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Next Manager Thread (2026 Edition)

Who Is Up Next?

  • Alonso

    Votes: 24 27.9%

  • Xavi

    Votes: 3 3.5%

  • Poch

    Votes: 42 48.8%

  • Mckenna

    Votes: 1 1.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 16 18.6%
  • Total voters
    86
braineclipse said:
"Problem" with someone like Rose is that they're probably unlikely to accept an interim role I would guess at least.

I think we'll be quite attractive to managers come the summer as long as we stay up. So going for someone permanent now would be picking from a much more limited pool than we could come the summer.

Lying to someone, giving them a proper contract then just binning them off in the summer seems both expensive and like a bricky thing to do.

But perhaps getting a proper and at lest reasonably suited manager in right now should be the biggest priority. With our record of trying to get "the right manager" being as flawed as it has been I'm not sure the likelihood of whoever we get come the summer being right is that much higher than just going for whoever is available now, like Rose.
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Alot of teams will be looking in summer as well.

Unless it's Poch and they have it wrapped up already (highly unlikely since one would have assumed they had an interim lined up a month ago), if there is a quality manager available now, we should go for it
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
The general brickery of any managers job is overidden by the bountiful payout (even for failure) at the end of tenure.

I doubt too many worry about signing on the dotted line.
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People can be seduced the first time but coming back a second time is a totally different story.

Shame Tuchel signed a new contract, would have been a great option.
 
Lost Mango said:
Maybe the club aren't as obsessed with getting Poch back as Gutter Boy and some of the fanboys, and so if a genuine A or B grade coach is available then they are trying to do a proper deal, hence the delay. If I was a coach/manager in discussions with THFC I would be double checking every line of the contract and making sure I had significant compensation written in for when they probably sack me in 8 to 18 months time. It wouldn't be a rush to sign on the dotted line job.

I'm not invested in a Poch return personally. I think it would be a mistake to go back to him. He was brilliant but his side of the tally chart wasn't unblemished when he left and I haven't been convinced massively by his body of work since leaving us that suggests he is anything beyond a false Messiah in this situation.
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To me the most sensible thing is to get an interim in until the summer and then we need some structural changes, a new manager obviously but Lange should go and apparently Vinai wanted to retain Frank and last it out. Are we sure he's the right person for the job. Then there's still Franks coaching staff we need to decide who to keep (some may want to go anyway). Over the last year seems there's been a load of executives and others coming in at a high level appointed by Vinai, if he goes then we'd have to question some of them as well. Plus a new manager likely has their own ideas on how to structure things.
 
P.D. said:
To me the most sensible thing is to get an interim in until the summer and then we need some structural changes, a new manager obviously but Lange should go and apparently Vinai wanted to retain Frank and last it out. Are we sure he's the right person for the job. Then there's still Franks coaching staff we need to decide who to keep (some may want to go anyway). Over the last year seems there's been a load of executives and others coming in at a high level appointed by Vinai, if he goes then we'd have to question some of them as well. Plus a new manager likely has their own ideas on how to structure things.
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It is a mess.....but first things first, staying in this division.....an interim that jumps out as 'thats the guy' just doesn't exist.

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ricky2tricky4city said:
It is a mess.....but first things first, staying in this division.....an interim that jumps out as 'thats the guy' just doesn't exist.

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I think "that guy" is simply someone who can get a tune out of us so we can win games against Fulham, Brighton, Sunderland and Leeds. We do that and we are essentially safe.

That could be Redknapp, it could be Allardyce, it could be bloody Ted Lasso for all I care. That's literally the mandate. Pay them £100 a week and give them £5m if we stay up.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
It is a mess.....but first things first, staying in this division.....an interim that jumps out as 'thats the guy' just doesn't exist.

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De Zerbi or Maresca til the summer would be good. I'd have liked Rodgers but he's in Saudi now, don't think he'd leave for an interim but he'd be a decent long term choice.
 
P.D. said:
De Zerbi or Maresca til the summer would be good. I'd have liked Rodgers but he's in Saudi now, don't think he'd leave for an interim but he'd be a decent long term choice.
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Would De Zerbi or Maresca want to be an interim? (Perhaps if the £££ are right)

I suppose some of this is guided by if we have someone in mind for the summer (eg Poch) BUT it's imperative that we focus on gaining 10-12 pts in the next 13 games....that's ALL that matters right now
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
Would De Zerbi or Maresca want to be an interim? (Perhaps if the £££ are right)

I suppose some of this is guided by if we have someone in mind for the summer (eg Poch) BUT it's imperative that we focus on gaining 10-12 pts in the next 13 games....that's ALL that matters right now
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I'm 99% sure they would be for the right money and a chance to restore their rep or even get the permanent gig.
 
P.D. said:
I'm 99% sure they would be for the right money and a chance to restore their rep or even get the permanent gig.
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There seems to be this assumption that any manager out of work wants to jump right back in. If they want to restore their rep, it doesn't have to be with the first vacant job that comes up - why risk even further with what appears to be somewhat of a sinking ship?

In addition to that, I just don't envisage Maresca or De Zerbi to be some sort of interim manager, there tends to be certain managers that fit this bill - Don't see it with either of them personally.....
 

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Robbo said:
Totally different style to Thomas Frank then? Based on our previous manager recruitments, that sounds like just the kind of appointment we would go for.
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Yeah, well, the difference is we didn't wait two and a half year, swapping half the squad for specialists in order to adapt to the now outgoing guys playingstyle this time around.

So I'd say certainly go for a different style to TF. Most of the squad should benefit from it.

Any head coach/manager who comes in, and makes us look first at what we can do, how we can do it and then on how we can prevent the opposition from preventing us to do what we want to do before he starts looking at how we destroy their plan is an improvement in my book.

He does not have to be "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" like Ange, but any little helps.
 
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