OneMoSalah

There is one positive, Gary O’Neill just shot himself in the foot openly criticising BlueCo so would say he’s out of the running 😂

They won’t start with him if Jose in charge IMO and Enzo does go there.

If they don’t want to be here, and there will be a collection of them that feel like that no doubt/want to play CL football, the club cannot afford to keep a lot of them though. It would be detrimental for whatever unlucky bastard comes in next and has to try turn this shitheap project around. - Palmer cost £45m, don’t hold your breath and think they are going to demand a £150m fee for him with no room for negotiations. - Cucurella will 100% be sold due to his age, wages & duration left on his contract - there is no benefit to BlueCo keeping him unless he agrees to drop his wages (which why should he?). -Enzo I see where your coming from but Madrid will come in for him, do their usual and somehow before we know it he won’t want to go anywhere else or remain here.

But manager/head coaches aren’t important or essential to success according to BlueCo 🤓 Cucurella, Enzo, Palmer, Joao Pedro, Pedro Neto, Malo Gusto probably would be guys with suitors/wanting to leave. Most would get CL level clubs. Would maybe be a few bigger clubs who’d chance Caicedo/James but they signed new deals somehow…

What needs to change? The whole lot from top to bottom. There is too much mediocrity and lack of everything essential that a football club needs, from the owners all the way down to the players. It all started the day they sacked Thomas Tuchel. In fact, maybe even before that actually when Marina & Petr decided to leave. Need a complete reset in every aspect, every department - literally everything - but who has 1) £5bn sitting around to buy the club 2) knowledge of owning/running a successful football club 3) network of highly competent footballing people 4) the remaining money needed to run a football club each year for a prolonged period Mental we are talking about needing new ownership and a full reset after 4 years (some of us were onto it a lot, lot sooner). BlueCo’s ownership has basically ripped through this club like a cancer. They really are like a horrible, horrible disease. Not just here but also in France, notoriously not liked. Never will be. But they’ll milk it dry then sell it but by then I’d be surprised if we are even in the PL. Nobody seems to care from the top to bottom, embarrassing really. I mean even the players sitting on 6/7/8 years deals - always going to outlive any manager good or bad and its a disgrace. Don’t fancy playing for the shirt, oh its ok I’ll be fine I’ve got a 6 year deal still…..

Won’t matter he wont be here. He’ll be sitting on the bench in Madrid more than likely (hopefully). I am also dubious Alonso or Cesc are genuinely interested in the job here. Seems like more BlueCo fueled PR shit, like Semenyo or Guehi on a free at end of season before City snapped him up.

Did you not say we had world class recruitment maybe 8-10 weeks ago, changed your tune 😂

Eghbali is going nowhere anytime soon and arguably he’s the biggest issue now. It appears he is calling the shots, hired the sporting directors etc. Boehly won’t be chairman from next year if I remember correctly, could possibly be bought out by Eghbali/Clearlake.

They won’t change shit because of the fans though. Lets be real. Look at how well thats worked out for the Strasbourg fans, they’ve done a lot more protesting and shown discontent over a much longer, prolonged period than we have and nothing has changed there. At all. BlueCo don’t care. Attendances probably will have to start dropping by a huge number constantly for a prolonged period to make any sort of difference to these. But it won’t be noticed due to the change in atmosphere, it will be noticed due to loss of match day money. Even then, Boehly & Eghbali will just keep flogging tickets to tourists at hugely inflated prices as they have been. Fans not going to games & renewing season tickets may sound extreme but it is the only way to show these IMO. Can boo/whistle/whatever but they are ruthless billionaires who probably don’t care what people think of them as it is.

True but too many chancers in that squad too. Wholesale changes needed, wont happen elsewhere though, just the playing squad.

Can’t wait for this season to finish and half of these to leave.

Delap carded as welll? Theres a fucking surprise more bookings than goals

Embarrassing this lot. Gutless. Be may as well calling the project Hail Mary we are doomed with this group of players, staff, sporting directors & owners.

Doesn’t matter how it was be it 60m or 89m. Regardless of the price, he is shite. And hes likely to end up spending 5-6 years of his 11 year deal not playing. BlueCo should stick that on their spreadsheet.

Too old for BlueCo.

He will still be off in the summer. And good riddance.

They already did that after sacking Potter, despite it being at the point in the season where they should’ve let him finish the campaign (they should’ve sacked him well before April). Frank being appointed then was a PR stunt appointment. The scrutiny on them now is a lot more than it was then, the owners and sporting directors are clinging on in all reality given the majority of the fanbase now coming to the glaringly obvious realisation they are muppets. I mean I don’t know why it took so long really, seen this coming a long long time ago when they sacked Tuchel. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they try and go down that sentimental route one more time thinking it may give them some reprieve. The best way to describe them is that they are abhorrently arrogant. What they say and what they do are two different things. Don’t be fooled into thinking they won’t continue doing what they have already been doing for the last 3.5 years. Why wait so long to fix something thats already glaringly broken? They cannot be so oblivious to the fact that scraping into the CL and winning a Conference League & a glorified reformatted pre-season tournament version of the CWC isn’t exactly brilliant achievements for a squad that cost over £2 bn? For a squad they even went on record a d stated themselves they believed was a CL quality squad. If they were going to change their approach, the likes of Frank, Silva, McKenna and perhaps even Iraola wouldn’t be prominent names on the apparent managerial shortlist 😴

Simeone would be a dream appointment. His personality is precisely what this group needs - it would make or break some of these. He defo would fall out with too many of the 6, 7 or 8 year contract princesses and the sporting directors though.

The repetitive narrative in the media about us reappointing Frank is a joke surely? I mean he has already shown in 2 spells here he isn’t really cut out for managing a big club in the PL. He was barely cut out for Everton. Plus he doesn’t have the personality or authority to challenge the owners or sporting directors. He’s not got enough merit as a manager in the bank to do so, probably why they have him on the list. Would be a daft appointment given the sheer amount of work needed to change things at the club. He’s done well getting Coventry up but the links are ridiculous, be it pure speculation or that he is actually on the shortlist again. Suppose they’ll probably announce him on a 10 year deal though.

If anyone is stupid enough to offer £100m for Enzo Fernandez and we don’t accept it, I will be concerned. I don’t think we will regret it at all. He’s basically playing as a number 10 for 3 seasons and yes whilst his goals and assists have been meaningful contributions the last 18 months, for this so called all round top midfielder we were supposed to be getting, definitely not shown that enough and when he has played deeper, games just pass him by far too much. I get his performance today was good but he doesn’t do this often enough to warrant this status he seems to get. He was arguably a huge part of one of the worst midfield performances I have ever seen against Brighton in contrast as well as multiple poor performances throughout the season where teams just run over him. The interim coach can blow smoke up his arse to the end of time but he has shown time and time again over the course of the last few seasons he doesn’t really have it in him to perform at the highest level. He isn’t ever going to be a world class player. In an oversaturated transfer market to get close to what we paid for him is a massive win. He isn’t going to go to Man City or Real Madrid and become a world class player all of a sudden, not a chance.

Honestly an older head like Jose, Conte, even Tuchel is probably better suited than every manager we are linked with at present. Especially for this squad. Never mind tactics, its the personality we need to get right more so than anything else. They would tear strips off of these and boy do they need it. The fact Madrid are considering Jose isn’t a surprise, given the personalities in that dressing room and how their seasons finishing. Needs to bring a few of them back down to earth, ie Bellingham, Vinicius Jnr, Mbappe.

This group winning an FA cup would be nothing short of a miracle. But it would also further reinforce the delusion at ownership, board and sporting directors level that the project is working. Beating Leeds should really have been a foregone conclusion though. The fact nobody was entirely convinced before the game screams that there are huge, huge issues. European football at least. But still, wholesale changes are needed/coming. Hopefully for the better.

Wont sign players with PL experience so instead scraping the barrel for managers with PL experience. Saying that he’d of been a better appointment than Potter & Rosenoir. And be better than some of the names linked but again, mediocre. True but I think the ambition & progress at Como is more realistic as well as achievable. Plus he will have plenty of options I would think. The point I was more making is the job here will not be as attractive or difficult to get, the calibre of managers we have appointed since BlueCo came in has fallen considerably from the level we were previously appointing. The frequency we are appointing them too, it will be alarming for any candidates being considered. Given how these are running the club, the trajectory, continued poor recruitment, potential financial situation etc, they will probably keep feeding head coaches to the wolves whilst the sporting directors will never be held accountable. They are one of the biggest problems at the club: they have completely bluffed their way into this se roles and the owners are blindsided/deluded/too stupid to see they are not cut out for it. Serious managers will not want to work with them/within this model.

Don’t know, seems more likely he stays at Como than comes here. He has some sense. Believe he turned down the Inter Milan job previously. I wouldn’t be surprised if he does another 12-24 months at Como before leaving. For a better job than here. They are pushing very hard for European football this season and were unlucky not to make the cup final. The progression has been huge since getting promoted. If they get European football why would he want to give that up to come to a team that could still finish in the bottom half of the table 😂 Plus in all likelihood, even if he did consider it, the managers job here will be available again at least twice over the next 18-24 months. Lets not get our hopes up that this shower of useless cunts will make the right appointment. They haven’t done anything to convince anyone otherwise. I don’t think the head coach role here will ever be something that will pass certain people by with these owners, whereas before with Roman, it definitely would’ve. We are going to keep hiring amateurs because it is run by amateurs. So inevitably they will keep having to look for new managers.

Oh cmon you think they are going to change it up now? Even with the fan outrage & protests? These are arrogant non footballing people who likely believe they are still doing the right thing. Even then, nobody who is elite is going to come here whilst we are run like this, with these sporting directors, stop kidding yourself on its not worth even trying to think they will. In fact nobody who is even mediocre is going to come here at this rate. It is most definitely going to be another novice with no reputation or leverage to work within their beloved structure. Potter, Maresca & Rosenoir weren’t top tier managers when we appointed them, they were guys who were lucky to even be in consideration for the position yet alone get it. And even then, Maresca was so discontent with the set up by the end of it. And he’d only been a first team manager for 2.5 seasons. If they really wanted to change they’d be announcing the co sporting directors & Joe Shields departures. Instead they will be fronting this “period of reflection” that was mentioned in the statement - yeah lets see. Be more of the same don’t get your hopes up. £125-150m spent on more u21 wingers when we need a GK & 2 x CBs desperately.