20 Apr 2016 11:58:22
Michael Laudrup's odds have halved in 15mins! Bit of a loose cannon as a manager imo!
20 Apr 2016 12:35:56
Wouldn't want him after some of the stuff ED was telling us re laudrup's time at Swansea.
{Ed007's Note - Laudrup is just another name that supporters (not just CFC) see as some kind of footballing messiah simply because of his name, they know nothing about these managers or their record/methods. We've got a better manager leaving us than Laudrup so why is he even mentioned, it's simply his name people see and think he must be good.
I wonder how many of the people championing Marcelo Bielsa know that he plays a 4-2-3-1? And we now know that's not good enough for the CFC support, it's 4-4-2 or the sack - and don't dare mention NL's favoured 4-5-1.
Anyway, there were a lot of major problems behind the scenes at Swansea and most of them stemmed from Laudrup himself and some of his ideas and methods, he left them in a terrible mess. Laudrup was sacked after taking an unauthorised personal trip to France and giving players two days off after losing to West Ham, a game that the board felt was very important in the relegation battle. There was stories of players boozing etc on trips, he introduced a bizarre ruling that a maximum of 3 Spanish players could sit together at any table in the club canteen when they had lunch and on a training camp to Dubai the only rule set out to the players was the time they had to be on the bus to go to a 2 hour training session, the rest of the time they could do what they wanted, you can imagine what a crowd of wealthy footballers would get up to.
And that's only some of it, oh and I almost forgot - he refuses to take training if it's raining.}
20 Apr 2016 13:48:35
What about Rodgers Ed I'm sure you said there was alsorts going on behind the scenes at Liverpool?
{Ed001's Note - he was awful, you really do not want him. He was far too busy dicking around with his bit on the side, then on his makeover, to actually do his job. He never once watched the youth teams, so no chance of any youngsters breaking through. Decent coach, but he got too big for his boots and thought he was some kind of football genius. He also has no idea how to target players to suit the way he wants to play so ends up with a disjointed team and squad. Oh and his obsession with passing for the sake of it is truly ludicrous.}
20 Apr 2016 14:22:51
Well thankfully he's still 66/ 1, so I wouldn't worry about it too much. I don't think anyone will know their thinking at the moment. The first few names on the board at the bookies are the usual suspects, Even Lennon is 3/ 1 and also thankfully I don't think there's even a tiny chance he'll get offered it. He also doesn't deserve it - he wanted to leave, supposedly because the board weren't backing him, although I was actually told the board where happy to go in a different direction anyway, and were quite happy. Anyway it's not went well in England and now he's saying 5 mins after hearing at Hartsons golf day he wants the job again. We've given the job to people in my opinion who have never earned it. Macari, Brady, Barnes, Lennon, Mowbray and now Ronny for me never merited even being spoken about for the job. Throw in Keane and Coyle, it's a brass neck. O'Neill and Strachan at least had pedigree and/ or experience. The amount of money and time we have wasted over the years fannying about looking for cheap and easy options is a disgrace. The damage that's been done to the club as well. How is it humanly possible to be so backward that these are the only names you can come up with. Some of the other names people are wanting as well, then when they fail they'll be wanting them sacked. My top 3 choices would be Prandelli, Rudi Garcia and Lucien Favre. I'd also be delighted with Yakin or Weinzeirl. That's the sort of standard we need, 1 of them might be interested. I'd pay whatever it took for the right guy then budget everything from there!
{Ed007's Note - That's a top post, Delphic.}
20 Apr 2016 14:45:55
If you're not being sarcastic then thank you sir!
{Ed007's Note - I was being genuine buddy.}
20 Apr 2016 15:18:57
Good post Delphic. Don't necessarily agree with your three - but they're good forward thinking choices that I'd be happy with.
On the Rodgers chat, one thing that always bugs/ bugged me was the chat about how he almost did x y and z with Liverpool. His (limited) success at Liverpool was down to one man, and it wasn't him. He lucked out by having One of the best strikers in the world, in form, and as soon as he didn't, he was found out big time. You need only look to how they are doing now under Klopp to see how bad he had them.
20 Apr 2016 18:40:06
I was thinking the exact same thing half way through and then i seen the other comments. Top class.
20 Apr 2016 18:35:12
I never knew any of the stories about Rodgers, I'm after a manger who can adapt a formation to suit a squad and the opposition.
I feel good players should be able to do this.
I don't know much about available managers but I would prefer someone with a strong mentality who will have a much greater say in the ins and outs.
Ed do you have any preference/ ideas?
20 Apr 2016 20:18:53
Nice post, I'm terrified Owen Coyle or Malkie gets the job.
Lennon can't be a serious contender, many managers make it a 2nd time around.
Like all the names mentioned and even the St Etienne coach would do.