sacreblueits442 Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 48 minutes ago, Dames said: I was worried that the club would appoint either Benitez or Hasenhuttl on a 2 and a half year deal but I'm feeling slightly more confident now that Potter is available. I imagine it'll be caretaker then Potter in the summer if we stay up. ...in this scenario, and I am not advocating that he is who we should bring in!!! A run of 10 games to assess the squad, and have an idea of who he needs to bring in and the structure of the club. His philosophy is very pragmatic to deal with our situation, so all things been said, this is the right time for him to step in. Top will have to deal with a manager without the bluster and blarney and would no doubt be a better relationship, manager to chairman that the previous incumbent he had to deal with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergray22 Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 6 minutes ago, whoareyaaa said: If we are waiting till the summer we should be going for Thomas Frank not potter Or De Zerbi. Problem would be trying to get these type of managers now. Why would they leave their current role for one with so much uncertainty and strife when they are well set in their current roles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 Potter would be on the list in the summer if we stay up for sure. In the meantime we may as well just go with Stowell + Sadler I don’t see how anyone who is willing to take a 10 game job is going to do much better. The squad is good enough to stay up just needs freshening up on the training ground/dugout. Granted if we lose the next two it’s a different story… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkie1999 Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 Cambiasso, saved us before! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Scotch Posted 3 April 2023 Popular Post Share Posted 3 April 2023 Realistically what we need right now is a manager who can come in and win 5 games. Wolves, West Ham, Leeds, Bournemouth and Everton. All within 3 points of us. We beat those 5, we stay up. I think that's all that should be focused on right now. Nothing about rebuilding or a 10 game relegation fight. Those are the 5 6-pointers that we have left that really matter. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
21st Century Fox Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 15 minutes ago, Finnegan said: Interim = Sadler and Stowell. Anyone else is going to want a proper contract, at very least a suitable reward for keeping us up. I'm not in any rush for us to hire someone. Theoretically, our squad is good enough to survive. It just needs a lift in morale across the board, if taking Rodgers out of the equation gives us enough to stay in the league then I'd much rather we wait and assess the market after the season has ended. It is genuinely quite concerning how much of a precarious situation we're in when you really think about it. Get this next appointment wrong and we're potentially in a world of pain for several seasons to come. If we make the wrong call, it's not just the manager we're lumbered with it's the best part of a rebuilt squad of his players also. It does feel like we need Sadler and Stowell to just get the basics right and galvanise a load of players who's minds are probably on their next move at the end of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OntarioFox Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 I'm on the fence about Potter. He's shown at Brighton he's way more capable of squad building than the Nero we've finally cut ties with. But I do not want to see us persist with possession-for-the-sake-of-it football. We need to adapt and, to me, our squad is still far more capable of playing a high-press, counter based style. Start of next season, maybe. To jump now would potentially be a disaster, we need to be throwing everything at these next ten games and I'd rather Stowell and Sadler be the ones to do that. I hope, pray, they release the shackles and let the boys play with some freedom again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzell Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 Vincent Kompany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnderbyFox Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 Huth is currently employed by the club isn't he? I'd move him over as a temporary coach to help stowell in the interim, might not be management material but you'd hope he'd be able to inject some fight into the players He was instrumental to our last great escape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aleksz Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 I still think an interim is the best play (if Potter doesn’t want it right now). Anyone with remotely decent coaching experience will keep us up on a ten game interim contract - be it MON, Shakespeare, Knudsen, Sadler/Stowell or whoever. You don’t need to panic and make a short sighted appointment like Benitez right now. Then in the summer once you stay up you’re a much more attractive proposition. I’ve seen the likes of Frank, Postecoglu, Thomason, Haise, Fischer, Carrick, Kompany or Still mentioned - All great suggestions but they aren’t going to leave their club and project with 2 months to go and certainly not whilst ours could be going down the swanny. Hang in there. Summer is the better option. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose2010 Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 I would be surprised if we get anyone before the summer. I cant see the point in bringing anyone in for 8 games (we wont sort this week so will be 8 left) Hold out until the summer but do it early! If we want Potter go get him now but just get him working in the background with the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcfc old boy Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 12 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said: Cambiasso, saved us before! no he did not ,it was a team effort Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Steve Howard Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 Be careful what you wish for with Potter. Think he could wind up being another Brendan. Significant portion of Brighton fans were getting pissed off with his boring football at points. De Zerbi doing much better even when Trossard, White etc have been sold 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lcfc82 Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 I think Stowell / Sadler will take the next 2 games and if they get a response from the players then they will stay in charge until the end of the season. If not the board might panic and go for someone like Benitez or Hasenhuttl. Ultimately we are going to have far better options in the summer, so we need to get through until then and make a long term appointment. I don’t want Potter but even if we were to go for him there’s no chance he jumps out of Chelsea into a relegation battle with us at this point if the season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2607 Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 I don't understand how people are happy with Stowell and Sadler. We know we are in a precarious position, so lose the next two, by taking a punt on two coaches who have absolutely zero track record and the position becomes even more unlikely to be attractive to someone. The club should identify who they want and get it done quickly. There MUST be a shortlist of targets... it's been fairly obvious that this scenario was likely to present itself one way or another in the immediate future. any other way forward see's us sink even closer to relegation in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeyTennis? Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 I would quite like to see what Hassenhutl could do with our squad, but you can't ignore the 9-0 meltdowns he's capable of delivering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARM1968 Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 Love all the optimism about far better options in the summer. We’ve got to STAY in the EPL for that. We could well be in the Championship and that would not a better summer make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Fox Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 We don’t know the owners plan re selling the club? That’s why a short term appointment is probably our best bet, so perhaps we cannot think / plan too far ahead yet. For that reason I think Rafa would be good on a short term basis, just go back to basics play two upfront etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzzy_Larsson Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 (edited) I don't think guys like Frank or De Zerbi would look at the job, they've already got a good thing going where they are right now, would be a huge risk to jump ship for a team fighting relegation. Potter is a no brainer and the realistic stand-out candidate imo. Short-term though just need someone to get to 40 points. Edited 3 April 2023 by Muzzy_Larsson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st albans fox Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 (edited) Looking in from the outside, I’m not sure how attractive an option we appear to managers who currently have a solid position and are doing well (well actually I know that we don’t ) those who are out of work have different decisions to make Edited 3 April 2023 by st albans fox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lcfc82 Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 11 minutes ago, Greg2607 said: I don't understand how people are happy with Stowell and Sadler. We know we are in a precarious position, so lose the next two, by taking a punt on two coaches who have absolutely zero track record and the position becomes even more unlikely to be attractive to someone. The club should identify who they want and get it done quickly. There MUST be a shortlist of targets... it's been fairly obvious that this scenario was likely to present itself one way or another in the immediate future. any other way forward see's us sink even closer to relegation in my opinion. I don’t think anyone is happy with Stowell and Sadler but the club have kept Rodgers in the job for too long and any decent manager isn’t going to come in at this stage. We’re unlikely to appoint before the Bournemouth game so they will be in charge for at least those games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teblin Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 Maybe another coach will come in to work with stowell and Sadler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sol thewall Bamba Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 15 minutes ago, Greg2607 said: I don't understand how people are happy with Stowell and Sadler. We know we are in a precarious position, so lose the next two, by taking a punt on two coaches who have absolutely zero track record and the position becomes even more unlikely to be attractive to someone. The club should identify who they want and get it done quickly. There MUST be a shortlist of targets... it's been fairly obvious that this scenario was likely to present itself one way or another in the immediate future. any other way forward see's us sink even closer to relegation in my opinion. Because at this stage the coaching and the tactics take a back seat and fight and effort take centre stage. I don't care who's in charge now as long as they can get them fired up for 10 games. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Hirsty The Blue 94 Posted 3 April 2023 Popular Post Share Posted 3 April 2023 What is baffling (but not surprising considering how shoddily we have been ran for the last 2 years) is that in all the articles on his sacking it states there is nobody lined up. This situation has been brewing for months, surely the board should have sounded our targets. If the plan was to give him the Palace game then during the international break they should have had Benitez or whoever lined up ready to take over this morning, not pontificate for the next week or so. We could lose the next 2, be stone bottom of the league and a bit adrift whilst they dick about finding someone we then have Man City away which will be a loss. If that occurs we would likely need 12 points from 7 games to stay up, which I really cannot see happening. As much as the performances on the pitch have been largely down to Rodgers and the players, the mismanagement by Top, Whelan, Rudkin and whoever else have been involved in this will be the reason we get relegated. You could have hot Dyche 2 months ago, Emery 4 months ago, Lopetegui 4 months ago, even bloody Roy Hodgson 2 weeks ago. But they have waited and waited and now it might be too late. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevosevic Posted 3 April 2023 Share Posted 3 April 2023 Just now, Sol thewall Bamba said: Because at this stage the coaching and the tactics take a back seat and fight and effort take centre stage. I don't care who's in charge now as long as they can get them fired up for 10 games. Yeh it’s literally not about tactics right now. It’s about getting confidence up and basically getting them pumped and fighting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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