Same happened with Ancelotti at Liverpool. Apparently he said they need a new spine so they ran towards Klopp.
Managers will assess the squad and tell the board how they would improve it. In fact you can bet your life one of the first questions Ivan will ask is 'what are you going to do with the squad?'. So Enrique saying he'd spend £200m wouldn't come as a surprise.
The squad is a mess from the bulk of the midfield back to goal.
If there is to be a quick fix, and these days that is all it is about, £200m is pretty much what it will cost.
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At the very least we need a new GK, CB, and CM to all come straught in and improve the starting XI.
Plus a back up RB and another CB if we ditch Mustafi. I would also like to see a new winger, someone with pace and skill. We should be looking to pick up the next Sane (whoever that it).
Thats not going to come cheap.
Well you’d expect whoever comes in to need a couple of seasons (like Klopp) to revamp.
You have to sell off the deadwood, and make some shrewd additions. 200m if you weren’t selling is about right, but net spend should be lower really.
Also a decent manager should be able to get more tactically from our lot. I still think with better coaching you get more out of some of our current squad.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
So £200m that's one Neymar!!! or 1 and a half Courtinhos. Don't think that would make much difference on the squad. But surely a manager should be able to come in and improve performance without having to spend 200m. A new manager must want to work with the players and see how they train first before making all the decisions. maybe a couple of new players and sell players who are of no interest. But the rebuild will take a couple of years and no guarantee that we will be in the CL places next season even with a new manager.
I think £200m under SAS could go a long way actually. They're pretty good at finding gems. Just need a good manager to get the best out of the players.
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Can't see it happening because of his views. But it should be happening because of his views.
Still thinking in Arsenal terms, which is understandable considering Wenger's philosophy almost fossilised the club and everyone attached to it. We criticise the clubs that actually win stuff by saying they don't care about money. Because they don't, not to the degree where the manager is sitting there with a calculator in one hand and a phone in the other, lowballing other clubs, trying to unearth the next Sanogo.Originally Posted by Niall Quinn
This will be something that absolutely must be sorted out at the club. The manager keeping his nose out of the money side of things.
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Is Brendan Rogers thrifty? If so, maybe that's why he's a front runner for the job, Scrape CL next season, then just keep us there and the money rolling in.
Agreed. Or even if we don't, the new guy still has to try. We've all seen new defenders coming in looking competent for the first few games and then suddenly becoming inept. Maybe somebody who knows what they are doing can reverse the process.
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Not that the new manager isn't entitled to ask for funds but it does confirm my fears about Luis Enrique - a chequebook manager who can only extract the minimum out of existing world class talent.
As rich as we are, we're not on the level of City, Utd or PSG who can literally buy two world class players for every position. The next manager has to be a good coach who can make the team better than the sum of it's parts - see Klopp or Pochettino who have some proper dross in their team (Henderson, Dier, Milner etc) yet they get their team performing week in week out thanks to tactics, coaching and system.
Out of the ones we're linked to, the only ones I feel can replicate that are Allegri, Tuchel & Jardim.
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