Assuming the likes of Klopp are unobtainable as expected, Tuchel would be one, maybe Pochettino. Lampard will get an interview? How is that deserved?

What have either Lee Carsley or Graham Potter done to warrant the England job? Their only credential (ignoring Carsley's numerous Ireland caps) is being English.

On the player firstly, I have never heard of him like us all and we havent signed him and very well might not. But my issue is with having to fish for first teamers in such markets. A 26 year old (so not a young lad) who has from what I can see had one season in his career above the German 3rd division, in which he recorded a fairly underwhelming number of goals in the German second division. He may well sign and be a hiddem gem, but this is very unlikely to be the standard to which we can pluck the answer to our long standing striking isues. He may be the best we can afford, and thats the issue. I fear a season of struggling against the drop, our team has declined with key players leaving and a lot of money coming in and none being spent. We nearly went down last year and might not be as lucky this season. It seems we have very little scope for fees being spent, and if they are they will be nominal fees with low wages. It seems like we need to look for frees but again will struggle in that market with low wages and limitations on length of contract. So we then become heavily reliant on cheap loans. We have failed to conclude a single deal (are we the only Championship side?) with no sign of that changing. We may well pull one or two rabbits out of the hat, but with a squad that has been left so thin and lacking in quality, and with it being so hard to recruit any decent players, what can we really expect? Would you expect a player with 1 season above the German 3rd tier and an average goal record even then at the age of 26 to come in and bang in the goals to make a big difference in the Championship? Its one hell of an ask. An utterly nonsensical argument. Obviously we need players, but we need players of a certain standard. We shouldnt just be grateful to see any warm bodies in the building. If he signs he will be backed. The team will be backed so we dont need to portray fans as bad guys. This guy might sign and he may well turn into a steal, who knows. But its understandable that peoples concerns continue to grow.

Amended. Must have had Telalovic on the mind.

A striker who scored 10 whole goals for a side relegated to the German 3rd division. 26 years old bumbling around the German lower leagues. No thanks.

Seems a strange hill to die on. Clubs in severe decline due to neglectful owners, yet you'd rather appear non plussed so you can paint others who like you have a long history of supporting the club as a lifelong passion as being whingers. If only all had your emotional intelligence.

I don't think Southgate deserves the level of vitriol but we definitely need someone more tactically canny, especially as they will struggle to match the same level of luck in draws. Tuchel apparently wants the job and he has experience of winning the Champions League with not an elite Chelsea team.

It is going to be a difficult job because expectations are going to be to win the next tournaments off the back of 4 tournaments whereby our draws on the whole have been very favourable. We have made the quarter final in the last 4 tournaments, once we faced France and lost, in the other 3 we got Ukraine, Switzerland and Sweden which you would take any day at that stage. Even Croatia, Denmark and Holland as semi final opposition is avoiding the big hitters. That won't be indefinite and we have come up short against the elite.

I really hope we dont just give the job to someone like Carsley, an FA moulded non controversial type or someone like Potter. Klopp etc are the ideal but even a Tuchel would be a good appointment. The English management pool is dry sadly.

I can't get my head around the logic that we shouldn't consider a foreign manager because of the failings of 2 individuals who just happened to be foreign. An English manager would be ideal but the pool is so small hence why people like Carsley and Potter are mentioned. Would they genuinely be better than say Tuchel, would their birth certificate outrank the latters tactical nous? Stuff about understanding our history, our history is repeated failure. We need someone canny enough to get through a tournament.

3 and a half weeks until the opener v Derby. We have 0 signings and are almost certainly close to making no signings. Derby set to make their 5th tomorrow in re-signing Ebou Adams.

He might one day be better, but he certainly isn't currently a much much better player than Gallagher. He is dismal in front of goal, makes Gallagher look ruthless.

Because foraging in the German lower leagues worked so well last time.

I think that Armstrong was the worst striker (beside Telalovic) that I saw at Ewood all season.

I don't rate Sigurdsson and I also don't agree with letting players run their deals down but if he does stay, perhaps he can be back up to Szmodics. So one less. JRC was really good at right back under Tomasson, not sure a couple of friendlies means he will play as a winger nor how he would adapt. The academy should be used to supplement the first team, not under pressure to fill numerous spaces a year in the absence of new players. Travis, Rankin Costello and Carter are important first team players, Scott Wharton would be, Adam Wharton has just brought in a big fee, Buckley can be part of the squad too unless it is felt he is better moving on. And its a long season, if any of the others break through then great, although there is no evidence that they are ready to immediately, nor should there be pressure to. Two have ongoing injury issues, Garrett needs a loan and the others can benefit from a mixture of loans or being around the squad and should they impress then they can still have a chance without an unhealthy expectation that they have to be ready now. Im not saying never play them, I am saying we shouldnt assume that they will come through together and all be up to it, we need a bigger squad. But because we are skint thats unfortunately what will be expected.

I think we are short of double that. Our squad is miniscule. Basically a new team. Goalkeeper is obvious. Centre back, ideally 2. Left back, right back unless we consider JRC a full time RB where he played his best football, but we dont. A midfielder who can pass a ball. 2 quick wingers. Back up for Szmodics. And obviously a striker. Then you have Szmodics, Dolan and Gallagher. If the former goes, a costly replacement. The other 2 should go unless they sign new deals, not that Gallagher should get one unless its on massively reduced wages which he wouldnt expect. We will just get a bit of cheap padding.

No idea what that even means. Either we are stupidly wasting time scouting targets that we cant afford or we werent interested in the likes of Dykes and Paik in the first place. And it is more Nixon rubbish. How can you "not be at the spending stage" with 4 weeks until the season start, as if we will be at some stage.

Just to clarify. You seem to think that if we don't sign a right back, its because Eustace doesnt want one. Eustace wont get exactly what he wants. I imagine if he did, we would be spending money this summer. What he wants and what he will get wont be the same.

Anyone who suggested Rio Ferdinand as next England manager is an idiot. You are again trying to justify your desire not to have a non English manager (which is fair enough I guess) by highlighting 2 individuals who failed as some warped proof that a foreigner cant be the answer. There are more holes in your argument than a cheese grater. Carsley can be considered despite declaring for the Irish national team because he was born in England, thus is English. So presumably you'd drop Guehi, born in the Ivory Coast? Southgate is great at man managing it seems but tactically isnt up to it. This depressing list of potential realistic English managers is why people are keen to widen the net.

We dont control the draw, thats what makes it luck. Variables outside of our control falling in our favour. Ferdinand is even more a hilarious suggestion than Lampard 😂 the BBC guys seemingly have each others back. Why not Shearer? If these are the candidates then lets not even enter such would be the embarassment.

Its more of a case that we cant assume that any novice IS ready, especially more than 1 at once before they have played a first team game as more often than not they wont be with the Wharton example being a rare exception. If you take the Wharton example, he proved that even though we did sign a player, a graduate can and will break through regardless if he is good enough. In fact he did pretty early into the season and had been sold to the Premier League within 18 months. On the flip side and a more common eventuality, Batty wasn't "blocked" and he wasnt ready and it left us short. Our squads are always too small, if we sign a right back then it covers us whether Duru for example is ready or not. It also reduces the pressure on him. You cant possibly know if he is or isnt ready. Thats the issue, no one can.

He was the best manager in our history yesterday.

He wasnt just a flat track bully for City. The sides we have faced in the tournament arent superior to what he faces week in week out. As I said though, the answer is certainly not shoehorning players in due to status. If he cant get him playing in a way that he replicates his club form, then dont start him.

Both he and Bellingham had spells in the tournament from the left hand side. If Foden is not perfoming anywhere near the levels for his country that he manages for his club, a lot of responsibility lies on the manager. Either he plays in a way that allows him to replicate that form or he stops trying to cram too many big names in and drops him to give us better balance.

If you genuinely don't think that budgetary issues have not impacted on repeated years of having squads that have been thin and have tailed off towards the end of every season then you havent being paying attention. If we assume that Duru is ready to be back up with no evidence of mens football to back that, then if he isnt, we have the same issue that we had at left back last season. Batty was assumed to be ready, most likely as a necessity because we were limited in how many players we could afford to bring in, hence us being unable to bring in a right winger on deadline day despite a medical too, and he wasnt ready. We then had half a season of Brittain out of position whenever Pickering couldnt play and we then had to correct the mistake by signing Chrisene.