In fairness to Dyche, Burnley have a far smaller budget - their starters are more equivalent to bench players for us. He's forced to play that style, it'd be madness to do anything else. If Dyche got as much out of our players at our budget as he does out of Burnley's at theirs, we'd be far higher up the league.

Burnley salaries: [Link]

My personal top three are probably Dyche, Cooper & T.Frank. Whoever wins the final won't leave. All have shown consistency in results without flashing the cash. Dyche pips it for having the Prem experience.

Lampard doesn't convince me, he has no relevant experience. Parker may have been further up the list if Fulham hadn't fallen away quite so hard. I feel uncomfortable about Howe and can't put my finger on why - potentially him turning us down before, potentially how bad they've been in the transfer market.

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The only clubs (out of the 30 promotions) in the last ten seasons to have spent more than 2 consecutive seasons in the PL are:
1. Bournemouth (now in the Championship)
2. Brighton
3. Burnley
4. Crystal Palace
5. Leicester City
6. Newcastle Utd
7. Southampton
8. Watford (got relegated but back again)
9. West Ham
10. Wolves

In other words, newly promoted clubs usually go down again within 2 seasons of promotion. Cooper may have decided (or may decide) that his future is better with a team going into its 9th consecutive PL season with an existing PL squad than risk staying with Swansea.

Edited by doombear (23 May 2021 12.29pm)

I really want to believe that a war chest of £50m is available, although I have my doubts.

If it were, then Chelsea apparently want £40m for Abraham - that's the budget nearly blown on one player if we were to go in for him.

If the media are on the right track, it appears that Lampard considers the job too risky. I can understand that but I would want someone coming in that believes they can rise to the challenges the job presents.

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So plenty of reports about Steve Cooper.
Lampard would certainly attract younger players unsettled at other PL clubs. Cooper the same with players at Championship clubs. However, you cant stay up in the PL with a team of Championship quality players though, or half full of them and half full of ageing players off the pace.
So Copper is certainly higher on the risk register. I would neutral if it was him, but very apprehensive.

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So needy! I'm really sick of these posters that respond, adding nothing to any debate, other than to draw attention to themselves!

I am SO looking forward to the announcement telling us who our new manager is going to be.

Not so much so the subsequent post on here 15 minutes later from one of our ‘contributors’...

A) Confirming that the details are correct.

and

B) That they had been ITK for some time but were just sitting on the information.