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Next Manager Thread (2026 Edition)

Who Is Up Next?

  • Alonso

    Votes: 21 27.6%

  • Xavi

    Votes: 3 3.9%

  • Poch

    Votes: 37 48.7%

  • Mckenna

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 14 18.4%
  • Total voters
    76
robp135 said:
We signed Kudus & Xavi in the summer along with Palinhia on loan. We were also prepared to sign Savinho. Thats 4 players ready for the 1st Team and an outlay of over £150M. In January when it’s tough to buy players they got Gallagher done and were prepared to sign Robertson & Semenyo on big wages. So I don’t think it’s out of the question. Especially from a position of being close to relegation 2 seasons in a row.

Robertson can still happen on a free and I don’t think any manager we hire would be against it. Thats your Palhinha style signing where your paying big wages but not a huge fee. Then it’s 3 more players and the goalkeeper would be largely funded by a sale of Vicario who will bring in £25M+ worst case. Wouldn’t be against Ter Stegan on a 2 year deal and thats not a huge transfer fee. Then you spend big at DM & LW.
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Did you fort to put a decimal place between the 2 and the 5 there? :D

(In all seriousness though I do think we might be able to scrape £15m for Vicario from an Italian club).
 
clownfoot said:
I would think Rodger’s wouldn’t accept being interim for the rest of the season. If the board want him it would be a 3 year contract. Can’t deny he plays good football but he’s always creeped me out, though I doubt that’s a factor the board are considering
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He doesnt seem to be in the running for any jobs at this point in time. Come on and save Spurs looks good on the CV.
 
Nexus1967 said:
The only thing I would have an issue with if we appointed Poch again is that as far as I can remember(which isn`t too far to be fair) managers who return to clubs for a second spell rarely do well. The most recent exception is probably Moyes second spell at West Ham when he achieved a couple of top 8 finishes and won the conference league. Apart from that I can`t think of any others that have done well second time around.
Our main problem since we got to the Champions League final has been our recruitment. Our squad is very average. We sell world class players and replace them with the most average players. Is it any surprise Harry Kane left eventually. Over the years we have had some real quality players but have we kept them and tried to bring top quality players in? I am sick of us buying youngsters and hoping they come good. For me the exception recently is Archie Gray. Constantly played out of position in multiple different roles but he has mostly been good. The rest of them are average at best. I know we are decimated by injuries but the team that started last night would have struggled in the championship. I wasn`t a big fan of Ange but at least when we lost , we lost having a real go at the other team. At the final whistle last night I said to my boys I will be surprised if Frank does not get sacked in the morning. I know it was our "B" team but I really dont know where we go from here on. I think the only players from last night who would start if everyone was fit would be Vicario Van De Ven and Solanke and I would bet that 2 out of those 3 will not be here next season
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Other than there being plenty of examples of returning managers doing well, what is the context behind the ones that don’t? It’s never just ‘the manager didn’t work’. What changed about the club? The players? The situation they were in?

I think Poch is perfect for us in the way that Zidane or Ancelotti are for Real. They just need a leader to manage the egos. But we need a culture to make younger players perform above their station. Jose is right for Chelsea under Roman because they cared purely about winning, not about style.

Poch should never have not been our manager. There should never have been a question of starting a second stint!
 
It has to be said that he managed us to heights that we hadn't been to in a long time or, barring one pot thanks to Ange, since.

The one caveat to this I have to flag is that he had young Kane, young dele and young Sonny. He also had two or three truly exceptional servants to the club in Vertonghen, Walker and Dembele.

We are not there now and if we were to take him back, it would need to be understood that it might take two years to get it right. Good luck getting that across to the modern day fan.
 
Surfless said:
It has to be said that he managed us to heights that we hadn't been to in a long time or, barring one pot thanks to Ange, since.

The one caveat to this I have to flag is that he had young Kane, young dele and young Sonny. He also had two or three truly exceptional servants to the club in Vertonghen, Walker and Dembele.

We are not there now and if we were to take him back, it would need to be understood that it might take two years to get it right. Good luck getting that across to the modern day fan.
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He'd definitely get a lot more grace from fans than almost anyone else I think.
 
So I checked the odds first thing this morning. It was De Zerbi at 5:4 and Poch at 10:1

I check this evening and it is 13/8 and 7/2.
 
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