| Next manager who do we want? 15:40 - Nov 11 with 9850 views | RhonddaSwans |
I am starting this thread with an obvious candidate.
Brendan Rodgers would be a dream A return to a real footballing identity.
As his assistant or under 21s boss I would take BBM from Cardiff just to show how superior we are as a club.
Other candidates that I wouldn’t mind
Mr Carrick awesome footballing mind has worked at this level could be a good punt.
I just hope this is done by Sunday to give the new boss time to start bedding his ideas in.
Thank you Swans owners for giving us our club back.
On the weekend was one of the first games in a number of years that I wasn’t looking forward to the game that we had lost before kicking a ball.
Now Alan has gone perhaps we can now get a leader whose voice isn’t like taking a full packet of Valium.
He had clearly lost the dressing room.
This season the only game that really stands out was the forest one .
Onwards and upwards anyways names and curveballs in the thread also will be sticking the next manger odds on this thread periodically.
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| Next manager who do we want? on 21:50 - Nov 11 with 2920 views | RhonddaSwans |
| Next manager who do we want? on 20:18 - Nov 11 by PatchesOHoulihan |
How about Eric Ramsey - looks to have done well since we didn’t go with him before (if we were looking at him at all)
Albeit in America
This is if we don’t manage to get someone proven here, which I don’t see us doing |
My one reservation would be experience in the main roll.
We need an old head with experience and grit.
We need someone the players fear their best friend Sheehan or readers digest as he is now known as in our clubs history .
Is not what we need.
Eric has pedigree mind and is solid one day he will be in a top roll but too soon for us I am afraid. | |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 21:51 - Nov 11 with 2920 views | RhonddaSwans |
| Next manager who do we want? on 20:31 - Nov 11 by max936 |
Another Thomas Frank be good. |
You know that is Kim 🙏
The only young coach I would take other than Will Still [Post edited 11 Nov 21:58]
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| Next manager who do we want? on 09:04 - Nov 12 with 2560 views | streetlyjack |
For me it doesn't really matter who, its more about what we want after a few years of boredom and dross.
Whoever it is I hope they can bring with them some attacking purpose and variation in our play so we can compete better in this division. We dont need another possession guru in my opinion or a Gaurdiola disciple, would much rather someone with original thoughts and a good tactical brain to utilise the players we have. | |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 09:08 - Nov 12 with 2556 views | jack247 |
| Next manager who do we want? on 09:04 - Nov 12 by streetlyjack |
For me it doesn't really matter who, its more about what we want after a few years of boredom and dross.
Whoever it is I hope they can bring with them some attacking purpose and variation in our play so we can compete better in this division. We dont need another possession guru in my opinion or a Gaurdiola disciple, would much rather someone with original thoughts and a good tactical brain to utilise the players we have. |
Bang on. For Guardiola football to work, you need players who can unlock tight defences. Territory isn’t much use if you allow them to get ten men behind the ball and you can’t break through.
Failing that type of game changer, which I don’t think we currently have, we need to find a way to get forward in numbers quicker, without compromising our defensive shape. | | | |
| Next manager who do we want? on 11:23 - Nov 12 with 2411 views | Demitrius |
| Next manager who do we want? on 09:04 - Nov 12 by streetlyjack |
For me it doesn't really matter who, its more about what we want after a few years of boredom and dross.
Whoever it is I hope they can bring with them some attacking purpose and variation in our play so we can compete better in this division. We dont need another possession guru in my opinion or a Gaurdiola disciple, would much rather someone with original thoughts and a good tactical brain to utilise the players we have. |
I had to work from the local pub yesterday as I've got issues with the wifi/router at home and the Isuzu A-League was on the TV - several games of Aussie and Kiwi teams.
It was gung-ho football, both teams trying to win, end to end stuff and very competative. It reminded very much of how football was played in the 90s/00s Premier League. It was bloody exciting to watch and hammered home how turgid and dull most games are these days in our top two divisions with the cautious possession is king approach.
Never watched it before but I'll be taking more of an interest from now on as most games on TV are like watching paint dry...
If that's the type of football that Kevin Muscat is used to delivering then maybe someone should give him a bell ! - like Hellborg the season in China is nearly over and Shanghai Port are one game away from retaining the title, sadly his wages are likely way off what we can afford but as ever it's a case of a manager taking a step back to eventually go forward... |  |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 13:43 - Nov 12 with 2232 views | jack247 |
| Next manager who do we want? on 11:23 - Nov 12 by Demitrius |
I had to work from the local pub yesterday as I've got issues with the wifi/router at home and the Isuzu A-League was on the TV - several games of Aussie and Kiwi teams.
It was gung-ho football, both teams trying to win, end to end stuff and very competative. It reminded very much of how football was played in the 90s/00s Premier League. It was bloody exciting to watch and hammered home how turgid and dull most games are these days in our top two divisions with the cautious possession is king approach.
Never watched it before but I'll be taking more of an interest from now on as most games on TV are like watching paint dry...
If that's the type of football that Kevin Muscat is used to delivering then maybe someone should give him a bell ! - like Hellborg the season in China is nearly over and Shanghai Port are one game away from retaining the title, sadly his wages are likely way off what we can afford but as ever it's a case of a manager taking a step back to eventually go forward... |
I agree, that type of football is much better to watch. It’s great when there are two teams go at each other abd I wish our football was still like it.
But teams doing that in the championship would get taken apart by much less entertaining, but much better organised sides. Football, to an extent at least, has become cerebral at the expense of entertainment. | | | |
| Next manager who do we want? on 14:27 - Nov 12 with 2130 views | Whiterockin |
Well Edwards has been confirmed as Wolves manager, so Middlesbrough are also looking for a new manager. |  | | |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 15:14 - Nov 12 with 2055 views | DoubeDoube |
| Next manager who do we want? on 16:43 - Nov 11 by bennytheblue |
Brendan Rodgers….lol as if he’d go back |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 16:16 - Nov 12 with 1922 views | RhonddaSwans |
Also our very own Keefs write up.
Fair play these two sites have made me allergic to msm writing.
The passion for the Swans is real here unlike twitter.
Where anons think they are all ITK.
Nice to have people so passionate about our club.
Well done Keith and Phil fair play lads you both never get enough credit for all the work you do keeping us upto date.
https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/swanseacity/news/65097/swansea-city-behin | |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 16:57 - Nov 12 with 1818 views | Frankies_JackArmy |
| Next manager who do we want? on 16:16 - Nov 12 by RhonddaSwans |
Also our very own Keefs write up.
Fair play these two sites have made me allergic to msm writing.
The passion for the Swans is real here unlike twitter.
Where anons think they are all ITK.
Nice to have people so passionate about our club.
Well done Keith and Phil fair play lads you both never get enough credit for all the work you do keeping us upto date.
https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/swanseacity/news/65097/swansea-city-behin |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 20:23 - Nov 12 with 1527 views | PatchesOHoulihan |
| Next manager who do we want? on 21:50 - Nov 11 by RhonddaSwans |
My one reservation would be experience in the main roll.
We need an old head with experience and grit.
We need someone the players fear their best friend Sheehan or readers digest as he is now known as in our clubs history .
Is not what we need.
Eric has pedigree mind and is solid one day he will be in a top roll but too soon for us I am afraid. |
Not doubting experience needed but if we didn’t we could do worse
Think I’m in the minority thinking Rogers wouldn’t work again |  |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 00:34 - Nov 13 with 1342 views | RhonddaSwans |
| Next manager who do we want? on 20:23 - Nov 12 by PatchesOHoulihan |
Not doubting experience needed but if we didn’t we could do worse
Think I’m in the minority thinking Rogers wouldn’t work again |
Rodgers will come for the right money but I think he could get a shed full more elsewhere.
He has been Liverpools boss so like has been stated Saudi will probably be his next step.
Or even wouldn’t rule out a shock international pos before the World Cup.
Bringing him home would be amazing but I think he is out of our price range.
But one thing he knows how to get a tune out of a certain 7 million pound investment .
2 of his staff from Celtic are now on our books, | |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 01:53 - Nov 13 with 1284 views | Robbie |
Out of the box thinking instead of old school names thrown about .
Toshack , Martinez and Laudrup , sometimes The Swans can get it right in recruitment . | | | |
| Next manager who do we want? on 05:57 - Nov 13 with 1237 views | PawelAbbott |
Someone who has done well in the past, is available but hasn't had as much success recently is Diego Martinez. He did really well at Granada. | | | |
| Next manager who do we want? on 09:48 - Nov 13 with 1055 views | raynor94 |
Why do people want to go back aka Brendan it rarely ever works let's just remember the good times.
And I very much doubt he'd ever contemplate himself coming back he's swimming in a much bigger pool these days |  |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 10:13 - Nov 13 with 1004 views | union_jack |
| Next manager who do we want? on 00:34 - Nov 13 by RhonddaSwans |
Rodgers will come for the right money but I think he could get a shed full more elsewhere.
He has been Liverpools boss so like has been stated Saudi will probably be his next step.
Or even wouldn’t rule out a shock international pos before the World Cup.
Bringing him home would be amazing but I think he is out of our price range.
But one thing he knows how to get a tune out of a certain 7 million pound investment .
2 of his staff from Celtic are now on our books, |
With all due respect Rhondda, you’re not thinking this one out properly.
Rodgers is not who we need. He’s been here and done it. It’s extremely unlikely he’d repeat what he did those years ago. There’s sense in the old adage of ‘never go back’ because too many variables would have changed, the most important one being the drive of the individual.
I did a poll years ago whether Bony should come back. There were many who could only see the Bony that left for Man City a few seasons before but I pointed out that his driving force at that time was bettering himself. He could never be the same because he was in the downward slope and so it proved. I was astounded that the club didn’t have anyone with any psychological nous to have identified this before wasting so much money.
No to Rodgers I’m afraid, it would be a huge and expensive mistake. |  |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 10:40 - Nov 13 with 962 views | onehunglow |
| Next manager who do we want? on 10:13 - Nov 13 by union_jack |
With all due respect Rhondda, you’re not thinking this one out properly.
Rodgers is not who we need. He’s been here and done it. It’s extremely unlikely he’d repeat what he did those years ago. There’s sense in the old adage of ‘never go back’ because too many variables would have changed, the most important one being the drive of the individual.
I did a poll years ago whether Bony should come back. There were many who could only see the Bony that left for Man City a few seasons before but I pointed out that his driving force at that time was bettering himself. He could never be the same because he was in the downward slope and so it proved. I was astounded that the club didn’t have anyone with any psychological nous to have identified this before wasting so much money.
No to Rodgers I’m afraid, it would be a huge and expensive mistake. |
Never go back in life | |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 10:50 - Nov 13 with 959 views | union_jack |
| Next manager who do we want? on 10:40 - Nov 13 by onehunglow |
Never go back in life |
Seldom works. | |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 12:09 - Nov 13 with 891 views | jack247 |
| Next manager who do we want? on 10:13 - Nov 13 by union_jack |
With all due respect Rhondda, you’re not thinking this one out properly.
Rodgers is not who we need. He’s been here and done it. It’s extremely unlikely he’d repeat what he did those years ago. There’s sense in the old adage of ‘never go back’ because too many variables would have changed, the most important one being the drive of the individual.
I did a poll years ago whether Bony should come back. There were many who could only see the Bony that left for Man City a few seasons before but I pointed out that his driving force at that time was bettering himself. He could never be the same because he was in the downward slope and so it proved. I was astounded that the club didn’t have anyone with any psychological nous to have identified this before wasting so much money.
No to Rodgers I’m afraid, it would be a huge and expensive mistake. |
Rodgers was phenomenal and that promotion season was some of the best football I’ve ever seen as a Swans fan.
But he essentially inherited and tweaked a Martinez team that was already nearly there, he just put the final touches on it.
Not taking away from what he achieved here, but even ignoring the obvious financial aspect, he took over a club on the up when he had no CV behind him. Totally different situation to now.
Anyway, it’s looking like Hellberg and I’m pretty excited about that. May take a while to get us playing the way he wants, but I’m quietly confident it will be worth it. | | | |
| Next manager who do we want? on 12:42 - Nov 13 with 838 views | Dr_Winston |
| Next manager who do we want? on 12:09 - Nov 13 by jack247 |
Rodgers was phenomenal and that promotion season was some of the best football I’ve ever seen as a Swans fan.
But he essentially inherited and tweaked a Martinez team that was already nearly there, he just put the final touches on it.
Not taking away from what he achieved here, but even ignoring the obvious financial aspect, he took over a club on the up when he had no CV behind him. Totally different situation to now.
Anyway, it’s looking like Hellberg and I’m pretty excited about that. May take a while to get us playing the way he wants, but I’m quietly confident it will be worth it. |
Rodgers "inherited and tweaked" a team built on the work of several coaches, of which Martinez was only one.
Martinez did his level best to "scorched Earth" the place on his way out, taking our top scorer, chief creative midfielder and scouting staff with him. He's always been given far too much credit for his ultimate contribution to our place at the top table.
If anything I'd credit Sousa and what he achieved in stabilising the squad and ultimately delivering a higher league finish to build on as worthy of more respect. |  |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 13:03 - Nov 13 with 813 views | jack247 |
| Next manager who do we want? on 12:42 - Nov 13 by Dr_Winston |
Rodgers "inherited and tweaked" a team built on the work of several coaches, of which Martinez was only one.
Martinez did his level best to "scorched Earth" the place on his way out, taking our top scorer, chief creative midfielder and scouting staff with him. He's always been given far too much credit for his ultimate contribution to our place at the top table.
If anything I'd credit Sousa and what he achieved in stabilising the squad and ultimately delivering a higher league finish to build on as worthy of more respect. |
Can’t really agree with that first sentence. Rangel, Dyer, Williams, Bodde, DeVries, even players who don’t get the credit they deserve like Gower, Bessone and Bauza all came in and flourished under Martinez. Most of them for next to nothing.
Rodgers’ football was comparable. Sousas was effective in a Steve Cooper way. Before Martinez, we had a workmanlike team relying on Trundle and one or two others to produce a bit of magic.
Yes, he stabbed us when he left and I had a grudge against him for a while too, but I’m judging him as a manager, not as a man. | | | |
| Next manager who do we want? on 21:54 - Nov 13 with 608 views | RhonddaSwans |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 21:58 - Nov 13 with 604 views | RhonddaSwans |
| Next manager who do we want? on 10:13 - Nov 13 by union_jack |
With all due respect Rhondda, you’re not thinking this one out properly.
Rodgers is not who we need. He’s been here and done it. It’s extremely unlikely he’d repeat what he did those years ago. There’s sense in the old adage of ‘never go back’ because too many variables would have changed, the most important one being the drive of the individual.
I did a poll years ago whether Bony should come back. There were many who could only see the Bony that left for Man City a few seasons before but I pointed out that his driving force at that time was bettering himself. He could never be the same because he was in the downward slope and so it proved. I was astounded that the club didn’t have anyone with any psychological nous to have identified this before wasting so much money.
No to Rodgers I’m afraid, it would be a huge and expensive mistake. |
To be fair lads I think it’s nostalgia.
Brendan isn’t the answer just think he is one of the best Swans managers we have had.
Were people like this for Toshack back in the day wanting him back at the club?
Also I am pretty sure Kim has the job pretty much in the bag.
Let’s hope he has never had a pint with Nathen Jones. | |
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