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Completely agree. He's actually a really good manager, but his playing style doesn't fit with our approach at all

Yeah, but 3-4 years here on, say, £4m a year vs. 6 months at Chelsea on £12m a year and not having to work for the next 3 years. Also, as they're run by idiots, nobody leaves there with any damage to their brand. Potter's stock is still pretty high, Tuchel went to Bayern, Poch ended up doing a...

If I were to vote tactically, (which I won't because thankfully my vote aligns with the close 2nd candidate in my constituency anyway), this "TBC" may be gaining some traction in a few regions

17/22 for me. Really good quiz, that

Any manager who comes to us is a "stepping stone manager". The fact is, there will always be bigger clubs and they will always come for well-performing, ambitious managers. Besides, Iraola would be exactly the same. If he stepped off plucky's stone and on to our stone, what's to stop him...

Absolutely. I know a few "They're all as bad as each other" chaps and they're all ex-Tories looking for a reason to not vote Labour or anyone else. If anyone genuinely thinks that Labour are the same as this batch of Tories, then they're beyond help.

THANK YOU!!! I've been saying this for years. Do people honestly think top managers have only got one plan? We have played SO many systems this season, so many different approaches against different opponents, but just because we don't thump it up to Welbeck people seem to think that we only...

I'd argue that his influence in over 100 games for us, added to his off-field presence answers that question The interview gives a pretty good indication about what he offered the club. In all honesty, after giving it a listen, I'm 100% convinced we need to sign a player of his character for...

I suppose the other thing is that managers get sacked ten-a-penny, so if you pay managers player-level wages, the compo would be insane. Just ask Chelsea, who I believe are still playing off Potters 12m a year(!) contract.

I think it was De Zerbi's presser after Roma away. Looking back, what he was saying makes more sense with added context, but at the time losing 0-4 away from home because of (amongst other things) extreme tactical naivety and then smashing into the clubs hierarchy really sticks. De Zerbi was...

Eurgh... How grim

Agree. Newcastle have become an absolutely horrible club with Smug Eddie, Anthony Gordon, and the awful, awful Saudi sports-washing project, but I hope they take Berrardi, Ashworth and United to the cleaners after this. Let's be honest, we ALL know that tapping up happens, it's just not called...

Tend to agree. Eze is a really good player, Wharton looks very talented, Guehi is a player Southgate trusts and Henderson is a useful non-playing keeper. Besides, pops them all in the shop window for the summer, eh?

Couldn't care less. Ipswich have a more storied history, we're further ahead as an established Premier League club. Depends which definition you choose, but I find the whole "bigger club" debate endlessly tiresome. Ultimately, most clubs of our size are moons circling the orbit of the...

Awful "weekend break" for New Year in Paris. Went with my girlfriend at the time and two of her friends. The room booking fell through (they double booked us and gave the room to the people who arrived 2 hours before check in), one of her friends had a nasty break up the day before so spent...

How many times has this been said? How many times has he come back and produced? Gross, like Dunk, has suffered this season from a) never getting rested (he's played 91% of minutes this season) and b) has had to play with different players week in, week out.

Yes, but based on your posts on here you neither like nor care about anyone at the club anyway so why would you be bothered if anyone leaves? About 95% of your posts are critical of someone, it's just a lottery as to who the long arm of Justice comes for after any given game.

I'll be honest, I'm on a bit of a knife-edge. I trust Bloom almost completely, although the realisation that the last time we lost a manager because we didn't meet his ambition in the transfer market (for FFP reasons) we ended up with Sami Hyypia. A lot has changed since then, not to mention...

Felt like the season we got battered in the Play-Offs under Garcia. Probably lucky to get there and was shown up to be the case very quickly indeed. Neither had great squads, but Garcia saw the wind direction and rightly legged it before Hyypia got to manage a bunch of OPAs loanees and chancers...

Hayes has won 6 League titles, 5 FA Cups an couple of League Cups and multiple manager of the year awards. That's more than Paisley and Busby in terms of league titles. Whatever you think of the women's game, she is a legend in terms of the overall English game. Klopp, less so, but he's been...