cityfanlee23

If Ralph Hassenhuttl can come here and emulate the sort of chaotic, aggressive football he delivered at Leipzig/early southampton I'm convinced he's our best option. At the very least he would sign players that are under 30 and will run through brick walls, and will drop anyone who won't.

I completely agree, we need to really start not just producing talented young players, but talented young coaches who can take on the mantle when someone leaves. King is in a great position now where he can soak up all of the knowledge from an experienced manager for a couple of seasons, then when the time is right to part ways with whoever we bring in, King can step into that role.

Make it happen Top. The dream team, show us that ambition you keep banging on about.

Is it CTRL+P to print?

If the club want to make the appointment permanent on a 2+ year deal, and also need the manager to be out of work for cost reasons, Hassenhuttl is a realistic priority for me. The only concern I would have with RH, is he is a strong leader, and i'm concerned that some of these spineless players will react badly and happily throw the club under the bus. With that said, I do think we have a fair few players that would still be willing to work hard and generally speaking have a good, professional attitude, I think we just have more "Bad eggs" than most clubs. But alas, Hassenhuttl doesn't conform to the pep-ball style that the clown upstairs continues to want to force upon us all.

My only concern is the immediate future, the players we have are spineless. If he comes in day 1 and starts hammering them and acting "like an authoritarian" how many of these overpaid prima donnas would down tools even further and relegate us? or could he galvanise them?

He's an interesting one, has a clear identity but he never stays at a club long enough to see it through, clearly a very good manager in there, but we need a full rebuild and i'd be worried if he was stupid enough to come here, we would end up being left "half built" and then need to try to find someone to replace him who can utilise the players left over.

Bring it on. No surprise Bertrand had a problem with a manager having discipline, more than happy to sit on the bench collecting a wage rather than actually fall in line and do what the manager asks, and what a refreshing change it would be to see a manager come in and get rid of all of the 30+ players.

That's fair, but imo Red Bull represents the identity we had. Aggressive football, signing young, hungry players who work hard and have a point to prove, and most importantly, have huge sell on potential. Everything that led to the 2015/16 season is exactly what the RB system achieves.

I get that, but I think the RB brand is anything but soulless. They have one of the smartest and well run sporting networks on earth. Their football network is genius, brings through talent left right and center. Don't get me wrong, the idea of being a Red Bull advert doesn't appeal to me, but the pro's outweigh the cons imo.

I'm genuinely curious, personally i'm not too bothered about the name, but if it was offered tomorrow for Red Bull to buy the club and rename us RB Leicester, would you take that? Personally I think it would be huge for the club, and would allow us to tap into their network of top quality coaches and scouting/youth development network. If it meant getting KP out, i'd snap your arm off to become RB Leicester.

Thoughts @Phil Mitchell ?

Red Bull Leicester. Do it.

Not sure, I know management wasn’t really his priority a few years ago but international is obviously much less demanding than club management. So I guess if they do well and he feels they have some good talent coming through over the next 4 years he might stick around, but I’d imagine if the right club offer comes in he might call it a day, even if he stayed at Austria, an advisory role could work alongside it maybe? Edit: 🤣🤣🤣🤣 who am I kidding, the club probably don’t even know who he is, we would end up with Ralph Wiggum

I'd love to see a really chaotic Klopp/Rangnick style system here, straight from the Red Bull playbook (I'd happily see us become RB Leicester over King Power, Red Bull please buy us if you're reading this) But we would need to really adopt that over the summer rather than right now, this system requires players to really understand the system and know when to press, and requires players with good agility and stamina to press effectively, so it wouldn't work right now. The big issue right now, is that it's the job of the club to set out a blueprint, then the job of the staff to follow it, the problem is, the board/ownership are not capable of building a good foundation, previously it was Pearson who developed that foundation and Puel revitalised it. Right now we need a strong manager to come in, kick over a few tables and set the club back onto the right path, signing young, hungry players who have a point to prove and will run through walls for the club, the manager needs the freedom to bring in like minded staff, and as a club we should be nurturing those staff members for internal promotions. The assistant manager should not just be an assistant manager who leaves the moment the manager gets sacked, the assistant manager should be a viable option to take over and continue the work, much like Keith Andrews has done at Brentford, and how Red Bull bring through coaches and managers through their network of clubs. LCFC should not just be trying to develop players, we need to develop coaches too. None of this is possible with the clownshow we have running the club, we need to somehow find a Pearson style manager, or bring in a Rangnick style Director of Football/Technical Director.

At this point I'd take him. I'd imagine he has a pretty extensive knowledge of the best youth players in the country that are not quite breaking into the U21's but have huge potential, would also give us a bit more of a pull for some of the U21 players who are fringe at their clubs and need game time.

Finally. I was suckered into buying into this garbage football because the promise was that he would promote an attacking form of control with chaos and excitement. He delivered what 95% of these possession obsessed managers deliver. Boring, predictable football. Let’s drop this 8 year failed experiment and focus on the football that made us successful, hard grafting, hard pressing, counter attacking football. Or if we want to switch it up a bit, go full German heavy metal Gegenpressing. Make LCFC exciting again.

Yeah I completely get that, but OGS did say he would come to the champ for the right project, this summer we will be in a big reset position. I also think we need to go for some of these pie in the sky names, Bielsa would never have joined Leeds if they didn't go for him, Cambiasso to us. We are in trouble right now, but we are weathering the storm and hopefully if we are sensible (LOL) we can get back on a decent footing. Robins would be a great appointment though.

I wouldn't be against Ole Gunnar Solskjaer tbh. He's got a great attitude, has high standards, United fans often comment how he produced the best football they've seen since Fergie. Not the biggest success at united in terms of the league progression as they were struggling when he left, but in his 2 full seasons finished third and second, and they have arguably gone backwards since he left. He's hit and miss but I'd take him over MC.

NP as interim with a position as Technical Director would be the priority right now, sadly can't see it happening due to his reported health struggles, but if it was on the table i'd make him #1.

I was thinking about this Recently, I cannot see him coming here in a month of sundays, but he comes across as the sort of manager that would take on a shock project like us, he's a proud Englishman and doesn't come across as having a big ego. I think just the sheer fact that he is constantly linked with massive jobs mean he's well out of reach right now, and I absolutely detested the football he knocked up for England at times, but he's definitely a builder. I can see his next job not being a massive name.

Not all managers I want, but throwing a list of names at the wall. If I had to pick one right now, I'd probably go for Tony Mowbray on an interim, but if the club needed a realistic manager who was available on a free and also wanted a 3 year deal, i'd go with Hassenhuttl, if we could get any of the Pie In the Sky managers it would be a Bielsa/Cambiasso moment. Names we could probably get: Ralph Hassenhuttl Tony Mowbray (interim with an offer to become TD in summer?) Lee Carsley (Currently Eng U21 manager) Dave Challinor (Currently at Stockport) Carlos Carvalhal Diego Martinez Bo Svensson (currently at Columbus Crew) Martin Dimichelis Mark Robins Patrick Vieira Pie in the sky Bielsa to Leeds levels of shock: Leonardo Jardim Adi Hutter Urs Fischer Dino Topmuller

How the hell did he survive last night?? Pull the plug on this club.

Hassenhuttl. Every single day and twice on Sundays.

HASSENHUTTL IN.