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  1. BrainOfLevy

    Next Manager?

    He was excellent at the things we needed him to be excellent at. (Young players, attacking football, system making the whole greater than the sum). The way to test his reputation was to ask people in the game - nearly all of the Southampton players credited him with reaching heights they never...
  2. BrainOfLevy

    Next Manager?

    But he was proven at the exact things we needed him to be (young players, attacking football, system) and had a reputation not just as someone good, but someone excellent at what he did. It was a really smart appointment and I was delighted with it at the time. Fonseca and Gattuso don’t have...
  3. BrainOfLevy

    Next Manager?

    Surely you’d agree that if a manager had ambitions to be fighting for the biggest prizes (versus already being there) then if we are indeed looking for someone who can work in tough circumstances for the next 1-2 years, it would attract a different level of manager than a club who can promise...
  4. BrainOfLevy

    Next Manager?

    To me it’s that he looks the most proven manager of the style we need. So good with young players. Attacking football. Proven in European competition. Seems to be well respected and successful in the jobs he’s had. It’s really no more than that, but he looks to be the best option, proven at the...
  5. BrainOfLevy

    Next Manager?

    Fair. If it comes out that we are more financially fudged than we’d like to admit as a result of Covid, and that’s why we’re hunting in the bargain aisle, I’d fully accept it. Still wouldn’t quite explain the sudden switch from Fonseca to Gattuso, but it would explain the general trend and...
  6. BrainOfLevy

    Daniel Levy - Chairman

    I would love to believe it’s because we’re methodically interviewing candidates, and will soon select the best one for us. It just looks from the outside that we are moving through a selection of available managers on a relatively cheap salary, who Paratici seems to know. I think we’ve...
  7. BrainOfLevy

    Next Manager?

    I don’t actually disagree with you. I get how the club needs to act. My point is, you can infer something from the type of managers that are available that choose not to join us about our standing in the game and our pitch to candidates. 2 years ago, if Poch left right after the CL final, we...
  8. BrainOfLevy

    Daniel Levy - Chairman

    I was upset at Poch and Conte stories for different reasons, but I think most people have gone on a bit of a journey with Fonseca and Gattuso that looks something like: Fonseca? The guy Roma just sacked and replaced with Jose? Actually I’ve looked into him, he seems like a good guy, plays good...
  9. BrainOfLevy

    Next Manager?

    I’m all for that, but it’s not a strategy that suggests we are pushing for the title in the next 1-2 years. Especially as you say it’s ‘just as we always have’.
  10. BrainOfLevy

    Daniel Levy - Chairman

    You accused people of jumping off of a cliff over ‘nothing’. Are you now saying that there might have been some truth to some of those links? Are you in any way concerned about the length of time this is taking? Because I think people are concerned about the time as much as anything else. You...
  11. BrainOfLevy

    Daniel Levy - Chairman

    Oh, you again. I’m guessing you agree with what Billy said too? That if there was a plan it looks like it has long since out the window, and that unless it’s an ETH level person then it’s hard to rationalise how we’ve taken this search? Because I definitely got the sense from you that you...
  12. BrainOfLevy

    Next Manager?

    Exactly. Who is the Euros manager that makes waiting this length of time all worth it?
  13. BrainOfLevy

    Next Manager?

    Which is just another way of saying we aren’t going to back a manager to try and win the league in the next couple of years. Which is fine - I’m not saying we should spend money we don’t have if Lewis isn’t going to invest - but it does tell us something about our trajectory and standing in the...
  14. BrainOfLevy

    Next Manager?

    I’ve just been reading the thread on TFC and there is some interesting discussion on there about Paratici. If it’s the case that Levy over ruled him on Fonseca and then Gattuso was a pretty swift failure as a recommendation, is Paratici going to be happy with these events? Is he right for us? Is...
  15. BrainOfLevy

    Next Manager?

    Maybe that’s why it broke down ultimately? Timing certainly seems weird. If Paratici genuinely thinks Gattuso is a prodigy and his Fiorentina exit was an opportunity not to be missed, we’d have to be incredibly sure he’d be a better fit than Fonseca to go for him that quickly. It then calls...
  16. BrainOfLevy

    Daniel Levy - Chairman

    I agree with you on every single bit of that. My question came from this idea that we shouldn’t believe the rumours. I took it to mean that the club probably had it all in hand and we should just wait and see. If it was simply a comment on the connectedness of a few journalists (and people are...
  17. BrainOfLevy

    Next Manager?

    Ok, sounds good to me. The sort of creative solution we would need to make to unearth a gem of a manager and maybe over perform like Poch did, if we won’t have the finances.
  18. BrainOfLevy

    Next Manager?

    I can buy this. I wonder what the Paratici plan is in that case though? If any truth in the Fonseca talks, why did we decide to walk away? Was Gattuso seen as obviously better? Would we have been surprised by the fan backlash? Seems like Paratici is trying to leverage his Italian contacts...
  19. BrainOfLevy

    Next Manager?

    I’m absolutely positive we decided the fit was wrong and so did he. I’m not saying I wanted Conte as such. Just that he would have been a calibre of appointment that said we were gonna go for the title either this season or next. That we were ready to give someone the backing to do it. So not...
  20. BrainOfLevy

    Next Manager?

    Fair enough. In the meantime, time is passing. Candidates that would have said something about the ambition and direction of the club like Conte are already out of the running, so we can already draw some conclusions around exactly where we sit in the grand scheme of things.
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