The Sir Alex Ferguson Thread (For Manager related news)

[Baddar]

Already got his replacement. Most recently at Rayo.

 

 

[Lineker]

 

[Bobfoc]

Now Gerrard isn't taking the job in Saudi Arabia.

[Captain Kirk]

1 hour ago, Bobfoc said:

Now Gerrard isn't taking the job in Saudi Arabia.

Probably realised he won’t actually get paid.

[Lineker]

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Daniel Farke is expected to become Leeds United’s new manager and hopes to be installed in time for the Championship squad’s return to training on Monday.

Farke, who twice led Norwich into the Premier League, was on a shortlist for the Elland Road post along with Patrick Vieira and Scott Parker. Although Vieira interviewed strongly and appeared the favourite for a time, the former Crystal Palace manager now seems set to return to his native France and take charge at Strasbourg.

The Leeds hierarchy have seen their appointment timeline slowed by the English Football League’s need to ratify the club’s full takeover by the San Francisco based investment group, 49er enterprises.

Although it had been thought the new manager would not be introduced until that deal is rubber-stamped by the EFL, there is now a distinct possibility Farke’s appointment could be formalised earlier.

The 46-year-old German parted company with Borussia Mönchengladbach at the end of last season and is expected to be joined in West Yorkshire by his long-term assistants Eddie Riemer, Christopher John and Chris Domogalla. That quartet worked together at Carrow Road, subsequently joining forces at Russia’s Krasnodar before returning to Germany with Mönchengladbach.

During four years at Norwich, between 2017 and 2021, Farke collected two second tier titles either side of a relegation from the Premier League. His amalgam of promotion winning nous and commitment to attractive, attacking, possession rich, football appear to have secured him the Leeds job following a detailed interview process demanded by 49er enterprises.

After seeing Leeds relegated from the top tier in May, Elland Road directors are anxious to win promotion at the first attempt but, so far, they have confirmed only one friendly – against Manchester United in Oslo on 12 July – before their opening Championship game at home to Cardiff on 6 August.

By then it is hoped that Farke’s philosophy – something he says has been heavily influenced by the ideas of Pep Guardiola and Thomas Tuchel – will win over a Leeds squad and fanbase that is apparently still struggling to adapt to the sacking of the club’s autocratic, yet much adored, former manager Marcelo Bielsa in February 2022.

 

[Naitch]

Lots of Norwich fans are unhappy about a "rival" getting Farke in.

[METALMAN]

Get the Farke out

[gunnar hendershow]

10 hours ago, Naitch said:

Lots of Norwich fans are unhappy about a "rival" getting Farke in.

Managers are obviously supposed to stay unemployed just out of loyalty for a club that *checks notes* sacked them.

[Naitch]

It's less aimed at Farke and more another part of the continuing dislike of how the club is being run, to be fair. It'd be very interesting if Stuart Webber ends up going there too.

[stokeriño]

Patrick Vieira: indirectly working for Chelsea.

 

[METALMAN]

Tbf I’d put him in the team ahead of Conor Gallagher

[Hobo]

On 19/06/2023 at 21:41, Bobfoc said:

Now Gerrard isn't taking the job in Saudi Arabia.

Now he might be

[Cymbols]

😂😂😂😂😂 extremely serious manager right there. Fraud.

[METALMAN]

Al etti-FAQ OFF STEVIE G

[DavidMarrio]

Gerrard was a fine Aston Villa manager and the fans who disagree are charlatans. They wouldn't be where they are now without him...

[gunnar hendershow]

1 hour ago, DavidMarrio said:

Gerrard was a fine Aston Villa manager and the fans who disagree are charlatans. They wouldn't be where they are now without him...

True. Without him it's possible Emery only is able to move them 4-5 places up the table...

[Naitch]

How long till Lampard follows him there?

[Gazz]

I'm hoping Steve Bruce gets a call, I reckon the Middle Eastern weather would see him melt like the Nazi at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[Lineker]

 

[Hobo]