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I am surprised that so many want Mr Moyes and so few want Mr Pearson! Pearson is younger if I’m not mistaken.

;Yes i think you are right. However he is coming into the last year of his contract. Not that typically means much as a manager Bristol Citty were a basket case with a load of players on big contracts and on the verge of an FFP deduction. He has managed those players out, has brought in kids from their academy and made them competitive while playing a bevy of 19 and 20 year olds. They want 25m for Alex Scott, obviously the best player in the Championship, who is playing for theEngland U20s World Cup team and sold Semenyo to Bournemouth for 10m plus. Tearing up trees, dunno. Is there better probably,

Do people see this as a viable option?

Saw a couple on you tube when he was at Leicester, one I remember was a journo who showed up to protect his mate who Pearson went after the previous week. No such angst at Bristol City, the journos are all sh1t scared of him. 😂

I am reading this thread with interest. Let me say from the beginning I am a Bristol City supporter with 60 years under my belt, so like your elder statesman I have seen a lot. Without a chapter and verse about us that no one will care about it, has been 42 years since we were last in the top division. The club has specialized in failure and rubbish appointments, with may be one exception, for all of that period. FFP is an issue in the Championship. It is not really true to think BCFC dont have money as the owner Steve Lansdown has pot loads of it, however Lee Johnson over spent so badly (on utter rubbish) that there is no wiggle room, unless we take a points deduction. So…Nigel Pearson! The bloke took over not just a basket case club, but in my opinion THE basket case club. A massively bloated squad all on huge wages, no money to spend with a back room staff that were garbage and a treatment room with 17 (seventeen) players all unable to play… In summary he has a three year contract with two to run. What he has done First he let 13 senior pros go. One of whom, (will remain nameless) who he told to call his agent and eff off out of the club Second, he had to teach fully grown pros how to defend, while easing the garbage back room, training and medical staff out, gradually replacing them Third, he brought in new coaching staff all of whom had a good track record and were hungry to push their careers Fourth, he kept us up. Derby gave us a little help their bless them, but we made it with a bit to spare Fifth, his one big break is BCFC academy is second to none and has a conveyor belt of talent (probably why he took the job) and he started giving youth a chance. (Notably England u19 World Cup winner Alex Scott and now 6 in 6 Tommy Conway) Sixth He turned Andi Weimann into a goal and assist machine (22 goals last season and currently leading the championship assists chart and has four goals) resurrected Nahki Wells career and turned Antoine semenyo into a player that we have rejected 10 million for Seventh He turned Zac Vyner into a footballer again despite him being the target of the boo boys for a couple of seasons Eighth We are currently the English games second leading scorers (behind Manchester city) have gone on an eight game unbeaten run and are in the third round of the League cup with a home game against Lincoln to come The reason I tell you this, is this man has turned around a club with no money to spend, with playboys on the books into a massively competitive football club with players coming through that will cost any Premier club a hell a lot of money…. I would suggest some of this sounds familiar to Leicester fans. The bloke will not be coming to Leicester is the first thing I would add, He lives in the West Country and has to much going for him there. But I would say this, a very vocal BCFC supporter was only four weeks ago calling for the bloke to be sacked. Pearsons crime that we lost two games that we had long spells on top, so I guess I understand that some dont rate him for whatever reason….However if you have a basket case club and he is allowed the time to turn it, he will. I note the one or two who say, he has done nothing since, well if you dont give the bloke what is needed and sack him for not getting instant success (in one notable case, nut job chairman was spying on him with a drone) then its going to make his track record a bit iffy. Pearson is probably the best manager in the English game not to have managed at the highest level, but that is probably not his skill set. Changing a culture is!