Pearson's Contract Talks

[tartanowl]

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/1...s-No-to-Milan-/

MILAN MANDARIC has a fight on his hands to keep manager Nigel Pearson after contract talks stalled.

Leicester chairman Mandaric has made two offers but Pearson – still one of the lowest earners in the Championship on £300,000 a year – has put talks on hold until the end of the season.

The decision could alert Sheffield Wednesday, who need a new boss after sacking Brian Laws.

Wednesday legend Pearson has 18 months to run on his current Foxes deal but the Owls would only have to pay a small amount of compensation to get their man.

Now I'm not suggesting that he will come to us. He would be crazy considering our prospective positions, but I find it incredible that your chairman is paying him so little and seems unable to strike a deal. Is this the first you have heard of this?

[Ford Super Sunday]

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/1...s-No-to-Milan-/

MILAN MANDARIC has a fight on his hands to keep manager Nigel Pearson after contract talks stalled.

Leicester chairman Mandaric has made two offers but Pearson – still one of the lowest earners in the Championship on £300,000 a year – has put talks on hold until the end of the season.

The decision could alert Sheffield Wednesday, who need a new boss after sacking Brian Laws.

Wednesday legend Pearson has 18 months to run on his current Foxes deal but the Owls would only have to pay a small amount of compensation to get their man.

Now I'm not suggesting that he will come to us. He would be crazy considering our prospective positions, but I find it incredible that your chairman is paying him so little and seems unable to strike a deal. Is this the first you have heard of this?

This is by no means a slur on you, but the article and the issue itself...

Pearson's going nowhere at all, and Mandaric will sort it out. The man is the best thing to happen to this club in a long, long time, and not even Milan is stupid enough to watch Pearson leave.

Not to mention to fact Pearson stated he wants to be here for many years (Cue the 'loyalty means nothing' stuff)

[Bryn]

I don't expect big money signings, but I do expect our manager tied down. Hand in your pocket Milan.

[DeclanMC]

Daily Star? Wouldn't trust any shit that comes out of that rag!

[Guest Bilo]

It has been on a thread but has largely been dismissed as tabloid bull.

If there is anything in it, it's a worry but I'm sure Mandaric will eventually see sense and Pearson will realise that this is a job started rather than finished. He doesn't strike me as the kind to 'cut and run', but the kind of bloke who will stick in a position until he feels he has taken it as far as it can go. If these rumours grow louder and from more reliable sources, I'll start to worry but for now I'll sleep soundly.

[tartanowl]

This is by no means a slur on you, but the article and the issue itself...

Pearson's going nowhere at all, and Mandaric will sort it out. The man is the best thing to happen to this club in a long, long time, and not even Milan is stupid enough to watch Pearson leave.

Not to mention to fact Pearson stated he wants to be here for many years (Cue the 'loyalty means nothing' stuff)

I just thought I would post it. It is a rag paper but I was just wondering if you guys and girls had seen it. It seems strange that Nigel is so lowly paid. Like you say he has been the best thing that has happened to you in years. And to be fair I did say I wouldn't expect him to come to us anyway. He'd be off his head we're sinking faster than the titanic! Paper talk but just thought I would post it anyway.

[Guest]

I don't think there's owt in this whatsoever.

He's spent yonks being a bit part man at several clubs, why would he want to leave when he's clearly in a stable position (as stable as I guess any really are in football these days), well thought of and building something that could be very good indeed.

And no offence tartan but Pearson to Wednesday

[tartanowl]

It has been on a thread but has largely been dismissed as tabloid bull.

If there is anything in it, it's a worry but I'm sure Mandaric will eventually see sense and Pearson will realise that this is a job started rather than finished. He doesn't strike me as the kind to 'cut and run', but the kind of bloke who will stick in a position until he feels he has taken it as far as it can go. If these rumours grow louder and from more reliable sources, I'll start to worry but for now I'll sleep soundly.

He has a chance of Premiership football with you next season. A small chance but a chance nonetheless. He would do well to get us to finish 4th bottom the way we are playing! I can't see it happening either.

I don't think there's owt in this whatsoever.

He's spent yonks being a bit part man at several clubs, why would he want to leave when he's clearly in a stable position (as stable as I guess any really are in football these days), well thought of and building something that could be very good indeed.

And no offence tartan but Pearson to Wednesday

No offence taken. We're shit and we know we are.

[Hugo Sanchez]

Why would he quit to join a smaller club

[Koke]

Leicester chairman Mandaric has made two offers but Pearson – still one of the lowest earners in the Championship on £300,000 a year – has put talks on hold until the end of the season.

I do wonder what the other Championship managers are on - bar the 3 relegated Prem teams. I don't think Ian Holloway was on much either when he was here.

[Edmund]

I'm pretty sure this is a regurgitated non story from a month or so back.

It's old news that Pearson is negotiating a contract. I'm sure he said in the interview with Stringer that he wasn't going anywhere and there were no problems with the contract etc.

I'm also sure he said they were putting the contract on the back burner till the end of the season but I could of dreamt it up.

I think it's safe to say he isn't going anywhere soon unless a prem team come knocking but I can't see that happening just yet.

[Shrenchel]

We even gunna pay lip service to this bollocks?

If anything the daily star said was true, the entire world would look like this

[MPH]

If anything is holding it up it would be because pearson is wanting some sort of fixed amount to spend on transfers.... i dont imagine perasons money to be an issue at all

[Chrysalis]

yep I think the problem is transfer funds.

[Guest Basildon Fox]

Anybody thinking there maybe a problem shoud read this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ity/8389370.stm

Leicester boss Nigel Pearson is eager to copy O'Neill

The only way we can stop people talking about the past is to do something in the present... and create our own history

Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson

Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson says the club's success under Martin O'Neill in the late 1990s and the huge expectations among supporters should serve as an inspiration to the current team.

The Foxes are third in the Championship after a fine start to the season.

But despite only returning to the second tier of English football this summer, Foxes fans are already dreaming of regaining their Premier League status.

The five-year O'Neill era saw cup finals, trophies, European football, regular top-10 finishes in the top flight and some wonderful memories of competing against and beating the best in the country.

But far from being daunted by those treasured memories, Pearson just wants to use them to create new ones.

"The only thing I can do - along with the staff with the players - is to create our own history," Pearson told BBC Radio Leicester.

"Quite rightly people talk about successful managers of the past and I have a very high regard for Martin. He's been successful wherever he's been.

"He is held in high esteem and why shouldn't the fans think like that?

"It doesn't put any more pressure on our situation as the only way we can stop people talking about the past is to do something in the present."

The chance to emulate O'Neill's spectacular achievements are a step closer after a more than encouraging start to the season which has seen them lose just three games in the league.

And although Pearson has a reputation as being a guarded and somewhat dour interviewee, he has no qualms about talking about securing back-to back promotions.

"What is important is that we striving to be successful and success this year would be to be involved in that promotion push," Pearson said.

"I have a lot belief in the people that work here and the players and we'll see where it takes us but there's an awful long way to go.

"Promotion to the Premier League is something we all aspire to.

"Whether we can achieve it this year is another thing; whether we can achieve it the year after is a question that will be answered in time."

His confidence no doubt stems partly from the fact that chairman Milan Mandaric seems to have complete faith in his manager, despite being labelled as a trigger-happy chief.

"Milan and I get on very well and have done from the start," Pearson added.

"We have a good working relationship but also on a personal level we get on very well so that's a good starting point.

"But I'm no fool; it's about results and when you go into management, at some point you are going to be under pressure and just because you get on doesn't mean that it doesn't apply."

Cautious as Pearson is about his long-term job prospects, he is eager to see the job through at the Walkers Stadium.

And he hopes the job-hopping days of his formative years in football management and coaching are behind him and he can show the loyalty he demonstrated in his three-club playing career for Shrewsbury Town, Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough.

"Football is more so now than it ever has been a short-fix environment," Pearson explained.

"As a player I had three clubs in 18 years. Since I retired I've had seven or eight jobs. What that illustrates is how volatile the industry is.

"I would rather be in a position to see something through. We've had a good 18 months but that's all it is is and we have to build on what we have so far."

Honesty & Integrity are very rare in any walk of life these days and especially in professional football. What's more Pearson appears to command respect and I'm sure all the players respect him as well. He's certainly earnt mine!!

birchys left peg

Pearson is halfway through a three-year deal at Leicester and says his future has been discussed but also says there is no panic to get things sorted in the immediate future.

"I'm very happy here and we are 18 months in but I'm not spending time thinking about my personal situation," he added.

"I like to do things as well as I can. I want to be a success, I enjoy working with the people I work with here and that's across the board.

"I take great pride in what we do here and great pride in the roles people play for the club and it doesn't have to be a high-profile position.

"We are putting together a squad which is always evolving and I like to think I am playing my part in trying to move this club forward in the right direction.

"I'm in the early stages of my managerial career and I'm enjoying it."

[Kilworthfox]

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/1...s-No-to-Milan-/

MILAN MANDARIC has a fight on his hands to keep manager Nigel Pearson after contract talks stalled.

Leicester chairman Mandaric has made two offers but Pearson – still one of the lowest earners in the Championship on £300,000 a year – has put talks on hold until the end of the season.

The decision could alert Sheffield Wednesday, who need a new boss after sacking Brian Laws.

Wednesday legend Pearson has 18 months to run on his current Foxes deal but the Owls would only have to pay a small amount of compensation to get their man.

Now I'm not suggesting that he will come to us. He would be crazy considering our prospective positions, but I find it incredible that your chairman is paying him so little and seems unable to strike a deal. Is this the first you have heard of this?

I am not sure how unlikely it really is....

Sheffield Wednesday is Nigel's club after all, bear that in mind whilst tossing your loyalty word around will you.

I remember Brian Little leaving us in the Prem for Villa because they were his club, looking back who can blame him, the situation was much different as we were crap and Villa were decent! The the point is the same, I would leave some average professional club if I heard my team were in dire need and they thought I was the man to make a difference, It would be just like what Craig Levein is going through right now with the Scotland job the pull would be immense.

A lot of blue tinted nonsense gets written on here, but honestly we all have our outside opinions of this football club, but what really is the difference between us & Sheffield Wednesday at present? Our form is excellent considering where we have just come from, but I read a suggestion that Sheffield Wednesday are "smaller" than us well how ridiculous. The difference at present is that we have more points, that is it.

From what I watched of Sheffield Wednesday they were terrible, but they only need to restore some belief & gain some organisation & they will be fine. Imagine if Tudgay got amongst the goals again & the new boss could do a Megson & sort out their defence they would be as good as we are right now.

I trust Nigel Pearson & am a fan of his all the way, I can understand a possible wanting to help his club, that is a given. "IF" their is some issue over funds which there "IS" at Leicester City then why would he stay?

[marbelladave]

Interesting. Three points come to mind.

Pearson is a professional. If he is being paid below the market rate he will, quite rightly, look to improve his deal after eighteen months of success. Speculation that he is wanted by other clubs will simply improve his negotiating position.

If the club is as lacking in funds as we are led to believe, he may decide he has 'taken the club as far as he can' and will succumb to a bigger club with the funds to 'match his ambitions'. After all I doubt MM is the easiest guy to work for.

The emotional pull of his old club might be sufficient to get him to move. After all saving your 'own' club from relegation would make him a hero.

Not having met Pearson I have no idea which of these options will be most appealing to him, hopefully it will be the first, but one thing is certain, during contract negotiations anything said by anyone in public will be complete bollox.

[Corky]

Surely not even Mandaric can mess this up?

I think he'll stay, hopefully for a good few years yet.

[marbelladave]

Surely not even Mandaric can mess this up?

I think he'll stay, hopefully for a good few years yet.

Hopelessly optimistic in my view.

MM's agenda is not Pearson's agenda, neither is it the fans. If MM continues to refuse funds to strengthen the squad or give Pearson a better contract then Pearson will probably leave.

I think it all depends on whether MM puts enough cash into the pot to keep Pearson interested. Whether it is salary or transfer funds that is the issue the money remains the crucial factor.

[Lillehamring]

Interesting. Three points come to mind.

Pearson is a professional. If he is being paid below the market rate he will, quite rightly, look to improve his deal after eighteen months of success. Speculation that he is wanted by other clubs will simply improve his negotiating position.

If the club is as lacking in funds as we are led to believe, he may decide he has 'taken the club as far as he can' and will succumb to a bigger club with the funds to 'match his ambitions'. After all I doubt MM is the easiest guy to work for.

The emotional pull of his old club might be sufficient to get him to move. After all saving your 'own' club from relegation would make him a hero.

Not having met Pearson I have no idea which of these options will be most appealing to him, hopefully it will be the first, but one thing is certain, during contract negotiations anything said by anyone in public will be complete bollox.

although the same things were being said about walshy and city before pearson got the job, and i know pearson and walsh aren't comparable as managers, but the same stumbling block applies - whilst a hero he would be if he turned them around, the repercussions should he fail could potentially ruin everything that he has with the fans there - as good as pearson is, we all know that a club in freefall from the CCC is often an unstoppable diminishing force....

[marbelladave]

although the same things were being said about walshy and city before pearson got the job, and i know pearson and walsh aren't comparable as managers, but the same stumbling block applies - whilst a hero he would be if he turned them around, the repercussions should he fail could potentially ruin everything that he has with the fans there - as good as pearson is, we all know that a club in freefall from the CCC is often an unstoppable diminishing force....

The Walsh comparison is a nonsense, he was not and is not an experienced manager, Pearson is.

Pearson will only go if he believes he can turn Wednesday around and like all successful managers there is a big ego at work and he just might fancy it, particularly if MM is being 'difficult'.

I still feel it will come down to money and that is up to MM!....... :rolleyes:

[Guest Basildon Fox]

The Walsh comparison is a nonsense, he was not and is not an experienced manager, Pearson is.

Pearson will only go if he believes he can turn Wednesday around and like all successful managers there is a big ego at work and he just might fancy it, particularly if MM is being 'difficult'.

I still feel it will come down to money and that is up to MM!....... :rolleyes:

But they have no money at Sheff Wed so why would he go to a team near the bottom with no money to spend?

[marbelladave]

But they have no money at Sheff Wed so why would he go to a team near the bottom with no money to spend?

Ego of course, like I said.

I hope that the current 'contract difficulties' are both sides setting out their negotiating positions, MM saying we are over budget and Pearson making it clear that he has options elsewhere, all this is normal.

If MM makes a bit of money available in Jan and improves Pearson's contract, then the manager commits to the club and everyone can make all the usual comments about taking the team forward etc etc and get on with the job.

[Guest Basildon Fox]

Ego of course, like I said.

I hope that the current 'contract difficulties' are both sides setting out their negotiating positions, MM saying we are over budget and Pearson making it clear that he has options elsewhere, all this is normal.

If MM makes a bit of money available in Jan and improves Pearson's contract, then the manager commits to the club and everyone can make all the usual comments about taking the team forward etc etc and get on with the job.

Did you not read the interview I posted earlier? Pearson states there is no problem. It seems to be a case of why let the facts get in the way of a good bit of speculation here.

[Babylon]

Pearson wouldn't go there, absolutely no chance IMO.