Next Manager

[winteriscoming]

6 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

Of for the love of God it’s a just a rumour from ALAN NIXON. Please don’t give it any credibility!

I hope you’re right. 
But you could see us going for him. 

[Chelmofox]

8 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

Of for the love of God it’s a just a rumour from ALAN NIXON. Please don’t give it any credibility!

You just know it’s going to Martin. 

[l444ry]

Would be a red line for me. If the club are that stupid as to appoint Russell Martin then they can stick their season ticket where the sun don't shine. 

[Claudio Fannieri]

The club have had a long standing interest in Russell Martin, he plays the brand of football our owner and board want to play, he has championship experience including securing promotion, he is available, there is a lot more than a small possibility he ends up our next manager. 

[Ric Flair]

It's the most obvious eventuality I've ever seen. Of course it's going to happen if we don't see a major shake up in our ownership/director and board level. 

 

Just chalk it up on the board and then wait to tick it off, the end of this ownership is coming one day. 

[lcfcsnow]

No other sane person/club would become obsessed with a club they demolished 9-0, signing Vestergaard, Bertrand, Glover. Continued to thrash them in the Championship, so let's go for their posession obsessed manager during that time too.

[Bilo]

Honestly, just promote Brian Barry-Murphy with Kingy as his assistant. 

 

An excellent record of building young players in a proper set-up; he should help to replace the dead wood with hungry young players who actually care about the club, and having a Number 2 who lives and breathes Leicester City and can learn from him would show something resembling long-term succession planning.

 

Or they could just go for the media darling who 'sAys ThE RiGhT ThiNgS' and demonstrably cannot manage at Premier League level if we do get promoted again. 

 

Guess who we go for?

Edited 6 April by Bilo

[Corky]

Fits our dull set up. Miles behind us last season, thrashed twice, hopeless this season so naturally we are all in.

[winteriscoming]

Just imagine thinking you have the worst manager in premier league history and then you go and appoint Russell Martin. 
 

[LCFCJohn]

24 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

It's the most obvious eventuality I've ever seen. Of course it's going to happen if we don't see a major shake up in our ownership/director and board level. 

 

Just chalk it up on the board and then wait to tick it off, the end of this ownership is coming one day. 

I agree. It feels like it is just a phase we need to just wait to happen and tick it off as you say.

 

It is only obvious due to the levels of incompetence we know run through the club. 

[Tuna]

Hd probably get us straight back up.

[Bilo]

Just now, Tuna said:

Hd probably get us straight back up.

And then rinse, wash, repeat.

[teblin]

3 minutes ago, Bilo said:

And then rinse, wash, repeat.

To be fair he did say he made mistakes and would do things differently if he had the opportunity. 
 

not that I want Martin.

[Jazzy_Jeff]

Just now, teblin said:

To be fair he did say he made mistakes and would do things differently if he had the opportunity. 
 

not that I want Martin.

I was impressed with him on the MNF a little while back.

 

This experience has appeared to humble him and he was very open to the fact that he was naive and made mistakes.

 

If it was him, and he was able to combine the fluid attacking style with a most risk adverse defensive structure it wouldn’t be the worst move we could make 

[dooflip]

Why are our board incapable of reading the room? Or is it that they do but just don’t care?

 

The state the club is in, the fans need to be on board. Appointing Martin would have a similar effect that appointing cooper had ffs.

[Nolucklcfc]

47 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

It's the most obvious eventuality I've ever seen. Of course it's going to happen if we don't see a major shake up in our ownership/director and board level. 

 

Just chalk it up on the board and then wait to tick it off, the end of this ownership is coming one day. 

You did call this back in January to be fair haha. 

[Bilo]

9 minutes ago, teblin said:

To be fair he did say he made mistakes and would do things differently if he had the opportunity. 
 

not that I want Martin.

 

5 minutes ago, Jazzy_Jeff said:

I was impressed with him on the MNF a little while back.

 

This experience has appeared to humble him and he was very open to the fact that he was naive and made mistakes.

 

If it was him, and he was able to combine the fluid attacking style with a most risk adverse defensive structure it wouldn’t be the worst move we could make 

Cooper said similar. We need to stop falling into the trap of listening to those who sound good. Give it to someone with a track record or upward trajectory instead of a contrite failure again.

[Ricey]

This obsession with playing like Man City has to stop.

 

It fails miserably in the Premier League and, even when it works in the Championship, everyone hates it.

 

The board need to realise that Leicester fans expect aggression, high intensity and resilience as a bare minimum. Until they do, the disconnect will continue.

 

Besides that, if we truly are ambitious, don’t hire a manager that has failed spectacularly in the Premier League.

 

[Bilo]

1 minute ago, Ricey said:

This obsession with playing like Man City has to stop.

 

It fails miserably in the Premier League and, even when it works in the Championship, everyone hates it.

 

The board need to realise that Leicester fans expect aggression, high intensity and resilience as a bare minimum. Until they do, the disconnect will continue.

 

Besides that, if we truly are ambitious, don’t hire a manager that has failed spectacularly in the Premier League.

 

I want to see an attacking or counterattacking style. Above all, I want us to be horrible to play against.

 

A bit of bite in midfield, pace from the flanks, aggressive defenders and a bit of physicality up front. We're too wet, too weak, too slow, too passive and, in many cases, too old. We have arrogant players who think they're better than they are because nobody has had the backbone to tell them any different for too long.

 

The club is led by milquetoast yes men who are afraid to upset their own employees. I suspect the Winks saga came about because RVN saw him as someone who might be easier to be assertive with than more forceful characters. It happens all the time with weak managers who can't control their staff - pick on the nice ones and hope the more assertive ones fall into line. It never works.

 

I want to see a strong, no bullshit assertive manager who will tell the old guard that their best days are gone and to find new clubs to milk of six figures a week and will tell their replacements that, for all of their multi-million world class training facilities, that they haven't achieved anything yet. That they have to earn the right to stay here and can easily find themselves sitting in ice-filled wheelie bins and training out of Portakabins at Barnsley if they don't pull their weight. 

[BKLFox]

Nixon also does mention that Russell is highly regarded within the City group, he’s more likely to go to 1 of their clubs abroad to continue the cloning process. 🤞

[Lako42]

Kind of staggering that the current regime have turned me away to the point of not actually giving a shit which next muppet they employ as manager 

[BigC]

What's actually wrong with Martin? I would feel very confident he would get us promoted. Beyond that, whoever we choose, it's going to be difficult and it will come more down to recruitment. You'd like to think he's learned from his experience with Southampton too. 

 

I do get the point that we should maybe stick to our roots. I feel Newcastle or Forest play in a way that we would all get behind or can recognise as more of the "Leicester way". 

 

However, Martin isn't some clueless bum. 

 

Perhaps 'older' fans than I want a different style or approach which I do get as well. 

[K789]

Games I.saw of saints in PL thry looked OK. Cabt say that once of us 

[teblin]

51 minutes ago, Bilo said:

 

Cooper said similar. We need to stop falling into the trap of listening to those who sound good. Give it to someone with a track record or upward trajectory instead of a contrite failure again.

Oh I agree anyone can say things and often empty. I was having a discussion test how a lot of managers are like politicians at the minute.

 

I’d argue Man City don’t even play like people perceive Man City to play either. They play quite a few diagonals into wingers it’s not all pass teams to death.

[Bilo]

2 minutes ago, teblin said:

Oh I agree anyone can say things and often empty. I was having a discussion test how a lot of managers are like politicians at the minute.

 

I’d argue Man City don’t even play like people perceive Man City to play either. They play quite a few diagonals into wingers it’s not all pass teams to death.

It's a largely dying style nowadays. As you say, even Manchester City have evolved beyond it and Spain, the founders of tiki-taka, haven’t played it for years.

 

Why we as a club are so obsessed with it when our most iconic success was based on a style that was the absolute antithesis is beyond me. Defensive solidity, pace on the flanks, aggression in the middle and a big striker who can outmuscle CBs and is good in the air. People see it as hoofball, but it certainly wasn't in 2016.