The Official Next Manager Discussion Thread

[Neil D]

Of all the names seriously being touted outside of the usual suspects (eg Pearce, Gray), Seedorf is one which does not fill me with dread.

[grandad]

Not sure if he even has the Boy Scouts badge for coaching let alone the necessary ones to be a coach for a league side.

[alexmur]

Seedorf an option for Fulham

According to De Telegraaf, Clarence Seedorf is a serious candidate to become coach of English Championship side Fulham.

The 39-year-old has spoken recently about his openness to manage in England, having never spent a spell in the country as a player, and Seedorf is not fussed on whether that job comes in the Premier League or the Championship.

According to De Telegraaf, Seedorf is high on the wish list of Fulham director Michael Rigg, who has also identified Jaap Stam as a possible candidate. Seedorf has been out of work since being sacked as AC Milan coach last year, while Stam is currently a coach with Jong Ajax.

http://www.football-oranje.com/seedorf-an-option-for-fulham/

I think that's a copy and paste from an English article. I'm sure the French do the same

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[Nero]

So Curbs has been adviser to Rene, who failed, and adviser to Kit who failed, is advising to Grant who hasn't won against 2 of the weaker teams in this division, he either giving bad advice or hes no good at getting his point across to him either way what is the point of Curbs we are heading to FFP crisis and employing someone that seems to be no good at the job the where brought into do and people are wanting him as manager because we cant find anyone else.

:dead horse:

[Artful Dodger]

Would love to see Murphy given the job til the end of the year - far more than Curbishley who managed in the 90's. Murphy is up there with Gary Neville when it comes to talking sense as a pundit so would love to see if he can translate that to management.

[westcliff white]

Why is Stuart Gray 9/4 with sky bet is this on the back of the mirror report? Christ if that's who we are looking at now then it seems we have really given up the ghost. Seedorf is practically saying I am happy to manage ion the championship, while not my first choice he has good contacts and has to be better than Gray

[westcliff white]

I have the opposite opinion of his punditry Artful, find him to be on the same level as Shearer.

He has not coached anywhere at any level and if he truly wanted to coach, surely he would do that as well as be a pundit like Neville has for example

[alexbishop]

I think DM has his badges but if he was really interested in becoming a coach - he needs to be working as a coach somewhere and proving his worth! He can't just expect to walk into a management position with zero experience on his CV!

[Woolly Mammoth]

Agree Chutney to a degree.

Everyone has a preference, and I admire JDH101's passionate defence and promotion of Danny, everyone on this board loved him as a player for us, but as a coach I and possibly some more have doubts.

But some on here will not give any new guy time, be it 1 game, if he loses the I told you so's will come out, or maybe 2, 3 or 10 games they will come out,there are some on this board that wont never be happy no matter who gets the job. We have had 5 managers in 21 months or so, it is natural for anyone approached to think hang on how long have I got. We have to look long term and build thats what the new guy is going to have to do along with the club. We the fans have to be patient however frustrating that maybe, the club have to be patient and not trigger happy and the manager needs to get to style and formation right for what we have in the squad now, and then ensure they can change to what he wants to play buy getting the right players in (as well as shoring up our defence, if that had been done i do not think Kit would have lost his job, we have the layers they just need to do it better). Not going to go on about FFP other than to say if we have failed then that will restrict our pool of managers / coaches to choose from even more

But unless the club gets the right person for the job in the first place, bearing in mind that they havent had the right person in the job since Roy Hodgson, then all that you say about Long term, Short term or whatever means absolutely nothing. We will be back where we started.
Due to inefficiency, incompetence, negligence and bad judgements, tunnel vision, call it what you like, the club have missed the boat and let potentially good candidates slip through their fingers.
That is why we are where we are, up the Swanny without a paddle, and exactly why we are having this same conversation.
You couldn't make it up.

No decent manager since Hodgson, what about Hughes? He did a good job in short time he was here, even if I didn't like him as a person. It's a shame that his spell coincided with MAF starting to tighten up the purse strings. If he was manager under the Shahid (Genghis) Khan, he may well have gone on to build something here.
I have been really impressed with what he's done at Stoke, especially after the QPR travesty.

Do you know I had actually forgotten about Hughes, which could mean that he made no impact on me, or my memory has faded. I will choose the latter as it has faded, yes your right about Hughes, shame it had an unhappy ending.

[Apprentice to the Maestro]

Would love to see Murphy given the job til the end of the year - far more than Curbishley who managed in the 90's. Murphy is up there with Gary Neville when it comes to talking sense as a pundit so would love to see if he can translate that to management.

Curbishley has 16 years of management experience including a considerable period in the PL right through to 2008. Neville at least has some experience under Hodgson. Murphy has no experience.

[Stefano Okaka Chuka]

I'd have Tisdale over Seedorf any day of the week.

[Tonywa]

This is my first post in this endless thread of idle speculation and it'll be my last as well. Goodbye for now.

[Abbotsbury White]

Brendan Rogers has gone from 33/1 to 5/1 in the last couple of hours,I am aware it probably means little,but IF S.Khan is getting involved would it beyond belief that he has asked the question'who is the best available manager out there at the moment?'he gets the reply 'oh that would be Brendan Rogers,but he wont come because of .where we are,the set up etc etc.'Khan replies'I dont care give him what he wants,sell us to him as his project and go and get him'..now that would be nice.

[Barry White]

Brendan Rogers has gone from 33/1 to 5/1 in the last couple of hours,I am aware it probably means little,but IF S.Khan is getting involved would it beyond belief that he has asked the question'who is the best available manager out there at the moment?'he gets the reply 'oh that would be Brendan Rogers,but he wont come because of .where we are,the set up etc etc.'Khan replies'I dont care give him what he wants,sell us to him as his project and go and get him'..now that would be nice.

God bless you and your optimism Sir.

Mine has long since left the building sadly and can't even bring myself to hope that there is any truth to those odds.

[Andy S]

Mc Donald Never had an coaching badges yet he was a success here. There is too much emphasis on badges but it is heart that wins promotion. I would give him a try there is nothing to lose

[f321ffc]

Brendan Rogers has gone from 33/1 to 5/1 in the last couple of hours,I am aware it probably means little,but IF S.Khan is getting involved would it beyond belief that he has asked the question'who is the best available manager out there at the moment?'he gets the reply 'oh that would be Brendan Rogers,but he wont come because of .where we are,the set up etc etc.'Khan replies'I dont care give him what he wants,sell us to him as his project and go and get him'..now that would be nice.

Would be nice to think that was the case, but its prbably just his turn to earn the bookies some wonga.

[Ordar]

I would be amazed if we got Rodgers. That Newcastle job is probably quite tempting. Or his style would probably work well abroad.

[horse1031]

IF WE GOT BRENDAN RODGERS I WOULD BE ECSTATIC...  but  079.gif

[Neil D]

This is my first post in this endless thread of idle speculation and it'll be my last as well. Goodbye for now.

There's nothing idle about speculation.  It takes ages to come up with the nonsense we post on this thread.  And I can say what I like about you as well as you have taken a vow abstinence so cannot reply. So there!

[cmg]

In the position we were in, if someone like Murphy showed an interest in us, I think we should bite his hand off.

Just in from SkySportsfantasy: "Fulham's seemingly endless search to find a new manager stumbled over another block today, when, having agreed that former skipper Danny Murphy would immediately take over the reins, it was found that he could not sign the contract as somebody had bitten his hand off. 'Just as well', said an exasperated Mike Rigg, 'as he couldn't hold the reins, either.'"