- Jun 18, 2006
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I’d love Poch to turn it round, I rally would, but I think that ship has sailed. He seems too drained, looks to have lost the players, lost the plot, and lost interest. Looks like a man going through the motions, despite saying he wants to stay.
Shootout now with Utd, who pulls the trigger first. I reckon Levy hopes Utd do, so he can get them to stump up a big payout for Poch, so he can then get Allegri. Think of the kudos on that for Levy. Rinse Utd for compensation, then get a manager for free who has just won Serie A five times back to back, including four league and cup doubles. I can’t see Levy paying Poch off, he’ll want compensation.
The potential snag here though, is Utd sack Ole first, don’t like the Poch price, and go straight for Allegri, leaving us looking at Mourinho or a lesser known ‘project’ manager. That said, I do wonder if ‘project’ is the way we’ll have to go. Given the amount of players we’ll likely have to replace, and looking at it, we’re likely going to have to replace the entire back four, plus a DM, AM and maybe even an extra forward, is Levy going to free up the sort of cash Allegri/Mourinho level managers will want to bring in replacements? Whereas any ‘project’ manager will likely be billed as tactically astute and with a record of developing players, and therefore cost Levy less in bringing lesser known players in, albeit our scouts would have to seriously up their game. Maybe a lesser known manager would be paired with a DoF to facilitate this.
Shootout now with Utd, who pulls the trigger first. I reckon Levy hopes Utd do, so he can get them to stump up a big payout for Poch, so he can then get Allegri. Think of the kudos on that for Levy. Rinse Utd for compensation, then get a manager for free who has just won Serie A five times back to back, including four league and cup doubles. I can’t see Levy paying Poch off, he’ll want compensation.
The potential snag here though, is Utd sack Ole first, don’t like the Poch price, and go straight for Allegri, leaving us looking at Mourinho or a lesser known ‘project’ manager. That said, I do wonder if ‘project’ is the way we’ll have to go. Given the amount of players we’ll likely have to replace, and looking at it, we’re likely going to have to replace the entire back four, plus a DM, AM and maybe even an extra forward, is Levy going to free up the sort of cash Allegri/Mourinho level managers will want to bring in replacements? Whereas any ‘project’ manager will likely be billed as tactically astute and with a record of developing players, and therefore cost Levy less in bringing lesser known players in, albeit our scouts would have to seriously up their game. Maybe a lesser known manager would be paired with a DoF to facilitate this.