WBA eye Leicester assistant manager M Appleton as potential replacement for Alan Pardew

[l444ry]

The Owners will know if he is doing a good job behind the scenes. Their judgement is all the matters. Hope he stays with us myself.

[SpacedX]

He's the apple of their eye.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

14 hours ago, Vacamion said:

 

Still think WBA will either limp down with Pardew or sack him when it's far too late.

 

Then they'll appoint little known la Liga exile Jose Foreigner or highly rated technical coach Hans-Dietrich Taktikal as they languish in the Championship.

 

After the parachute money runs out, they will call on gnarled stalwart of the English Championship Colin Brexit or feisty up and coming Scots coach Jock McScream.

 

It's a classic tale of a downward spiral of failure followed by rebirth.

Or Mark Hughes after he’s sacked again.

[CosbehFox]

14 hours ago, Foxxed said:

He'd jump at the chance to manage a premier league team, but would a premier league team jump at the chance to sign a manager with zero premier league experience? Even if you accept they're a championship team, and he wouldn't mind managing a championship team, why would West Brom choose Oxford's old manager who's been assistant manager at Leicester for nearly a season when there are assumingly plenty of other experienced managers out there? It sounds like journalistic fantasy unless West Brom know there's a football genius of a mind casually hiding behind that receding hairline. It's possible but this article is more likely just for the clicks.

As a coach he’s been at WBA for a number of years. He’s known to them. Their shortlist includes Derek McInnes at Aberdeen and Graham Potter at Osterstunds. This is from the local Birmingham press. 

[Chairman of the Bored]

All entrance doors are very narrow at West Brom (helps keep people in whilst garbage on display), especially the Manager’s. So they would all need to be refitted to allow Appleton’s sizeable frame through, and I can’t see WBA using their parachute money for that. Stickman a better option, surely?

[Shaggy]

They can have a frenchman if they want him

[norwichfox]

McCarthy stepping down from Ipswich at the end of the season, I hope WBA get him.....

[weller54]

On 18/03/2018 at 22:01, Shaggy said:

They can have a frenchman if they want him

 

[1972 Fox]

WBA could do worse than appointing Michael Appleton to replace A Pardew. Or A Pulis, or even A Irvine.

[fazzyfox]

He'll be pippin' the other candidates to the job, a better option than Cox like Tim Sherwood and Dennis Wise. He'll retain a core of young players, the ones which a-peel to him. The idea that you need a lot of experience to get out of that league is a bit of an old wives tale, a grannies myth. His knowledge of sports science means that if they go a goal down delicious energy supplements will be taken at half time. Led by new skipper Max Bramley and using ideas copied from Pip Guardiola his new side should have a treemendous season.