So who should be our next manager?

[KMD7]

@TheDrowningMan and

@Creator Supreme dream team

[TheBitch]

2 minutes ago, John102 said:

You can see how pissed off Xabi looks there. I reckon if you asked him, he wouldn't even remember this photo getting took.

Whereas you ask him about his time in Liverpool 1 with you I don’t reckon he’d stop waxing lyrical about the whole day. 
 

 

[elvis]

4 hours ago, Code said:

Alonso is the only other manager I can be reasonable happy with.

 

I knew this day would come one day, but certainly not now, fuck me, words cant describe how gutted I am. 
 

I could also take Guardiola, when City get relegated at the end of the season. 

Jesus man , you have no soul.

[clangers]

It'll be Alonso, that's a bit of a non-committal news conference he's given.

[Lee909]

3 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Tuchel is 50/1. If they lose the title to Leverkusen and we don't get Xabi I reckon that's a real possibility. 

 

Oddschecker have:

 

Xabi - 8/11

De Zerbi 4/1

Nagelsmann 9/1

Ljinders 12/1

Zidane 16/1

Luis Enrique 16/1

Gerrard 22/1

 

There's nobody on that list outside if Xabi I'd really want. Unsure with De Zerbi, he's done a better job than Potter but how much of Brighton success is from the set up and Tony Bloom analytics side of things with scouting. They dint look as good this year, though they lost both starting midfielders and trying to juggle European football.

 

I'm honestly unsure how good a manager Zidane is. Strange to say giving his trophies but how much was Zidane and how much having Bale and Ronaldo backed up by Kroos,Midric,Ramos 

[magicrat]

I would hope and expect that the club has had some contact with Xabi already and sounded him out . Hopefully the succession question will be quickly put to bed 

[TheDrowningMan]

15 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

 

There's nobody on that list outside if Xabi I'd really want. Unsure with De Zerbi, he's done a better job than Potter but how much of Brighton success is from the set up and Tony Bloom analytics side of things with scouting. They dint look as good this year, though they lost both starting midfielders and trying to juggle European football.

 

I'm honestly unsure how good a manager Zidane is. Strange to say giving his trophies but how much was Zidane and how much having Bale and Ronaldo backed up by Kroos,Midric,Ramos 

I’m inclined to agree on Zidane, but then I think back to what I’ve said about City and how it took Guardiola to really unlock their full (unfortunate and ill-gotten) potential despite spending shedloads before him. I’d go for Alonso ahead of him, but I’d take Zidane ahead of any of the others, in the hope that he really is a special manager and not a right place, right time one-club wonder. Suspect he wouldn’t want the job though.

[kemskem]

Alonso looks like as good a throw of the dice as anyone.

[Lee909]

I wonder how Web Xabi is to his 3421 system at Leverkusen or is that just making the best of his players at Leverkusen.

 

 

Some bits here

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/news/xabi-alonso-bayer-leverkusen-tactics-25350

 

 

https://www.coachesvoice.com/cv/xabi-alonso-tactics-bayer-leverkusen-2022-23/

 

https://www.footballcoin.io/blog/xabi-alonsos-tactics-bayer-leverkusen/

 

[Karl_b]

This is an interesting video from a few months ago suggesting it should be Xabi, De Zerbi or Nagelsmann:

 

 

 

 

[lifetime fan]

My fear is the owners go for Potter, free and could come in early to observe from the sidelines ready for next season. 

[TheDrowningMan]

1 minute ago, lifetime fan said:

My fear is the owners go for Potter, free and could come in early to observe from the sidelines ready for next season. 

I doubt they’d go for someone who was a disaster in his last job & whose achievements at Brighton have been put into perspective by the subsequent manager’s success.

[Jairzinho]

1 hour ago, TheBitch said:

@John102 someone is treading on your toes here. 

 

That's John102 in the background with the burger.

[lifetime fan]

6 minutes ago, TheDrowningMan said:

I doubt they’d go for someone who was a disaster in his last job & whose achievements at Brighton have been put into perspective by the subsequent manager’s success.

I’d fucking hope not. 
 

I said it was my fear. 

[Anubis]

8 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

My fear is the owners go for Potter, free and could come in early to observe from the sidelines ready for next season. 

 

I think Potter blotted his copy book at Chelsea. Although Chelsea is a madhouse and that tubby gobshite, Boehly, must be nightmare to work with.

[Creator Supreme]

54 minutes ago, KMD7 said:

@TheDrowningMan and

@Creator Supreme dream team

I'll take it, but not as joint manager, I have to be number one.........miserable cunt on the FF.

[joe_fishfish]

15 minutes ago, Karl_b said:

This is an interesting video from a few months ago suggesting it should be Xabi, De Zerbi or Nagelsmann:

 

 

 

 

Massive no to Nagelsmann. Incredibly overrated.

[Section_31]

I don't want an English manager, they're all shite. 

[Elite]

27 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

I wonder how Web Xabi is to his 3421 system at Leverkusen or is that just making the best of his players at Leverkusen.

 

 

Some bits here

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/news/xabi-alonso-bayer-leverkusen-tactics-25350

 

 

https://www.coachesvoice.com/cv/xabi-alonso-tactics-bayer-leverkusen-2022-23/

 

https://www.footballcoin.io/blog/xabi-alonsos-tactics-bayer-leverkusen/

 

Ideal for Trent.

[TheDrowningMan]

2 minutes ago, joe_fishfish said:

Massive no to Nagelsmann. Incredibly overrated.

He’s damaged goods now, too. Never going to have the sort of aura that is needed to be a truly top class manager in this era.

[Bad Red Bull]

5 hours ago, Section_31 said:

I'm skittish about judging performances in the Bundesliga given it's so shit. Same goes for players.

Where did Klopp come from? 

[Lee909]

9 minutes ago, Elite said:

Ideal for Trent.

 

What position as the wing back or part of the 2. I could see him in a 4231 as one of the 2 not really in a central midfield of a 4

[Section_31]

3 minutes ago, Bad Red Bull said:

Where did Klopp come from? 

 

He did it over a longer period and as posted earlier, we had little to lose by taking a chance on him, shit team and a shit rep. Now we have a hell of a lot to lose by taking a chance on anyone unproven. 

[Code]

1 hour ago, elvis said:

Jesus man , you have no soul.

No Im a cynical bastard. 

[KMD7]

He's done a brilliant job of reversing last year's slide but he looks absolutely fucked. He definitely looks like he needs a long break.