[Albion] Marcelo Gallardo

[Guinness Boy]

Wishful thinking. Speculation based on the reported interest from last time. If we were interested it'll be a while as he only left his Saudi club on Monday. Amongst all the press links to McKenna, Potter etc. Brian Owen's article in the Argus seems to be the only thing I've seen that has any comment at all from the club and it says that we will be taking our time and following the process. The process seemed to identify Gallardo as an option last time around, so it's possible that it would identify him again this time. However, we don't know the outcome of any contact we made last time. For all we know, he may have laughed in Barber's face whilst sat under a signed Match Weekly poster of Vince Hillaire.

Not an image I needed in my head at this stressful time

 

[Stato]

Not an image I needed in my head at this stressful time

I could have said Iain Dowie...

 

[Guinness Boy]

I could have said Iain Dowie...

 

[Baldseagull]

Is there any links to this guy or just wishful thinking?

There were press rumours we approached him when Potter left, but nothing current. De Zerbi was said to be top of the list when he was appointed though, so I think any contact back then would have been minimal. A long shot, but he is very likely to have been approached, it would be silly not to, given that he is available, and has a record of success, you have to ask.
He is definitely a man that will have options, and we might yet turn out to be the best one he has?

 

[Hiheidi]

he was on the list last time, i think

Thinking of who were we linked to last time - off the top of my head Gallardo, Slot, Svensson, Haise, Knutsen, and obviously Roberto. So (barr Gallardo) all top flight European managers.

This time: McKenna, Kompany, Martin, Cooper, Frank, Potter. So all low PL / high Championship.

Strange the links are so different to 20 months ago.

 

[Clive Walker]

Thinking of who were we linked to last time - off the top of my head Gallardo, Slot, Svensson, Haise, Knutsen, and obviously Roberto. So (barr Gallardo) all top flight European managers.

This time: McKenna, Kompany, Martin, Cooper, Frank, Potter. So all low PL / high Championship.

Strange the links are so different to 20 months ago.

its like pulling a playboy bunny and the going back to your regular birds!

 

[B-right-on]

Is there any links to this guy or just wishful thinking?

It's partly wishful thinking and partly a dream

His CV is exceptional. As mentioned, if there are no concrete offers from a 'big' club, we could be that gateway into European management and therefore test himself amongst the best of the best. He's only 48 so plenty of time to establish himself as a top level coach in Europe.

 

[Machiavelli]

Perhaps because:

1) He's no longer earning 3 or 4 times what we could offer. He's unemployed.
2) He's back in the real world salarywise and nobody outside of Saudi Arabia would offer him that wage again, yet knowing this, he still left;
3) He's not going to Milan. They're appointing someone else;
4) The EPL is the most prestigious league in the world;
5) Brighton have an international reputation as a very decent club to work for;
6) He'd be getting paid a six figure salary and a stage to advertise his abilities to giant European clubs;
7) He'd have an exceptional group of young players to work with, a significant number of whom are South American;
8) He has a morbid fear of thermos flasks, bottletops and chip forks and needs to find somewhere to work where this will not be a hindrance.

Yes but apart from that...

 

[dwayne]

Thinking of who were we linked to last time - off the top of my head Gallardo, Slot, Svensson, Haise, Knutsen, and obviously Roberto. So (barr Gallardo) all top flight European managers.

This time: McKenna, Kompany, Martin, Cooper, Frank, Potter. So all low PL / high Championship.

Strange the links are so different to 20 months ago.

Seems that all the big boys have dumped the merry go round managers now and want our 'up and coming' type.

 

[Machiavelli]

Thinking of who were we linked to last time - off the top of my head Gallardo, Slot, Svensson, Haise, Knutsen, and obviously Roberto. So (barr Gallardo) all top flight European managers.

This time: McKenna, Kompany, Martin, Cooper, Frank, Potter. So all low PL / high Championship.

Strange the links are so different to 20 months ago.

You actually believe all this stuff masquerading as journalism?

 

[B-right-on]

Thinking of who were we linked to last time - off the top of my head Gallardo, Slot, Svensson, Haise, Knutsen, and obviously Roberto. So (barr Gallardo) all top flight European managers.

This time: McKenna, Kompany, Martin, Cooper, Frank, Potter. So all low PL / high Championship.

Strange the links are so different to 20 months ago.

Exactly. I mean our last 20 months haven't been anything special, just routine Albion: Europa League qualifiers, group winners, top 6 club, sublime football, beating some of the best teams in the PL. Normal BHAFC fare and so the best we can hope for is a top Championship manager (if we're lucky).

 

[Hiheidi]

You actually believe all this stuff masquerading as journalism?

I believe that if we approach someone's representatives, we are trying to do it in secret. But often the representatives have much to gain from passing on our interest to the media (see McKenna and his bumper pay rise).

 

[Stato]

Thinking of who were we linked to last time - off the top of my head Gallardo, Slot, Svensson, Haise, Knutsen, and obviously Roberto. So (barr Gallardo) all top flight European managers.

This time: McKenna, Kompany, Martin, Cooper, Frank, Potter. So all low PL / high Championship.

Strange the links are so different to 20 months ago.

Yes, I think that this highlights that nobody in the media knows what we are doing and so are just printing a list of the usual, easily linked to an EPL job, suspects. It was similar last time. The early favourite was Brendan Rogers. Cooper, Frank, Martin, Postecolgou, at that time at Celtic, and pre-Soton Nathan Jones were also in the betting. In the first weeks, the only overseas candidates mentioned were Knutsen and Felice Mazzu, the latter being an easily linked name having worked for USG.

Things won't have to move as fast this time because we're not in mid-season. My guess is that the real candidates names will start to be mentioned only when we start to approach them. At the moment, the press, like us fans, are whistling in the dark.

 

[Eeyore]

There is not a cat in hell's chance of him coming here.

 

[Blue3]

This guy looks interesting but is anyone seriously saying we are is in with a shout him becoming our next manager?

 

[Stato]

There is not a cat in hell's chance of him coming here.

This guy looks interesting but is anyone seriously saying we are is in with a shout him becoming our next manager?

As I said, we're just whistling in the dark. It passes time.

 

[Guinness Boy]

This guy looks interesting but is anyone seriously saying we are is in with a shout him becoming our next manager?

Would be 200 times better than Potter coming back, so at the risk of agreeing with Dwayne, I doubt we'll be in for him.

 

[dwayne]

Would be 200 times better than Potter coming back, so at the risk of agreeing with Dwayne, I doubt we'll be in for him.

That's not what I'm saying. I'm sure we've sounded out his reps, just don't see him being interested. Would love to be proved wrong.

The last appointment we had we were looking up on grand scale , trajectory was crazy. Now it's a very hard job with fans expectations increased and squad midtable.

 

[Han Solo]

I think he's too big for us and even if maybe we could have talked him into taking the job, I'm not sure we'd go for him. Doesn't speak any English at all which just makes it a big project.

 

[B-right-on]

I think he's too big for us and even if maybe we could have talked him into taking the job, I'm not sure we'd go for him. Doesn't speak any English at all which just makes it a big project.

Do you know for a FACT that he doesn't speak English as you've repeatedly started?

I don't but:
A. He spent a year in the US as a player for DC United.
B. RDZ didn't either.

So that's no reason we'd not appoint him imo. There could be other reasons (assuming he wants to come) but the language barrier I can't see being one.