The Next Manager?

[Special Juan 28,810]

I wonder what lies and shite he was told in the interview? 

[Special Juan 28,810]

Now official Alonso new manager on 4 year deal

[iceboy 1,051]

Massive!!

[Vytis33 1,392]

 

[Fulham Broadway 17,777]

9 hours ago, Thor said:

Not that in demand? lol... Managers/players of his quality get to choose where they go. They don't hop on the first available job.

He is literally the biggest and best available out there at the moment. 

Some of you will do anything to spin it negatively. 

Let's hope he's given the autonomy to his project, and there's a semblance of back to consistent winning

Many managers first foray into the PL is chaotic. Glad you're excited about it. I can't, sorry, but well done.

 

[Laylabelle 9,740]

3rd manager we have had this year...hopefully he can bring some joy back to us!!

[Strike 7,817]

9 hours ago, DDA said:

Let’s not take the piss here, Alonso was the best manager available in terms of reputation based of what he has done since becoming a manager and what he achieved as a player. He could have easily waited for a more stable proposition to surface but for some bizarre reason he has chosen to join us. This surely means he has been given certain guarantees to steady the ship from the turmoil at The Bridge. 
 

For me, this appointment is great but we need to see who we get in player wise in this coming window. It’s vital we bring in experience & QUALITY, not a bunch of lower tier or mid tier bozos like Tosin & Garnacho. 

Makes sense from his perspective. He's been looking for a way into the Premier League and we are the biggest club where there's a job opening this summer. 

Premier League is now the league of a handful of managers from Basque country - Arteta, Emery, Iraola, 

[Fulham Broadway 17,777]

1 hour ago, Special Juan said:

I wonder what lies and shite he was told in the interview? 

''The Sporting Directors ? No, no Xabi, they don't interfere at all''

[Fulham Broadway 17,777]

3 minutes ago, Strike said:

Premier League is now the league of a handful of managers from Basque country - Arteta, Emery, Iraola, 

and Pep....Arteta and Alonso used to live in neighbouring streets

[Strike 7,817]

14 hours ago, Special Juan said:

Ex Scouse fucker, no PL manager experience and can see him taking us down the garden path 

He's won the league in one of Europe's top 5 leagues. Is there someone with PL manager experience who has the body of work of Alonso?

[Vytis33 1,392]

A few weeks ago Liam Rosenior was in charge and now we have Xabi Alonso.   Pretty seismic upgrade.  Now let’s see the ins/outs on the player side 

[Reddish-Blue 2,685]

21 minutes ago, Strike said:

He's won the league in one of Europe's top 5 leagues. Is there someone with PL manager experience who has the body of work of Alonso?

Well...I can think of two ex-Chelsea bosses, the Italian mafia and the current England head coach 😆

[Norfolkblue1961 57]

17 hours ago, Special Juan said:

I don't like this appointment, so argue alone......but I'm telling you all this will not make one difference if he isn't given full control

There are 10 players he needs to get rid of, and hopefully in that lot is Palmer

Jesus Christ....such negativity....give it a f**king rest mate

[Pizy 19,303]

This is a “we’ve finally seen the error in our ways and stopped fucking around” appointment which is what the club have been briefing for a few weeks. You have to hand them that even if we hate them.

But the managerial appointment alone is not the cure that turns us around like the snap of your fingers. They now have to follow-up on their other press briefing thag they will let the manager dictate what and who he needs rather than the club forcing mediocre bums on him.

We need a surgical, 2014 like summer where we quickly and clearly identified a few top level players who plugged right in and hit the ground running instantly.

[calculatingInfinity 1,494]

Always was one of the very few Liverpool players I liked. 

Real Madrid is a very different beast to everything else, but hope he can get out dressing room full of malignant cunts under control, which he failed to in Spain.

There's no way he doesn't have a big name out there still, despite of the failed madrid adventures. What he did at Leverkusen was quite something. 

 So I guess a lot of promises were made to him. That he will finally be allowed to fix the blatant issues in the squad, that Maresca wasn't allowed to. 

Hoping for the best, but with the clowns in charge of the club I'm expecting it to turn sour a year into his time at the club 

 

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[YorkshireBlue 3,346]

21 minutes ago, calculatingInfinity said:

Always was one of the very few Liverpool players I liked. 

Real Madrid is a very different beast to everything else, but hope he can get out dressing room full of malignant cunts under control, which he failed to in Spain.

There's no way he doesn't have a big name out there still, despite of the failed madrid adventures. What he did at Leverkusen was quite something. 

 So I guess a lot of promises were made to him. That he will finally be allowed to fix the blatant issues in the squad, that Maresca wasn't allowed to. 

Hoping for the best, but with the clowns in charge of the club I'm expecting it to turn sour a year into his time at the club 

 

I’m not sure we can call Madrid a failure and if we do it was more a failure from the club to back him, he wanted to drop players, the players rebelled and the club backed the players. The fact he wanted to drop them in the first place means he is more than capable of making big decisions 

[calculatingInfinity 1,494]

3 minutes ago, YorkshireBlue said:

I’m not sure we can call Madrid a failure and if we do it was more a failure from the club to back him, he wanted to drop players, the players rebelled and the club backed the players. The fact he wanted to drop them in the first place means he is more than capable of making big decisions 

Yeah I agree, that's kind of what I mean. I'm afraid Chelseas board are dumb enough to do the same though. But I pray not. 

[Fernando 6,737]

58 minutes ago, Pizy said:

This is a “we’ve finally seen the error in our ways and stopped fucking around” appointment which is what the club have been briefing for a few weeks. You have to hand them that even if we hate them.

But the managerial appointment alone is not the cure that turns us around like the snap of your fingers. They now have to follow-up on their other press briefing thag they will let the manager dictate what and who he needs rather than the club forcing mediocre bums on him.

We need a surgical, 2014 like summer where we quickly and clearly identified a few top level players who plugged right in and hit the ground running instantly.

I said it last year where it would have made a change and I still feel the same. 

Number one priority for me is Defense. 

Our attackers I feel like they down tool ala Mourinho second season where they played bad and then as soon as he sack they come back and win the title next season. 

Not saying we will win but these guy ain't bad, no way this same lot that beat PSG and then Barcelona go to crap all of a sudden. It was a clear revolt after the Maresca sacking. 

That being said I still believe that if we get some good defense we are back just like United this season, abysmal and now return with a force. Same will happen to us if we fix this issue asap this summer. 

In the end I still don't like these owners, I'm blue co out, but I have to give it to them in picking Alonso. It shows that they are willing to change and we need see this sustain this summer with defense being number one priority for me. Anything else is a a plus.