'arry monk is plenty good fwiw

big sam is good

rayo manager is insane and he's good

favre is obv good but main players @ pool prob too stupid to understand positional awareness vis-a-vis ball/player/space and he's a bit of an aspy afaik

carlo is by far the best fit, he's a genius at letting players yolo and will secure backing via REPUTATION and is a MESSAGE OF INTENT

Big Sam to plop would be amazing.

Chelsea have actually played like a bottom 5 team for the first 1/5 of the season. Fourth place is open, but Rodgers wasn't getting it. So I think it's absolutely fine getting someone ASAP more likely to do so.

Just until the Madrid job becomes available...

So the Sun gives Rooney a 7/10 and Walcott a 6/10.

Rooney has one away goal in 18 months and yet every pundit, manager or journalist are giving him a pretty easy ride.

Its all a little confusing.

Big Sam to anfield would be beyond hilarious.

The Sun tho.

Englands greatest ever goal scorer tho

Just having a look at IKTS, didn't know if gave you little game week summaries!

Rogers highlights

Stop insulting the mighty Emile Heskey.

Mike Ashley has been putting on a motivational clinic. Perhaps he could try a similar approach at Newcastle?

So the only thing remaining to happen is that Klopp turns the job down which leads them going after Carlo who will tell them to do one as he wasn't first choice.

Carlo prob real first choice but not interested.

Yeah, I'm sure Carlo will find the opportunity to work with Liverpool's current squad absolutely irresistible.

klopp in would be the perfect storm of unrealistic expectation imo

its looking like the chief consequence of tbtvditw is that the middle and lower middle classes of the PL are going to be able to sign and retain B+ talent like cabeye, shaqiri, payet, ayew and so on, and its going to mean (already means) that far fewer games are of the 'turn up, make sure you dont get injured or red carded, win 3-0' variety that were pretty common when 2/3 of the league had to sell their best player every summer and all wiganesque teams were mandated by premier league rule 5.23.A to include at least one 35 year old fat bloke in the back 4 (ours was mario melchiot, and then later gary caldwell)

my point is that i doubt fans of the top teams have adjusted their expectation properly (btw make no mistake, casual poolfan still thinks they support a top team).

causal poolfan still fully expects to turn up at the likes of bournemouth and just batter the everlasting out them.

throw in klopp and his supposed magical tactics based powers, and it wont be long before the kop expects.

Did Chelsea really just release a statement giving Jose their support?

Good points baids, think it further mounts to what J.D was saying the other day in that this league is going to be super tough to win back to back and winning it will take so much out of a squad that their 'hunger' for it the next year will be evaporated.

I wouldn't mind Big Sam coming in for the rest of the season while Ancelotti has his surgery and recovers.

Ruh roh, in FM that's pretty much gg

'the great levelling' has been coming for a while, and hasnt just been caused by tbtvditw - although that is the number 1 factor. big clubs just don't have as big an advantage with tactical(!) and technical expertise and there exist now so many really really ****ing good players who've been in top academies since they were toddlers playing in the ****ing championship that it's just hard for anybody to have a massive edge.

basically just the logic of diminishing marginal returns.

It has to be Big Sam right?

Whut? We believe we have the right manager = jose is the man. Hes not getting sacked