blandmural
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Who do we want to replace Cooper when he leaves for Fulham Palace ?
Steve Cooper
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Yankee_Jack
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Cameron Toshack - in preference to any other cheap / unknown alternative.
Good question @blandmural and I agree with @Yankee_Jack. The owners won't fund an experienced 'name' so Cameron would be good.
Shhhh Yankee, don't frighten them of, I'm going to find a church in the morning, Pray for a couple of hours, leave a huge donation in the collection box, and hope there really is a god.
Behindthegoal
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Yankee_Jack
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De Boer is now available having resigned from the Netherlands position. Can we fire Andy Pandy and hire him?
Yankee_Jack
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On a more practical note .... isn't Andy Pandy's contract up at the end of this season. No renewal yet? No extension yet? This will tell us a lot
CroJack
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Cooper was interviewed at Palace so his intentions are clear. His number must be up now, it's just a question of when.
CroJack
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Don't they like his Power Point presentations?
Yankee_Jack
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He doesn't have the blarney of Rogers, nor the bravado of Monk. He looks like a fucking wooden puppet ... and delivers like it.
Yankee_Jack
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If he's not with us 100% is has to go.
Cooper now second favourite behind Chris Wilder for the Fulham job. Seems we might be stuck with him for a while longer. 
Yankee_Jack
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Swindon, Fulham, Spurs, Everton and Palace are all clubs without managers.
Andy Pandy is likely to be the cheap(er) option and although he may be second in line, all it it needs is for the first in line to get greedy or too demanding of his own role and oops Andy Pandy becomes the first choice.
It's not a sprint, it's a marathon. Slow and steady wins the race.
Andy Pandy is likely to be the cheap(er) option and although he may be second in line, all it it needs is for the first in line to get greedy or too demanding of his own role and oops Andy Pandy becomes the first choice.
It's not a sprint, it's a marathon. Slow and steady wins the race.
He won't take a lower club so that rules out Swindon. Nuno looks set for Spurs; Wilder for Fulham; Benitez for Everton and Vieira for Palace. Some team somewhere please sack your manager to give Cooper a chance. Mind you, Eddie Howe is availabe and Sean Dyche said to be unhappy at Burnley.
CroJack
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Cardiff?
Yankee_Jack
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Benitez at Everton - confirmed.
Don't Barry Town need a new manager.
Don't Barry Town need a new manager.
They wouldn't be interested! Frank de Boer anyone?
CroJack
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He's won everything with Ayax in Holland (who hasn't?), and had some success with Atlanta in the MLS, but other than that he hasn't had much success.They wouldn't be interested! Frank de Boer anyone?
Inter Milan
"Inter also struggled in the UEFA Europa League under De Boer, as they lost the opening match 0–2 at home against Israeli team Hapoel Be'er Sheva on 15 September, and 3–1 against Sparta Prague on 29 September. Inter would then go on to finish last in their group with a total of six points, with three points under De Boer and another three under his successor.
Following a run of four defeats in the last five Serie A matches, which left Inter in 12th place in Serie A, De Boer was sacked on 1 November, having been in charge for only 85 days."
Palace
"On 26 June 2017, De Boer was announced as the new manager of Premier League side Crystal Palace, replacing the recently resigned Sam Allardyce. He signed a three-year deal with the South London club, but was sacked 10 weeks later when Palace lost their first four league matches of the season without scoring a single goal – the first team in 93 years to have begun a top-flight season in such a fashion."
Netherlands
"On 23 September 2020, the KNVB announced that De Boer would be the new manager of the country's national football team, signing a contract until the end of 2022. On 11 November 2020, after a 1–1 draw with Spain, De Boer became the first ever Netherlands manager to fail to win any of his first four fixtures.
He managed the Netherlands at the UEFA Euro 2020, in which they lost 2–0 to Czech Republic in the round of 16. On 29 June, 2021, the KNVB announced that it had parted ways with De Boer. "
So, my answer is no. I just feel he wouldn't be the right man for the job. Also, he is out of our reach when it comes to wages. I still think Tosh and KOL would be the best choice.
If they were available then I would choose one of these:
1. Kasper Hjulmand, Danish national coach. Excellent manager. He has always played high pressing, passing and attacking football.
2. Nenad Bjelica, Croatian coach who has built the current Dinamo Zagreb side, but is managing now a small club Osijek from Croatia. Excellent manager.
3. Leonardo Jardim, Portuguese manager who managed Monaco between 2014-2018. It was him who promoted young and talented players like Mbappe, Fabinho, Thomas Lemar, Bernardo Silva, Bakayoko, Tielemans, Benjamin Mendy, Helger Costa, El Shaarawy, etc.
Unfortunatelly, he signed this month for Al Hilal in Saudi Arabia.
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