Who Will the New Manager Be?

[alexander]

Who is Klopp managing?

My bad. Not keeping up with the German league fail. Apologies.

[Letters]

He will. He has bought a couple of expensive players since the stadium debt became history. He won't just buy for the sake of it. Look at spuds who spent a load of money on 3 players and it did not work out. Buying one or two each summer is the way to build the team/squad. Even SAF did not go out and spend loads every time - he bought a couple of key players each time. Sure - we needed to buy someone who would put the ball in the net but as AW said, you don't want just anyone. You need to get someone who will improve the squad and Giroud is not as crap as some seem to make out.

Since the stadium build phase,we have won the FA Cup twice and come 3rd - 1st if you ignore the two teams with a billion pounds of silly money. The way some people talk about our club, you'd think we were languishing in the conference. Of course it would be nice to get another title and to win the CL but most clubs in England would love to have our 'problem'.

I seriously don't understand some people on here. Wenger does deserve some criticism at time but not to the level he gets on here.

He hates spending money, he isn't interested in winning. But just in the last 2 years we've signed players like Ozil, Sanchez and Cech, all top players of the level we weren't signing before the new financial deals were put in place. We've won 2 FA Cups in a row and finished 4th and then 3rd - only the two teams with the infinite money cheat turned on finished above us last year. Right now we're 3rd, Utd are only above us on goal difference and while City have hit the ground running they're the only team to have done so and they will hit a rough patch sooner or later, probably sooner. Chelsea meanwhile are nowhere.

We did need a striker to push us on and Wenger deserves criticism if his failure to land one costs us, but I agree there was no point signing another 'Welbeck' just for the sake of having another player.

Utd have shown the dangers of replacing a top manager with someone who isn't up to it. Moyes (who some on here actually suggested as a replacement for Wenger ) took the reigning champions to 7th. Van Gaal is now desperately trying to buy his way back to success, it's too early to know whether it will succeed but if it does it will have been because of the money rather than Van Gaal being any good. Klopp was also suggested as a replacement for Wenger, he's obviously a good manager but Dortmund had a car crash of a season last year - something Wenger has never done. Rodgers was also suggested after one good season - somewhat skewed by a combination of Liverpool having no European football that year and Suarez on insane form. Again, Rodgers is decent enough but has done nothing to suggest he'd be a capable replacement for Wenger.

Clearly at some point we have to move on from Wenger but the way some people talk on here you'd think Wenger is so inept that any idiot would do better. That clearly isn't true.

[Letters]

Addendum - it's been pointed out that we're not 3rd
I didn't notice how the Leicester result affected the table yesterday, but I don't think we need to worry about them too much this season, longer term.

[Niall_Quinn]

Maybe not worry, but at least let's treat them with a bit of respect and prepare properly when we meet them. We don't want another of those performances where we arrogantly assume we have won before stepping on the pitch and consequently get our arses handed to us.

[Niall_Quinn]

HOUSTON – With five matches left in the regular season, there’s little optimism around the Houston Dynamo. A two-game losing streak has put the club’s season on the brink of being over nearly a month before their season finale at Vancouver on Oct. 25.

As they prepare to face rivals Sporting Kansas City – a team looking to cement their playoff positioning – on Wednesday (8:30 pm ET, MLS LIVE), the Dynamo’s focus could be as much on next year as finishing the season strong.

“To make the playoffs, that’s a big ask. There’s no getting away from that, considering we’ve given up the last two games,” head coach Owen Coyle told the media Tuesday. “We as a group have to go in and show a reaction to the losses and show a bit of character.

“As it is, we now have five games where we want to play well and we want to go and try and win games. That’s what I’m looking for from those players from right now to the end of the season. To show who wants to be part of Houston Dynamo, to show who wants to be here.”

http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/articl...layoff-hopes-s

[selassie]

There are managers I would take above Wenger these days. All this talk of life being difficult after Wenger is nonsense, life with him in charge now is difficult and it's all his own doing.

[Maestro]

There are managers I would take above Wenger these days. All this talk of life being difficult after Wenger is nonsense, life with him in charge now is difficult and it's all his own doing.

That list is growing with each passing season

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

I think the list dwindles, not because I think Wenger is marvellous because I think in the fullness of times many managers built up as the next big thing tend to be utter shit.

If we really wanted a proper step up on Wenger (and not anyone will do because Wenger is a cunt) we'd go all out to poach Guardiola from under Man City's noses.

[Power n Glory]

Ancelotti, Pepp or Klopp. Wenger should be sacked on the spot if we have any chance of bringing one of those guys in.

[Niall_Quinn]

That list is growing with each passing match