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Its a bit ironic that Nigel Adkins who Pochettino replaced at Southampton had also just secured consecutive promotions from League One to the Premiership before he was sacked in favour of Poch only for Southampton to improve massively under him.

Paul Lambert also did it at Norwich about 10 years ago. But at least we'll have Adkins or Lambert as backups if McKenna fails!

 
dermott said:
So were Burnley.
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Sounds like we probably shouldn’t replace all of Chelsea with all of Ipswich because all of Ipswich might not do well in Premier League.

Should limit our interest to just the manager who beat a number of significantly better resourced opponents.

 
dermott said:
Ipswich with one of the leakier defences in the Championship, shipping more goals than Bristol, Millwall and Sunderland. McKenna's M.O. is that he will outscore the oppo. You can get away with it in the Championship. We'll see.
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He should fit in well here then

 
Be interesting to see how McKenna gets the best out of Victor Osimhen and Alphonso Davies.

You heard it here first.

 
JM7 said:
Kieran McKenna has given #Chelsea the green light to step up their approach. He is keen on the job. Ipswich Town are thought to be able to command compensation north of £4M for McKenna.

[via @NickPurewal]
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How long before he's interested in Barca and Bayern too😂.

 
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dansubrosa said:
He got us on a winning run thanks to Enzo’s injury. He was forced to find a cover for him while keeping Gallagher as attacking midfielder, and that’s where Cucurella came in.

Now ask yourself, if Enzo didn’t get an injury would Poch change anything? I don’t think he would and we would have finished the season mid table.

I genuinely think next season will make a lot of people realise just how bad Poch was.
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Let's hope you're right, but first we need to get the right manager in which is no easy task. 

One of my biggest gripes with Pochettino this season was his constant shoehorning of Gallagher in the attacking 4. And I think we dropped many points because of it, especially in the silly games like Burnley and Sheffield where we needed that creativity. 

I do think Enzo's absence inadvertently helped Pochettino, that's one thing I have to agree on. I think Poch deserved another season but I had little confidence in him solving the Enzo and Caicedo problem. The next manager we get needs to be able to play our best 11 together. 

 
I have a sneaky feeling we are going to end up with RDZ. The link to McKenna & Marseca is a smokescreen to get Brighton to appoint a new manager.

 
Xavi will likely be leaving Barca very soon.

Probably another one to add to the list.

 
Night-T said:
Hoping for a German Manager. Hopefully a new cult hero like Klopp, Tuchel. 

Hoeneß would be my favo pick. 

As a Belgian guy, seeing how horrible his spell was at Anderlecht. I do not hope Kompany. 

He still needs time to get better. 

I don't watch the Championship, so I can't judge those managers, but when I saw the budget of Ipswich (which was ones of the lowest in the competition -15th.) and then the one from Leicester (PSG budget in the championship). Then Ipswich was pretty impressive and Leicester more to be expected. 
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From the names being quoted i think that Hoeness would probably be my first choice. It would help if he brought Guirassy with him as well

 
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dansubrosa said:
In my opinion it doesn’t take much to find an upgrade over Poch. I’m going to stick my neck out and say McKenna is an upgrade over him.
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Then Top 4 and Europa League trophy bare minimum. If McKenna is this alleged brilliant tactician, I expect nothing less. 

Fact of the matter is, whether we liked Poch or not we were on an upward trajectory next season. It was the less risk. We'd likely leap frog Spurs and Villa and there are massive question marks over Liverpool. He had the players backing and things finally started to look like they were coming together. 

I don't know anything about McKenna, but my expectations for next season haven't changed in the slightest. 

 
Sconnie Blue said:
Then Top 4 and Europa League trophy bare minimum. If McKenna is this alleged brilliant tactician, I expect nothing less. 

Fact of the matter is, whether we liked Poch or not we were on an upward trajectory next season. It was the less risk. We'd likely leap frog Spurs and Villa and there are massive question marks over Liverpool. He had the players backing and things finally started to look like they were coming together. 

I don't know anything about McKenna, but my expectations for next season haven't changed in the slightest. 
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I agree with what you're saying, but also have a feeling that once Enzo was fit then Poch would have reverted to Gallagher at 10 and our form would have slumped again. Assuming Gallagher wasn't sold of course.

 
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Gordon Bennett said:
I agree with what you're saying, but also have a feeling that once Enzo was fit then Poch would have reverted to Gallagher at 10 and our form would have slumped again. Assuming Gallagher wasn't sold of course.
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Who knows. Maybe you're right. Poch is a dinosaur tactics wise but his saving grace was that he finally figured it out. And this midfield overload concept was built on in preseason. God knows why he abandoned it but at least he came back to it. 

 
Sconnie Blue said:
Then Top 4 and Europa League trophy bare minimum. If McKenna is this alleged brilliant tactician, I expect nothing less. 

Fact of the matter is, whether we liked Poch or not we were on an upward trajectory next season. It was the less risk. We'd likely leap frog Spurs and Villa and there are massive question marks over Liverpool. He had the players backing and things finally started to look like they were coming together. 

I don't know anything about McKenna, but my expectations for next season haven't changed in the slightest. 
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Don't know about you but I can't wait for our top 4 and our cup win next season.

 
The race for McKenna is hotting up. The Twatterati claim Brighton are in pole position to get him but that he's also preferring Man Utd...! Lol, these c**ts are as clueless as the rest of us 😂

 
ducavis said:
I have a sneaky feeling we are going to end up with RDZ. The link to McKenna & Marseca is a smokescreen to get Brighton to appoint a new manager.
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It’s amazing that out all of the clubs who need a new manager aren’t talking to him…apparently. I think McKenna etc is all a smokescreen for RDZ. It makes complete sense and fits in with our Brighton obsession 

 
Half expecting Eghbali to set a new record for a compensation pay out for whoever we end up with ... he won't be abe to help himself if it ends up as a bidding war LOL

 
The next manager has to incorporate these aspects into his football ethos and philosophy this is what myself and my friends discussed over a flagon of real ale last night.  I'm aware '' soccer'' experts like @Sconnie Blue will poo poo these as unimaginative and perhaps slightly industrial for today's soccer.

We know this is exactly what the man and woman in the street talk about when discussing soccer so we've come up with this and even added bullet points not because of pomposity but we want to emphasise (spelt with an s not a zee) our football I'm sorry soccer knowledge and we didn't copy and paste this off Twitter (X). The final sentence is something that I used for my slacks (pants to our American friends ) at a recent stay at Premier Inn. 

• Deep build-up to draw the opposition • Goalkeeper acting as a third centre-back in possession • Rotations between striker and ten • Wide rotations • Narrow high press.

                                              Thank You The Reverend R. Sleeker.

 
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