This is not much of a knarring mind. Could you give us his skin colour, eye colour, hair colour, one of his initials, any detail at all?
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Cream
Central Defender
He has two eye and two feet, unfortunately they are both left feet.
DJP
Striker
We were tracking him the previous season when his team finished above Will Still's.
Mind you, that shows they were undermining Tony Mowbray which they denied.
Tannerabag
Central Defender
We've got to get behind him, hasn't got much time to get his feet under the table.
Mind you, he's the first safc manager in 60 odd years I've never heard of
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Mind you, he's the first safc manager in 60 odd years I've never heard of
.TikaTakaTico
Midfield
It's good to have a manager- does he speak English?
Any decent free transfers available from the French league? You'd assume he'll be allowed to make one Dack type signing of his own
Any decent free transfers available from the French league? You'd assume he'll be allowed to make one Dack type signing of his own
VidukasLunchox
Goalkeeper
After countless failed attempts at getting in a manager, why would he change the model for who is 6th-7th choice?
It really doesn’t, I’d expect them to be monitoring candidates all the time. It avoids any lengthy delays when you need to appoint a new manager, so worked perfectly.We were tracking him the previous season when his team finished above Will Still's.
Mind you, that shows they were undermining Tony Mowbray which they denied.
If they had been monitoring him they would have known he has had a poor record for most of his time at Lorient.
Desperation?
TikaTakaTico
Midfield
TBF it's such an obvious lie that even if it's true, he should have been savvy enough not to say it.
Just let him get on with it (I'm actually pretty positive about the appointment)- I was more worried about them bringing some youth coach in.
mart
Striker
It doesn’t mind, given they’ve openly said they’re tracking future managers. A big difference between “tracking” someone and actually approaching them.We were tracking him the previous season when his team finished above Will Still's.
Mind you, that shows they were undermining Tony Mowbray which they denied.
Isn’t that what they have done? Barring 2 seasons at 48
woodlebert
Striker
I have a bug bear about “aligned to our identity”. Speakman mentions identity repeatedly and yet has deliberately never defined it
Were he to define it, we would have something to judge signings and performances against. And a better understanding of why the club buy certain players or coaches
I think it’s a root issue behind a lot of questions about the club - and if we could get a decision of what Speakman means when he says “identity” we could then fairly and accurately judge a lot of what the club does against that
Didn’t they hire some consulting company to work it out a few years ago?
They have appointed such a variety of head coaches it’s hard to think they are doing so against some kind of identity.
woodlebert
Striker
Precisely, which is why the fans should be told what the decided identity of their club is
TikaTakaTico
Midfield
That's still two full seasons though tbf. Considering that we were linked with actual youth coaches (who habe never managed) and our last full time coach had never even lasted a full season anywhere- its a marked improvement.
They don’t really tell us anything.
woodlebert
Striker
Yes
Is it? When those two seasons ended in failure and for the vast majority of it weren’t very good?
JC70
Full Back
Are you suggesting we we weren’t tracking him and we’ve just appointed a manager that we have no knowledge of?
“we’ve been tracking him for some time” is a bit of a meaningless statement. I’m sure the club, being in the football business, is aware of what other people in the football business are doing. Of those managers we are aware of who have impressed, have potential, fit with what we want and how we want to play and develop, we have drawn up a shortlist of potential appointees. We have then probably approached them all and whittled the list down by various means (he doesn’t want to come, he wants too much money, he won’t work with Dodds, he’s staying at Bayern Munich, he’s going to Lens, etc) until we’ve ended up with one who is willing to take the job under our conditions and we are happy to appoint. I don’t think there’s any mystery or conspiracy to it. This has unsurprisingly taken 4 months. Not ideal but completely understandable given the process.
TikaTakaTico
Midfield
He only got relegated once TBF. He apparently had all his best players sold as well. I mean they can't have thought that badly of him considering they never sacked him.
