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Nigel Pearson working for KP again

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Chrysalis

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No man is perfect.

 

Pearson's weakness I would say is he wasnt very good at reacting to things in games, his substitutions were predictable and often didnt work well.

On the flipside to counter that, he got it right quite often in games from the kickoff.

Given how the team mentality has gone since the start of last season I conclude he is good at building up team spirit, I remember the tunnel cams when he was manager with squad players congratulating the first team on a win, which showed the togetherness, not seen that now for 2 years or so.

I didnt like when he swore at a fan, I knew he would screw up when his son got sacked which then got himself sacked, I had no issue with the ostrich comment at the press conference.

 

We will never know if the change of tactics in the great escape was down to himself or another influence.  However he did seem to accept it was the way to go by the end of the season and I felt he would have carried it on had he stayed manager.  I dont think we would have won the title under him tho.  However if he was still manager now I think we would be in better shape than we are now and that walsh would still be here.

 

I would welcome him back if he was brought back in, however I feel his success also came as part of his team, which was shakespeare and walsh not just himself.  Which perhaps showed why things went bad at derby as well.  I also would welcome back Phillips as a coach as our new strikers need some mentoring.

 

Of course we in a team rebuilding era, so pearson would be starting again in that respect, the captain morgan is ageing, I think he needs dropping not an easy decision for a manager to make as he is likely key in squad morale in terms of whats left of it, drinkwater is gone, mahrez wants out, vardy is 30 himself, so the core of the team he built is breaking up.

 

This is what I think broke claudio, claudio let walsh leave, and claudio also instead of a squad togetherness thing over relied on one player kante, when that player left he was left with tactics that wouldnt work without that player and didnt know what to do. Whilst under pearson I never felt we were reliant on one player.

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On 22/09/2017 at 11:50, WigstonWanderer said:

I think he would make an excellent DOF. From what we've seen of Rudkin it's an entirely non-speaking role, so he wouldn't have to contend with the press but could look after the club as a whole which is where he appears to excel.

lol just lol

 

Nfc

 

 

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David Hankey

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17 hours ago, Master Fox said:

Nige is the greatest manager we've ever had. We really need him back in some capacity. I want him as a DOF, or head of recruitment. Absolute legend. 

Get a grip man!! The word "greatest" is used so freely and out of context nowadays.

 

I could name 6 managers who were greater than Pearson.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/11/10/nigel-pearson-brexit-leaving-ostrich-gate-behind-new-life-managing/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw

 

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At a modest training ground enclosed by woodland, Nigel Pearson is observing a recovery session in front of eight elderly men, one woman and a dog.

This is the home of OH-Leuven, a club playing in First Division B - Belgium’s second tier - and located 14 miles east of Brussels, far away from the noise and fireworks of the Premier League. And you sense Pearson could not be happier.

He is a former Leicester manager, widely perceived as the combustible character who made headlines off the field and was sacked the year before the club’s title win under Claudio Ranieri.

But as he reflects on a diverse range of subjects including Brexit, long-distance walks across the North Downs and an ostrich, Pearson is clearly at peace and relishing a new life in this scenic part of Belgium.

“If I was questioning whether I’d fallen out of love with the game, then maybe this has given me a bit of perspective back,” he says.

 


“The Premier League, the power of it sometimes overtakes the people involved in it. Management brings the best and worst out of me, and I think you have to find a distinction between what is work and what isn't work, because football can take over your life.

“But this has been a very refreshing experience for me, there’s a humility and realism here. It’s got a different feel and I think it’s a stimulus that I need.

“People will have their opinions about the level of football – 'why there?' But there's more to it than just football and it was an opportunity which I didn't expect to happen.”

Pearson smiles when asked how his appointment came about in September. OH Leuven’s majority shareholders are King Power, the Thailand-based travel retail group who also own Leicester and dismissed Pearson in June 2015, claiming their relationship was “no longer viable” and that “fundamental differences in perspective exist between us”.

The phone call asking him to take the job from Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Leicester’s chairman, was the first time they had spoken since the split.

 


“It did come very much out of the blue. It was done in quite a low-key way because I think what was going to be important for myself and Vichai, especially with what had happened with the Leicester situation, was just to do it between us. 

“There will be a number of people out there who might be slightly taken by surprise by the fact that we're working together again, albeit in different circumstances. 

“But I think there was an element of that which made it even more attractive, and as you can probably tell I’m enjoying it.”

Pearson has fully embraced life in Leuven, a city renowned for its university and the Stella Artois brewery, moving into an apartment in nearby Ottenburg three weeks ago. Next week he plans to get his new home “wired up” to the internet.

His return to management, after a stormy four-month spell at Derby, has been impressive so far. He has lost only once in seven matches, a 2-1 defeat at Lierse last weekend which ended hopes of securing a play-off place. 

 

 


Yet he has another chance to get OH-Leuven promoted, starting this Sunday, in a league which has an extremely complex format: eight teams play two separate halves in a season with the winners of each half facing each other in a play-off to determine promotion.

Confused? Pearson is still getting to grips with it, but intends to be here for the long-term. “I wouldn't be coming here to just work for a season and see how it goes,” he says.

“I'm here for the duration, I don't think you can do a job and flick backwards and forwards [from Belgium to England], I think you've got to get into it.

“We want this club to establish itself in the top league, but to get there we've got to get up, and to get up there is tough because of the system. It's not going to happen overnight. 

“You always need enough results to buy you time to do things over a longer period of time.”

 

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Sitting in a canteen at Leuven’s training base on a bright autumn afternoon, Pearson could not appear more relaxed. He is far from the irritable sergeant major that many people paint him as; in private he can often be a deep thinker, intelligent and reflective. 

He still has the army haircut and lean physique but is genuinely good company, even making light of the “ostrich” question when it is put to him.

 

 


It was that infamous confrontation with a journalist in April 2015 - which saw Pearson take exception to a question from a local east midlands reporter and accuse him of having his head buried in the sand - that many people still associate him with, even though he went on to secure Leicester’s safety with seven wins from the final nine games. The charge sheet that season also included him appearing to throttle Crystal Palace midfielder James McArthur during a game.

“Look, I've been in a few tangles in my time, for sure. A lot of them have been of my own making because of how I feel I need to protect the people I'm working with – that’s the players,” he says.

“I can’t do anything about that [the ostrich exchange], so there’s no point in me worrying about it. And if that is how people remember me [starts laughing], then I've probably not done very much in the game have I? 


“I have to accept the trouble I've got into, a lot of it has been either decisions I've made or probably not thought long and hard enough about.

“I can't fundamentally change what I am. But if you said to me: 'Would you do one or two things differently?' Yeah, of course I would.”

Pearson’s part in Leicester history is assured, taking the club to the Premier League and keeping them there, also laying the foundations for Ranieri’s fairytale. 

“I know what I've been a part of at Leicester over two spells and I'm proud of that. You talk about the Premier League but the first season there, in League One, was probably the most enjoyable one.

 

 


“Then going back in 2011 and dismantling a side that didn’t function, with a group of players who at times wore away even our enthusiasm, to eventually get promoted was the best success we had.

“I spoke to Steve [Walsh, Everton’s director of football] on Tuesday morning and I said that whatever happens to all of us, we've all done pretty well out of it, we've all had some really good experiences.”

What about Craig Shakespeare, his former assistant who was sacked as Leicester manager last month? “I’ve spoken to him a couple of times and I'm really disappointed for him. 

“He's been a huge part of what's happened at Leicester over a long period of time. There’s no damage done to his reputation, so he’ll be fine. I hope he’s been bitten by the management bug and wants to do it again.”

As Pearson leaves for lunch with his players, he is asked for his views on Brexit, as a Brit now abroad. 

“I don’t agree with it and I think it’s a travesty, personally. I won't tell you how I vote at home but I was definitely a 'remain'.

“It's alright for the Scots and the Welsh to say that they're Scots and Welsh, but I'm an Englishman and I see myself as being European. I was bloody annoyed if I'm honest.”

 

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Matt

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43 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Made up for the guy reading that, sounds like he's loving it. 

 

The fact that his favourite season with us was in League 1 as well, how can you possibly not like the bloke. 

 

Obviously winning the Premier League is second to none but I claim League One was also one of my favourites, wouldn’t have wanted to have been there longer than a season but it was a great experience and I personally loved going to the small, older grounds, it was the first season I started going away!

 

I really do love Nigel Pearson :wub: 

 

Hero.

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1 hour ago, Matt said:

 

Obviously winning the Premier League is second to none but I claim League One was also one of my favourites, wouldn’t have wanted to have been there longer than a season but it was a great experience and I personally loved going to the small, older grounds, it was the first season I started going away!

 

I really do love Nigel Pearson :wub: 

 

Hero.

Those two and the Championship winning seasons will probably never be topped IMO.

 

League One was just so wonderfully enjoyable. Every week we'd batter a side we'd never played before. Reignited my love with football after 4 dreadful seasons.

 

The Championship was great. Battering all of the "Well 30 years ago we won this and that" brigade and winning a title with 100+ points while playing some incredible football.


But the Premier League will, obviously, always be the one.

 

 

Without Sir Nige I seriously doubt we'd be in the position we are today.

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