2024-2025 sack race

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2 hours ago, Dan said:

I've no sympathy for Martin. Massively put himself above his club and players attempting to emulate the nonsense Kompany situation. Put his own reputation above results and would frequently dig players out publicly for it. He's a clown. I've no time for him.

It worked for Kompany though haha managing Bayern now.

2 hours ago, Dan said:

Potter won't take it as it's clear he's waiting for Barcelona 2012 or something to come up.

I think Potter has just been enjoying the time off while Chelsea still pay him handsomely.

I'm not expecting it but I don't think it's impossible we could convince Potter to take the job in the summer. The new owners seem like they want to give the Director of Football Kevin Thelwell a chance to stay on and prove himself in conditions that don't require him to sell our best players every summer and replace them with loans and free transfers. He's put up with Dyche by all accounts but his preferred way of playing is supposedly with three at the back like Potter. We've only got 12 players under contract beyond this season as well which sounds terrible but actually with the financial situation improving markedly heading into next season offers a pretty much clean slate for a manager and director of football to make sweeping changes to the squad together. Everton are still a big club as well which still plays a small part. It's not impossible that after the mess of this season is out of the way, and if the new owners manage to put some credible and serious people on the board and in other key positions, then some half decent managers might actually look at us as a decent opportunity to prove themselves rather than a basket case club where careers go to die.

[Stan]

3 minutes ago, RandoEFC said:

We've only got 12 players under contract beyond this season as well which sounds terrible but actually with the financial situation improving markedly heading into next season offers a pretty much clean slate for a manager and director of football to make sweeping changes to the squad together. Everton are still a big club as well which still plays a small part. It's not impossible that after the mess of this season is out of the way, and if the new owners manage to put some credible and serious people on the board and in other key positions, then some half decent managers might actually look at us as a decent opportunity to prove themselves rather than a basket case club where careers go to die.

depends which division you're in

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10 minutes ago, Stan said:

depends which division you're in

It does but I'm not too worried on that front at the moment. Wolves have surprised me and really changed the picture down there. I was expecting them to do what Palace have started to do but now I'd back us as 60-70% likely to finish ahead of each of Wolves, Leicester and Ipswich and we can afford to slip behind one of them. About a month ago I thought it was Southampton + 2 of Everton, Ipswich and Leicester.

I always keep an eye on the relegation odds as well. We were at about 6/4 (40% chance) a little while ago and now we're at 7/2 (22% chance). Odds aren't everything but you comfort yourself with what you can .

[Whiskey]

Wolves will probably go because their owners just seem to be more interested in turning a profit than actually progressing as a club. Southampton will go just because of how far behind they already are, they could put together a run with a new coach but they'd need to do that and then some at this point. 

Leicester are poor, but RVN is a complete unknown so could either guide them out of it or clusterfuck them into 18th. Ipswich are the best managed out of the teams I've mentioned so far but they'll be like Luton IMO and go due to not having a good enough/experienced enough squad. Whilst I don't think they'll go, Palace are low-key shite too. 

Everton won't go, as we're Everton.

[Dave]

I wouldn't say Palace are low-key shite. One loss in nine now and that loss was the only game we deserved to lose. 

Were just as likely to take points off the top four as we are to drop points against the bottom four. We're well organised but need more creativity in the final third. The games we should have drawn at the start of the season were beginning to draw now. We're in a good place to push on after the Bournemouth game.

Like last season, we will probably recruit well in January, end strongly, and ask 'what if we just sorted our business out in the summer?'. Which is what we will probably ask in 18 months too.