The Next Manager?

[lucio 5,418]

10 minutes ago, Gundalf said:

Flick and Mourinho arent good at all, Conte has too much history here and Amorim is just another wild gamble like Potter. 

Amorim is much less of a gamble than potter. 
less of a gamble than Pochettino too , if the goal is to actually win something and not just be a steady decent club 

[Mário César 975]

we are in a tricky situation 

Idk what club will do with gallagher, chalobah and poch

[Vytis33 1,144]

 

[Clockwork 1,794]

If they sack Poch, they will go after De Zerbi. I think he is a better fit than Poch for this squad, i think he can get more out of the squad than Poch can. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,296]

De Zerbi worries me.

A lot. 

[Vesper 28,768]

lol at people who want Tuchel back

[ZAPHOD2319 4,476]

He is staying now.

 

[NikkiCFC 7,942]

Boehly drew it how we should play? 😆

[ZAPHOD2319 4,476]

We, as in the coaches said and we listened. 😂

[Strike 7,217]

1 hour ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

He is staying now.

 

Draw vs Villa, wins vs Spurs and West Ham when they're in horror form. I wish he piped down and continued to solve the problems he has created.

[Fernando 6,453]

On 08/05/2024 at 22:28, Strike said:

Draw vs Villa, wins vs Spurs and West Ham when they're in horror form. I wish he piped down and continued to solve the problems he has created.

He has said the truth we are turning a corner. 

I suspect next season we will do much better. 

Finally turning a corner and he can see it. Now he will be foolish to stop this by sacking the manager. Hopefully he continues with Poch. 

[Reddish-Blue 2,345]

3 minutes ago, Fernando said:

He has said the truth we are turning a corner. 

Let's see if we can finish the season on a high and get some more wins. 

On 09/05/2024 at 12:28, Strike said:

wins vs Spurs and West Ham when they're in horror form

The positive is that we are winning those games, would have been easy for the players heads to drop after Arsenal walked all over us like it was nothing. 

[King Kante 1,474]

4 minutes ago, Fernando said:

He has said the truth we are turning a corner. 

I suspect next season we will do much better. 

Finally turning a corner and he can see it. Now he will be foolish to stop this by sacking the manager. Hopefully he continues with Poch. 

I think it is clear we are getting Amorim. I say this as: 

1) Poch either doesn't have a clue what is going on with his contract/has been too grumpy when questioned about his contract. 

2) Amorim was clearly the Dippers first choice before Slot. Then he went on that weird plane trip to West Ham where no is sure where he went but it doesn't appear to be to talk to West Ham. 

It looks highly likely Amorim is leaving this year for a new job as otherwise he wouldn't be so public in going to 'interviews' as his stock is high and Sporting aren't some sort of tinpot team. 

Only other club he may have done that with is Utd but I am not sure Utd's board are in a position to actually put something together yet because of the gardening leave they're on. 

[Fernando 6,453]

28 minutes ago, King Kante said:

I think it is clear we are getting Amorim. I say this as: 

1) Poch either doesn't have a clue what is going on with his contract/has been too grumpy when questioned about his contract. 

2) Amorim was clearly the Dippers first choice before Slot. Then he went on that weird plane trip to West Ham where no is sure where he went but it doesn't appear to be to talk to West Ham. 

It looks highly likely Amorim is leaving this year for a new job as otherwise he wouldn't be so public in going to 'interviews' as his stock is high and Sporting aren't some sort of tinpot team. 

Only other club he may have done that with is Utd but I am not sure Utd's board are in a position to actually put something together yet because of the gardening leave they're on. 

That will the dumbest thing they do. 

Amorin is another AVB. Someone who don't have experience from PL and will pull us back another year. 

Keep Poch, he already had one season and knows the players a bit better. Don't need the phase of "trying out" players. 

[Strike 7,217]

40 minutes ago, Fernando said:

He has said the truth we are turning a corner. 

I suspect next season we will do much better. 

Finally turning a corner and he can see it. Now he will be foolish to stop this by sacking the manager. Hopefully he continues with Poch. 

Villa, West Ham and Spurs have been losing frequently. I would like to wait before thinking that the overall performance levels have increased. A much bigger sample size is needed before thinking we've turned a corner. Although I am happy to continue with Poch rather than uproot the system again

[King Kante 1,474]

6 minutes ago, Fernando said:

That will the dumbest thing they do. 

Amorin is another AVB. Someone who don't have experience from PL and will pull us back another year. 

Keep Poch, he already had one season and knows the players a bit better. Don't need the phase of "trying out" players. 

I cannot say I don't think Amorim is a massive risk, however like @Strike I need a lot more evidence in the next few games that Poch has 'turned a corner' and hasn't just been fortunate with playing out of form teams. 

Whilst, I am happy to say Poch has had a lot of issues to deal with, he has also done/not seen a lot of concerning things throughout the season. For me, keeping him on and then him going back to par is also a massive risk for next season. 

[Fernando 6,453]

35 minutes ago, King Kante said:

I cannot say I don't think Amorim is a massive risk, however like @Strike I need a lot more evidence in the next few games that Poch has 'turned a corner' and hasn't just been fortunate with playing out of form teams. 

Whilst, I am happy to say Poch has had a lot of issues to deal with, he has also done/not seen a lot of concerning things throughout the season. For me, keeping him on and then him going back to par is also a massive risk for next season. 

I doubt we go back to par because we are finishing the season strong and always, I mean always when we end the season like that it spills in the new season until we start to decrease in November. 

That being said one of the biggest bad for me was Maatsen. I always wanted to give him a try before Cucu, but he kept up with him during that time. Now Cucu has improve, but it would have been better a younger product from Chelsea to be giving the time to adjust. Kind of like he did with Gallagher. 

But in the end you can't win them all. 

[King Kante 1,474]

21 minutes ago, Fernando said:

I doubt we go back to par because we are finishing the season strong and always, I mean always when we end the season like that it spills in the new season until we start to decrease in November. 

That being said one of the biggest bad for me was Maatsen. I always wanted to give him a try before Cucu, but he kept up with him during that time. Now Cucu has improve, but it would have been better a younger product from Chelsea to be giving the time to adjust. Kind of like he did with Gallagher. 

But in the end you can't win them all. 

Well, the Maatsen situation was more broadly to do with his insistence not to revert back to a 343 even though the squad make up at times made this the most obvious fit. Instead we wasted a year of Colwills development playing him at LB, Maatsen never got a chance, Caicedo and Enzo got played into the ground/exposed as Gallagher should've never left the pivot to help them out, while he could then play to his strengths and arrive later to the attacking phases rather than instigate them. The there was is refusal to drop Disaster, Sanchez, Sterling and Caicedo at times - even for there own sakes. 

Then there are his: 

A) substitutions, which to this day are still purely reactive rather than proactive

B) his tactics if the game gets tight where he decides to play the game out for a draw even if we aren't set up for it and he insteads tells the teams to drop 10 yards and get tighter together whilst leaving positional clowns like Disaster and Caicedo (particularly up until two months ago) on the pitch. 

For me, beating up Everton, West Ham and Tottenham- whilst in poor form - isn't enough for me after what I have witnessed all season. 

That isn't to say he should be sacked, it is just that I am still seriously unconvinced and will need to see more evidence/see who is a actual possible replacement. 

Edited May 10 by King Kante