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I don't think he'll be short of options either way however what he hopefully has done is make our job more attractive. If he leaves us in Europe with a strong squad obviously a few of those players will be sold but the club will be in a healthy position moving forward and can hopefully attract a good level of candidate. You do wonder had Wimmer not resigned how different a position the club would be in as I felt the early signs were promising.

I imagine JBA won't want anywhere he doesn't have complete control of team matter - which is why I'm doubtful Celtic will be the next move. He's no doubt well aware of the current shenanigans with the Board and the fans.

If Celtic or Copenhagen come in for him he will be gone (paricularly the latter). But Im not so sure some of the other names banded about will tempt him. I think he only moves in a summer window to a bigger club where he thinks he can replicate the success he has had in implementing his style with us. He wont want to risk any backward steps.

I'd love him to stay a couple years and build Motherwell into a club that resembles Bodo Glimt I just think in reality he'll lose a few key players in the summer and we're not likely going to give him much of the money from the sales, he's got no real affinity to the club other than he seems to be enjoying it and from the sounds of it is on a couple of clubs radar. (Celtic and Copenhagen if rumours are to be believed.)

It would be absolutely surreal if he stayed and turned us into the Scottish Bodo/Glimt. Not sure I would be able to cope with being that good! 😍😍😍

Would he be able to do that at a bigger club, though? I have my doubts, and feel that he is already at a place where he can do this.

ICT have also played two fewer games than us, so still time for them to blow it.

Maybe he realises that building something with us will get him the bigger jobs he clearly merits? I get that money talks. But if you have a longer term strategy you could build firmer foundations for a longer career.

Some additional info on how unreal this season is for Motherwell, of the 158 clubs in Scotlands 4 divisions, and Englands 5 divisions (national league included) only 1 club has conceded fewer goals than us Inverness CT with 16, coyw 💪

I can imagine he would but given he's rarely spent longer than a year at a club in his managerial career, I imagine he'll not be sticking around long enough to da that here.

Heard JBA say a few times that their model is one he admires and would like to emulate.

He was likening us to Bodo Glimt on commentary v St Mirren I mean they are an excellently run football club so to be like them would be class.

I’m not liking us get too much attention need to keep grounded and focused.

Motherwell have reached two finals in recent years and unfortunately faced a Celtic team who were described as the "invincibles" , unlike St.Mirren who faced a very disjointed Celtic. You need a big slice of LUCK to win a cup. Re last week :- It wasn't JAB's choice of team that lost the game but some DIABOLICAL refereeing. Young Matty's second pass was better than the one that Ward made at Parkhead. His distribution thereafter was first class. Gordon - the least said the better. To win the league you need consistency and a LITTLE luck. Could we maybe get a penalty at Ibrox after the split.!!!! COYW

I like playing sexy football every week. Of course I'd enjoy winning a trophy, but I have almost bought into the EPL teams' view that a European spot is what you play for. I'm hopeful, however, that we'll be better next season.

According to Michael Stewart, we are going to run riot in Europe next season...

A all day long. When we look back on this season we'll be like that was some team but it should have won something Cite McCall teams when we were 2nd and 3rd in the league. When you measure a clubs success you base it on trophies. Option B as enjoyable as it is right now is not going to become our new normal we'll end up needing a full rebuild as the majority of our better players will move on (albeit for hefty fees this time round). The recruitment in the summer was superb you'd argue every player we signed has made a positive contribution to our season. That realistically is not going to be the case every year as we know very well. While St Mirren might be in a bit of a mess they'll have a day they can enjoy for the rest of their lives, the guys that won them that cup as poor as they may be at the moment become club legends and Robinson will probably go down as their best ever manager. As long as they finish in the play off they'll be in the league next season as the system favors the premiership side.

Can I be greedy and choose option C? A good league season AND a cup win. We weren't far away this year. Circumstances conspired against us. Luck was the thing we ran out of......

Need to make sure we win league then! 😁😁

So as is it stands we'd enter the conference league at QR2 and have to come through 3 qualifying rounds to make the group stage. I believe in only 1 of these rounds we would be seeded. If Jens fancies a crack at Europe with us then there's a real chance of progression but I'm not sure he will.

Yes not often my two teams are together in a positive statistics sense!

Roma are top of that list with 16 conceded, claret and amber power.

I think Jens and most of the players have been in the game long enough to know it's rare for everything to fall into place like this, and to make the most of it. If we do get a decent league finish and a crack at Europe, that might be enough to persuade him to stay at least another 6 months, and keep some of our key players. If not, then we find JBA v2.0 and continue the project. He keeps talking about laying the foundations for years to come, so it sounds like the Board has a plan with or without Jens.

Option B every time, lucky teams win cups, good sides playing good football, not losing many games or goals win leagues. Any team meeting those criteria every season will have more long term sucess than a team who got to a cup final by drawing lower rated teams all the way to a final, and get lucky.