On the way back home from a wedding that I can barely describe using words I was listening to the radiogram in the Roller and Cheatski fans in some number (well I heard 3) wanted to swap our Arry for Carlo Ancelotti.
This rendered me very close to speechless right up until of course the point where I began speaking again.
I am not an Arry out merchant. Yes – there is bundle of things wrong with him, but it did get me thinking. My perspective on, ‘so and so out!’ has always been the same: Cool – so who then?
Depressing isn’t the word. ODM uses the phrase, ‘careful what you wish for’ and this ain’t said lightly by him. He’s seen it. Let the shipwrecks of others indeed be your marker in the storm. Rafa out = Uncle Roy in. The unabridged litany of examples within our own walls give the Bindippers a genuine run for their money.
Ancelotti is an intelligent, thoughtful, top draw serial winner both as a player and as manager. His term at Chelsea has been plagued on all fronts. Injury, age and owner interference have dogged him this season at SecondHand Fridge.
If there is a chance of him being insanely dumped by Ibramovich then this is the next man for us. Sick of shoulder shrugging and twitching? Get a man with an eyebrow action that would shame Roger Moore in. Not a competent crisis manager, but a winner.
I’m serious.
yes please. But can’t see it happening
I find all the “Arry out” talk ludicrous but let’s look at it seriously.
Looking at our managers since Keith Burkinshaw we probably have only had three that ever threatened to do anything significant, Pleat, TV and Arry. Sure others won the odd League cup but when these three were at the helm we played good football and looked capable of doing big things. So for only six years in thirty have we actually had decent management, which tells you that we get the wrong guy more often than the right one.
Talking about Mourinho coming is similar to imagining Messi joining us. Both may be possible but both are highly unlikely. At Mourinho’s last three clubs he has been able to sign really big players who demand really big wages and we all know that is unlikely to happen at Tottenham. The very top managers are unlikely to join us and even if they did there is no guarantee that they will be successful at the lane.
I don’t want Arry to go but even if he does why are any of you so sure his replacement will be better ? Would you like Jol, Ramos or Santini back ? They were all appointed by Danny boy. Some years ago Newcastle got rid of Bobby Robson. They were something like fourth in the Prem at the time and have never been back there since. Surely the sensible way forward is to build on what we have achieved rather than change it all round again.
The fallout from a change in management is unpredictable. Whilst we may disagree on the manager we nearly all agree on the quality in the squad and a new man may not get on with the Bales and Modrics etc. If Arry were to join Chelsea wouldn’t he want to take one or two of our stars with him ? And Roman can afford to pay top dollar. Has anyone thought about that ?
That’s spot on (imo) ODM, and I’ll emphasise your point that ‘arry has relationships with these players and whilst we will not be able to pry Chavs loose to play for 30 grand a week less, they’ll take our top players by giving them the extra 30 grand a week and ‘;arry putting his arm around them.
What we want is to see our management team learn from its mistakes this year and grow and do better next term. Levy certainly knows how to do this and despite his rusty purse hinges, has proved he is prepared to spend if the business case is good.
I think there is a buisiness case to trim the squad and revise the wage structure to get players who can deliver especially up front. The lack of this can be seen as the loss of the 20-30 million in revenues the CL afforded us this year. If we want to get to the next rung, we need tro increase the overall infrastructure of the club, that has to include bigger wages for bigger players.
I think this is the next challenge, not breaking up the team that we already have many of the component parts for; changing managers will do that I feel.
if harry went to the bridge he could re sign joe cole.although he really only has eyes for the engerland job after us.
I’ve been loyal to Harry always but yesterday had that final straw feeling.The only problem is he’s going nowhere
looks like psb the gift that keeps on missing ,is making sure he leaves the spammers and becomes our new marquee strker next season :dizzy2: