Winner stays on

Ok.. who’s up next?

EM probably wants Silva but unlikely to be an option until summer. But I guess if he fancies it that’d be the one.. Fulham will be happy to extract a daft price from us to release a guy who’s leaving soon anyway.

Glasner will do much better than whatever the fuck we are.

Maresca would be a great option to continue the trend of only appointing people who are nothing like the previous guy, alongside the ongoing random squad recruitment.

None of the obvious old-school firefighters seem plausible and, anyway, we just tried one of those. Sorry Big Sam.

Steven Gerard immediately stands out as the most obvious ‘oh Jesus fuck no not him’ candidate. Again.

Thomas Frank is available.

Seem Victor Pereira (sp?) favourite.

He’s the guy that was demonstrably worse at managing the team we just sacked our manager for not beating than the current manager of that the team that, again, we just sacked our manager for not beating.

So that would be a choice. I saw Solskjaer high in the (obviously thin) betting. He has a fun accent and knows how scoring goals at the City Ground works.

Does he over emphasise an 'r' that isn't there in words like 'last' and 'chance' (for example) like the last guy?

We've fared well with recently sacked Tottingham managers in the past.

What?

Anyone, but not Ingo. He's had a 'mare and can't see it.

You're up early, did you wet the bed?

I don’t think that performance deserved the sack. And I don’t think having four managers in a season is a way to attract elite managers - Glasner and Silva will avoid like the plague in the summer.

Four managers in a season guarantees relegation.

We were in a bind. The players are clearly unhappy as was the crowd. The football has been unwatchable. Squad selection has been strange. In game decisions have lacked creativity. Can’t score. Set pieces have been truly dire. Looks like training has led to some of our injuries.

All that said, I still think this was the wrong decision. Get a new manager. Slide to relegation. Fire Edu. Lose 11 players. Begin again. 25 years of misery.

A lot of our crowd probably thought we should be pushing for the Champions League this season, rather than recognising the over achievements from the year before. It all feels a bit Leicester like

If players were called to a meeting with the owner and asked for their opinions which led to the sacking we can assume they aren't happy, which fits with gossip previously. Probably we'll hear stuff in supportive media about things behind the scenes that support the decision. It's hard to get excited either way to be honest, the club deserves to go down for the way this season has been handled, but we're trapped in the same cycle as everyone else, we can't afford to go down, or to lose our rich ownership, and the Premier League isn't going anywhere just yet, irrespective of how dreadful it all is.

He’ll fit right in. His list of teams managed is like an endless scroll of subbuteo teams you’d probably forgotten about and he barely ever seems to last more than a season.

The interesting thing is that there's a lot of local media that is very friendly with Dyche. So we can look forward to competing narratives.

I can’t see how Dyche was keeping us up. And he was gone in the summer regardless of division. It only feels the wrong decision because it’s the forth manager we will have in a season, as it’s been largely atrocious.

I don’t think so. I think most expected mid table mediocrity and a decent tilt in Europe. Apart from eternal pessimists like Dave, Shady and me, I don’t think most expected another horrible relegation scrap. And four managers. And limp performances with no sign of progress.

Marinakis himself has obviously flown too close to the sun and spaffed a load of money up the wall on players whose names we will have forgotten in 5 years time as well as appointing Edu who seems to be a truly cancerous character with zero accountability. But it’s his train set. I’m not defending him, I’m merely pointing out the truth of the situation. “He does what he wants….”

Maybe we get the Vitor Perreira who kept Wolves up comfortably last year. or maybe we get the one who got 2 points from 10 games.