I watched Ajax play under de Boer and believe me, he got results but in a style of football that was very very boring. I believe he would be totally unsuitable for us, both for his philosophy (very much a Van Gaal way of thinking, no surprise considering their mutual history) and his lack of knowledge and feeling for the English game. Let's face it, in the PL we are one of the few teams that still plays in a style like the lower l
League's. Nothing to be ashamed of, on the contrary, I love it and it was one of the reasons I fell in love with the club in the first place. However you need to sense and feel what makes football fans tick. There is a reason the English game is so popular and tv money is what it is: attitude and forward thinking. If we all get continental people like LvG, the twXt Mourinho, and indeed Frank de Boer in we will cut the soul out of our top division. That is not to say there are "boring" managers that are British of course, we use to have one or 2 lately but they did keep us up so perhaps in the end someone with a totally different philosophy could do a job for us, I am not sure.

Agree.out of the coaches that we have been linked with last couple of days Dyche looks the weakest candidate.

Would be massively underwhelmed if we get Dyche.

I'll drink to that I'll even elucididicidate...perhaps not

Edited by eag-les (06 Jun 2017 1.28pm)

If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong

I really don't see why Dyche 'would be a disaster'. To me he looks like a 'safe' option. The others might be better (or they might not) but Dyche has shown he can keep a pretty limited team in the PL. He didn't do it playing bright, expansive football but then he didn't have that type of player available to him or the resources to go out and buy them. Not saying he'd be exciting but I doubt he's be a disaster.

Why is Roy Hodgson now Favourite on sky bet? I thought we were down to a final four.

has resisted writing a single post on the Ross McCormack thread !!!

It all depends on where idiots are putting their money, those idiots don't necessarily know their Arsene from their Zola. For example, yesterday one bookie was showing odds for Pellegrini of something like 20 / 1 presumably because some moron couldn't tell the difference between him and Pellegrino.

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