Theories?

[weller54]

He refused to Bail Greece out ....

Speculate all you want ...We'll never know!

[TonyN11]

for a while now Pearson and Rodgers were the top 2 favourites to be the 1st Premiership Managers to be sacked. The bookies had obviously got wind of something going on

[justfoxes]

WHO FOOKING KNOWS.????

The conspiracy band wagon will roll on for ages !!

[Heart-Shaped Fox]

Interesting that assistants haven't gone too

[Soar Fox]

Sky Sports are reporting he was sacked for his response and reaction to James Pearsons' sacking. Sad if true

Deserved to be sacked then if he didn't agree with the way the owners handled it.

[ROB-THE-BLUE]

Interesting that assistants haven't gone too

They will when Pearson gets his next job

[yorkie1999]

Interesting that assistants haven't gone too

Yet. They'll all turn up at forest or derby.

[psychonaut]

Can we just draw a line under it being anything to do with Okazaki?

Shakespeare himself said he was thrilled to sign the guy and that theyve been looking at him for 2 seasons!

[Al-aLondon-Foxile]

I've heard from someone ITK that he gave the owners an ultimatum that if they sacked his son he would be off. I know it doesn't appear he's resigned but who knows how this would play out. Anyway, just flagging up what I've been told. I feel drained, and only hope they announce a successor really soon, and it's a positive change.

[Fox seen in Norwich]

When Pearson came back from holiday, did he shop theif the duty free?

[wight88]

Had a sneaking feeling when Wednesday sacked Stuart Gray the other week that something was afoot, especially with them also having Thai owners. Doubt this was an impulse decison.

[Brenfox]

I think Pearson was on his last warning anyway.

[Happy Fox]

Those bloody f**king owls!

http://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic/228653-big-nigel/page-5

[Merchant]

Perhaps Nige didn't think top 10 and 42k were realistic atm

[Mark_w]

Had a sneaking feeling when Wednesday sacked Stuart Gray the other week that something was afoot, especially with them also having Thai owners. Doubt this was an impulse decison.

 

Newcastle sacked Mike Ashley recently, and Stoke have English owners too. I wouldn't want to be Mark Hughes right now.

[adamlcfcbevo85]

Not managing to keep knockeart haha

[Soar Fox]

Imagine if he ended up at Sheffield Wednesday, he re-signed his son and they had to do a end of season trip to Thailand next season with their owners

[Mark_from_USA]

Put yourself in the position of the owners.  Just suppose Pearson said "My son didn't make a racist comment, Hopper did.  My son didn't send out that video, Hopper did.  If you sack my son, I'm off".

 

So, what do you do:

 

1) Sack his son

2) Keep his son and maybe the others also and take a black eye for his conduct back in Thailand

 

If this is how it went down, wouldn't Pearson have put the owners in a no win situation, and thereby sealed his own fate?

 

Just a thought...

[Jon the Hat]

The board have obviously got fed up with the guy. You don't trust your hundreds of millions of investment to someone who you don't trust.

[Soar Fox]

His son was fvcking shite anyway. It's quite clear he obviously wasn't good enough but daddy wanted to keep him just so he was pulling in a wage.

[Bluearmyfox28]

So his son has ****ed up his future then blown a massive opportunity for Pearson to prove himself as a premiership manager. Well done you useless C***

[RedSoxUK]

Must be a disagreement over the sacking of his son without Big Nige's consent IMO.

On top of the fact it seems Rudkin has been dealing with the transfers with no Pearson say on the matter previously, I think these are the right signings and signings Pearson wants, but perhaps Sako (with his contract, club decision tomorrow,) and a few other targets are not Pearson's.

 

I think Pearson has instigated this and wants to get off the ride before it really starts all over again, if so, i'm glad they've done it now and not waited till later on pre-season - we have a chance to bring in a manager who will also bring in new blood, plus his targets too.. It's gutting but at least it's been done before the transfer window opens, I expect a new manager to be appointed tomorrow. This was planned, I think Pearson has known his fate for a while, and that these transfers as much as they likely are 'Pearson signings', have been purchased and put in place to improve Leicester City Football Club, and a new manager build on it, upsettingly after settling on such a winning formula in formation to the end of the season.

[STUHILL]

Has to be his son. Pearson as we know is a very stubborn and sometimes unreasonable man and I can see he did not take kindly to his son being sacked and this has been festering for sometime now and probably why we haven't heard anything from him for a while.

 

I can imagine the owners have taken this long to sack him as they have tried to work through their differences but we are so close to pre-season now, they had to make this bold decision.

 

Real shame, that the idiotic behaviour of his son has most likely cost himself and now his Dad's job. 

 

This is all theory of course but I can't see any other real reason that we would get such a dramatic outcome as this.  Real shame!

 

I just hope the owners have someone lined up already as the longer it goes on, the more signings we are likely to miss out on and the less prepared we will be for the start of the season.

 

Also hope players who are big supporters of Pearson stick with the club and don't get disillusioned with a new manager. 

 

What a crap day though!!

[Guest Col city fan]

Has to be his son. Pearson as we know is a very stubborn and sometimes unreasonable man and I can see he did not take kindly to his son being sacked and this has been festering for sometime now and probably why we haven't heard anything from him for a while.

I can imagine the owners have taken this long to sack him as they have tried to work through their differences but we are so close to pre-season now, they had to make this bold decision.

Real shame, that the idiotic behaviour of his son has most likely cost himself and now his Dad's job.

This is all theory of course but I can't see any other real reason that we would get such a dramatic outcome as this. Real shame!

I just hope the owners have someone lined up already as the longer it goes on, the more signings we are likely to miss out on and the less prepared we will be for the start of the season.

Also hope players who are big supporters of Pearson stick with the club and don't get disillusioned with a new manager.

What a crap day though!!

IF Pearson didn't take too well to James being sacked (which is complete speculation on your part) then more fool Nigel Pearson. James is clearly a turd of the highest order, needed binning off and for Pearson to fully accept it.

[Mark_w]

Put yourself in the position of the owners.  Just suppose Pearson said "My son didn't make a racist comment, Hopper did.  My son didn't send out that video, Hopper did.  If you sack my son, I'm off".

 

So, what do you do:

 

1) Sack his son

2) Keep his son and maybe the others also and take a black eye for his conduct back in Thailand

 

If this is how it went down, wouldn't Pearson have put the owners in a no win situation, and thereby sealed his own fate?

 

Just a thought...

 

If that had happened then we'd be finding out Pearson has resigned. He clearly doesn't think his position is untenable or that the situation means he can't work with the owners. This is their decision.