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

[Baleforce]

Rent a quote was a arsehole and bent as a nine bob note, hated the fact that he was once manager of our GREAT club. Levy sacked him when he found out that he was going behind the clubs back and lifting his skirt for the England job.

Did a great job then overstayed his welcome.

Levy was right to hire him, and fire him.

 

[Finney Is Back]

Did a great job then overstayed his welcome.

Levy was right to hire him, and fire him.

Definitely wrong firing him. Redknapp had just got us another 4th place finish.

 

[Grays_1890]

Did a great job then overstayed his welcome.

Levy was right to hire him, and fire him.

I like Redknapp but there was also more at play. I still have the DMs on here of when I told people he was being sacked months before he was told and got panned and abused, I even had a £50 bet with someone who in fairness sent me a cheque haha.

People can hate on Levy but the club went to bat for him during the tax case and then felt aggrieved that he had spoken to England after.

 

[Lemonade Money]

Definitely wrong firing him. Redknapp had just got us another 4th place finish.

Imagine your partner was flirting with someone else in public, and it was common knowledge they would leave you if they could. Then this someone else says they don't fancy your partner, so they come back to you and say 'well are you going to marry me or what?'

 

[Lilbaz]

Definitely wrong firing him. Redknapp had just got us another 4th place finish.

I don't think he should have been fired. Then i thought poch and mourinho should have been given till the end of the season.

 

[Muttley]

I like Redknapp but there was also more at play. I still have the DMs on here of when I told people he was being sacked months before he was told and got panned and abused, I even had a £50 bet with someone who in fairness sent me a cheque haha.

People can hate on Levy but the club went to bat for him during the tax case and then felt aggrieved that he had spoken to England after.

I don't have much sympathy for Levy in the way he managed football operations during the 'Arry period. I also felt that 'Arry was too junior to be an "all in" manager at a club our size. He was simply a good coach who could motivate players. He was completely reckless with the other areas of management and needed the structure we have now with Munn, Lange etc to keep him in check. That was the part that was on Levy who ended up haemorrhaging money on a squad of 35 players when we only needed 25. The pair of them took the wage bill up by a third and had no manoeuvrability in the transfer market as we always had to sell to buy. Then we had Levy insisting on top dollar for players that everyone knew weren't holding that value. We then had to continually loan over 25s just to balance the squad numbers.

Such a shame as if the football operations had been run well in that period as we could have built on a great team. Instead the squad became old and proliferated under Harry and Levy. It was never going to do well even if Harry stayed.

 

[Lilbaz]

I don't have much sympathy for Levy in the way he managed football operations during the 'Arry period. I also felt that 'Arry was too junior to be an "all in" manager at a club our size. He was simply a good coach who could motivate players. He was completely reckless with the other areas of management and needed the structure we have now with Munn, Lange etc to keep him in check. That was the part that was on Levy who ended up haemorrhaging money on a squad of 35 players when we only needed 25. The pair of them took the wage bill up by a third and had no manoeuvrability in the transfer market as we always had to sell to buy. Then we had Levy insisting on top dollar for players that everyone knew weren't holding that value. We then had to continually loan over 25s just to balance the squad numbers.

Such a shame as if the football operations had been run well in that period as we could have built on a great team. Instead the squad became old and proliferated under Harry and Levy. It was never going to do well even if Harry stayed.

The wage bill went up by a 3rd due to bonuses for getting cl football.

If you count our players on loan we have about 35 players currently.

 

[Muttley]

The wage bill went up by a 3rd due to bonuses for getting cl football.

If you count our players on loan we have about 35 players currently.

The point is more that they then couldn't get the wage bill back down again after that season. Harry was in place for 5 years and had only 1 CL run.

So on our 1st team page we have 29 + 7 (loans) names. Of those we have Whiteman, Forster, Davies, Reggie out of contract and Werner gone out of the 29. We also have buy clauses for Hojbjerg and Gil, whilst I don't think we'll have an issue shifting Solomon. Realistically, we're probably closer to 27 as we start the summer. That is nothing like we were with Harry. It was literally 35 and we ended up loaning senior players like Hutton, Keane, Bentley, Charlie, Pienaar etc because we couldn't get buyers. When you see so many over 25s being loaned, you just know there is a problem.

As for now, I'm hoping we're not starting that stupid cycle again where we stockpile players the manager doesn't want. We've done it so many times in ENIC's tenure. It cycle after cycle with Spurs and lots of big clean up operations that take 2 years. To your point, we are getting close to dangerous territory again after the Jan window plus the amount of youngsters passing through their 21st b'day as well. We definitely need to keep an eye on it.

 

[Lilbaz]

The point is more that they then couldn't get the wage bill back down again after that season. Harry was in place for 5 years and had only 1 CL run.

So on our 1st team page we have 29 + 7 (loans) names. Of those we have Whiteman, Forster, Davies, Reggie out of contract and Werner gone out of the 29. We also have buy clauses for Hojbjerg and Gil, whilst I don't think we'll have an issue shifting Solomon. Realistically, we're probably closer to 27 as we start the summer. That is nothing like we were with Harry. It was literally 35 and we ended up loaning senior players like Hutton, Keane, Bentley, Charlie, Pienaar etc because we couldn't get buyers. When you see so many over 25s being loaned, you just know there is a problem.

As for now, I'm hoping we're not starting that stupid cycle again where we stockpile players the manager doesn't want. We've done it so many times in ENIC's tenure. It cycle after cycle with Spurs and lots of big clean up operations that take 2 years. To your point, we are getting close to dangerous territory again after the Jan window plus the amount of youngsters passing through their 21st b'day as well. We definitely need to keep an eye on it.

Under 4 years he was with us. First season we were in relegation position when he took over. His last season chelsea won the cl to keep us out.

Whatever some of our fans think of him personally, and his whole england/tax fudgery. He did a great job for us.

 

[Muttley]

Under 4 years he was with us. First season we were in relegation position when he took over. His last season chelsea won the cl to keep us out.

Whatever some of our fans think of him personally, and his whole england/tax fudgery. He did a great job for us.

Yep, he was a good coach. I've always said that. I loved the way he managed us out of the "2 points from 8 games" conundrum. He then put a pretty decent formation together and a philosophy that had pace and skill coming at defences from many different angles. It wasn't just through the wide areas and was difficult to defend against.

Where he let himself down was not buying to his philosophy like a big club should. He stockpiled players that just didn't fit. Under someone like Munn, Harry could have been amazing. A voice to say NO and get his manager to think properly about what was really required to get to the next level. The Pienaar fiasco was embarrassing for Harry.

 

[Grays_1890]

I don't have much sympathy for Levy in the way he managed football operations during the 'Arry period. I also felt that 'Arry was too junior to be an "all in" manager at a club our size. He was simply a good coach who could motivate players. He was completely reckless with the other areas of management and needed the structure we have now with Munn, Lange etc to keep him in check. That was the part that was on Levy who ended up haemorrhaging money on a squad of 35 players when we only needed 25. The pair of them took the wage bill up by a third and had no manoeuvrability in the transfer market as we always had to sell to buy. Then we had Levy insisting on top dollar for players that everyone knew weren't holding that value. We then had to continually loan over 25s just to balance the squad numbers.

Such a shame as if the football operations had been run well in that period as we could have built on a great team. Instead the squad became old and proliferated under Harry and Levy. It was never going to do well even if Harry stayed.

Yeh maybe, I mean I will leave that to others to decide on, been a long time since,