New Manager? Who do you Want?

[Tom12345]

Bring Ranieri back.

[foxsake]

Good grief. Football is so bereft. Put your burdens on the almighty.

[cruzFOX]

Somebody who has more technical nouse and brains beyond just setting up a team and a formation. We need a manager who can adapt to the situation not get check mated every time. I really hopes Rogers would change his ways. He’s shown too much stubbornness to adapt. I do like the brentford manager. He could do some serious damage with our players with his passion and thinking on his feet.

wish we weren’t in this situation. If only we could go back to Brendan’s first row seasons where we were playing teams off the park! How things have changed 

[TrentFox]

After a sleep, it feels safe to contribute again without frustration talking. Brendan’s days have to be numbered. The football has been absolutely dire for ages, in the main. Now we are consistently getting the results that brand of footy merits. Alarmingly, every week I feel we have been out-fought, out-muscled and out-‘energied’ by the opposition! There a massive way to go in the season, and things can change after longer poor periods than this - look at Newcastle last year. But let’s not pretend that this is anything other than really alarming. So for me, when the moment comes, I want someone who won’t be just the player’s best friend, but someone who, from day one, is in charge and rattles cages and egos. Someone disciplined and old-fashioned. I think it would potentially be disastrous to go for untested and ‘up-and-coming’. Our goal now must be to instil some spirit, organisation and fight ….. and hope there is still enough quality left once the transfer window has done whatever it will do. I hesitate to say it, but Dyche might be what we need for now. 🥴 Two year contract. Options to extend. 

[snoopy87]

9 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

I'm not convinced Rodgers will get us mid table, it looks too far gone now and we could really spiral.

It already is spiralling 

[les-tah]

Do we really have no money? Would a new manager want to come in knowing he had no funds to play with?

[Ely fox]

Mark Bonner the Cambridge United manager 

[Ely fox]

Can’t afford to sack him so we are stuck with him. Plus the fact that we won the FA cup he will get more time

I think unless we are rock bottom

then the owners would have to do something 

[lfu]

Get this bloke in purely for the name (he made it his legal surname, what a bloke)

 

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/nestor-el-maestro/profil/trainer/3415

[Ric Flair]

8 hours ago, LFox99 said:

Left Gladbach first chance he got, even after the club funded the rebuild he desperately wanted. He didn't even leave for anyone crazy, he left them for Dortmund, literally a sideways move.

Is this really the type of manager you want to replace Brendan with

As long as he'd done a good job here then I'm not bothered if managers go, far better than giving them 5 year deals which will see a manager deteriorate and regress the whole club.

[lcfc sheff]

It’ll be Wayne Rooney even though he’s doing shit at DC United won’t it 

[Chelmofox]

13 minutes ago, Ely fox said:

Can’t afford to sack him so we are stuck with him. Plus the fact that we won the FA cup he will get more time

I think unless we are rock bottom

then the owners would have to do something 

We can afford to sack him! But the club will only do it if the think they really have to. Numerous games of chicken are probably going on right now. The club won't want to sack him and assume that Rodgers will still turn this around (debatable - obviously!). Regardless of not being 'supported by the club', can Brand Rodgers survive relegating a club like Leicester? I think at this stage the club thinks not and also because of that he will turn it around.

 

However, none of this feels positive to me. It feels like the club assuming everything will be ok. Relegation will obviously be a complete disaster that we are in the process of walking right into. It feels like we've walked from a long term plan into a no mans land, and i'm concerned we don't have a plan to sort it this season.

 

But, the thing that is fundamentally clear to me more than ever, is that Brendan Rodgers is not an elite manager.  

[Guest Manini]

15 hours ago, HesNotGudjonsonn2 said:

I like Steve Cooper. It takes a good manager to take the same players that other managers had and turn them from relegation fodder to a promoted Premier League team. 

He’s got a better job currently 

[ARM1968]

We just cannot afford a game of chicken. Our position is perilous. The team have no grit or determination. Easy for this to spin quickly into disaster. Top needs to show some leadership and act decisively. Rodgers needs to go. He’s done. 
 

I’d get Dyche in just to steady the ship and see what he could do with what we have. He’s used to that. 

[Ginger_Filbert]

10 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

It's been years since a PL team nicked another PL manager mid season and it wouldn't happen here either.

Problem is our decision makers specifically want Prem experience which pretty much leaves you Rafa and Dyche, no thanks. 

[Ely fox]

15 minutes ago, Chelmofox said:

We can afford to sack him! But the club will only do it if the think they really have to. Numerous games of chicken are probably going on right now. The club won't want to sack him and assume that Rodgers will still turn this around (debatable - obviously!). Regardless of not being 'supported by the club', can Brand Rodgers survive relegating a club like Leicester? I think at this stage the club thinks not and also because of that he will turn it around.

 

However, none of this feels positive to me. It feels like the club assuming everything will be ok. Relegation will obviously be a complete disaster that we are in the process of walking right into. It feels like we've walked from a long term plan into a no mans land, and i'm concerned we don't have a plan to sort it this season.

 

But, the thing that is fundamentally clear to me more than ever, is that Brendan Rodgers is not an elite manager.  

Agree that’s what I was trying to say. The owners won’t sack him until say we look like we are going down in my opinion it won’t be until we are looking like seriously going down which is not now because it is the start of the season. 

[Sly]

22 minutes ago, lcfc sheff said:

It’ll be Wayne Rooney even though he’s doing shit at DC United won’t it 

With Vardy resigning, I think he’d be the last person we’d bring on board. 

[Claudio Fannieri]

I would love to see either Thomas Frank or Patrick Viera. 
 

if we go for an out of work manager then Marcus Rose would be great. 
 

I would also be happy for us to also go down a slightly different route and bring in a manager who has recently retired and been involved as a coach in a successful environment such as a Xabi Alonso or Robin Van Persie. 

[Matt]

18 minutes ago, Sly said:

With Vardy resigning, I think he’d be the last person we’d bring on board. 

He's resigned?!! Someone should be resigning but certainly not Vardy.

 

Surely that opens the door for Rooney to come on board though?

 

Edited 21 August 2022 by Matt

[lcfc sheff]

21 minutes ago, Sly said:

With Vardy resigning, I think he’d be the last person we’d bring on board. 

Hahahaha I forgot about that 😂😂

[Tommy Fresh]

I'm going to find a way to watch Feyenoord this afternoon, so I can imagine we'll be playing that way soon. 

[Sly]

3 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

I would love to see either Thomas Frank or Patrick Viera. 
 

if we go for an out of work manager then Marcus Rose would be great. 
 

I would also be happy for us to also go down a slightly different route and bring in a manager who has recently retired and been involved as a coach in a successful environment such as a Xabi Alonso or Robin Van Persie. 

Xabi Alonso is building up a decent resume. 
 

However I think that jump is maybe to large at the moment. 
 

Look at Arteta, it’s taken him a while to find his groove at Arsenal (they’re finally coming good). He had the tutorage of Pep at a larger club to learn. If you look across the world of football.

 

Interestingly, I wonder if we’d consider someone like Pep Lijnders? 
 

Juanma Lillo would have been an interesting choice, however he’s now picking up a wage in Qatar I believe. 

 

I’d worry about Rose, as the tactical specialist Rene Maric is now at Leeds. 

[lfu]

Someone mentioned De Zerbi earlier in the thread and I think he'd be a good pick.

[lcfc sheff]

I’d be looking for two main things from the next manager:

 

1. an ruthless attacking style of play. Not passing it around the back for the sake of it.

 

2. A manager with connections / knowledge of other leagues which he can help identify targets to replace our outgoings (whether it be this summer or the next) 

 

I think we as fans would’ve been okay with this start to the season if we actually looked exciting, but instead we seem to score lucky goals and create few opportunities from the eye…

 

 

 

 

[lcfc sheff]

Hear me out but would Bielsa be a bad pick?