They released the news at one in the morning? Were they waiting for the New York stock exchange to close?
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Percy’s article states it was Nuno who wanted Kristianson from Leicester. Deserved the sack for that alone.
He also states not getting Traore was overplayed as it was more Fulham wanting a replacement first, which didn’t materialise.
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The less cynical view would be that once it had started to leak in the Portuguese media (about 11pm I think), they needed to get ahead of the story.
I dunno…
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West Ham was Nuno's attempt to show that his small squad policy would work and it backfired spectacularly.
Toedesco is probably the hipster's choice so I'll go for him. I like Ange more than most but still have plenty of reservations, and I'm not keen on the neverending Clough comparisons if Jose comes. Rodgers... ick.
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Sign me up.
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Feels like it's Ange but I don't see how a mid season pivot from Nunoball to Angeball can possibly work.
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This is pretty much where I am. I think it's a shame that Nuno delivered European qualification for the first time in 30 years but then didn't get to lead the team into that. He'll be OK, though. I'd imagine plenty of suitors when he's ready - Nuno's stock is high for a bit.
Doesn't feel to me like the Cooper sacking which I was really disappointed about (although clearly in hindsight the correct decision).
Looks increasingly like Nuno had had enough. You don't publicly question the bloke who owns the company you work for and hang around much after that.
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Not sure I can see a high defensive line with Nikola Milenković at its heart being a massive success even with a full pre-season, to be honest. We have a suqad that is full of talent and theoretically capable of pretty much any style... except Ange-ball.
For now I am comforting myself with the fact that the "Ange is favourite for the job" narrative seems to be based on pretty thin evidence - mostly an old article where Marinakis said he was proud of his Greek heritage (plus the fact that he's available, of course). I suspect (& hope!) it will end up being someone from the continent who wasn't even in the bookies' frame until today. Tedesco or similar. Marinakis will not aim low.
The thought of Postecoglu, Rodgers or (especially) Mourinho gives me the horrors. Rodgers should be automatically ruled out for his habit of referring to himself in the third person like a latter-day Billy fucking Davies - and appointing Mourinho now would be like appointing Clough in his final, booze-destroyed years rather than the he was young and exciting. Can't see it - and fervently hope I am right.
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I am also a Jose fanboy. But I don’t want him as manager of this club and this squad. We have something lovely.. and I think he’ll absolutely fuck it up.
Hard no to Ange too… I have very much enjoyed having a manager who knows how to use his players and his bench to do different things in different games.
Happy with Glasner or Silva. Assume we’d have no hope of Iriola.
Rogers is a total nob, but I think he’s a good manager and might do well. Or he could be Davies Mk2 Mk2.. so I wouldn’t take the risk.
The betting says Ange.. but that’s perhaps just the usual combo of press-talk and lazy money in a small market.
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Getting Glasner would be funny.
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I don't agree - I think it was more a case of not (yet) trusting some players as much as last season's successful team. I think Nuno is on record as wanting 2 players for every position this season - though I concede I'm not gonna look it up and I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.
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My main fear that points to Ange is that we must be skating fairly close to PSR limits and I can’t see that sacking a manager that had just been given a new contract AND paying compensation for his replacement would have been factored in.
But it’s a no from me.
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So just went through the comments in The Athletic and it is almost universally in line with us here.
Same three names getting a yes (Glasner, Iraola, Silva) and the same three getting a ‘no’ (Jose, Ange, Rodgers).
Couple of shouts for Klopp, mind.
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I don't see how we can be that close to PSR limits. We took in well over £100m in sales, all of which goes onto the books immediately.
Sure, we spent c.£200m, but all of those were on long deals (one 4-year, I think, but mostly 5). Even if we assume that all are on 4 years, for PSR purposes that means we have spent c.£50m because of the way amortisation works.
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For me this is the thing. The moment that he made his comments (and given his experience of the game it wasn't an accident), it was only going to end one way. So he had clearly made a decision to out at that point. That could be for relatively mundane disagreement over direction reasons...or it could be more Machiavellian (has a new contract, payoff good, recent performance likely to exceed future performance so stock at highest, has interest elsewhere, secondary income streams via agent related activity dried up).
He made a decision that getting out now was the optimal timing for him. Under the current leadership at forest that could easily have happened at any time under less optimal (for him) conditions.
It wont happen, but I'd like to see what Dyche could do with this squad. I'm down with the more old skool try to be the best you can be, with the players you have type, over a spanish dancing development programme.
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Ornstein and Danny Taylor have put a piece on the Athletic saying Ange, so guess that's it.
