indierich06

Dog-sitting for Vesty.

Won once, runner up (to us) once, both around 10 years ago. Pearson got us promoted as champs but he's never hit the same heights since. I like Dyche and have defended his record on here, but he comes with a lot of baggage around his perceived style of football and his promotion of youth - which is something we're going to have to rely on if we don't have a lot of money to spend. I think they both represent a risk, but they both have their merits - I'd genuinely be fairly happy with either, though I think Rohl probably has a higher ceiling.

Just had this from my contact 👀

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-14859245/Danny-Rohl-Sheffield-Wednesday-LEAVING-Leicester.html Does say in here that we're in talks over compo. Mail is fairly reputable, if detestable.

Tbf might have ended up with someone like Dyche but seems like the situation has changed with Rohl over the last few days regarding his compo which might have put him in our reach. That's what says to me it's Rohl, because if it was Dyche or any other out of work manager it would surely be done by now.

The club - and Top particularly - have a lot to answer for, but we only sacked RVN 5 days ago, and Rohl's compo situation only changed significantly a couple of days ago too. I don't particularly think 5 days is an unreasonably long turnaround between managers personally, if it happens in the next couple of days and they get their man, then I think that's a pretty decent timeframe from sacking the old manager to bringing in the new one.

There was a Mail article yesterday that said we are discussing compo with Sheff Weds.

We'll get there with 'Rohl with it' puns alone

Absolute wank and we shouldn't go anywhere near, so he's got a tune out of one of the most talented and well funded youth setups in the world? So what.

I mean, it seems to be a choice between us and a club that can't pay their players and doesn't have a pot to piss in, with no pre-season arranged. It's not a hard choice is it?

Is this the first confirmation that we've actually held talks?

I can't tell you how I feel My life is like a wheel Let me Rohl it Let me Rohl it to ya

Must be plenty at Seagrave surely

Let's be honest, any manager we appoint is getting sacked and paid off at some point unless - like Enzo - they are poached by another club.

Sell sell sell

You can just see him going somewhere like Atalanta and having the same impact as someone like Lookman. Keep hold of him.

You think Sheffield United are signing anyone from Wednesday?

Didn't want to play for us in the PL, no chance now. Just lazy paper talk, we're not signing anyone for £20m.

Tbf Faes looked like a capable defender in the Championship. I'd be up for giving Okoli another crack of the whip, we've only seen him play in a side where literally everyone looked shit and we were getting pumped every week.

You mean you've never heard of Mladzen Crnzvic? He's worked wonders in the Bulgarian third division.

What a city ❤️

We should keep this thread open to be fair, when Russ comes in we can start the speculation about the next bloke, then keep it going in perpetuity.

It'll be Daka up front stinking the joint out, should just let Evans start.

Fair, so that's about 2 out of 10. Can't see them bucking that trend again tbh.

Sorry, but the idea that when he was a Championship manager he built sides full of aging journeymen with no resale value just doesn't hold water. The challenges of building a promotion winning Champ side and a team that can survive in the Premier League are very different and I think it's only fair to judge him based on what he's done when he's been in the Championship previously. The average age of signings he made while Burnley were in the Championship was 25. Not sure if I've missed anyone, but think this is pretty illustrative: Chris Long (20), Michael Keane (21), Sam Vokes (22), Fredrik Ulvestad (22), James Tarkowski (23), Tendayi Darikwa (23), Ashley Barnes (24), Andre Gray (24), Scott Arfield (24), Nick Pope (24), Lukas Jutkiewicz (25), Tom Heaton (26), Jelle Vossen (26), Matthew Lowton (26), George Boyd (28), David Jones (28), Michael Kightly (28), Stephen Ward (29), Dean Marney (29), Matt Taylor (32). Championship-era Burnley also spent about £25 million on signings and earned £65 million from selling them. This was with a club who would have had a much lower budget than ours. What I won't argue with is the lack of flair players on that list - there is a clear tendency to sign players who will function well in a hardworking 4-4-2 side. I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with that. Would he have sanctioned the signing of Fatawu? Maybe not. I think he would have liked Mavididi - a hard working winger - and Hermansen though. I think last summer showed us that the way transfer strategy seems to work is that the club buy some players without the manager's say-so (El Khannouss surely wasn't a Cooper signing if we're honest) but they also take the manager's POV too - which is probably how we've been lumbered with Ayew and BDCR. I like to think that based on that list of players he signed at Burnley we'd at least have a strategy of buying younger players with some headroom to develop and sell. I've been defending him a lot in this thread the past couple of days - I don't actually have a strong opinion on him taking over, and I think there are other options we could explore, I just think there are a lot of myths around him as a manager that actually don't stand up to close inspection, particularly around his time as a Championship manager - which is what we'd be recruiting him for.