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Who will be our next manager?

Who will be the next full time manager ?

  • In house appointment - Bond, Jordan, Allen, Sherwood

    Votes: 20 3.1%
  • Mourinho

    Votes: 201 30.8%
  • Ancelotti

    Votes: 19 2.9%
  • Capello

    Votes: 16 2.5%
  • Hiddink

    Votes: 28 4.3%
  • Van der Aal

    Votes: 4 0.6%
  • Hoddle

    Votes: 12 1.8%
  • Jol

    Votes: 9 1.4%
  • Rodgers

    Votes: 98 15.0%
  • Lambert

    Votes: 20 3.1%
  • Hughton

    Votes: 7 1.1%
  • Moyes

    Votes: 122 18.7%
  • Pardew

    Votes: 4 0.6%
  • Someone else

    Votes: 93 14.2%

  • Total voters
    653

Bus-Conductor

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Chris Davies, Swansea’s match analyst, was captain when Rodgers managed Reading’s academy team. “Brendan’s rise has coincided with the rise of the Spanish teams but I can say from experience he was putting these things in place, travelling to Spain and Holland, studying, and doing it back in the late 1990s,” said Davies. “Even if Barça had never been successful, Brendan would be playing this way.”

“A Spanish boy is born pure, just like a Welsh boy, an English boy, an Irish boy or a Scottish boy. The Spanish boy is not sprinkled with something special, it’s about the coaching and the philosophy he is taught as he grows up.”

By proving this, Rodgers has removed the excuses for every British team and coach. It wasn’t easy. Davies says: “People think Brendan just pats them on the back and says, ‘Go out and play’. And it’s so far from that. So much detail goes into the specific movement patterns of each player. Key is the discipline to it.”

Rodgers works painstakingly on shape, starting with “phase one” of any passing move, when goalkeeper Michel Vorm has the ball. He looks at “sub-groups”, for example the three midfielders, who must keep close together so they can always give each other passing options. Focal to the thinking are “transitions”, the areas to which players go when Swansea switch from possession to retrieving the ball.

“Brendan’s worked with top foreign players at Chelsea — and says English players are technically as good. The different way foreigners play has nothing to do with technical ability, it’s tactical awareness, so what he does is teach people the game,” says Davies.

Swansea, all team-ethic (“if you’re an individual, even if you’re brilliant, you’re out of the squad,” Britton says), harbour no egos.
 

StartingPrice

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Feb 13, 2004
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They will - or he'll resign.

A hand-grenade will appear on the fence of anyone suggesting it...including you :eek:mg::eek:mg::eek:mg:

If we play them in the Cup final, would it be worth throwing the game to ensure they keep King Kenny as manager :grin:
 

marvel

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From the Metro twitter:

"A serious contender for the Spurs job has confirmed his interest in replacing Redknapp should he take over England... Full story coming soon"
 

Hitch

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Chris Davies, Swansea’s match analyst, was captain when Rodgers managed Reading’s academy team. “Brendan’s rise has coincided with the rise of the Spanish teams but I can say from experience he was putting these things in place, travelling to Spain and Holland, studying, and doing it back in the late 1990s,” said Davies. “Even if Barça had never been successful, Brendan would be playing this way.”

“A Spanish boy is born pure, just like a Welsh boy, an English boy, an Irish boy or a Scottish boy. The Spanish boy is not sprinkled with something special, it’s about the coaching and the philosophy he is taught as he grows up.”

By proving this, Rodgers has removed the excuses for every British team and coach. It wasn’t easy. Davies says: “People think Brendan just pats them on the back and says, ‘Go out and play’. And it’s so far from that. So much detail goes into the specific movement patterns of each player. Key is the discipline to it.”

Rodgers works painstakingly on shape, starting with “phase one” of any passing move, when goalkeeper Michel Vorm has the ball. He looks at “sub-groups”, for example the three midfielders, who must keep close together so they can always give each other passing options. Focal to the thinking are “transitions”, the areas to which players go when Swansea switch from possession to retrieving the ball.

“Brendan’s worked with top foreign players at Chelsea — and says English players are technically as good. The different way foreigners play has nothing to do with technical ability, it’s tactical awareness, so what he does is teach people the game,” says Davies.

Swansea, all team-ethic (“if you’re an individual, even if you’re brilliant, you’re out of the squad,” Britton says), harbour no egos.

Damn, we really need to get this guy. Trying not to hype myself up about the possibility too much but....
 

marvel

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Seems like a publicity stunt to get more views to me, will probably be George Graham or someone
 

marvel

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The Croatia coach was at White Hart Lane on Sunday to run the rule over Luka Modric ahead of the European Championship finals in Poland and Ukraine this summer.
And he revealed before Spurs’ 3-1 win over Swansea: ‘I would be very interested in being the Tottenham manager, they are a major club with a bright future.
‘But [Spurs chairman] Daniel Levy needs to be convinced I am the man for the job.’


Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/footba...-becoming-new-tottenham-manager#ixzz1r5q8fBfQ

PS I also hate the Metro
 

StartingPrice

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The Croatia coach was at White Hart Lane on Sunday to run the rule over Luka Modric ahead of the European Championship finals in Poland and Ukraine this summer.
And he revealed before Spurs’ 3-1 win over Swansea: ‘I would be very interested in being the Tottenham manager, they are a major club with a bright future.
‘But [Spurs chairman] Daniel Levy needs to be convinced I am the man for the job.’


Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/footba...-becoming-new-tottenham-manager#ixzz1r5q8fBfQ

PS I also hate the Metro

I won't follow the link - your abridged copy suffices.

I don't like them because, once, I read one of their articles and pointed out that they had something factually incorrect. I wasn't abusive, I didn't rubbish the sitte, nothing - just politely pointed out a factual error in a story. After moderation, they refused to publish the comment, and, after I sent an email explaining the above, they refused to comment.

These sites exist because we click on them - if they treat the readers who allow their site to exist, we should collectively refuse to patronise them.
 

Sweatybum

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:whistle:You probably didn't have enough:shrug: emoticons and smileys in your comment :hello:to them SP. That's why they didn't publish.:violin::duh:
 

Bus-Conductor

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By the way, someone mentioned Rodgers having a chat with Redknapp after the game, was this on the Sky coverage, because I have that on my Sky+. Could anyone tell me roughly what stage this was.
 

tobi

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It was at the end of the game when they shook hands.
 
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