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Feio in one of the shitty papers stating hes open to a move abroad, that rules him out for me, as it looks a lot more like getting his name out there than anything.

Think the best he got was some bench appearances. Think we still had Max Johnstone at that point.

An actually appropriate post for this thread - Callan Elliot just came on.

Half a billion is a big ask, but Im fine with us holding out.

Might as well be, based on tomorrows likely headlines of "Celtic target Elijah Just scores in the world cup!" Followed by 100 words of AI bollocks then, ...currently plays for Motherwell.

Maybe this can be a pattern, where the departing manager sets up a friendly with a team from their home country, and leaves us a nice parting gift in a Fadinger like signing.

We had similar vids for JT and Watt recently, and I'm sure we'll get Ibi's highlights along to the Benny Hill theme soon enough.

We're pretty much on the same timeline as the last 2 appointments, and there's still plenty of time before pre-season. In theory, we could have started early because we knew JBA was leaving, but i believe it was similar with Wimmer.

They're just excited to be linked to a player who's name they can spell, and don't have to try and spell mazzanoozoo anymore.

I dont think it's an English thing, I think he's gone with recency bias and decided in Fletcher because he was looking right at him when a decision had to be made, and allowed that to cloud his judgement. It absolutely should have been Miller that replaced Gilmour. On the original 26 he probably looked at Mcginn, Christie, mctominay, Gilmour, Ferguson and mclean as the main group, with the first 3 lilely being the starters. I'm fine with more strikers, you need potential impact players in tournaments. The squad has a fair mix of Scottish (at least 7), English, and abroad based players (Italy and Saudi at least, forgot where mckenna is playing), and also some relatively new call-ups in Curtis, Hyam and Fletcher, and while he has his favorites, i dont think that there's many legitimate shouts for guys that have been hard done by. I'm not as down on Clarke as most, but my gripe with him is the way we play, less than who he selects.

Other than winning a cup, there isn't much that JBA could have done next season that would have shown progression, and there is a fair likelihood that we will regress due to losing more of our better players (Slattery will already be a huge loss), along with a combo of other teams being more wise to us and not all of the bigger teams being basket cases. Then you throw in the inevitable drop in league form due to Europe, and you can see why it was good for JBA to move on on a high. That doesn't mean we have suddenly become relegation fodder, but repeating this season is going to be very difficult - unless we genuinely did crack the whole recruitment thing with our data partner. Personally, I think we will see a drop in results, but still be in the conversation for top 6, and we will have some good off the field stuff going on, as well as maybe some of our own young players coming through.

Gaute Helstrup - current assistant at bodo/glimt - so unlikely Thomas Nørgaard - 39% win percentage over 290 games, with it being close to 47% over that last two teams, was the assistant coach at Sparta Prague in between. Seems to be under contract . Andreas Brännström - looks like hes been out of work for a year. About 1.5 points per game average over a lot of teams, all short stints. The only one of the list that looks lile they're available. Daniel Scherning - also looks to be under contract, about 45% win rate at 2 Bundesliga, although thar started high and dropped at each club - could be from moving to a higher level. Rogier Meijer - he recently became Sparta Rotterdam manager, so can be ruled out.

This is cool, some interesting names in there. I used a similar prompt and claude sonnet gave me: Jimmy Thelin, Scott Brown, Russell Martin, John McGlynn and...... Stevie Hammell! Thought about using my opus credits from work to see if it gives me something better, but they're getting touchy about that theesedays. Instead, im going to give mine your list of answers and ask it why it didn't give me those.

And Fadinger was a Wimmer PCA, so there's every chance we have players lined up that were either identified or or OK'd by JBA before he left.

We signed Fadinger and McGhee without a manager pretty early last summer, and the likes of Just, Watt, and Longelo were brought in very early, in time for the training camp in the Netherlands if I remember right.

What he Said.

From this article? https://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/scottish-premiership/latest-premiership-news/next-motherwell-manager-odds-ex-hearts-celtic-and-rangers-men-join-fir-park-hero-amongst-favourites-for-role-8646186 Thats just a list from the bookies, which has never been close for us in the past, because its essentially made up shite, and even in this case Still is the outsider candidate.

Falkirk aren't bigger than us. Time at the top level means something. McGlynn would be daft to move from that gig unless he gets a significant pay raise. My guess is he will end up at Dundee Utd in September when Goodwin has a bad start to the season.

Based on previous timelines, we're probably a couple of weeks out from the new guy being announced, although if the board knew earlier, maybe that brings it forward a week or so. So, this week will be your Charlie Adam / Kevin Thompson tabloid exclusives, then early next week you'll get Scott Brown "ruling himself out" - when he wasn't contacted. By the end of next week one of the papers will run with a name that one of us pulled out of our arse, a la the bold Torsten Lieberknecht.

That's one lazy as fuck list, just pulled out of their area, as expected from them. Then they type in, "who should continue the lineage of Jens, and chuck in the first Jensen they can find.

When we hired JBA we mentioned how many young players he gave their debut, but my guess is the analytics are more around how his teams play, i.e. possession, formations, tactics and the like. This is more about the higher level clubs, but is pretty interesting: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/48758776/want-hire-next-jurgen-klopp-how-data-help-clubs-pick-manager

This is the least surprising thing I've ever read on here 😄

The majority of our players are contracted until 2028 (a good number of them have club options for that year). Fadinger was one of the last to have an expiry in 2027, and he just signed an extension. Examples https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2025/06/26/elliot-watt-becomes-our-latest-signing/ https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2025/07/09/new-zealand-international-elijah-just-lands-in-ml1/ https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/2025/07/11/landing-ibrahim-said-on-a-two-year-deal/

Can only follow him if we agree to sell them. Players know how the game works, and any professional worth their salt makes their own way in their profession and doesn't follow a manager. I'm also very sure most of our players knew exactly what was going to happen with JBA, and probably joined us hoping they could do the same. We're clearly trying to build a model to work from that doesn't leave us dependant on a specific manager or player to function. Kind of what you see at Brentford and Brighton, who have seen other clubs poach staff and players from them constantly, but they continue to have success. That doesn't mean we will hit the highs of this season every year, but it should mean that we don't get too sentimental about these things when they happen and make rash decisions. Whether JBA moves tomorrow or in a years time, it will be interesting to see how we handle that, and who comes in, as that will be a good indicator of how much of our success is just from JBA, and what is down to our overall leadership group.