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He's obviously not going to be that. Part of a squad at a top 6 club most likely.

Well, we got to 40 points under no risk of relegation so obviously he did get more than a "single performance" out of them. At the end of last season, Burnley shat the bed and went down, Everton and Leeds hardly had stellar ends to the season, Villa were ropey after Gerrards very early new-manager-bounce and stuttered to the end which they carried over into this season. So no idea what point you are trying to make.

We've got more money than them. Sheffield Wednesday are a big club, Derby and Blackburn won the league, Sunderland have a huge stadium etc etc etc but so what, we will have more resources and prestige than them next season. But we need to get back up before the parachute money goes because that will soon wear off.

He wasn’t sacked by Fulham, he walked out for more money at Bournemouth.

Donna Summer was probably the best mainstream female pop artist premadonna. After "Into The Groove" was released all that changed.

You've already said he was "appalling" and now "big flop" but the rest of us can see what he's done and he is clearly neither of those things. All in all a reasonable record. Fine if you don't want Viera but I think you are going to be hugely disappointed if those are your standards. We will be getting either someone who has failed somewhere else before or someone that hasn't achieved anything yet. So brace yourself.

Everton and Leicester are the most likely to suffer significant financial chaos if they go down, so them.

Viera did mastermind a team rebuild at Palace, in the Premier League. Huge amount of player churn that first season after Hodgson left. Took a new team to twelfth with plenty of plaudits. We recruited Koeman as a Premier League club, we're not that anymore, so a silly expectation. Anyway as a second tier club I think Viera is comparable to Koeman in standing/gravitas, especially when you think that Koeman's record before us was actually quite patchy (as it was after he left).

I don't particularly want Scott Parker but he wasn’t sacked by Fulham- he walked out on them to take the Bournemouth job/money.

Whoever we get is highly likely to be average.

I think that's a bit harsh. If anything Viera is actually a very "obvious" choice - big name, Ex player, Prem experience. It's not an "over thinking/being clever" choice, it's a no brainer/populist choice really. (It will, definitely be interpreted as "this season's Kompany", though, you're correct) Personally feels like a good choice and I'd be happy with it.

Bizarre - Nuno has delivered top 10 finishes in the Prem, Rowett has never finished higher than 6th in the Championship. Did well at Birmingham and Derby but absolutely stank the place out at (newly relegated) Stoke and Millwall fans don't even like him that much as his football is so dull. He is a good manager for a small-ish Championship clubs to grind out results and punch above weight but absolutely not what we need right now. Nuno feels unlikely but at least it is a Premier League standard manager with some genuine reputation, and delivered a promotion from the Championship.

Appalling seems a bit strong. The season of rebuilding Palace last year was pretty impressive, they lost a huge chunk of Hodgsons squad that first summer. Not sure who you think we can get that is not either a) unproven so hasn’t failed anywhere yet or b) has some failure/a sacking on their record

Would be happy with that appointment because Viera has the appropriate level of experience.

Ingolstadt were a Bundesliga team - Ralph got promoted and then he kept them there, he then got the RB job and Champions League football off that. Saints subsequently recruited a guy with loads of top flight experience. We didn't recruit a "lower league manager" and neither did RB Leipzig for that matter. Not sure I quite get the point. Is anyone really saying that we should not recruit anyone at all who has ever worked at a lower league club at any point in their own career?

Why have you picked 27 games? drumroll......pointless cherry picking!

That's a terrible example. The season before he came to us Hasenhuttl was managing a team in the Champions League and was finishing top six in the Bundesliga (finishing second in his first season). We got him as a top flight top level manager.

My PR people are currently finishing off the final draft of my really-sorry-and-thank-you Instagram message to you all (I've told those pricks four times to MAKE IT MORE HUMBLE fucks sake) Once that's done and up then I am Out. Of. Here.

It's the Sky last-day hype merchants I feel sorry for.

Brighton will never be in the bottom half of the table ever ever again. Well done them for mastering the Premier League 👏 👍 🙌 👍

"There's loads of money to be made in the Premier League" is not the red-hot business insight you think it is, lads. Every one already knows it. It's just this current regime who have delivered in one go our worst ever Premier League season in history. Ever. Let's not pretend this is some master plan only you understand.

It's almost he leaves this stuff on here as, well, clickbait. I definitely remember he did a load of stuff on here about how the club were told "money no object" last summer and we would get a front line striker (spoiler alert: we didn't).

99% certain, someone will correct me if I'm wrong, that Manji was on here saying all the Nathan Jones reports (about us appointing him) was all speculation made up by journalists and not true.

Keep going. You're absolutely smashing it on this thread 👏 🙌 👌

Honestly I don't even think you know what you're on about now.