Howay

My worry here is that it’s more leaking and an attempt to save face. If it is that they seriously need to pack in leaking what’s going on.

Likely due to convincing him to come and manage in the SPL, I don’t foresee it being a similar issue trying to attract him to a PL side. I could be wrong but I don’t know why else he’d have took so long faffing about over the offer from Celtic.

I’d heard from somewhere it was in his deal that if he got sacked within 6 months he’d get no pay off. That could have been why they moved so quick after appointing him rather than giving him a chance. He’d be a better option than Howe imo.

If they’re so desperate wtf is taking so long? We need a manager appointed this week as they absolutely need the international break with the squad.

I do agree, my worry is I don’t see Howe as the bloke to keep us up. If they’d have come in and appointed him within a week when we had played 6 or so games that would have been one thing, but appointing him after scrambling around for a month with 10 games played makes things a lot harder. I wouldn’t be as worried if Howe was a manager that was known for grinding results and making a hard to beat side, like a Dyche maybe, but he’s not that type of manager. Obviously if he comes in I’d support the bloke and root for him to prove me completely wrong, but I’m not positive about the rumour.

Spot on. The other point for me with Howe is he’s an unknown for me, Emery has history turning teams around in contrast we have no clue if Howe is capable of that. He did well at Bournemouth but it’s a club that built around him over years, and when he tried somewhere else he failed before going right back to Bournemouth. Coming into the PL with a club you’ve been building through the leagues for a few years is a stark contrast to taking over a struggling side mid season, add in that I don’t rate the bloke very highly in general he spent a decent amount of money with Bournemouth and they never kicked on. Howe was a good option when we had Ashley, I really don’t see him as a good option now.

If we end up with Eddie Howe that’s tragic tbh Not just because I think he’s a fairly shit manager, but also because he could have been appointed day 1 and it’ll have took them a month to end up with him.

I agree with others that they really need a footballing structure in place ASAP. It’s taken far to long to bring a manager in, and the approach has seemed a bit haphazard especially if this week was the first time contacting Emery. If the options here are Emery or Howe that’s also fucking weird, it could of course be the media just making shit up but that’s a hell of a difference in terms of stature and quality. If we get Howe I’m doubtful we’d stay up tbh, the bloke was a disaster at Burnley and has only ever achieved some level of success with one club. Fwiw it does seem a bit like posturing from either the Villarreal chairman (to try and hang on to Emery) or Emerys agent (contract negotiations starting), as it just seems a weird turnaround for Emery to have discussed with the chairman, then went out of his way to not deny it to the press, only to then hours later supposedly leak to only Balague that he’s not interested.

Hopefully he’s wrong, I’m not sure of the guys track record but I do know his nose seemed to be put out of joint a bit with our takeover so possibly he has some ill will there, but again maybe he’s right. Would be a pretty quick turnaround from the Emery quotes following the game which imo read like him giving his boss the heads up that if a contract came in he would likely sign. Would be a shame as for me this bloke is the best we’ve been linked with besides Conte. I’ll be pretty gutted if we end up with someone like Howe.

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/next-manager.1563726/ New manager time for the mackems it seems, as they turn their back on yet another one. They of course have very realistic and not totally fucking absurd suggestions for a team that’s been in League One for 4 seasons

The mackems will have 100 pages raging about this by tomorrow

Aye a lot of the talk on Twitter was that he’s more a Mike Ashley type than what many of the media outlets were suggesting.

Itll be nice hearing “good ebening” to start a presser instead of a hungover grunt of a bloke struggling to sit down.

I’d be really happy with Emery. He’s a very successful coach looking at his record, and honestly he did well at Arsenal especially when you look at what they’ve been like since he left. I’d be confident he’d steer us well clear of the drop.

Having to have homegrown players for squad registration is “boring accountancy stuff” apparently . Loads of these accounts are gutted we’ve been bought as they’ve not got a fucking clue what any of our players are like, they all fairly consistently act like Lascelles is our best CB.

Conte going to Spurs seems a recipe for disaster, fairly sure he’s left his last two roles over thinking he wasn’t getting enough backing in the transfer market…

The “mosque” they’re so riled up about is actually Spanish City in Whitley

Matt Ritchie getting dragged inside as per usual.

Other results are rough for us today as well.

Just have to hope Chelsea keep spooning their chances really. We are pinned back so fucking deep, our CMs are painful to watch it’s just like water through a sieve.

I can’t wrap my head around starting Krafth when we have Fabian Schar available. We need a new manager in sharpish.

He should shut the fuck up about us. One of the worst pundits out there, which is impressive tbf. I didn’t read the article as the Ronny gill website makes my phone implode, and his comments are a load of rubbish. He’s going to be one of the most bitter out there about all this mind, if we get to the Man City type level as he won’t be able to carry on with his “Villa are a bigger club” shite.

What the fuck do they want him to write about it? They’ve beaten QPR, Wigan and Blackpool to get to a Carabao cup QF, it’s not exactly a massive story is it? I suppose it’s just another thing for them to be indignant about, as I said they best get used to us getting all the coverage again as we all know that’s what’s coming.