I think this should be a permanent thread with our club... Let's face it, Frank has been terrible. I didn't think we could look worse than we were under Ange, but the Dane has managed it. But if he gets sacked, who is going to come in at this point and operate under this ownership and recruitment team, which has no idea what it's doing? At this point, I would take a flyer on Amorim, at least he would play a back 3.
Looks like Frank is a dead man walking. We've read all about how the "new" owners started with a pool of 30 candidates, rated them all on 10 different attributes, then finally decided Frank was the man for the job. They must be wondering why the analytical crap they learned in business school isn't working in football.
The bookies are saying he is 4/11 to get the sack. Here are the favourites to replace him: Xabi Alonso - 3/1 Xavi - 3/1 Mauricio Pochettino - 4/1 Oliver Glasner - 4/1 Ruben Amorim - 6/1 Enzo Maresca - 8/1 Jurgen Klopp - 12/1 Roberto De Zerbi - 12/1 Marco Silva - 12/1
Things are going nicely for Unai Emery and I don't care that he managed Arsenal, I'd take him at Spurs any time at all.
I sort of like the idea of sticking with a manager and not reflexively firing them without giving them a chance, but are the board really going to let us get relegated?
I don't think this board has a clue when it comes to football. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: To finish 17th may be regarded as a misfortune; to get relegated the next season looks like carelessness. I mean, a club with our resources and facilities should not be anywhere near relegation. The state of the club football-wise is derelict of duty from our board and owners. The Lewis family didn't even know that Geoff Scott, our chief medical officer from 2004-2024, had left the club last season - and they liked him! If we don't change manager/sign quality players or both, we are going down. We have only won 3 of the last 16, that is relegation form.
The Levy Apologists are quick to forget that the vast majority of this squad was assembled by the dearly departed chairman.
Seeing as how Gallagher and Souza are the only players brought in since Levy's exit, it'd be a fairly thick f*ck who couldn't sort out that the rest came under Levy. It ain't exactly rocket science.