Life after ETH — the next United manager

If we sack ten Hag who would you want as manager?

  • Massimiliano Allegri

    Votes: 24 1.8%

  • Rúben Amorim

    Votes: 280 20.5%

  • Michael Carrick

    Votes: 33 2.4%

  • Roberto de Zerbi

    Votes: 18 1.3%

  • Thomas Frank

    Votes: 70 5.1%

  • Sebastian Hoeneß

    Votes: 59 4.3%

  • Eddie Howe

    Votes: 6 0.4%

  • Simone Inzaghi

    Votes: 66 4.8%

  • Andoni Iraola

    Votes: 36 2.6%

  • Thiago Motta

    Votes: 8 0.6%

  • Julian Nagelsmann

    Votes: 256 18.7%

  • Graham Potter

    Votes: 26 1.9%

  • Ruud van Nistelrooy

    Votes: 30 2.2%

  • Marco Silva

    Votes: 8 0.6%

  • Xabi Alonso

    Votes: 217 15.9%

  • Xavi

    Votes: 58 4.2%

  • Kieran McKenna

    Votes: 81 5.9%

  • Unai Emery

    Votes: 90 6.6%

  • Fabian Hürzeler

    Votes: 1 0.1%
  • Total voters
    1,367
They can ask Nagelsmann but I'd doubt he'd want to leave the national job with the WC ahead.

Seems more Amorim or Xavi, we might not see anything happen until the summer if RVN can keep us above water while the new board conduct a long term replacement. I'm sure the players will find some uplift and got tired of ETH and his odd tactics and selections.
 
Assuming Zidane has no interest & Alonso is ungettable - Nagelsmann would be my preferred choice. Followed by Amorim and/or Imzaghi - not sure about their style of play though, albeit Inzaghi seems to be quite flexible. Iraola is an intriguing option for me. I really like what he's done/doing at Bournemouth.
 
Please not Xavi. I’d take Nagelsmann but can’t see the German NT letting him go unless Nagelsmamn wants the job. Failing him then will be happy with Amorim.

Surprised Alonso’s name is on the poll when that looks as likely to happen as Michael Oliver awarding us a penalty.
 
gaffs said:
Please no. He was a failure at Barca. Just look how they have improved now he has left.

Has to be Rubin Amorim.
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This is an extremely harsh take on Xavi. He managed Barca through unprecedented financial constraints and won a league title while doing so.

No denying Flick has taken them forward (though it’s still very early days) but he’s doing in part on the back of Xavi’s foundation.
 
No way we are getting Naglesmann right now, no chance we'll get Xabi next season. I'd try my luck with Sebastian Hoeness, he's done really well with Stuttgart and even before I thought his Hoffenheim teams were good as well.
 
Xavi in his two seasons in barca finished with 88 points with a +60 GD and 85 points with a +35 GD. People here make it seem like he was ETH level
 
I have a feeling that it may be Xavi. They allegedly spoke to him a few weeks ago. He’s not working and his buddies are in England
 
FortunaUtd said:
I can clear up that "unkown" right away, the response will be "No.". Can't believe this is the nonsense this club is floating now, how have they not done their homework by now.
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The media knew absolutely nothing about the sacking until the last second, so I severely doubt they know who is being contacted. I suppose at the very least INEOS have plugged the leaks.
 
golden_blunder said:
I have a feeling that it may be Xavi. They allegedly spoke to him a few weeks ago. He’s not working and his buddies are in England
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I don’t think the aim was for Xavi to be a long term manager with the options available potential in the summer. So if he’s. It taking charging by the international break I don’t think he will be the top candidate.

I like the idea of Xavi but his style of football isn’t the greatest.
 
Telsim said:
The media knew absolutely nothing about the sacking until the last second, so I severely doubt they know who is being contacted. I suppose at the very least INEOS have plugged the leaks.
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True. And now that I read it again, it cites "sources in Germany" ..
 
The same Xavi that couldn’t handle the pressure at Barca.

That firestarter meme would come in handy.
 
It's going to be Xavi, isn't it? His Barcelona was kinda average. Look at what Flick has done with that same team.

My preference is Nagelsmann, which is outright impossible now, should have gone for him last summer.

Then Alonso, but I feel he is just biding his time until Madrid call.

Then there is Inzaghi, Hoeneß and Amorim. I wouldn't mind any of the 3.
 
ErikElevenHag said:
The ones who have are hardly superstars. Paul Lambert, Nigel Adkins, Graham Taylor.

Getting promotion from the lower leagues is an achievement there is no doubt, but it really doesn't point to being qualified to take on such a huge job.
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I'm not saying it does - but it's an achievement for a young manager in his first proper job which indicates he might be a future elite manager.

At some stage, if he continues to perform a big club will take a punt on him. He's done nothing less than, for example, Maresca.
 
No way is Nagelsmann leaving Germany before the WC. I think there’s something in the Xavi links, the report that we met him in Barcelona the other week and then his wife just happens to post a pic on Instagram of their kid in a Utd shirt the night before ETH is sacked. May well be a coincidence but I don’t think so.
 
hasanejaz88 said:
No way we are getting Naglesmann right now, no chance we'll get Xabi next season. I'd try my luck with Sebastian Hoeness, he's done really well with Stuttgart and even before I thought his Hoffenheim teams were good as well.
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Why? Euro just finished and qualifications for next big competition didn't even start yet.
This is right time for him to decide about future.
 
quadrant said:
Pep is such an outlier that there genuinely might not be another Pep out there. And Klopp spent 7 years at Mainz and 7 years at Dortmund before joining Liverpool, so he was certainly an established manager when he went there.
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My point generally is that the next "elite" managers are out there, and if the footballing structure is "best in class" as INEOS believe, their job to find them.
 
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Whoever comes in I want to see something different. I'm sick of the same old lineup, same old players and the same old performance, try something fecking different for christ sake.
 
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