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I’d rather we employed Muscat rather than Gerrard

I think you have a valid point, as it is a very specific in-house style. I would suggest Hutter and Schmidt are good in their own right. Rose has done well at a couple of sides outside the RB ecosystem (A German Club and Dortmund), so I would suggest he's good in his own right also. I'm a fan of Jaissle, but while he is doing well in Saudi, it's only Saudi and that's his only experience outside the RB ecosystem. Marsch, in contrast hasn't done great outside the ecosystem - and even struggled within it at Leipzig. I think he's doing OK at Canada NT but I don't know how much we can read into that. Salzburg has done poorly recently. Struber has loose links to the ecosystem, but wasn't great. And most recently Lijnders (Klopp's assistant) failed spectacularly.

She never came the first time, he would drive straight down the road after games to see them. Pretty sure his eldest daughter lives in Dubai where she is shacked up with the son of one of the Kinahan cartel bosses, and is pregnant to him. Not ideal baggage that.

If Mrs Gerrard has to be persuaded to come to Scotland in the first place she will never settle and he’ll be off again at the next glamorous opportunity such as Barnsley.

Yeah, which is why I'm surprised he's the favourite. I can't see him coming in for a 3 year project, I don't think the fans will give him the time he got before and I don't think he'd come if he wasn't being guaranteed a side that could challenge for the title in year 1. Now, some would argue the current side, properly managed, could compete for the title, but I suspect Gerrard will want a number of players in first.

I have a little fear with some of these RB Salzburg guys that did well there, went on elsewhere and couldn't replicate the same quality outcomes. Perhaps the issue is that the RB Salzburg model is the value add and difference maker, and not the coaches. Who just happened to be a good fit for that club at the time. Jesse March, Matthias Jaissle(spelling). Roger Schmidt, Adi Hutter. Are they good enough in their own right or did they just 'fit in' with the RB Salzburg model which led them to success, then rinse and repeat this elsewhere. Without replicating the success. If only we could replicate that successful club model..

OP updated, not much on the player front. Manager-wise ... Martin looks Leicester-bound Relegated Leicester City are in advanced talks to appoint former Southampton head coach and ex-Rangers and Scotland defender Russell Martin as their new manager after deciding to sack Ruud van Nistelrooy. (Football Insider) Steven Gerrard is set to hold talks with Rangers over the next 48 hours with a view to returning to Ibrox as the club's next manager and the 44-year-old Englishman will not face any tax complications, previously thought to be a possible stumbling block, following his exit from Saudi Arabia in January. (Daily Mail) Steven Gerrard has asked Rangers for more time to talk over his return to Glasgow as manager with his wife, Alex, who had hoped they could move from Bahrain to Dubai, but is thought likely to bring former Ibrox midfielder Steven Davis and ex-Anfield team-mate Jordan Henderson with him should he take the job. (Daily Record) Betting has been suspended on Steven Gerrard being named the new Rangers manager, with former Liverpool team-mate Djibril Cisse saying the Englishman is unable to attend his anniversary match next week "for professional reasons". (Glasgow Times)

Russell Martin has become my preferred candidate. (I suspect Marco Rose is a little out of our league still, but I would obviously prefer him.)

@Rousseau has published, privately, a monograph on this very subject. Perhaps, if you ask him kindly......

An intelligent man, who has been learning and developing his coaching skills since he was a teenager, and has since built up a good body of work at various clubs, implementing a progressive, possession-based style that dominates games even with little financial backing while showing an ability to develop players. His burd is fit.

I fully believe that no one has much of a clue of names. Our new owners are keeping the names under wraps, and the usual ITK folk aren't ITK any more. I reckon we'll have an unveiling at the same time as the new owners announce the takeover.

We have little idea of who's on the shortlist. Our lists are largely generated by the bookies.

Just dont get the fascination of Russell Martin.

If we never had a back row full of terrible defenders Dessers would have been a hero this season , McCoist used to miss sitters like him every game but always had a solid backline that never threw goals away every week.

I wish to know why Marco Rose has dropped out of the running. Did he rule himself out? I thought the owners wanted a Red Bull connection.

Cannot believe the amount of fans that think bringing back Gerrard is a good idea , it is utter madness.

Yes, but I doubt that is the way the new owners will want to go. It would continue down the unsustainable road that even if it were to win a title, it wouldn't be able to build on it. What's more, we have already seen it happen and with Gerrard in charge. The 49ers aren't of the sugar daddy model. Neither do the new regulations permit it.

It's not really 49% though. A chunk of that will have no say. There's the Easdales, C1872, the shares that have been banned, the punters etc. But yes, effectively the 51% will control the board and have their say on virtually everything. Some existinng board members may hang onto their seats short term as part of the sale agreement, but their influence will be minimised. I get what you're saying about Gerrard though. I guess he's a big name for the new guys and we're of relatively limited attraction for other big names. We're not going to get a Nuno Espírito Santo, if he were to become available, for example.

Keep repeating them by the looks of it.

It's obvious the new owners will have the final say in who the new manager is, if the takeover is definitely happening.

Let's do it great suggestion! 51’ers it is. I'm hoping for a truly 100% collaboration effort by all board members! Yet as things stand we just don't know who is pulling the strings, will the “51’ers” be taking advice from the experienced 49% club or will they be stamping their mark with good intentions? Time will tell and I can't wait for next few days/weeks to find out who we have as a manager 😂 I’m sure you can clearly see my brain isn't fully wired and I’m jumping to all sorts of scenarios /conclusions.

I never said we should keep him. I'm basing my opinion on the fact that when he got injured, it was reported that he was being sent back to Rotterdam, we were done with him as a loan player. Yet he ended up back, playing with the youths in their cup final, before being involved in the final squads. It would appear we have something in place with him.

The suggestion is Stewart and Steinsson. I guess the logic being that each represents and reports to current board / AC&49VC Tha band is getting together ACVC 😂😂😂 Andrew Cavenagh & 49ers Venture Capitalists.