New manager

Wasn’t Rodgers on 70k a week or some * don’t think wages etc will be an issue

 

There’s no way out of this for Lawwell and his pals and their way of doing things. They have to go. If they don’t the club is not worth supporting. They have to go and take their ways with them.

 

He's already turned down jobs from plenty of clubs bigger than us, that is totally untrue.

 

Yes, but that was because Desmond rated him and funded the expenses. No other manager could get anything close to 70K.

 

Clubs like Ajax. Ajax are bigger than us; but not so that we can't compete with them financially. Even at that, I think we'd be unlucky if many clubs as big as Ajax were looking for a manager right now and interested in Knutsen.

Another important point is that, unlike previously, it does look like he is ready to leave Bodo. I imagine Ajax might get a different answer if they wanted him now.

 

Forget about Knutsen mate, any upcoming manager does their due diligence on us, they run a mile..

Even if he was promised a mandate to change our structure, you couldn't trust our board to fulfill that promise.

 

I largely agree. I don't think we'll get him and I don't even know if we want him. I was merely arguing against putting him in the same basket as guys like Rose or Hayen. In the case of those last 2, we have zero chance no matter how much we offer them.

In the case of Knutsen, I think we'd have a chance. The guy clearly likes money to an unusual degree and that's one thing we do have. Money.

I think we would have a chance. A chance, not a likelihood.

 

The concern for me is continuing this cycle of short-term fixes with managers we know can keep us slightly ahead of Rangers but in all likelihood won't take us any further than that.

I'm tired of being stuck with the same rehashed ideas from recycled managers without a genuinely sustainable plan behind it. That's more an issue for me than the individual names.

If we went with Knutsen, I'd like to think it's because Knutsen had a guarantee that the club would operate in a certain way over the course of the next 5 years to help him achieve what's he's achieved at his incumbent club.

I can't pull names out a hat because I don't have time nowadays with two kids and a 50 hour work week to keep tabs on international football and know which managers are doing what, and I'm not gonna blag you by regurgitating opinions I've seen online. But I know Ange and what's he's capable of, likewise Rodgers, Lennon, MON, etc.

For me, Ange is a sideways step.

 

I bet you Rodgers didn't come back without verbal promises about our transfer approach. I remember he seemed really happy with the new way we did stuff. Of course, there was no new way: it was just Ange doing half the board's job for it.

Why would anyone believe our board?

 

I agree and based on history you wouldn't, but the fans are at breaking point now so it's either a complete U-turn in how they operate with fulfilled promises or continued pressure from the fans which will ultimately only end one way.

From the boards perspective they must know the writing is on the wall for them. How they respond is still up for grabs.