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

Gutter Boy said:
Agree.

But like Irola and McKenna, I guess he's just among the best performing of the small EPL club managers, who is seemingly on an upward trajectory.
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I'd rather have Silva if that's the pool we're looking at, but the number of times Fulham just fail to show up is worrying.
 
We have 14 games left in the PL......do we slowly drag this out?? I don't know how many games we play before we get out of Europa, 2?
 
Iraola in the summer for me. But we need an interim to take us.to that. Love Poch of course but would really not want him to come into this mess at the moment.
 
glorygloryeze said:
I'd seriously wonder about Pochettino's state of mind if he seriously wants to come back to us whilst things are the way they are
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The squad potential and coherence is better than the one he forged his impressive Chelsea team from. An awful lot better to what he inherented in 2014 too. And some seemingly competent recruitment setup, which he didnt have for the last 2-3 years of his first spell
 
Gutter Boy said:
The squad potential and coherence is better than the one he forged his impressive Chelsea team from. An awful lot better to what he inherented in 2014 too. And some seemingly competent recruitment setup, which he didnt have for the last 2-3 years of his first spell
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Yeah, and no generational world class striker in Kane. Plus when he gets us being more competent than we are, what chances he again gets N'Jies/Nkoudous instead of Manes or Wijnaldums when he wants to take the fight to Liverpool/Emirates Marketing Project proper?
 
glorygloryeze said:
Yeah, and no generational world class striker in Kane. Plus when he gets us being more competent than we are, what chances he again gets N'Jies/Nkoudous instead of Manes or Wijnaldums when he wants to take the fight to Liverpool/Emirates Marketing Project proper?
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Not very likely with a functioning transfer department and money to spend.

I worked it out yesterday that during Pochettino's time here we spent 170m euros net with 80 of that accounted for in his last window which he never had the opportunity to benefit from. In the time Ange has been here we have a net of over 300m - extrapolate that spend over Pochettinos time and it's over 900m net. So 900m net v 170m (in reality closer to 90m) means a much stronger ability to secure primary targets, then throw in Lange and our transfer department vs Steve Hitchen and his small black book of contacts in Ligue Un and it's a world of difference.
 
billyiddo said:
Not very likely with a functioning transfer department and money to spend.

I worked it out yesterday that during Pochettino's time here we spent 170m euros net with 80 of that accounted for in his last window which he never had the opportunity to benefit from. In the time Ange has been here we have a net of over 300m - extrapolate that spend over Pochettinos time and it's over 900m net
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That's the thing: the jury is still out on whether our transfer department is 'functioning'. See the last two windows as evidence.
They don't seem any more 'functioning' than when he was here in my mind
 
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glorygloryeze said:
That's the ting: the jury is still out on whether our transfer department is 'functioning'. See the last two windows as evidence.
They don't seem any more 'functioning' than when he was here in my mind
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I can't really go any further if you don't see the difference between our transfer set up and activity now vs the last few years under Poch
 
billyiddo said:
Not very likely with a functioning transfer department and money to spend.

I worked it out yesterday that during Pochettino's time here we spent 170m euros net with 80 of that accounted for in his last window which he never had the opportunity to benefit from. In the time Ange has been here we have a net of over 300m - extrapolate that spend over Pochettinos time and it's over 900m net. So 900m net v 170m (in reality closer to 90m) means a much stronger ability to secure primary targets, then throw in Lange and our transfer department vs Steve Hitchen and his small black book of contacts in Ligue Un and it's a world of difference.
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Agree with your point Billy, but to be fair the figure wouldn't be quite so significant in terms of difference when factoring in how transfer fees have gone up the past few years since Poch was here. However, its clear as day the difference in us recruiting some real talented youngsters eg Gray/Bergvall/Sarr/Tel along with the more established Solanke/Vicario etc vs the Sissoko/N'Jie/Janssen/N'Koudou era we had when Poch was around - it's night and day for the most part....
 
Looking at Birmingham City sitting pretty at the top of League One does get me wondering about the impact of our club losing Chris Davies.

+27 GD with only 19 goals conceded. Only 2 losses in the league. 63 points from 27 games.

I'd love to get Chris's opinion about what he think goes on with Ange's tactics. It's not like he's taken the Ange playbook with him and implemented it. He's implemented at Birmingham what he thinks will make him a winner in the league he's in.

Food for thought.
 
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