The Manager Sacked/Hired Thread 2017/18

[Tredman]

Bob Wilson breaking down on 5 Live talking about him.

 

[Trips]

Completely transformed the club when he arrived, and did a fantastic job there, but it has been time for him to go for a while now. The squad he is leaving behind needs so much work to get it back to challenging for the Premier League

 

[Johnny75]

Would be fitting if he could leave with the Europa League trophy.

 

[YoungWolf]

Wow. I genuinely didn’t think he would leave this summer. I wish he had done it last year after the FA cup win. Agree Johnny is quite like him to win the Europa league.

And then after that I hope Arsenal have a few years in mid table, their fans deserve some real shit. Can’t stand them

 

[Keef]

Arsenal below us for a few years would be great,just to see the reactions on arsenal fan TV

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Early favourites:

Patrick Vieira
Thomas Tuchel
Brendan Rodgers
Joachim Löw
Carlo Ancelotti
Massimiliano Allegri
Rafa Benitez
Leonardo Jardim
Diego Simeone
Lucien Favré
Eddie Howe
Mikel Arteta

I think you can rule out Tuchel, he's going to PSG. Julian Nagelsmann is an interesting long shot.

Wonder if Sol Campbell will apply?

 

[Kenny]

No Curbs on the list?

Shocking.

 

[Bertiewolf]

Surely Benitez wont stay at Newcastle much longer? I think he'd be a good fit at Arsenal even though I'd never want him here!

 

[Tony Towner]

Shows how far football has evolved over the last 20 odd years, arrived as a visionary, leaves as a dinosaur

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

It still doesn't make sense to me how he lost his way so badly, he built two brilliant teams, one underpinned by Vieira/Petit, the other by Vieira/Gilberto. And then he seemed to throw that template away forever.

 

[Tony Towner]

After 'new money' came into the league firstly through Chelsea and then City I think he became obsessed with trying to win the league without spending much and developing players through the system or buying young. It became a rolling story of next season without the those young players ever being up to standard or him being capable of making them what he needed them to be.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Early favourites:

Patrick Vieira
Thomas Tuchel
Brendan Rodgers
Joachim Löw
Carlo Ancelotti
Massimiliano Allegri
Rafa Benitez
Leonardo Jardim
Diego Simeone
Lucien Favré
Eddie Howe
Mikel Arteta

I think you can rule out Tuchel, he's going to PSG. Julian Nagelsmann is an interesting long shot.

Wonder if Sol Campbell will apply?

No Nuno? Disgraceful.

 

[Keef]

its a huge appointment to get right for the board,and I can see them going like Man U and having a few managers through before they get it right(even though I think mourinho isn't the right fit for United) and struggling for a good few years,maybe never reaching the peaks again

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Skybet will give you 50s on Nuno, he's at 25s with Betfred. He is shorter odds than BFS though.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Surely Benitez wont stay at Newcastle much longer? I think he'd be a good fit at Arsenal even though I'd never want him here!

Rafa is a good shout if Newcastle are no further on with a takeover. He's 58 now, probably got a decade left as an elite coach, maybe less. You don't want to be spending those years at a club who have no ambition.

 

[Johnny75]

Not sure Benitez would take the Arsenal job as he's already been burnt by taking the Madrid job in similar circumstances.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I suppose the difference is that irrespective of context, Real are expected (by the board and fans) to win the league every year. He would get far more leeway at Arsenal given the current circumstances. Jose isn't in any danger at Old Trafford despite them being nowhere near winning the title in either of his two seasons, the reason being he's had to pick up from Moyes/LvG who were both shocking.

Arsenal need someone who has a fair chance of getting them back into the top four (which probably means back above Spurs), so you wouldn't want to take a punt on an emotive pick like Vieira, they need to be higher profile in coaching terms than that but whoever it is isn't going to be expected to be going toe to toe with City for a little while.

 

[YoungWolf]

I can see Ancelotti getting it - unless he wants the Italy job

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The thing with Carlo is that while he's an absolute gentleman, what he normally tends to do is take already excellent teams and give them an extra 5% on top. Arsenal are currently well adrift in sixth place. They need so much work doing to so many departments.

He's not a rebuilder, he's someone who takes what's there and gets it running at peak efficiency. You can write down the best possible team you like from Arsenal's current squad and it's nowhere near as good as any of the teams above them. Their decline is on Wenger, but he isn't underperforming with a really good squad - he's struggling because he's built a deeply flawed squad.

I really like him on a number of levels, but this isn't the job for him IMO.

 

[Trips]

Massive work to do for somebody. You look through their squad and it really is poor compared to the rest of the Top 6. Can only really see Lacazette and Aubameyang getting into the other sides squads, and that is at a push, and not into all of them either.