Who do you propose dev?
Davo said:They're not a strong side...they're struggling in the bottom half of Serie A...they're feckin shit
As mentioned, the SPL is a serious league for Scottish teams
If you limited your search for managers to those who have only managed what you stupidly view as "Big Clubs" you'd never have taken a chance on your current gaffer....
Keane16 said:Who do you propose dev?
Keane16 said:Who do you propose dev?
devilish said:ive already mentioned them in previous posts
devilish said:They are struggling because their owner had preferred to push the self destruction button by hiring and firing 5 managers in the past year
Regarding your second comment As stated before football was different then to now. The Scottish league was stronger, the EPL was weaker, we had different priorities and we werent the team that we are now. Replacing SAF is not like replacing Atkinson. The pressure will be high and you need to have a manager with the right experience to limit the damage and move the club forward. And sorry I dont believe that lightening can strike twice in the same place and Im afraid that O Neill would turn into another Souness or Walter Smith rather than into the new SAF
Keane16 said:If O'Neill does get the job one day, will you support him, dev?
Davo said:I reckon you should get Alex McLeish as O'Neill's assistant...
or maybe Capello
devilish said:Of course I would. I have nothing against this guy
devilish said:or someone who had won the league with Liverpool
Keane16 said:Right, O'Neill it is then...
Davo said:I don't think King Kenny would lower himself to be honest...
devilish said:Hitzfeld,
Wenger
Capello
and Hiddink
Davo said:I'd quite like you to get Capello
We always outclass his teams
devilish said:same about capello
he had won at managerial level much more than king canny who had ever dreamt of winning.
Plechazunga said:Hitzfeld - past it
Wenger - can't get him
Capello - gay
Hiddink - fat, and gay
Which leaves O'Neill
Sorted
Davo said:I don't think King Kenny would lower himself to be honest...
devilish said:you used to win us home and away
then at the end of the season. we picked the important honors and you remained there jealous of our success
Davo said:We used to beat you..not win you, Malta
and when we were beating ( not winning ) you, we won the Treble which was an amazing season, and finished above you in the league....
So not that accurate a point really...
devilish said:the treble
Davo said:Exactly, I was pissed up in Germany...not jealous
and I obviously wasn't jealous the following season when we were a better side than you...
Davo said:Looks like I've won
Which is a real result...
Plechazunga said:Good news for O'Neill, certainly
I'll tell him...he's down the bottom of my garden, playing a fiddle
devilish said:Wenger is a manager who knows the English Premiership very well. He had won everything at local level despite working with a budget which is ridiculous at Manchester United terms. He signed unknown talent who did very well, and altough he is not as good as SAF in grooming young talent, he did promoted players like Ashley Cole. Many say that he will never move from Arsenal. He would be mad not doing so. I mean Arsenal are at a stalemate. They dont have the funds to compete with us and Chelsea and he is destined to end up winning absolutely nothing for a long time. Wenger is arrogant but I dont think he is stupid. He knows that the only way for him to move forward is to leave and join a club who can give him the funds he need to win
If youre saying that Capello is too defensive minded then you should buy some old tapes of AC Milan (check also about Gullit, Van Basten and Rykaard), Roma (the man who created the trio Totti, Cassano and Montello) and Real lead by Capello. This man is a genius, he had won important honors in every team that he had joined and has a cv that anyone would envy. Ok you need to pamper the guy, and you need to give him carta bianca (in english terms give him the freedom to do what he wants) but if You want to win, then sign Capello.
Hitzfeld is 56 year old (what age got to do with this? we are talking about a manager here not a winger. what do you want in that role a master tactician or a inexperienced wimp?) and had won everything (including two CL) with two different teams in a league so similar to the EPL. He is a strict manager who knows how to handle the pressure of leading a great side (not some mickey mouse team) and is able to take tough decisions. Hiddink is 59 year old, capable of making a miracle (turning an average team made up of 11 fortunes into a threat capable of humilating national teams like Italy). He knows continental football very well and his knowlege of dutch football would prove precious
Suedesi said:You want Wenger to take over Fergie's old job?
And Capello is too defensive minded for Juve fans, let alone Utd fans. Plus he's been eliminated 3 times in a row by the scousers.
Hitzfeld and Hiddink how old are they?
giggzy said:Don't want Capello. Reckon his best days are behind him(in fact he's not really reproduced the succes he had at Milan, which, albeit was on the back of Saachi's team).......and he's ultra defensive, as you've mentioned.
Hitzfeld....is quite old, but that's not he problem, he's won the European Cup with two different clubs, I doubt he'll have the same appetite.....
I mentioned Hiddink a couple of days ago, he's not young, but you have to say he's produced some decent sides lately, on the back of nothing. PSV and South Korea - examples. He's def. got enough fuel left in the tank.......and managing a club like United as this stage of his career, could suit him and us.
MON's the other one. He's a good manager as well.
Then there are others who've we've never heard of. Who the feck heard of Wenger when Arsenal signed him?(except Devilish, of course) So, we could get a promising manager who's relatively unknown..................
Keane16 said:That settles it
O'Neill it is.