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i wonder what David Batty is doing these days.....
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i wonder what David Batty is doing these days.....
Whitley Bayster
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The more I think about the manager's position and all the various candidates the more I like the sound of Sami. Top player, has a reasonable managerial CV and from what I've seen his Leverkusen team played attractive attacking football. I suspect he'll toughen up the team and he'll clearly won't take any crap (his physical presence alone is enough to put anyone off). He still has plenty to prove as a manager so he'll be motivated. There's a good feeling about him and not much to be negative about. I hope it happens
Er, no. If it takes a foreign manager 6 months to adjust and we don't get promoted next season, that's fine. They have a year in the championship, and 3 transfer windows before the push the following season. Burnley, Hull and Palace didn't do it by giving 110% for a British manager.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
MENTAL STRENGTH , we need people who are NOT going to HIDE when it's TIME to go over the TOP
Tell that to the mugs who cheered as they waved Barnes on his way.
Frederic Hantz now also front running - who!!
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Gullflyinghigh
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- Apr 23, 2012
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What does 'knows the Championship' even mean?
It pops up on almost every managerial appointment thread as a quality that some believe is essential in our next manager but no-one seems able to quantify what it actually means.
The Championship is just like any other league, there's no special quality required to get promoted out if it other than the time-honoured 'beat everyone else' approach.
Admittedly, there are a lot of tough teams involved in the division, but managing within the Championship previously is unlikely to give you any extra insight that you wouldn't get through thorough research (which we can probably assume most clubs/managers now do as a matter of course).
What I'm trying to say is that a decent manager will be a success regardless of the league you put them in, football doesn't need to be any more complicated than beating the team that's in front of you on any given Saturday.
Also, I'd be happy with Hyypia.
It pops up on almost every managerial appointment thread as a quality that some believe is essential in our next manager but no-one seems able to quantify what it actually means.
The Championship is just like any other league, there's no special quality required to get promoted out if it other than the time-honoured 'beat everyone else' approach.
Admittedly, there are a lot of tough teams involved in the division, but managing within the Championship previously is unlikely to give you any extra insight that you wouldn't get through thorough research (which we can probably assume most clubs/managers now do as a matter of course).
What I'm trying to say is that a decent manager will be a success regardless of the league you put them in, football doesn't need to be any more complicated than beating the team that's in front of you on any given Saturday.
Also, I'd be happy with Hyypia.
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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I don't understand all this "foreign manager takes 6 months to adjust" rubbish. The likes of Hyypia lived here for years, he played most of his football in this country, he knows and understands how football works here. Besides, Burke is the one paid to keep his eyes open for decent signings in the domestic market - a foreign manager will have contacts in other countries that UK homegrown managers won't have.
I posted this on another thread but it's worth sticking it here too. "Knows the championship" is a nonsense requirement. For us to get a manager who "knows the Championship" we would either have to prize Dyche away from Burnley or Pearson from Leicester in their moments of triumph or poach another manager from one of the teams in with us who would have done no better than we did last season.
If you start talking about managers who managed in the division a couple of seasons ago their experience becomes less and less relevant.
It's a bullshit requirement, a lazy phrase for people who read tabloids and think Alan Hansen is a genius.
I'd like Hyypia too btw.
Albion 4ever
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- Feb 26, 2009
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And if you appoint a manager 'who knows the Championship' and gets you promoted, of course you will have to sack him for someone 'who knows the Premier League!'
TheJasperCo
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So is all this talk just a load of Hyype?
glasfryn
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Machiavelli
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Knows the Championship. Piffle.
Sergei's Celebration
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He's the one that looks like he'll fix your washing machine while his mate has a look for the jewels.
HantsSeagull
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He's the one that looks like he'll fix your washing machine while his mate has a look for the jewels.
seems a better bet to me than Hyypia
Ernest
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Will cost a lot more to replace him than giving him a new contract
Ecosse Exile
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I think the new manager will have a history of working with youth teams as well as being a manager or part of a management team.
We have known for a long time that Bloom feels building a team from a successful academy is the way forward, after all he has just spent close to £30m to improve our training facilities and create an academy.
I'm not saying this rules Sami Hyypia out, but it may be that we will only look to the likes of him if we cannot appoint the right candidate with the aforementioned credentials.
Oscar Garcia had these qualities, he left us, he wasn't sacked. Paul Clement has these qualities, but apparently wants to stay with Madrid for now. I think we may be looking more along the lines of Steve Clarke or Glenn Hoddle, Clarke is favourite for the Celtic job and is a Scot, so that may very well appeal to him. Hoddle has youth coaching academies all over Europe, I believe, which could be mutually beneficial to both parties. If neither of these wish to become manager of Brighton then yes, maybe someone like Sami Hyypia will get the job but I don't think he will be 1st choice.
We have known for a long time that Bloom feels building a team from a successful academy is the way forward, after all he has just spent close to £30m to improve our training facilities and create an academy.
I'm not saying this rules Sami Hyypia out, but it may be that we will only look to the likes of him if we cannot appoint the right candidate with the aforementioned credentials.
Oscar Garcia had these qualities, he left us, he wasn't sacked. Paul Clement has these qualities, but apparently wants to stay with Madrid for now. I think we may be looking more along the lines of Steve Clarke or Glenn Hoddle, Clarke is favourite for the Celtic job and is a Scot, so that may very well appeal to him. Hoddle has youth coaching academies all over Europe, I believe, which could be mutually beneficial to both parties. If neither of these wish to become manager of Brighton then yes, maybe someone like Sami Hyypia will get the job but I don't think he will be 1st choice.
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Sheebo
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- Jul 13, 2003
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Nathan Jones fits that description perfectly!
blockhseagull
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Whist I agree with some of this I feel the appointment needs to be a bit more short term that that.
Yes the academy is up and running as of next month but we haven't suddenly got an influx of quality youth players just because it's opened. It will take a few years to get the pool of talent required to have a number knocking on the first team door. I think success on the pitch will outweigh the need for them to have great academy involvement at this stage.