The new manager hunt (was the Moyes thread) only 3 days to wait...
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Personally, I think the outstanding candidate is Rafa. He has a year to go on his contract, has documented his unhappiness at the money he's been given and has worked wonders with what looked a Championship squad on paper and achieved great things in just over two seasons with Newcastle. He has big club pedigree and plenty of PL experience. He would require compensation though. But I would be asking Newcastle and going all out to get him.
Failing that there are plenty of alternatives. Eddie Howe, Sean Dyche, David Wagner, Marco Silva, Slavisa Jokanovic, Brendan Rodgers; again none of them would be easy and all in jobs bar one, but I think a change of policy in identifying a target who is sought after or wanted elsewhere gives you an idea that they are a reasonable candidate, as opposed to plucking one from the same names in that 'out of work' zone.
To be brutally honest I don't think any current Premier League manager or Championship manager with a chance of promotion would consider West Ham as a better prospect than where they already are.
Well, maybe Sparky Hughes......
Bet you any money the Dave's will ask the question.
In all honesty, I would prefer a different choice to Moyes, but I still believe that if we get the infrastructure of the club right, the recruitment and the scouting sorted, and have a good summer window, Moyes will do more than a good enough job next season. ;ok
Assuming the damage isn't already done for this.
Moyes could do a good enough job next season. But I'm fairly sure Wenger would do a better one.
Back to the world of dreams.
It's just a story, the Davids may be using it as a smoke screen... ;hmm ;dog
Louis van Gaal when talking about returning to management: “I have an offer that I almost can’t refuse.”
;bowdown
If he keeps us up it will be more to do with other teams somehow being worse than us rather than him inspiring us to pull away from the drop zone.
Ex ran a Twitter poll this week to see who his followers wanted as manager next season. Of the 20,000 or so that voted, only 3% wanted Moyes, which is pretty damning, IMO (cognisant of the fact that Twitter opinion doesn't cover all fan demographics)
Who came out top?
I think it's obvious he's got them a lot fitter and energy levels are much higher but as the saying goes "you can't make a silk purse out if a sow's ear". Most of our squad seem to lack the skills or brain necessary to be a PL footballer which is why Arnie stands out so much. I fear it can't be long before he realises that he is by far our best player.
Shame is he wouldn't fancy swapping his current job with the problems with a small budget for the obvious one he will get with us. ;ok
Who do you think is dross? Four of the subs I wouldn't put in that category, & that could be part of the problem in that he didn't play a few of them from the start!