Who should be the new manager?

[Sutton_blows_goats 6,330]

4 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

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.)

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..

[JohnMc 3,230]

1 hour ago, buster. said:

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.

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. 

[Rousseau 11,973]

33 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

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..

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. 

[compo 8,049]

I’d rather we employed Muscat rather than Gerrard 

[Devil's advocaat 1,898]

I'd rather we didn't refer to a fitba club as an ecosystem, but here we are.

[Gonzo79 15,386]

8 minutes ago, Devil's advocaat said:

I'd rather we didn't refer to a fitba club as an ecosystem, but here we are.

These trendy kids nowadays, they don't half talk pish.  

[Rousseau 11,973]

31 minutes ago, Devil's advocaat said:

I'd rather we didn't refer to a fitba club as an ecosystem, but here we are.

I didn't...

[Gonzo79 15,386]

12 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

I didn't...

Yes, you meant the group of clubs sitting under the Red Bull banner.  However, the term 'ecosystem' is still just as deplorable in that context.  

[compo 8,049]

Nothing ever seems to run smoothly at Ibrox these day's you would have thought they would have a list of candidates who could do the job contacted them ask if they would like the job interview them then pick the one who comes  across the best instead it turns into a pantomime    and when it's all done we will probably end up choosing the wrong man .

[Gonzo79 15,386]

Just now, compo said:

instead it turns into a pantomime

It's only a pantomime if you get too absorbed in the clickbait press articles and social media.  In reality, the club will be doing exactly what you said.