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Next Manager?

I would imagine he's a happy man where he is, but I was surprised to learn that Bielsa is out of contract at Leeds.

Cheeky bid?

He seemed a risky gamble in previous seasons, but his Leeds side finished strongly as the season ended. Be a big blow to another mid-table rival.
 
greatwhitenorf said:
I would imagine he's a happy man where he is, but I was surprised to learn that Bielsa is out of contract at Leeds.

Cheeky bid?

He seemed a risky gamble in previous seasons, but his Leeds side finished strongly as the season ended. Be a big blow to another mid-table rival.
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I said it would be fascinating. But don't think it would work. He's walked out of jobs for the slightest things. He seems happy at leeds and i think he'll stay and do brilliantly with them.
 
greatwhitenorf said:
I would imagine he's a happy man where he is, but I was surprised to learn that Bielsa is out of contract at Leeds.

Cheeky bid?

He seemed a risky gamble in previous seasons, but his Leeds side finished strongly as the season ended. Be a big blow to another mid-table rival.
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it’s the way that he works apparently (it was talked about on BT Sport). He only ever signs one year contracts, he will stay with Leeds.
 
P.D. said:
They had a very tough run in to be fair but at the end of the day I'd take a trophy over being in the top 4 and who knows how it might help them next season in tough games.
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I want to win a cup more than anything but it doesn't help us long term. Kane wants to win things yes, but I honestly believe another year out of Europe's elite club competition would me his considering his options still
 
greatwhitenorf said:
I would imagine he's a happy man where he is, but I was surprised to learn that Bielsa is out of contract at Leeds.

Cheeky bid?

He seemed a risky gamble in previous seasons, but his Leeds side finished strongly as the season ended. Be a big blow to another mid-table rival.
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Bielsa, of whom Poch was a disciple, requires young energetic players who press all game. We don't have that and will take a year or so to develop players into the required levels as well as signings. His lack of English won't suit the brand either.

Not saying I have the answer but the assumption that Bielsa could instantly transform us is way off


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BrainOfLevy said:
Not saying it was realistic, but I think if you put say VVD and one other at CB, and have a worse player than Son in attack, I think we get far better results. I think a lot of the problem would come down to the fact we weren't able to win the ball well enough in the low block and weren't able to spring the counter.

Leicester ran the same play all season they won it - non-figuratively had to pick up Vardy and Mahrez - but no one could stop it. I think the counter works like any system if you have the players for it.

I also don't think Jose's system was purely counter. It was when we were against another top 6 side or when winning, but if we were losing or drawing against a team we expected to beat he would allow players to flood forward and gave them a lot of freedom to construct the attacks. Problem was I just don't think any of Dier, Sanchez or Rodon performed well enough in a low block to make his system work.
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The problem is that Levy is never going to sanction the spending of £70m for a centre back. Hopefully Paratici will improve our scouting so that we can take a player like that at the point Southampton (or even Celtic) got him?
 
BrainOfLevy said:
Same points as I made to Finney above, I'm not sure you can definitively say it was a fitness issue. I think any squad is geared to be fit enough to play the style of football they need to play, and there are inherent trade offs (either in terms of buy-in from the squad, or injury prevention, or burn out) that come with the different approaches.

Add Dias and remove Son for regular Bergwijn starts and I think we walk 4th. And I think that would be considered a job well done. All pie in the sky now anyway, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Jose do much better back in Italy with players who are better in a low block.
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Same point as my one above but replace £70m with £65m....
 
AdamB said:
Neither Southgate nor martinez hvae got the most out of the squads available to them. That should be enough to rule them out on its own
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But will they nod and say ‘yes sir’ to Levy every time he asks if they are ok with him not getting a player because the fee/wages are too high?....
 
GPRD81 said:
I know very little of ZZ and his motivations but he doesn't strike me as a 'Project Manager' who's going to drop even to the relative depths of a Sevilla or Villareal. I would say that PSG, Juventus or Bayern are probably the clubs he'll next end up at.
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I think Bayern are better run that that.
 
P.D. said:
But surely winning the cup could have given us the momentum to step it up for the last few games, we should never throw a final once we've done the hard work to get there. A trophy should have been making of this squad, could have potentially convinced Kane to stay which is worth far more to us.
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It wouldn’t have convinced Kane to stay but a trophy is a trophy (even if this one is the lowest value of the 3 domestic pots). The chairman needs to let the manager manage though, maybe we would’ve won both the Saints game and Cup final if letting the manager make the decision he feels is best? As we were paying Jose £15m a year to manage the team then surely we should be allowing him to actually manage?
 
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GPRD81 said:
I don't buy the FA Cup gives you momentum argument - teams either win it because they've got such a great and deep squad that they can deal with a sustained cup run - or they win the cup at the expense of league form and progression - Look at Woolwich - 4 FA Cup wins since 2014 yet they've got progressively worse over the same period. What did the FA Cup win do for Portsmouth or Wigan?

It may have been Emirates Marketing Project's first trophy of the era in 2011 but with the wealth behind them the league titles were always going to follow.

We know we dont have and probably never will have the resources of Emirates Marketing Project, Man Utd and chelsea. We also recognise in the cold light of day that despite Woolwich's FA Cup Wins it would be better for the club to be playing in the Champions League. We should also recognise that Klopp's attitude to the cups has been even more blase than Poch did.

I would be very wary of a manager whose sole aim was to win us the FA Cup or League Cup as a primary objective - if they do it'll be far more about them than the club.
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And yet Levy spent £12m+ sacking the man who was completely on message in this respect....
 
Lilbaz said:
Yeah he was someone i wanted, along with gasperini. 3 manager of the year awards in a row. Obviously won the league over psg.
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The opportunity was there to get him and Campos.... Campos would’ve cost a lot of money I think but was likely to pay that back many times over in terms of the superb way in which he operates.
 
Finney Is Back said:
For some strange reason the Benny Hill music comes into my head when I read about our search for a new manager....
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Definitely getting that way. More ammo for the media to make a mockery of Spurs. Not that we should rush an appointment...but its becoming slightly farcical
 
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