Next permanent manager | Poll updated

Who should be the next permanent manager?

  • Luis Enrique

    Votes: 113 7.4%
  • Erik ten Hag

    Votes: 1,300 84.7%
  • Julen Lopetegui

    Votes: 10 0.7%
  • Mauricio Pochettino

    Votes: 79 5.1%
  • None of the above

    Votes: 32 2.1%

  • Total voters
    1,534
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croadyman

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I've seen Valverde mentioned a few times - has 20 years experience in management as is currently without a club, so can be appointed immediately without compensation. See also Lucien Favre and Rudi Garcia.
Yeah this would be very interesting and more exciting than an ex Utd player doing it
 

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What? Not even the 'It's an honour when you are linked with a club like that but...' trope?
 

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What? Not even the 'It's an honour when you are linked with a club like that but...' trope?
That would be too obvious. Not denying anything, but dismissing it as irrelevant at the moment is the safest route to go.
 

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Eric ten Hag are from my point of view the most exiting prospect of all our candidates but there are a few question marks around choosing a manager from Ajax.

1. Ajax is extremely well organized from top to bottom. They have very competent and familiar faces all the way from their CEO Edwin Van der Sar down to coaches on academy level. They have a crystal clear philosophy, a well oiled system how to develop their youngsters and recruit new player to their first team. This means that the manager and coaches on all levels can spend all their energy on developing talent and integrate them to the Ajax philosophy.

Working in such a professional environment make it more difficult to judge both player and managers real talent or ability

2. The Dutch supporters can be very demanding but this is nothing compared to the British media and the attention a United manager is getting when things go south.

ETH seems to be level headed guy but managing United is a completely different animal. I’m not saying it’s the most important criteria but it’s something that has to be part of the judgement when we decide who to hire.
Yep. Ajax don't have luxury brand money. As a football club, they actually have to be good at football. So strange that it doesn't feel like that for us. Counterintuitive, but modern times I guess.
 

Hansi Fick

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To be fair, Mainz is a bit of a circus isnt it? And he only got 6 month.
His work in Nordsjælland was great.
Mainz wasn't a circus, but a pretty well run club; however I think he got dealt a very tough hand following on Tuchel who had followed Klopp, and their strong DoF Heidel had also kind of peaked and was on his way out soon after.
It's telling though that Heidel did consider him a fitting successor to the both of them, and I'm curious what he could do at a club like Arsenal.
 

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Agree with what others have said, Ajax is a well structured club with a concrete framework that works well in Holland, they live within their means, they know their limits today but are happy to stretch the possibilities tomorrow - the same can be said for Utrecht. Given the framework in place, it's an excellent club to manage I imagine - I still believe coming to United would ruin Ten Hag's mystic enigma, I'd be interested in his next move, but it won't be to Old Trafford.
 

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I do find the sheer amount of people clamouring for Ten Hag slightly odd. I'm sure if you'd have asked this question at the start of the year you'd have some very different responses.

Honestly, how many people who want Ten Hag in have actually watched a lot of Ajax, or know much about their system?
 

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Hard to look past Carrick imo.
Honestly, I know it's a joke but quite frankly i hope people don't honestly push for it because this board will listen, you know they will, and we'll be up shit creek
 

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I do find the sheer amount of people clamouring for Ten Hag slightly odd. I'm sure if you'd have asked this question at the start of the year you'd have some very different responses.

Honestly, how many people who want Ten Hag in have actually watched a lot of Ajax, or know much about their system?
About 5 percent. You’d think he manages Madrid or something. He manages the best resourced team in an easy league.
 
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