Re: Next Manager thread

[RealGunner]

Wtf? Low?

Get outta here.

What a terrible option.

Don't worry.
It's never going to happen. Löq will remain NT coach as it's the best job you can possibly have.
He hasn't anything to do all year besides hanging around beautiful, small Freiburg and visiting some games there and in the neighboring Hoffenheim or Stuttgart stadiums.
He's got a pool of great players to pick from, assistants who do the training, gets shitloads of money and recognition, gets to travel a few times a year.

He'll never again take over a club, as he'd have to work hard when he can just stroke his dick and sniff his balls all day, and also of course history has shown he's inept as a club coach.

Hope so.

[El Gunner]

What happened to the anyone but Wenger mentality?

[Sina]

Sarri
Allegri
Fonseca
Arteta
Xabi
etc
in that order for me

[RealGunner]

So apparently Jardim is first choice according to Darren

[Hapless_Hans]

Would be a very good choice

still don't think Wenger will leave before his contract

[RealGunner]

Nah think he knows he has to leave this summer. Best for everyone.

I do like Jardim. But I rather have Ancelotti or Sarri. Specially the latter.

[Hapless_Hans]

Ancelotti is 100% not the right manager for Arsenal.

[Jay29]

If Ancelotti's time at Bayern was anything to go by, he'd be one of the worst choices to replace Wenger. If Wenger is the authority figure people have stopped listening to, Ancelotti's the cool guy who lets everyone off the hook.

The best choice has to be someone who can instil discipline in the team... and actually put a coherent game plan together, of course.

[RealGunner]

Need Allegri imo

[Sina]

Allegriiiiiiiiiiiii

[Sina]

Arsenal split on who they want to succeed Arsene Wenger

Arsenal are split over who they want to replace Arsene Wenger as the club step up their search for his successor.

This is expected to be Wenger’s final season in charge at the Emirates, even if Arsenal win the Europa League and qualify for the Champions League.

Attention is now turning to how Wenger will be replaced, with head of football relations Raul Sanllehi, head of recruitment Sven Mislintat and chief executive Ivan Gazidis all working on the succession plan.

Spanish sources claim that Sanllehi’s favoured candidate is Luis Enrique, who he worked with successfully at Barcelona.

Enrique won two La Liga titles and the Champions League while in charge of Barcelona and is keen to resume his managerial career in England when he completes his year-long sabbatical.

The Spaniard has also been linked with Chelsea, but his wage demands, which are said to top £10 million-a-year, could put off both clubs.


Mislintat is believed to be concentrating his attention in Germany. He is a big fan of 30-year-old Hoffenheim manager Julian Nagelsmann and Shalke’s Domenico Tedesco, who is just two years older.

A picture emerged of Mislintat at Shalke’s 2-0 victory over his former club Borussia Dortmund over the weekend and Tedesco’s team are second in the Bundesliga table.

Hoffenheim are four places back in sixth and Nagelsmann’s work in his two-and-a-half years in charge have earned him a reputation for being one of the best young coaches in Europe.

Gazidis is known to be a big admirer of former Arsenal captain Mikel Arteta, who is also somebody Sanllehi rates, and is impressed by the work of Monaco’s Leonardo Jardim and Celtic’s Brendan Rodgers.

Arsenal ideally want a younger man to replace 68-year-old Wenger and Sanllehi, Mislintat and Gazidis will all work together to try to find common ground on exactly who should make their shortlist.


But that will not be an easy job with each man favouring different candidates and working to their own agendas.

Arsenal’s determination to ensure Wenger is given a respectful exit also complicates the process over finding his successor, as the club do not want to be seen to be approaching candidates while the Frenchman is in post.

That means that while other clubs are openly speaking with managers and their agents, the Gunners are having to tread carefully and act discreetly.

Majority shareholder Stan Kroenke will ultimately have the final say on who replaces Wenger and he will also listen to advice from his son Josh. But both Kroenke’s will rely heavily on the advice of Sanllehi, Mislintat and Gazidis.

It is a similar scenario in terms of player recruitment with agents and middle men currently unsure who has casting vote in terms of summer transfer targets.



Arsenal want a goalkeeper, a central defender and a midfielder to bolster their squad, but there is a level of confusion from outside the club over who is in charge.

Agents have traditionally either gone direct to Wenger or approached Dick Law, who this season stepped down from his job that saw him directly involved in player recruitment and contracts.

Mislintat and Gazidis took the lead during the January transfer window, as the pair were pictured in Germany to negotiate the club record transfer of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Mislintat recommended Henrikh Mkhitaryan.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/04/18/arsenal-split-want-succeed-arsene-wenger/

[RealGunner]

what are these poverty names

Luis Enrique Dont want him to manage under 18s nevermind senior team.

Not sure about those bundesliga frauds. Didn't even know Schalke were 2nd. Maybe Hans can tell us about the manager for them.

Arteta would be an inexperienced choice and mostly based on sentimental value. Although I am not against it. He is learning from the best.

[Sina]

Honestly I doubt Mislintat will have a say!

Arteta would be exciting choice mainly because i dont know how he would turn out to be but want to imagine he will be ideal coach

[Unique]

Honestly I doubt Mislintat will have a say!

Arteta would be exciting choice mainly because i dont know how he would turn out to be but want to imagine he will be ideal coach

that would be a really bad move tbh. arsenal are way behind the top 5 now and need a proven manager.

[Jay29]

That's a weird story tbh.

Firstly, it's Matt Law reporting it, and he's not super well-connected when it comes to Arsenal.

Secondly, it's odd to me that Mislintat would have any say in this. He's the head of player recruitment, not coaching recruitment. The only staff he'd have a say over are the scouts.

Thirdly, it's super convenient to me that the Spaniard apparently wants a Spaniard (and a guy he used to work with) and the German wants a German. And bar Tedesco, it's all names we've been linked with before.

Basically, it reads like something new but could just be mostly guess work based on a handful of facts that everyone already knows.

Also, isn't it handy that nobody is sure what's going on transfer wise yet apparently we want a keeper, defender and a midfielder aka the three positions everyone complains about? And who wants these players? Wenger, the guy who apparently isn't going to be there in two months time?

[Sina]

yeah this feels like a guess work
biggest issue as of now is whether kroenke will sack wenger or not?
because he wont step down, that looks for certain

[El Gunner]

Honestly I doubt Mislintat will have a say!

Arteta would be exciting choice mainly because i dont know how he would turn out to be but want to imagine he will be ideal coach

that would be a really bad move tbh. arsenal are way behind the top 5 now and need a proven manager.

I agree with this

[Unique]

Celtic will not stand in Brendan Rodgers' way if he is approached by Arsenal to replace Arsene Wenger, says the club's majority shareholder Dermot Desmond.

Wenger confirmed on Friday he will step down as Arsenal boss at the end of the season.

Wenger, 68, will leave a year before his existing contract was due to expire having led the club to three Premier League titles and seven FA Cups during a 22-year reign.

good choice imo.

[Chumlum]

I can understand why Rodgers would be an appealing option and I don't think he'd be the worst choice out there ... but I suspect I would really cringe through watching him at the wheel.

[urbaNRoots]

Just no, please don't be stupid Arsenal.

There are a dozen or more available top coaches available, we don't have to settle for the cringe fest that is Brenda.

[Sina]

Carlo is Legendary coach but outdated by now
Allegri(if he is made available) looks safest choice
if not then Jardim
Dont want Enrique really,feel like he was carried by Messi and their great players

[Unique]

rafa is the man to take over at arsenal.

[Sina]

Carlo is Legendary coach but outdated by now
Allegri(if he is made available) looks safest choice
if not then Jardim
Dont want Enrique really,feel like he was carried by Messi and their great players

Nagelsmann Wildcard

[REWB]

I hope its maurizio Sarri, he's football is pep like. he's football has a name, Sarismo or sarriball.

[Sina]

The Times has a headline about #AFC being closer to appoint Enrique.

— Arsènic (@MrArsenicTM) April 21, 2018

Telegraph reports Arsenal are unlikely to pick Rodgers as they seek a manager that will unite the fanbase.

— Arsènic (@MrArsenicTM) April 21, 2018

[RealGunner]

Please not Enrique. What the *bleep* do the board see in him?

Terrible choice in every regard.

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