Good morning , and to answer your question , i dont have a crystal ball or balls , Cooper may well be the answer to all our prayers and do better with a smaller squad and younger players , who knows . I would prefer to see a manager with a big personality and a touch of arrogance that rubs off on the players and gives them the, fvck you attitude we dont care who you are you come here your gonna get a game we used to have , and not park a bus every time we play a top 5 team. If i had to put a name or two forward i would say Julen Lopetegui Paolo Fonseca , even Potter .

Good shout .

Things can change but yes, I thought this myself. Appointing him would be a gamble, as would seeing out Roy's contract wihtout backing him in the transfer window

Edited by madcap_v2 (20 Dec 2023 4.54pm)

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I don't think it says anything about us at all, but if it did it might not be negative.

On one hand, obviously every club sacks managers sometimes, Palace very much included. Sometimes it proves to be a good idea, sometimes not.

One of the reasons Palace have stayed up for so long is that not only are there almost always at least two or three worse teams than us, but there are also very often two or three flailing, imploding clubs as well. Our relative stability on and off the pitch has been more of a positive than a negative on that context.

If the incoming forest manager doesn't get a notable upturn in results quite quickly, they will be under huge pressure, which will seep into every part of the team and club. So many relegated clubs have three managers over the course of the season - and it's far more a case of rolling the dice than of corrective surgery.

I'd be in favour of stability, personally.

No need for another manager???
But Roy walks away for good in May,which is not that far away and there must be some forward planning in hand.

I don't want Cooper but did feel that he got lumbered with an owner who was spending money like a kid in a sweet shop.
He just seemed to go out and buy without a plan and I doubt that Cooper had much to do with it.
On the other side of that coin - he hasn't done very well with what he has got and has only won 12 premier league games from 55 starts.
If we go for him, we are not getting a proven winner, we are not getting new ideas - he is straight out of the St George's Park school of coaching - aka Southgate - and I don't want him either.
Who would I want - honestly, I don't know enough about who is even available but I feel that even with little money that we could do better.