Next Manager The Runners & Riders

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Why don’t we ever sight our sights higher than managers who are just out of work?

Why not pony up to try to get someone out of their contract? Surely it would be cheaper than some of the signings we make who don’t play or go out on loan.

Wish we’d gone for Glasner or Silva. Might have been hard, but they’d have been worth a shot.

Iriola would have been my pick - it would have been tough before, but now they’re 5th and we’re 5th bottom. So we might have fancied him, but he’s out of our grasp.

Hope Ange gets a win on Thursday. I’ve heard everyone is on board with him - but we can’t win.

Feels like when McLeish came in and we all knew it wouldn’t last. I just fear who could be next at this rate.

So we shouldn’t have appointed Steve and then Nuno then?

Didn’t say that though did I?

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Who were they working for when we got them?

Steve worked - we were bottom of the championship when we got him. 

Nuno worked - we were looking like being relegated when he took over with a points deduction imminent. 

But before Steve Cooper went, we were after unemployed Benitez. Then later when Cooper did go, we got Nuno - who was available. He was brilliant for us, but he was free to get. 

When we knew Nuno was off, we knew we’d get Ange. Pretty sure he was available too. 

Rob Dorsett said we liked Silva, Glasner and Iriola, but we all knew we’d never get any of them and we’d get Ange. 

But this time we weren’t bottom of the championship, or bottom 3 of the prem facing a points deduction, we were in our best place in 30 years. About to play in Europe with what looked like a great squad. A position of strength we might not get again for a while if this goes wrong. 

All I asked was, why we never seem to go for managers who have jobs but might be a better fit. 

It’s a genuine question. It might not be possible. I just wondered why we always get managers who don’t have jobs.

Sorry - you asked a question so thought you might expect an answer. All I meant was that some out of contract managers work, for whatever reason. And sure, some don’t. 

But thinking we can go out and get highly rated managers currently contracted to other clubs is a little unrealistic in my opinion. At the same time, who says we haven’t sounded out these people and got tuned down? We know nothing about what goes on behind the scenes.