Street Preacher

Personally think it's an underwhelming signing. Obviously he has his plus points(attacking football, won stuff etc)but it just doesn't seem to be the type of manager a club of our size goes for. I guess it's mostly the fact he's come from the Dutch League and he doesn't have a big profile.

Most of our players have had the odd month off injured though. Only a few have played most of the games. Who knows why this is happening right now, probably a mix of a few things. Klopp leaving, some players not being as good as we thought they were, injuries disrupting our flow etc. Let's hope they can somehow pull themselves together and start performing. It's now or never.

Best result for us i think.

Exacrly.It's a rare thing for the Liverpool job to come up and would be rarer still that he would either be out of a job or ready to leave his job at the same time as us needing a new manager.

Thiago Motta. Gut feeling.

On the surface, it seems like a sensible career decision by Xabi but I think it's actually a bad decision. We are a big club where he is loved and where he would be afford time, that's a rare thing in football. He may have his eye on the Real job in a couple of years, but a few bad months there and your out on your arse.

As soon as he mentioned it being his dream was to have managed Liverpool, the fans were always going to make it happen along with the club. The wonderful side of football. Obviously that even though he never got to manage us that Liverpool is still his club.

International football has lost it's mystique. Most of the best players play in England now so it doesn't have that effect it once did. Part of me would like to do away with it completely but at the very least there shouldn't be such a thing as international friendlies.

Haha

Although it's not certain, maybe he will have less sway at Liverpool than he did at Bournemouth. Also we've got such a good backroom team of transfer that he'd have to be total shit to mess things up. As someone previously said, from what has been written about him, he's more of a negotiator. Fingers crossed.

Regardless what happens with the rest of the season, coming out of it with likes of Quansah, Bradley, Danns etc is a hell of a result. Just Quansah and Bradley has saved us how much? Very exciting.

One of his players tried to shake his hand after he was subbed and the manager just completely blanked him. Some of these manager's haven't got a fucking clue when it comes to man management. It's great having a tactical mind etc but you need to keep your players and fans onside.

I was reading an article about Ruben Amorim & he sounds really impressive. When he was at Braga, Sporting paid £8m compo to get him in even though he was very inexperienced so he must be highly thought of in the game. I'd love Xabi to be our manager but Amorim could be a good option.

As klopp had shown, one aspect of being a good and successful manager is having the right backroom staff. Hopefully if he does get the job he has a good team around him.

Xabi seems the obvious one and there's slim pickings elsewhere. De Zerbi is a good coach but there's just something about him that makes me think he's not right, just a feeling. Amorim positive reviews but can't pretend I've seen much of Sporting and never even seen him interviewed. Ancelotti(not going to happen)would probably be a good bet for two seasons until someone takes over.