Invading Poland again?
They really do never learn.
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I see your point, but I also think itās perfectly justified to get our money back from those catholo-fascists before we kick them out of the EU.
@Persona
According to Bild, Tuchel has an offer from Arsenal on the table and Arsene is on his way out after 21 years. They also mention the bad run of form and discontent among the fans.
Why Tuchel? They think heās got a good reputation internationally (very important for Bild readers, they love these proxy pats on the back), beat Real to the CL group win and has reached the quarter final.
His contract runs out in 2018 and while Bild think he himself would like to extend, rumour has it that the relationship with Zorc and Watzke is strained and that they would allow him to move on.
Allegri is another candidate, but they point out that leaving Juve for a job at the 6th placed club in the PL is hardly an upwardly mobile career move. 
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Ideally Simeone or Allegri would be the preferred choice. but if we canāt get them, Iām beginning to lean more towards Koeman.
He has PL experience with two clubs, and has done well with both, playing attacking football while being well organised in defence.
He is also clearly ambitious and he has the respect of the players.
But would he leave Everton, who are on the up, with a new owner who is also ambitious, to come to a club with a squad full of players that are in a comfort zone and without a winning mentality, and an owner whoās main interest is making his bank balance bigger?
If we donāt keep Ozil and Sanchez, we are going to look very weak, for any potential manager
So attracting a top manager from another big European club isnāt going to be easy, so maybe Koeman might be a better option.
Of course he would! We may be in a bit of a state at the moment but come on, weāre a bigger appeal than Everton - who are also more than likely going to lose their best players this summer!
Not that I would want Koeman, mind.
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Would Koeman leave Everton for Arsenal? Youāre kidding me arenāt you? Thatās a massive step up and heād take it in a heartbeat. Itās probably bigger than the a Southampton to Everton step he made.
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The guy is ruthlessly ambitious.
Heād slice and dice someone to bag the Arsenal job lol.
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He wants the Barca job.
Who wouldnāt?
Heās a very good manager but that would be quite a jump for him right now IMO, then again if Enrique can get the job (who Iām not a fan of) then why not.
i dont understand why every move needs to be upwards. Guardiola didnāt move upwards when he left Bayern.
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He moved from the biggest team in Germany to the richest team in the richest league. It might not have been upwards from a reputation perspective but it was the next logical step in his career.
i completely see where you are coming from. However i would say United are richest.
The difference in spending ability between Arsenal, Chelsea and City arent worlds apart anymore. if anything they are quite comparable i think?
United may generate the most revenue and presently spend the highest sums (although City arenāt that far behind on both counts), but Sheikh Mansour is worth $38 billion and the investment group behind him manages something in the region of $500-600 billion. He essentially has the backing of the sovereign wealth.
And whilst Iām not suggesting that theyād pump all of that money into City, heās shown by the continuous and sheer sums of investment on an annual basis (players, wages, world class training facilities, youth academies and so forth) that there is nearly no limit to what City would spend in their race to become the biggest club in the world.
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Yeah totally; they are supremely wealthy. However they have hugely limited investing power due to FFP.
United are a clear step ahead in terms of spending power while remaining complicit.
In all honesty, they are 2-3 steps ahead commercially tbh.
I think weāre comparable with Chelsea but ManCity is still a good step above.
I think City showed with the shady Ā£350m sponsorship deal and moving money between the football group, not to mention the incredible amount of āpartnershipsā theyāve announced over the last few seasons that getting around FFP isnāt all that difficult.
It limited them a couple of seasons ago, but theyāre in the top 5/6 wealthiest clubs in the world now in terms of revenue and theyāll always find ways around the FFP restrictions as they proved with the shady Ā£350m deal.
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Difference with City is you can see it has a future. Major investment in the team obviously but also training, scouting, overseas partnerships, i think there was talk of stadium development too? They brought in Txiki who brought in Pep and to me it feels like a huge club in the making.
Chelsea still feels a bit like a Billionaireās toy, although Chelsea look to have something going right with their youth/scouting.
It might just be Romanās hands on approach vs the Sheikhās hands off that makes me feel that way though.
But in the short term, City are the ātopā club right now for me. Not the biggest, not the most historic but if youāre a coach looking for a job Iād choose City. The squad is there, plenty of young players in the wings too, cash to spend, whatās not to like?
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Oh yeah! German is just a ruder french 
Barring a miracle that ship has sailed. 2011 and 2014 were perfect moments for a new manager to come in. Even after that debacle in 2016 we still had a chance to make that transition in a good situation. Weāll rue those missed opportunities, again, barring a miracle. Weāll be lucky if itās only 3-4 years.
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