The Sir Alex Ferguson Thread (For Manager related news)

[DavidMarrio]

The worrying thing is why is it taking fan backlash for the board to realise "oh this may not be a good appointment"

[The Kraig]

Fuck it, what's Teddy Sheringham up to these days?

[Malenko]

7 hours ago, Adam said:

Gennaro Gattuso would be an utterly horrible appointment. No reason to believe he would do well, and his managerial career is quite frankly a car crash. Which is no surprise for the man really.

He was sacked after 12 games at FC Sion, then 8 at Palermo. He lasted six months at OFI Crete (yep) and resigned twice, then unsuccessfully applied to be the manager of Hamilton Academical in Scotland.

Things look up from there as he takes over at Pisa and gets them promoted from Serie B, resigns immediately, changes his mind then gets them relegated bottom of Serie A with the worst attack in the league. This two year spell is the longest of his near decade-long coaching career overall.

Then, based I presume on his playing reputation, he gets the job as manager of AC Milan and keeps them underachieving in 5th/6th place in Serie A before being replaced and he ends up succeeding Carlo Ancelotti at Napoli later that year. They finish a lowly 7th but win Coppa Italia on penalties, and when they fail to reach the Champions League again the following season he is sacked.

Then he joins Fiorentina only to leave after a month of off-season due to disagreements over transfers.

I mean, if Tottenham appoint him they may as well give up. Kane won't be the only one running for the door.

Remind me to never ask you to prepare my CV. 

[Jimmy]

lol spurs 

[Dang117]

Big Sam is available 

[The Kraig]

Avram Grant is waiting for that call.

[Moses Julep]

At this point I’m expecting Sol Campbell to be linked.

[Adam]

After all that research* I did last night on Gattuso and all! What a waste, Spurs.

 

 

 

*Cross-referencing on Wikipedia for 10 minutes

[Chris2K]

This may sound crazy, but bare with me - I don't think we should have sacked Poch in the first place.

[Szumi]

At one point do we seriously consider @Gazzor @stokeriño as candidates for the Spurs job based off their FM exploits?

Pretty sure Stoker would still turn them down too though, unless he purposely tanked them when he got the job (well, further than they've already tanked themselves)

[DavidMarrio]

It's gonna end up being that security guard who lazily body searched propel entering the ground a few seasons ago 

[Lineker]

It's Valverde in talks today.

[gunnar hendershow]

All the jokes about them settling for one of the interchangeable English managers and instead they're going to talk to every non-English manager currently out of a job.

[Benjamin]

Have they tried Zidane or is that too farfetched?

 

[GoGo Yubari]

I think I read that Zidane was waiting for the opportunity to manage France.

Valverde would be fine with me. He seems competent and not detestable. For the love of god, let this just end with someone competent and not detestable.

[Chris2K]

I'd love it to be Klinsmann, sure we'd never win anything, but he was my hero when I started following football back in 1994.

[Szumi]

5 hours ago, Chris2K said:

I'd love it to be Klinsmann, sure we'd never win anything, but he was my hero when I started following football back in 1994.

To be fair, you won't win anything if he's not your manager either.

[Dang117]

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12691/12339997/tottenham-julen-lopetegui-rejects-dizzying-offer-to-become-new-boss-sevilla-president-says

Another day another rejection 

 

[JasonM]

Honestly at this point who would even want that job. Because even if they bring you in, you'll be fighting the axe from day one because you're the fiftieth option and they'll look to replace you for the smallest slights.

 

[gunnar hendershow]

The fact that you're both a placeholder manager as well as someone who won't be given the resources to win immediately has to make it one of the least attractive jobs in Europe. Spurs need a rebuild, and rebuilds are totally fine overall. But as a manager you want to be assured you can see the rebuild through and the Spurs job is absolutely not one where you'll have that chance.