Will you want Pearson in charge next season?

[Monsell1976]

Sacked if relegated, new man in, so they can build their own squad, and if we get promoted, not much alterations, as they will only have to add to their style of player.

Sacked if we stay up, would I want to risk another season like this?, torn on this, if he keeps us up, has he learnt?, I think I wouldn't risk it, and get rid.

[Arriba Los Zorros]

Stay whatever.

 

He's showing serious signs again of rectifying his mistakes and finding a way to win matches, to do so is not only a serious sign of ability, self-reflection and self-motivation but at the current time also a sign of being able to do so under some severe pressure. For a young manager even more impressive.

 

He must be a really good boss to work for as well, I can't think of many other managers that would still have been able to install the belief into the players that he has despite being bottom all season, on the wrong end of so many bad pieces of luck or iffy decisions whilst being cut adrift to the tune of 7,8,9 points at times.

 

While he's in charge of this football club I know the players will care about the shirt they are wearing and will run their arse off for our cause, that's something that's extremely important to me as a supporter and when you see teams like Man City, Sunderland and Newcastle whose players don't seem to give a shit you realise just how hard that is to achieve in this day and age.

 

I worry about the sanity of people who think he should be dismissed if we stay up, this is a man who seems to ne able to learn from his mistakes and take us to a new level every time he looks in trouble.

listen to the man

[suffolk fox]

Stay whatever.

 

He's showing serious signs again of rectifying his mistakes and finding a way to win matches, to do so is not only a serious sign of ability, self-reflection and self-motivation but at the current time also a sign of being able to do so under some severe pressure. For a young manager even more impressive.

 

He must be a really good boss to work for as well, I can't think of many other managers that would still have been able to install the belief into the players that he has despite being bottom all season, on the wrong end of so many bad pieces of luck or iffy decisions whilst being cut adrift to the tune of 7,8,9 points at times.

 

While he's in charge of this football club I know the players will care about the shirt they are wearing and will run their arse off for our cause, that's something that's extremely important to me as a supporter and when you see teams like Man City, Sunderland and Newcastle whose players don't seem to give a shit you realise just how hard that is to achieve in this day and age.

 

I worry about the sanity of people who think he should be dismissed if we stay up, this is a man who seems to ne able to learn from his mistakes and take us to a new level every time he looks in trouble.

Why though? Yes, we have won our last two games and I now do like our new approach of playing similar to last season quick passing high tempo attack at all costs decent football. It's a shame though that it has taken us nine games left of a season in order for us to at least start playing as we know we can?

Pearson has been too careful this season, too defensive albeit we have regularly shipped goals and still are. He has shown too much respect at times to the opposition playing five at the back at home with calamity morgan and past his sell by date Upson. In the last two games when it's backs against the wall we have proved we can beat teams in this division. I for one thought at the beginning of the season that with a few more quality additions we were good enough to at least finish about 14th or 15th not be stuck down the bottom for so long and even Burnley and qpr be above us for large swathes of the season.

I support Leicester City through and through and no one man is bigger than any club. The arguments about if we go down we are better off with pearson don't wash with me nor the ones about if we stay up he must stay cos he will have proved he is good enough for the premier league. Noone even knows what really goes on behind the scenes at our football club? Who knows what relationship he really has with the players for example? I am encouraged though by our last three performances that the players do seem to care. There is even another thread re Radio Leicester I think it's interesting that everyone even Geoff Peters is taking Pearsons side on that argument and a certain Mr Stringer is being derided for asking questions any pundit would ask ? It's totally unfair on fans of Leicester that their club manager won't speak to the local radio station because of a daft spat with one of their employees. In life we often work, socialise and even live with people we don't particularly like but that's life you get on with it bite the bullet and move on. It is a great pity that our manager can't do that?

I said last season credit where credit is due Pearson proved me wrong. I hope he proves me wrong again this season cos I want us to stay in the pre ier league and the riches and tv coverage it brings. Plus going to some truly wonderful grounds this season.

However, the argument about he should stay regardless of what happens cos we would be better of with him rather than someone else doesn't wash with me because until it happens noone will ever know.

[Bettsj2]

We wouldnt want to give Wes Morgan another season if we stay up to see if he's adapted to Prem life so why so eager to extend that to NP?

He is a good manager up to a point and that point is getting a team in the position for promotion. Another Championship team will be grateful to get him and he will lay the foundations for them just as he's done here. But laying the foundations is one part of the job, the vision to build the skyscraper is beyond his capabilities and we need to improve in his position if we stay up in order to stabalise ourselves in the top flight. Once that's achieved we can look to push on again.

If we go down, he should still go. Again he's laid foundations but our ambition stretches beyond him so we need to move forward and look for better options.

In reality, if we stay up, he'll keep his job and we'll get to Christmas being in or around the relegation places. Some will call for him to go and others will say, 'he got us out of it last year' and 'what did you expect?' Ignoring the point so frequently made this year that a better manager would have us in the position where we dont need to be saved.

[leicesterisme]

There is even another thread re Radio Leicester I think it's interesting that everyone even Geoff Peters is taking Pearsons side on that argument and a certain Mr Stringer is being derided for asking questions any pundit would ask ? It's totally unfair on fans of Leicester that their club manager won't speak to the local radio station because of a daft spat with one of their employees. In life we often work, socialise and even live with people we don't particularly like but that's life you get on with it bite the bullet and move on. It is a great pity that our manager can't do that?

Pearson will speak to Radio Leicester, just not to Stringer. Geoff has said that a number of times and I think Stringer may have even said it himself.

Radio Leicester also plays his interviews with other radio outlets, usually the BBC so it's hardly like you don't get to hear Pearson's view is it?

What's the problem.

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

Wrong, unsurprisingly.

 

The manager needs to fit the club and it's players and Nigel Pearson is a better fit for Leicester City than anybody.

 

Sven and Sousa failed because they didn't have the players that fit their styles. Nige does and he's proving it.

.....And that is why we are bottom of the league!

 

Desperation for a win, and we get a couple, suddenly shows he is "proving it". Don't be daft lad. 

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

IF he keeps us up I would want to see some proper investment going into the playing side of the club.

None of this failing to land (realistic) targets.. We would want to identify targets, pay the going rate and get them.

I remain of the opinion that both the club and many fans grossly underestimated the Premiership. The weekly grind of having to be fully on your game at all times.

We haven't had enough quality. We would need a top quality left back, a really good centre back, and a quality creative central midfielder player, along with some steel in that area to really kick us on.

Weighing things up, I wouldn't want to simply survive to just have another season like this one has been. What's the point really?

I'd keep him and give him all the backing he needs to assemble a squad fully equipped to do better.

However, if we go down I'd change Pearson. I think a fresh approach would then be wise. Not that Nigel wouldn't be ok again in the Championship. ..I think he would. But I'd want to see us doing things a little differently. I detest this bloody long ball game thing. The first half against West Brom was dire, it really was. I'd like a fresh approach and to design a way of playing that could probably see us well if we came back up again.

Good post again, Col.

[sylofox]

It always happens when Nige strings a couple of results together - everyone (nearly) wants him to stay. I want City to do well and if he keeps us up, even though I can't abide his team selections, feel he favours under performers for way too long and have felt that his reappointment held us back for two seasons, he will probably get to stay on. Let's face it, it will be a massive achievement staying up full stop, to do it with a great escape and nail biting end to the season will surely be worthy of another go for Nige?

So first part season back we missed out.

First full season back we made the play off's and had Knocky scored we would have been in the final. (is that NP's fault)

Second full season re ripped the league a knew one.

 

Would you care to explain the two seasons he has held us back in your ridiculous statement as usual.

As you state you don't like Nige fair enough but just leave it at that as when you try to justify if you make your self look stupid.

[Monsell1976]

.....And that is why we are bottom of the league!

Desperation for a win, and we get a couple, suddenly shows he is "proving it". Don't be daft lad.

This is what surprises me on this forum, after the hull game, the poll suggested that at least 50 % on here wanted him gone, either now or at the end of the season.

Now the poor season has kind off been forgotten about after two wins, against two sides who are nothing special.

Don't get me wrong, it's been great to get a winning feeling back, but nothing I have seen has changed my opinion, especially not two wins.

Let's see where the season takes us, it maybe to little two late, but if he keeps us up, the owners will keep him.

If we do stay up, and we do keep him, I would expect a vast improvement in his management abilities at this level, because barring a few high points, on the whole it's been a very horrible, depressing season.

[RonnieTodger]

How can anyone use the Radio Leicester situation as leverage for him to be sacked?

[Guest]

How can anyone use the Radio Leicester situation as leverage for him to be sacked?

 

Desperation to prove their point?

[Kitchandro]

Has to go for me at the end of the season.

 

Reasons have been discussed on other threads previously, the recent wins havent changed my long term view on the issue.

 

Must be replaced if the club are to improve in the Premier League, and if we go down, squad needs new ideas and new rejuvenation. Those are my thoughts in a nutshell.

 

Sack on both counts.

 

In agreement with this.

We wouldnt want to give Wes Morgan another season if we stay up to see if he's adapted to Prem life so why so eager to extend that to NP?

He is a good manager up to a point and that point is getting a team in the position for promotion. Another Championship team will be grateful to get him and he will lay the foundations for them just as he's done here. But laying the foundations is one part of the job, the vision to build the skyscraper is beyond his capabilities and we need to improve in his position if we stay up in order to stabalise ourselves in the top flight. Once that's achieved we can look to push on again.

If we go down, he should still go. Again he's laid foundations but our ambition stretches beyond him so we need to move forward and look for better options.

In reality, if we stay up, he'll keep his job and we'll get to Christmas being in or around the relegation places. Some will call for him to go and others will say, 'he got us out of it last year' and 'what did you expect?' Ignoring the point so frequently made this year that a better manager would have us in the position where we dont need to be saved.

 

And this.

[inckley fox]

For me it depends on how we go down if we go down. I always said I wanted to see evidence of Pearson learning from / adapting the needs of the team at this level and there has been, at times, little evidence of this. But, obviously, if this doesn't turn out to be a false dawn and we pick up a further 9 or 10 points but still get relegated (which is perfectly possible - remember he set us a target of 5 wins a few games back... we might need more than that) then that would still represent evidence of him having become a better manager over the course of the season. So in that case, I'd give him another shot. However, if this is followed up by the sort of form which followed our previous back-to-back wins then I'm not sure we'd have that sort of proof of improvement.

 

I have to add that I've been very surprised by how proactive and decisive he's been over the past two games; and how calmly he's reacted to an upturn in form in comparison to, say, his jubilation after Manchester United. I felt we were a lost cause a few weeks back and it's been a very nice surprise to see that, for now at least, this was wrong.

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

Honestly is baffling what some supporters think. If we were fighting for a champions league place there'd still be people calling for his head. Unbelievable.

[Babylon]

Why though? Yes, we have won our last two games and I now do like our new approach of playing similar to last season quick passing high tempo attack at all costs decent football. It's a shame though that it has taken us nine games left of a season in order for us to at least start playing as we know we can?

 

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11 games there where you could quite easily say we went with an attacking intent, so lets not pretend we've only just started to attack. Then, of course there is the other issue of the league being filled with expensively assembled teams who are quite capable of shutting us down and not letting us attack in a way we enjoy. If a team leaves space at the back, it enables us to attack (hence whey we look our most attacking against many of the better teams).

 

I'm not going to sit here and say at times Pearson hasn't been his own worst enemy (The 4 x CM diamond for gods sake, the negative 5 at the back), but there is a bit more to it than that.

 

I will guarantee between now and the end of the season we'll look like we're not being very attacking. But that can be down to the opposition and not just how Pearson wants us to to play. Is Swansea control the ball well and we don't at the weekend, we could see a repeat of the away game. If Burnley press us hard and defend with two deep banks of four as they usually do, we might look not particularly attacking there as well as it cuts off our normal game.

[Guest MattP]

Honestly is baffling what some supporters think. If we were fighting for a champions league place there'd still be people calling for his head. Unbelievable.

 

I blame Southampton and Koeman, before what they did things like this wouldn't have been considered by the average football fan but now everyone thinks they can wave a wand and be the new them.

 

They don't seem to take into consideration the fact picking a Koeman is probably a once in a lifetime gamble that paid off and the incredible youth system that they have that has allowed them to do what they do and also enabled considerable investment over the last few years.

[Scotch]

If we go down, I would keep him on. He has proven himself at that level and has built a team that we all know can be successful at that level.

If we stay up, I would thank him very much for his efforts and let him go. Granted,that may seem harsh but I honestly believe that the PL is just out of his level of ability and if he does keep us up, it will be with him stretching his abilities to the point where I honestly think it's taking a toll on his mental health. No joke,I think the pressure of this season is driving him insane.

Either way, the man has done a great job for us and I will always have time for him.

(If we did stay up and we did let him go,I would put all my efforts into bringing Michael Laudrup to the KPS. He would bring that little touch of class whilst still having PL experience)

[EnglishOxide]

Honestly is baffling what some supporters think. If we were fighting for a champions league place there'd still be people calling for his head. Unbelievable.

Delusions of grandeur.

What I don't get is the people who haven't liked him from day one and still dont. After all he's done for us.

Mental.

[cheshamfox17]

A very good question I think if we do go down then Warbuton is a realistic option who the board could consider.

 

If we stay up unless a manager of real pedigree (Big Sam for example) comes along then I wouldn't even consider it

[Gerard]

Honestly is baffling what some supporters think. If we were fighting for a champions league place there'd still be people calling for his head. Unbelievable.

 

 

Baffling? Unbelievable?

 

Really?

 

But we're not fighting for a Champions League spot, we're bottom of the league with arguably one of the better squads in the bottom half after spending more than most of our rivals this season.

 

Shoe on the other foot, how bad would we have had to be this season for some fans wanting to see him sacked?

[hackneyfox]

you have never said one positive word about Pearson its all Negative you clearly have a problem with the man himself because his records are not questionable.

Infact I remember arguing with you about this the last time he was up for the sacking, you know the season before we got promoted? and he's still HERE and your still MOANING!!!!!!! have you not got anything better to do? does he really irritate you that much

I was quite positive about him last season and I was this season until the match at Palace, at which point the season turned into a disaster.

I've already pointed out why I'd sack him so won't bother repeating it.

At the moment there are more reasons to sack than to keep imo

[hackneyfox]

And yes it this answer to both questions give the bloke a 10 year contract!!

Micky Adams?

You probably would which says all we need to know about you.

[Monsell1976]

Honestly is baffling what some supporters think. If we were fighting for a champions league place there'd still be people calling for his head. Unbelievable.

Behave yourself, only just starting fighting a relegation battle, two games ago, we couldn't even say that.

Not everybody has the affection you clearly have for him, and judge him on his performance, if he was good enough to get us challenging at the top end, do you really think people would moan about him.

With comments like that, you make yourself sound silly, if you cannot take the criticism of pearson, because we/ he has been very poor, for a long time.

[hackneyfox]

Pearson's got to stay in charge next season regardless.

If we go down - he's proved he can achieve promotion from the Championship.

If we stay up - he's proved he can survive in the premier league.

When you look at the replacement options it's a no brainer: Mackay, Curbishley, Arry! Even if O'Neil or Liniker were interested I'd stick with Big Nige

Why are they the only options?

Sick of this stupid attitude.

We are a decent sized club with great owners there would be a fair number of good managers who would happily leave their current clubs to join us.

[hackneyfox]

Honestly is baffling what some supporters think. If we were fighting for a champions league place there'd still be people calling for his head. Unbelievable.

If that was to happen next season nobody would be complaining. Stupid post