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If Selles was that highly rated he'd have been appointed instead of Jones. He didn't exactly set the world alight when he took charge against Sheffield Wednesday. Not expecting anything at all from him, or the rest of the season.

They’ve fucked up on pretty much all fronts.

Except it wasn't everyone, was it?

Selles assisted by Thorup in a reverse of their Copenhagen days is my guess.

Shame. Was really coming round to the idea of Marsch and he seemed the best fit and best chance if we're serious about avoiding relegation. FFS Rasmus is going to take a lot of flak when we go down.

Yes, I suspect we're hoping that Potter is available in the summer or we can persuade either Tuchel or Poch to come here. Bit difficult to sell the club at the moment but come the summer it's a different kettle of fish and we'll probably have our pick of any of those three. The short term contract makes sense,

He’s ex saints and would jump at the chance. Only took the Chelsea job cos we hadn’t got rid of Ralph.

Mental innit? Everyone knows we should be waiting for when Potter gets sacked

Undoubtedly will although how many times have we played a high press this season? Hasn't really been that often and last Saturday was a bit of an exception. On the plus side we'll probably score more and I'm hoping that plus better defenders will be enough.

Anyone else think Nathan is going to end up as a PE teacher in Wales?

Works both ways - they'll have a pretty good idea of how he wants us to play. He'll obviously know a bit more about their players though so slight advantage to us I guess. I'm looking forward to two pressing teams going head to head for 60 mins and then having a nap.

I looked Thorup up yesterday and came across this: It's not that positive but I guess at least he would be back working with Selles. Doesn't look like happening anyway.

Without wanting to get into an argument - I wasn't moaning just pointing out that if you don't like Marsch then what would be your alternative? You were the one who took issue with it. If you don't have a better idea (and it sounds like you don't) then fine - go ahead pointing out what everyone else already knows. Oh and I made no mention of Jones whatsoever - strawman argument mate.

I'll be honest, I didn't read all your post cos it's too long but I'll reply as you quoted me. I want to know who people would appoint other than Marsch because otherwise it just sounds like you're moaning. I can accept Marsch isn't perfect and have said as much but IMO he's the best we could realistically get. By all means moan about it but if you don't have a better suggestion then it's a bit pointless. We can all do it but doesn't achieve much of anything.

As this is the Jesse Marsch thread I think it would be useful for anyone who wouldn't be happy appointing him to also say who they would give the job to. Marsch wouldn't be my pick in an ideal world but I prefer him over the other realistic candidates.

I wish him all the best. Even more so if he takes Moi and Yanny B to his new club.

Any appointment could be an unmitigated disaster. Whoever is appointed will be under massive pressure from the start and if they don't get results will get stick for being rubbish. Most of the potential (realistic) candidates have been sacked by clubs in similar positions. So really the only point out of all that is that he's American.

Why is he eating his T Shirt? Surely it can't be that long till snack time?

The lad who came on here when Orsic signed (think he supported Zagreb) praised his tireless work ethic so you'd like to think he'd be OK, and if you look at his goals most are scored by cutting in from the left so in theory he should fit into that OK. Edozie is the big loser in the formation - he's probably the closest we've got to a traditional winger. Think he's got enough about him to adapt though.

Good spot - assume Selles was his assistant at Copenhagen?

Mods, can we have a poll on whether Gallardo is Argentinian or Brazilian? We need to get this cleared up.

Gallardo isn't Brazillian. He's Argentinian HTH.

Yeah, there were definitely players who didn't like the system - Redmond was probably the stand out in that regard. Whatever we do is going to be a risk but I think this way represents a bit less risk and if we revert to more pressing then it probably gets the fans onside quicker than if we go for something a bit more root and branch. Getting the crowd behind whoever comes in is going to be crucial - I don't think there's currently a stand out candidate that unites everyone. Not overly keen on Gerrard mainly on the basis that he didn't do so well without Michael Beale but we're not going to get anyone who hasn't got flaws so I'd support him if he did get it.

Yeah, and virtually every winger cuts inside these days regardless of formation anyway. Seems to me that this season our problems are a combination of players getting hacked off with Ralph personally and a deviation from the 4-2-2-2 in an effort to shore up the defence. The tactical change hasn't worked but we've got better players in defence such as ABK and Caleta-Car and I wonder if reverting to 4-2-2-2 with a different voice and better players is all that's needed. Certainly wouldn't require a massive change from what most of the players are used to and are comfortable with. We'd still have issues with the defence but we might be a bit better and, crucially, we should be scoring goals. Tall Paul probably doesn't fit a pressing side but does offer something different and that might compensate for his lack of stamina.

Cheers. Don't think that's realistic TBH. He wanted to manage the U23s at Everton till the summer so probably unlikely he'd come to us.