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Because he also had a record of doing very well in premier league with that small team unlike Marsch.

A relegation rival sacked him a week ago for being so bad they thought he'd relegate them. He's also not got a particularly good CV which might make you look beyond that awful fact.

The point of a caretaker is to defer the decision to when decent candidates will be willing to come here rather than appointing trash now and regretting it later

I thought you were implying we could only get a failure like Marsch from your 'who do you expect us to get given our position statement' Selles is the most obvious caretaker till the end of the season.

If your statement is true(that only bad managers will take the job because we are seen to be relegated), read the room and put caretaker in charge and do a proper reset in the summer. I've already said if you are looking for pedigree Benitez stands out a mile (only failure was everton where he was despised from the off)

Ralph at least had 1 mid table finish & a vastly better record at Leipzig. What's marsch, struggle & even failed in 2 attempts to beat a saints team in freefall.

The guy has been sacked for being completely useless in the top flight, if that's what passes for proven in the top flight it is a meaningless phrase. And I do think we should be thinking ahead to where we are most likely to be playing next year not appointing the first idiot with zero substance willing to accept relegation.

Our long-term transfer strategy has been a joke, so the fact that he might have been a long time target at one point doesn’t instill the slightest flicker of confidence. Fear in a years time we’ll be sacking him for being a nice but poor manager and panicking again to try and get in play off position.

I believe I said appointing a young manager is another option. you haven’t said why you think doing the opposite of Burnley and appointing a bad candidate who will accept having relegation on his cv is preferable to doing a full summer appointment process.

Burnley put Jackson in charge and sorted the right candidate in the summer, in kompany. So gambling on a young fresh name can work, but not always . Middlesbrough had woodgate before who failed. I don’t see how that supports appointing a failure like Marsch now for championship(it more supports selles or Adkins caretaker route). If he’d at least done well in championship that might mitigate his poor managerial record in the Prem.

If staying up is such a small chance, don’t appoint a useless manager like Marsch permanently who has zero experience of that league and may very well lose you the chance at promotion. Appoint someone in the summer.

Saints have been in free fall for a year now. Curious is Jesse Marsch the only manager in the league who has been unable to beat saints in 2 attempts?

Fair enough, you are entitled to your opinion. personally I think they are all better than the nothing appointment of marsch, who doesn’t seem likely to have what it takes to keep us up and i’d Be very doubtful if he’d even be workable in championship.

Depends what the goal is bielsa, would likely be fantastic molding young players in the summer for championship run. if you are looking for a caretaker the likes of selles or even Adkins could keep things ticking over. if you are after making a play to stay up Benitez is probably the free agent that might actually have a clue to get this team organized.

Pathetic if true. Sports republic utterly clueless.

Bielsa turned Leeds from a team going nowhere to promotion and a top half finish. Burnley imploding kept them up. Marsch just happened to be there. He hardly marched them up the table.

After listening to that i’m Half convinced saints are a horse trainers. All that garbage about the Red Bull stable.

Because bielsa is a maverick genius, whilst marsch is a useless bag of hot air

Damn says coach not physio, dampens Adkins mania

So wilder a guy who finished massively higher than marsch in Prem and has experience of getting promoted is a joke name, but relegation zone marsch is not. Hmm

In what way would he bit a good fit for championship. I think he’d likely be even more of a disaster in that setting.

Was hoping for either a short-term unity candidate(which he ain't) or someone with eye to getting a quick return from championship (which he looks as massive a gamble as Jones was in the prem). There's high possibility of us just becoming more of a laughing stock, the club that not only went through 3 managers but actually appointed someone another club got rid of because he was relegating them.

I'm genuinely curious if Marsch fans would love him so much if he came from Rhyl in Wales rather than Racine in Wisconsin. To me there's nothing good about him. He took over a struggling leeds side and kept them struggling(fortunately there were 3 worse sides), This season he kept them struggling and was finally sacked because they were sure he was going to relegate them. He's the worst non saints manager at St Marys i can think of this season when he sat on his hands tactically as they threw away 2 points. His record at Leipzig wasn't even good. He won at Salsburg(well let's say that's not hard, they won every title since 06/07 haven't they?

So what you think they are only capable of appointing muppets like marsch and jones.

Marsch would be a complete joke of an appointment.