Cheeky Monkey
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Assuming we get promoted this year.
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How Long is the Gus Bus in Town For?
- Thread starter Cheeky Monkey
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Two years, promotion this season, top half of Championship next and then Spurs nick him when Harry takes over from Capello.
deletebeepbeepbeep
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Depends how we do in the Championship.
Tricky Dicky
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Realistically, stay's this season. IF we get promoted, and that is still a big if, then he will be on more peoples radar, so if any top chap'ship or lower prem jobs come up he will be a serious contender.
Cheeky Monkey
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Sorry! Poll just added 
Mo Gosfield
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Clearly a stepping-stone in his career...wouldn't expect him to be still here after first season at Falmer. ( irrespective of where we are )
Stumpy Tim
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I was thinking about this today actually. I believe Gus is setting the club up to continue once he does leave - when ever that may be. He does seem to be hiring young up & coming coaches in Luke Williams & Steve Brown, and having all his teams playing the same brand of football. The future is bright
Kalimantan Gull
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That is key. Would be nice if he left a successor in place, or at least the structure for a hand-picked successor to work with, rather than taking his entire coaching staff with him as is often the norm.
It is very, very rare that a capable young manager stays with one club for more than two years, and it will not be long until big teams are sniffing around him.
I would love it for Gus to be here for a long, long time, but I think he will be offered a massive job if we gain promotion. If he is offered a top Premiership job, you couldn't really blame him for leaving, and I'll be eternally grateful for what he has done here if we go up this season.
Let's just hope we are a long term project for Gus and not just a stepping stone.
I would love it for Gus to be here for a long, long time, but I think he will be offered a massive job if we gain promotion. If he is offered a top Premiership job, you couldn't really blame him for leaving, and I'll be eternally grateful for what he has done here if we go up this season.
Let's just hope we are a long term project for Gus and not just a stepping stone.
It will be at least a year from now before any serious jobs come up where he could have his name on the shortlist (top UK prem, Spain, Uruguay nat team). Unless we're in the Championship and doing well I can't see him being approached. So he'll either stay or leave us in a good position. On the other hand, if we are in a good position, he may like to stay and finish the job.
Kalimantan Gull
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As I've mentioned before, I wouldn't be surprised if he moves on to a big championship club, even if they are below us at the time, or a failing premiership club. Gives him a chance to build from the bottom again. Whoever takes over from Redknapp or Wenger will struggle to continue their success unless they are from the very top table of managers.
I still think Middlesbrough will come looking for him when they give up on Strachan, West Ham would be another attractive option for him, and another likely vacancy in the near future.
If we are top of L1 at the time, that would be a massive decision for him, but I couldn't be more than 50% he would stay here.
Billy the Fish
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I think he'll stay for the first season at Falmer regardless of vacancies. After that it's in the lap of the football gods. I'd be pissed off if he ended up at somewhere like Wigan or blackburn though.
I think that's about right. I can't see him going to a Prem club from the 3rd Div (clubs saw what happened with with Paul Ince) but a good season in the Championship would attract interest.
I'd bet any money though that Harry doesn't become England manager: if they didn't want Tel, they won't someone even dodgier (and the same age as the outgoing manager who's retiring because of age).
Return of the Rev
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promotion 
then off
then off
This question is a way to drive yourselves mad. He's already said that he'll go if he gets a great offer (honest as usual) and TB has assured him we won't stand in his way.
Got to hope TB gives him the funds so that he feels he has time to finish the job here before he moves on.
But it's not in our hands. All depends on who comes calling.
Got to hope TB gives him the funds so that he feels he has time to finish the job here before he moves on.
But it's not in our hands. All depends on who comes calling.
Tricky Dicky
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The trouble is (and I feel it is the same with England & Stuart Pearce), when a manager leaves, it is usually when the club isn't do very well with results, and the fans want a change ... and they want a complete change. If you think back to, say, McGee (just as an example), if at the time he left the majority of the fans wanted him out, they would not have been saitisfied with someone he had boughti in/trained etc. taking over - it would be seen as "more of the same". So, it tends to be revolution rather than evolution.
If the manager leaves in god times, of course, it can be different.
Tricky Dicky
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Hey he's good but I think 'god' is going a bit far
I thnk that's what they call a Freudian slip
Brian Fantana
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I think he will be here for the first season at Falmer. Beyond that, who knows.
bhaexpress
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Right now he has a team playing the way he wants, if he gets a better offer then good bye and good luck. Ask Phil Parkinson, he was god at at Charlton when he arrived, lose a few games and you are dirt.