Next Manager after Pep

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BamberBridgeBlue said:
It’s the biggest mistake every football fan at successful clubs make. Think that success is guaranteed forever. I hope Pep extends, but not for too long. These Ferguson, Busby, Wenger type dynasties tend to be followed by slumps. That said, the great thing about Pep is that once he leaves, he’ll leave. No hanging about the corridors looming large over his successors. We know Pep helped Bayern sort out his successor there and hopefully he’ll repeat the trick here, but nothing is guaranteed. What gives us an edge is Khaldoun, Ferran Soriano and Txiki Begiristan. That gives me optimism, not blind arrogance.

After Liverpool managed a comeback the other week versus the mighty Newcastle, I recall their fans singing “We’re gonna win the league!” I’m proud to be a blue and we’ll never muster that level of arrogance. I think Pep appreciates not having to deal with that level of entitlement.
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Newcastle fans have always been arrogant self entitled wankers full of their own deluded sense of importance. They’re scousers of the north east.

On the other hand every Sunderland fan I’ve met has been sound.
 
I'm reasonably confident that City are going to head hunt Arteta once they know Pep's leaving.

It seems like the grand plan is the Barca model of having someone who knows the club and has worked there in some capacity previously. They'd be seeing Arteta's time at Arsenal as part of his apprenticeship I reckon.
 
waspish said:
I no idea just a hunch that Arteta would like to make his name at Arsenal than to follow Pep.

Could be totally wrong.
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He's got a good setup there now to be fair. I like their squad now and their academy produces quite consistently. The only thing is that City can say to him that we'll help him to compete at the very top whereas Arsenal's leadership are still reluctant to spend big.
 
ws01 said:
I'm reasonably confident that City are going to head hunt Arteta once they know Pep's leaving.

It seems like the grand plan is the Barca model of having someone who knows the club and has worked there in some capacity previously. They'd be seeing Arteta's time at Arsenal as part of his apprenticeship I reckon.
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In fairness,he is very much a 'mini me' and is beginning to impress.
 
I hope we don't go anywhere near Arteta. When we've played them, they have looked useless to me and are basically an expensive "smash and grab" team. Xhaka was sent off - again - tonight and he sums them up. No discipline, rash, liabilities and uncontrolled play. That's the absolute opposite of a Pep team who are calm under pressure and play their game whether it's away at Galatasaray or home against Torquay.

Arteta will be in that dressing room tonight cracking the champers open. For him, a 0-0 against Liverpool where they barely touched the ball is a real achievement. I see him as a slight cut above the likes of Allardyce, except he never got the chance to manage a club like Arsenal.

We can do far better than Arteta. He's made a team that used to finish 4th all the time into a team that will compete for the top 6. As I've said before, it shows what a superb manager Wenger was.

If we wanted an ex Arsenal and City player who has done a superb job at his current club, then Viera is surely the choice. Personally, I'd have neither, but given Palace let a lot of first teamers go in the close season, Viera has done a brilliant job of making them a team who have never looked in danger of a relegation scrap.

I think we will go in for a top class manager, we won't be getting Arteta.
 
I wonder whether City would consider something radical like recruiting the next manager a year early and have them working alongside Pep for a year to ensure a smooth transition and allow them to get used to the players and vice versa.

It would, doubtless, be expensive paying two managers for a year but this is probably the most imoortant signing of the forseeable future.
 
Got to be Ten Haag for me. Stylistically the closest to Pep, attacking & visually pleasing football, ridiculous GD in their league (59F 4A), brings through youth, overperforms in the Champions League and isn’t working with a massive budget.

Also, look what he’s done with players like Haller & Blind, or De Ligt & De Jong.
 
SatOnTheWall said:
The facts that you are a journalist and that you have blabbed without checking your sources does nothing to improve your personal credibility or that of your profession as a whole, I'm afraid.
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I am not a working journalist when I post here and I made clear from the offset on the post that who the source was. The “source” was a credible journalist. I am not going to double check another journalist’s work when I don’t have sources on the subject, that’s not how it works. I was unaware of the April’s Fool-like date that was the context in which this joke was being published. And yet, as soon as I found out about it, I came here and clarified. It’s pretty pathetic that you (someone I don’t think I have exchanged messages here before) take this inoffensive post almost a month later to attack me personally and worse, journalists in general. Get a grip
 
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