ajax for 6.5 million euros and used 4.5 million euros to buy Gernot Trauner, Marcus Pedersen and Fredrik Aursnes, who all improved the squad.
Feyenoord finished third, having been fifth the season before, but that does not provide the full picture as Slot completely overhauled their defensive playing style. The club wanted him to do it and, interestingly so did the players. The coach exploding the myth that ‘you can only work with what you have got’. Instead, with a fierce pressing game in which Feyenoord go man-for-man with their opponents all over the pitch, he showed that players can change.
Interestingly it was one of his main motivations for joining Feyenoord: to show the world it can be done.
In Slot’s first team meeting he played clips of the 2021 Champions League final between Chelsea and Emirates Marketing Project and asked the simple question: why were there so few chances despite there being so many good attacking players?
The answer was equally as simple: it was because all those attackers also made incredible defensive runs to nullify their opponents. Slot then contrasted that with the lack of running Feyenoord had done the season before and compared the distance covered – far less – to his AZ side.
His approach was also simple, as is his mantra: his teams defend by attacking. While Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool, for example, wait for ‘pressing triggers’ Slot asks his players to press all the time. It sounds exhausting but, after a few weeks, it becomes second nature.
Another Santiago Gimenez goal incoming?@Santigim9 || @Feyenoord || #UEL pic.twitter.com/1hq8VjdEcU
— UEFA Europa League (@EuropaLeague) April 13, 2023
The next part of that is to try and control games by emphasising ball possession, which is straight out of Guardiola’s playbook. Slot believes that more defensive football is not only more tiring but less stimulating for the players. Slot argues they cannot improve by primarily thinking about defending.
In Holland they call it indoctrineren (indoctrinate) and Slot bombarded the players with stats, with clips and with far more sophisticated and intense training sessions in which every minute is accounted for. City and Napoli are reference points to this train-the-way-you-play approach. In a recent presentation – with a multi-national squad, all meetings are conducted in English – Slot used Casemiro of Manchester United as an example. Slot highlighted the player's desire to win as exemplified by Casemiro's determination to head the opening goal in the Carabao Cup final. And this from a Brazilian international who has won the Champions League five times.
Creating an exciting team on a shoestring budget
Then last summer the changes that were made were even more dramatic as 70 million euros worth of players, led by Tyrell Malacia, who joined United and Luis Sinisterra, who was signed by Leeds, were sold. Incredibly, Slot lost seven players from his starting XI and also lost three loanees including Arsenal’s Reiss Nelson.
In came no fewer than 17 players in one transfer window with just 30 million euros spent. So Feyenoord made a significant profit but have a far better team. Two of those players, midfielder Quinten Timber and defender David Hancko, cost 6.5 million euros each, which meant just 17 million euros was spent on 15 players.
To put that in context the 17 were signed for the same amount Ajax spent to bring in Steven Bergwijn from Tottenham. Feyenoord’s highest paid player earns 1.5 million euros from a total budget of just 22 million euros – less than a third of Ajax’s best earners
And yet with a transfer surplus of 40 million euros, Slot has created a team that is one of the most exciting in Europe.
Players such as 23-year-old midfielder Mats Wieffer and right-back Lutsharel Geertruida, both just called up for latest Dutch squad, are catching the eye while Turkish international Orkun Kokcu has been transformed into one of the best midfielders in the Eredivisie and will be in demand next summer. Again, Premier League clubs are watching.
Orkun Kokcu has been a key part of Feyenoord leading the Eredivisie by eight points CREDIT: Olaf Kraak/Shutterstock
Slot's astounding attention to detail
Such is Slot’s attention to detail that the ‘rondo’ – the training drill whereby players attempt to keep the ball while a smaller group aim to intercept – is even extremely specific.
Slot is concerned the drill does not allow players to ‘scan’ (to check the options on the pitch) which is one of the fundamentals of passing and so he insists that they can only take one touch, that they cannot return possession to the player who passed to them and, crucially, that the ball always stays below the knee. Players are even encouraged to consider which foot they are passing with.
Given the style of play is so demanding it is impressive that Feyenoord have suffered so few injuries, especially in contrast to Bielsa when he was at Leeds which is maybe, also, why they were interested in hiring Slot.
With this Slot is again precise in how he trains. For example he has concluded that in sessions for the days immediately after games the players should work in a space no longer than 40 metres. If they play in bigger areas it means they have to accelerate more and sports medical science has proved that running above 20km/h risks more muscle injuries.
Slot does not play games of 11 v 11 in training as most coaches do and works hard on the mental side of the sport. He has even convinced the Feyenoord players that the more games they play the stronger they will become.
What next for Slot, who has two years left on his contract at Feyenoord, will be fascinating especially if, as seems likely, he wins the Dutch title and leads them back into the Champions League. He will undoubtedly be a coach in demand. For now, though, something extraordinary is taking place in Holland.
Out of the shadow? Coach Arne Slot of Feyenoord could be a big hit at a top Premier League team CREDIT: EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Mention of Ajax draws the most stark comparison. When Slot took over, Feyenoord sold top-scorer Steven Berghuis, with 18 goals, to Ajax for 6.5 million euros and used 4.5 million euros to buy Gernot Trauner, Marcus Pedersen and Fredrik Aursnes, who all improved the squad.
Feyenoord finished third, having been fifth the season before, but that does not provide the full picture as Slot completely overhauled their defensive playing style. The club wanted him to do it and, interestingly so did the players. The coach exploding the myth that ‘you can only work with what you have got’. Instead, with a fierce pressing game in which Feyenoord go man-for-man with their opponents all over the pitch, he showed that players can change.
Interestingly it was one of his main motivations for joining Feyenoord: to show the world it can be done.
In Slot’s first team meeting he played clips of the 2021 Champions League final between Chelsea and Emirates Marketing Project and asked the simple question: why were there so few chances despite there being so many good attacking players?
The answer was equally as simple: it was because all those attackers also made incredible defensive runs to nullify their opponents. Slot then contrasted that with the lack of running Feyenoord had done the season before and compared the distance covered – far less – to his AZ side.
His approach was also simple, as is his mantra: his teams defend by attacking. While Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool, for example, wait for ‘pressing triggers’ Slot asks his players to press all the time. It sounds exhausting but, after a few weeks, it becomes second nature.
Another Santiago Gimenez goal incoming?@Santigim9 || @Feyenoord || #UEL pic.twitter.com/1hq8VjdEcU
— UEFA Europa League (@EuropaLeague) April 13, 2023
The next part of that is to try and control games by emphasising ball possession, which is straight out of Guardiola’s playbook. Slot believes that more defensive football is not only more tiring but less stimulating for the players. Slot argues they cannot improve by primarily thinking about defending.
In Holland they call it indoctrineren (indoctrinate) and Slot bombarded the players with stats, with clips and with far more sophisticated and intense training sessions in which every minute is accounted for. City and Napoli are reference points to this train-the-way-you-play approach. In a recent presentation – with a multi-national squad, all meetings are conducted in English – Slot used Casemiro of Manchester United as an example. Slot highlighted the player's desire to win as exemplified by Casemiro's determination to head the opening goal in the Carabao Cup final. And this from a Brazilian international who has won the Champions League five times.
Creating an exciting team on a shoestring budget
Then last summer the changes that were made were even more dramatic as 70 million euros worth of players, led by Tyrell Malacia, who joined United and Luis Sinisterra, who was signed by Leeds, were sold. Incredibly, Slot lost seven players from his starting XI and also lost three loanees including Arsenal’s Reiss Nelson.
In came no fewer than 17 players in one transfer window with just 30 million euros spent. So Feyenoord made a significant profit but have a far better team. Two of those players, midfielder Quinten Timber and defender David Hancko, cost 6.5 million euros each, which meant just 17 million euros was spent on 15 players.
To put that in context the 17 were signed for the same amount Ajax spent to bring in Steven Bergwijn from Tottenham. Feyenoord’s highest paid player earns 1.5 million euros from a total budget of just 22 million euros – less than a third of Ajax’s best earners
And yet with a transfer surplus of 40 million euros, Slot has created a team that is one of the most exciting in Europe.
Players such as 23-year-old midfielder Mats Wieffer and right-back Lutsharel Geertruida, both just called up for latest Dutch squad, are catching the eye while Turkish international Orkun Kokcu has been transformed into one of the best midfielders in the Eredivisie and will be in demand next summer. Again, Premier League clubs are watching.
Orkun Kokcu has been a key part of Feyenoord leading the Eredivisie by eight points CREDIT: Olaf Kraak/Shutterstock
Slot's astounding attention to detail
Such is Slot’s attention to detail that the ‘rondo’ – the training drill whereby players attempt to keep the ball while a smaller group aim to intercept – is even extremely specific.
Slot is concerned the drill does not allow players to ‘scan’ (to check the options on the pitch) which is one of the fundamentals of passing and so he insists that they can only take one touch, that they cannot return possession to the player who passed to them and, crucially, that the ball always stays below the knee. Players are even encouraged to consider which foot they are passing with.
Given the style of play is so demanding it is impressive that Feyenoord have suffered so few injuries, especially in contrast to Bielsa when he was at Leeds which is maybe, also, why they were interested in hiring Slot.
With this Slot is again precise in how he trains. For example he has concluded that in sessions for the days immediately after games the players should work in a space no longer than 40 metres. If they play in bigger areas it means they have to accelerate more and sports medical science has proved that running above 20km/h risks more muscle injuries.
Slot does not play games of 11 v 11 in training as most coaches do and works hard on the mental side of the sport. He has even convinced the Feyenoord players that the more games they play the stronger they will become.
What next for Slot, who has two years left on his contract at Feyenoord, will be fascinating especially if, as seems likely, he wins the Dutch title and leads them back into the Champions League. He will undoubtedly be a coach in demand. For now, though, something extraordinary is taking place in Holland.
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
The more I read Imore I think he could do a brilliant job for us
Mikey10
Frederic Kanoute
He managed in the PL before he was with us
Mikey10
Frederic Kanoute
He was also well down our ‘wanted’ list, so there’s not many I’d rule out this time.
Bedfordspurs
Vinnie Samways
Slot is exactly the profile and personality we need
Loves attacking football
Young and dynamic
Would see the club as a step up that he could manage, so wouldn’t see us as beneath him
Would grow with the team
Loves attacking football
Young and dynamic
Would see the club as a step up that he could manage, so wouldn’t see us as beneath him
Would grow with the team
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
I just sense he could become a big fav of the fans like we had with Jol and then Poch
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Despite all his rage he is still just a rat in a cage
AjaxDeSuperYids
Drama queen
Think he’s just trying to demonstrate his commitment to the american cowboy that he is all in on chelsea.
However even if they go for Enrique this behaviour should mean we do not go back in for JN.
Cross him off the list and forget him.