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Manager Wish-List Thread

Who do you want?

  • Brendan Rodgers

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Antonio Conte

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Christophe Galtier

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Roberto Martinez

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Paulo Fonseca

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Gian Piero Gasperini

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    23

razörist

Soft With The Ladies, Hard With The Mes

Country: Morocco
Joking bro dw. What you make of Ten Hag?

Seen very little of Ajax since the CL last year.
5 months of stubbornly trying players together that don’t work.

5 months of the team falls into place and they dominate.

Every year. Annoying but he gets it right eventually. Some managers never do.
 

Toby

No longer a Stuttgart Fan
Moderator
Isn’t Rose starting at Dortmund next year? I reckon go for Favre and make @BobP the happiest guy alive.

Know nothing about him fwiw.

I do think Favre would be what some argue/think Benitez could be. The experienced guy coming in for a bit, introducing structure, signing more coherently, etc. and build a foundation for the next guy. Imo Favre would be the more modern or progressive version of Benitez, as I share the same doubts some on here do re: Rafa's maybe outdated style. Favre would be more suitable to what Arsenal down the line want to look like again.

His failure to really push Dortmund to a title has definitely raised some doubts about him being able to coach a top team to a league title, but it's worth remembering Dortmund's recruitment has been a bit spotty for a while and he had to go up against a treble winning, almost almighty Bayern Munich during his time at BvB. Iirc he's still the Dortmund manager with most points per game, after his sacking nothing has changed for Dortmund.

As I said some time earlier: Would I hire Favre in say a similar situation to Wenger leaving and a team sitting in 5th needing to short term get back into Top 4 and mid term challenge for the league? Probably not after what we've seen at Dortmund, and even though I backed Favre for the Arsenal job back then, hindsight has obviously changed my mind on that.
But would I hire Favre now to coach some proper tactics into this team, make some fitting signings, get some culture back into the club and get Arsenal challenging for Top 4? Sure as hell. As I said, imo same category as Benitez but definitely more modern and fitting to Arsenal's football of old.

I really, really like Ten Hag but he just smells a bit like Bosz who has just replicated his Dortmund failure at Leverkusen. Tuchel is off the market. Allegri is imo definitely looking at bigger clubs. Nagelsmann won't abruptly leave Leipzig to coach a non-CL team. If something happens it seriously might be the best to get in Favre/Benitez for 1.5 to 2 seasons, make the team a CL mainstay again and then look at what's happened with the likes of Graham Potter, Marcelo Gallardo, Julian Nagelsmann, Pellegrino Matarazzo, Jesse Marsch, Marco Rose or even the likes of Niko Kovac who's back in the title race with Monaco in France.
 

pikey2000

Well-Known Member
There is literally no point in replacing Arteta with Henry or Viera, that is just nostalgia over ruling the mind, neither of them have vastly more experience than Arteta in management, none of them have won anything, in fact they have won less than Arteta, none of them have managed a club as big as Arsenal with the challenges it brings, so any talk of them coming in is a complete waste of time in my view, your basically hitting the reset button for another couple of seasons.

Out of that list in the poll you could probably only argue Rodgers or Allegri, Benitez would be a stop gap at best, same with Sarri.

Rodgers is doing wonders with Leicester, has a clear style he wants to play, navigated injuries this season with great success - HOWEVER having said all of that apart from his time with Celtic he is not a proven winner and during his time with Celtic there was literally no competition for the titles he won.

Allegri has an outstanding record in Serie A, can't fault that but he hasn't been in management for near on 2 years and you have to question why that is the case, for someone with such a track record like his, not as though major jobs having come available, Arsenal, Sp**s, PSG, Chelsea, that in itself is a question mark over him for me.

I'm not in the Arteta out camp, yet........but if that time comes it has to be for a bonefide legit elite manager otherwise what is the point.
 

Joestlaachmkr

Active Member
Rodgers, Nagelsman or Rose would be interesting options, if available.

But Im seriously warming up to Ten Hag. I think continue with the financial investment into the team, bring this man in and lets work on the football structure at the club.
Rose are going to leave Borussia Mönchengladbach for Dortmund this summer, and it’s more or less certain that Ten Hag will become the next Gladbach manager. So none of them will be available. I don’t think the board would be able to snatch Rodgers from Leicester atm.

I personally think Ten Hag is overrated.
 

Joestlaachmkr

Active Member
I’ve always liked Eddie Howe and his style of football (No, i’m not joking) but would he be capable enough to manage a big club like Arsenal?

Will be interesting to see what Howe can do with Celtic, if he can take Celtic back to same level as they were under Martin O’Neill or Brendan Rodgers.
 
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Rimaal

Mesmerised By Raccoons
Trusted ⭐
Knowing our management I say they'll hire the cheapest yet PR friendly option available at the time.
 

GoonerJeeves

Established Member
Trusted ⭐

Country: Norway
Knowing our management I say they'll hire the cheapest yet PR friendly option available at the time.
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Hunta

Established Member
Trusted ⭐

Country: England
Genuinely don’t know what we do after Arteta. We’re in a worse position as a club than we were even 12 months ago. We’ve tried a EL specialist who flopped, tried a rookie with history at the club. The elite coaches won’t touch us.

In the words of the great Heavy D, we’re ****ed.
 

GDeep™

League is very weak
Genuinely don’t know what we do after Arteta. We’re in a worse position as a club than we were even 12 months ago. We’ve tried a EL specialist who flopped, tried a rookie with history at the club. The elite coaches won’t touch us.

In the words of the great Heavy D, we’re ****ed.
Middle of the road man like Rafa, Carlo I think. Or Brendan who would probably kill his GF to manage here.
 

Yousif Arsenal

On Vinai's payroll & misses 4th place trophy 🏆
Trusted ⭐
Rodgers if we are serious enough he won't sort the BS we are going into but he'll try to make us better but i have no hopes until we start right when we buy players
 

Riou

In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over

Country: Northern Ireland

Player:Gabriel
Who's that fat guy, that's Pep's new assistant coach...he any good?
 

mirrorstare

Well-Known Member
Anyone could do, more and more convinced as time passes

We can even have proper fun and push things forward with left field appointments while we wait for that world class coach to become available again. There's absolutely no reason to suffer like this.
 
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