Next Manager

[winteriscoming]

I always look at where a manager leaves us once he’s left and where he started with us. 
So imo O’Neil is the best. 
Closely followed by Pearson and Ranieri. 
I know I’m contradicting myself with Ranieri but what he achieved in that season will never be forgotten or repeated. 
As for Rodgers we played some brilliant football under him for about 18 months and then I genuinely think he got bored and wanted the payoff and sack. Our stupid fault for giving him such a lucrative contract. 

[Chown]

21 minutes ago, Kitchandro said:

We improved with an underperforming side for the first year and then stagnated and declined consistently for 2 and a half years.

 

We were very good in certain games because we had very good players, and in even more games we were bang average and the players would get us out of jail with a moment of magic. The football was generally horrible to watch, people only remember the highlights.

 

How can the best manager we’ve ever had completely destroy the club with negative football, dreadful signings and disrespect? There’s a great argument to say he’s up there with Taylor with the worst we’ve ever had. The trajectory is extremely similar, so why is do we not laud Taylor for having us in the top 3 for most of the season yet you do with Rodgers?

 

Personally, I’d have pulled the plug on him as well if he spent that £200m on the players that he did. He was backed to the hilt and deserved no more backing after saddling us with so many poor players and failing to make the top 5.

 

Many managers have got more out of less quality at the club when they joined. Little, O’Neill, Pearson, Claudio. These are our best managers because they got the best out of what they had. Rodgers did the opposite. Rodgers did a Taylor.

‘There’s a great argument to say he’s up there with Taylor as the worst we’ve ever had’.

 

The only manager in our 141 year history to win the FA Cup. Only manager in our history to achieve back-to-back European campaigns.

 

It really is quite depressing that some fans have this mindset.

[Merchant_Banker]

1 hour ago, lcfc_forever said:

Don’t know much about him but part of Red Bull and worked under Guardiola as well: 

 

 

Bald foreign bloke with a beard who used to work with Pep? Get him in!

[Claudio Fannieri]

26 minutes ago, winteriscoming said:

I always look at where a manager leaves us once he’s left and where he started with us. 
So imo O’Neil is the best. 
Closely followed by Pearson and Ranieri. 
I know I’m contradicting myself with Ranieri but what he achieved in that season will never be forgotten or repeated. 
As for Rodgers we played some brilliant football under him for about 18 months and then I genuinely think he got bored and wanted the payoff and sack. Our stupid fault for giving him such a lucrative contract. 

You can also add Brian Little to that list as well, he came in and did a superb job of turning the club around. 

[JimmyC74]

30 minutes ago, Chown said:

‘There’s a great argument to say he’s up there with Taylor as the worst we’ve ever had’.

 

The only manager in our 141 year history to win the FA Cup. Only manager in our history to achieve back-to-back European campaigns.

 

It really is quite depressing that some fans have this mindset.

Early Brendan was undoubtedly up there as one of the best managers in our history. no question.

 

If that initial success was sublime, the decline which followed was ridiculous, pitiful and pathetic  - though players, Board and Rodgers all share the blame - and his legacy is tarred by the impact of that relegation and bombscare the Club is now.

 

His status is particularly a consequence of him bringing in Congerton who was a disaster and transfer dealings towards the end but, the Board / Top was as much to blame with this and culpable for not reigning him in / sacking him earlier.

 

 

 

 

Edited 31 May 2025 by JimmyC74

[pmcla26]

Just now, JimmyC74 said:

Early Brendan was undoubtedly up there as one of the best managers in our history. no question.

 

If that initial success was sublime, the decline which followed was ridiculous, pitiful and pathetic  - though players, Board and Rodgers all share the blame - and his legacy is tarred by the impact of that relegation and bombscare the Club is now.

 

His status is particularly a consequence of him bringing in Congerton who was a disaster and transfer dealings towards the end but, the Board / Top was as much to blame with this and not reigning him in / sacking him earlier.

 

 

 

 

His decision making in his last season was stupid (Ward and Amartey) but he didn’t just become a bad coach overnight.
 

If the board had our house in order and we had a proper summer backing him in 2022 then we’d still be mid-table Premier League now. 

[MattFox]

Aiyawatt’s been in the UK for the last three weeks straight for anyone that cares 

[Gravel]

6 minutes ago, MattFox said:

Aiyawatt’s been in the UK for the last three weeks straight for anyone that cares 

Polo season. 

[JimmyC74]

2 minutes ago, pmcla26 said:

His decision making in his last season was stupid (Ward and Amartey) but he didn’t just become a bad coach overnight.
 

If the board had our house in order and we had a proper summer backing him in 2022 then we’d still be mid-table Premier League now. 

No, he didn't become a bad manager overnight.  

 

Trouble was at the height of his powers he pushed for greater influence (see Congerton) and Rudders / Top etc couldn't / didn't want to push back.  We made signings that didn't work out (it happens), we lost control of the finances (Rudders, Board accountable) and could never recover, we couldn't simply buy again, replace the dross, move out the deadwood and in parallel Rodgers lost a number of the squad.

 

Lots of blame to be shared around.   

[Donwebbio]

Good Manager's don't leave clubs in worse states than when they took over. Rodgers took a sports car and turned it into a Vauxhall Polo. We had some brilliant moments under him including the FA Cup win and the Arsenal win in November 2019 which was a personal favourite of mine, but any player or manager who stops trying, or even worse sabotages, immediately loses all my respect. Ultimately though, any failures land with his employers who allowed him full control and acted far, far too late in getting rid.

[Pliskin]

1 hour ago, Kitchandro said:

We improved with an underperforming side for the first year and then stagnated and declined consistently for 2 and a half years.

 

We were very good in certain games because we had very good players, and in even more games we were bang average and the players would get us out of jail with a moment of magic. The football was generally horrible to watch, people only remember the highlights.

 

How can the best manager we’ve ever had completely destroy the club with negative football, dreadful signings and disrespect? There’s a great argument to say he’s up there with Taylor with the worst we’ve ever had. The trajectory is extremely similar, so why is do we not laud Taylor for having us in the top 3 for most of the season yet you do with Rodgers?

 

Personally, I’d have pulled the plug on him as well if he spent that £200m on the players that he did. He was backed to the hilt and deserved no more backing after saddling us with so many poor players and failing to make the top 5.

 

Many managers have got more out of less quality at the club when they joined. Little, O’Neill, Pearson, Claudio. These are our best managers because they got the best out of what they had. Rodgers did the opposite. Rodgers did a Taylor.

I think this is a tad harsh. Yes when it went stale it went stale, and there are certainly question marks over his approach to transfers V player profiles. But, it can’t be denied when we were good, we were ****ing good. The best performance I’ve ever seen by a Leicester team, was the dismantling of Aston Villa away a few years ago, it was simply sensational, we rocked up and just toyed with them for 90 minutes. And we did that a lot. Rodgers was bitty towards the end, but how much of that was down to what started to become the makings of a fracture bored room I don’t know……. His ability as a man for man coach is the best we’ve had in my opinion, to compare him to Taylor is really unfair, he delivered us the FA cup….. 

 

The destruction of the squad is unfair too, that falls to the board room. They decided to give him more creative licence, but they also dished out these horrendous contracts, they clearly weren’t honest with Brendan in making him think things were better than they were financially. The board are to blame for the destruction of the squad, they carry much more of the can than Rodgers did. 

[cityfanlee23]

2 hours ago, lcfc_forever said:

Don’t know much about him but part of Red Bull and worked under Guardiola as well: 

 

 

Huge fan of Salz over the last few years, there’s a couple of players I’d love to snatch from them too, Oscar Gloukh will 100% move to the Bundesliga in the next season or so, could be worth snapping up if we have to sell the likes of Bilal although I’m not sure the prices would be wildly different so maybe would t be appropriate right now. 
Love the Red Bull system, love their network. 
 

I still maintain that given Rangnick is reportedly only on 30k a week in his capacity as Austria coach, I would LOVE to see us put in an ambitious bid for him to become DOF. 
 

Rangnick guiding Cinel could be a gamble that sets us up for the future. 

[AjcW]

8 minutes ago, cityfanlee23 said:

Huge fan of Salz over the last few years, there’s a couple of players I’d love to snatch from them too, Oscar Gloukh will 100% move to the Bundesliga in the next season or so, could be worth snapping up if we have to sell the likes of Bilal although I’m not sure the prices would be wildly different so maybe would t be appropriate right now. 
Love the Red Bull system, love their network. 
 

I still maintain that given Rangnick is reportedly only on 30k a week in his capacity as Austria coach, I would LOVE to see us put in an ambitious bid for him to become DOF. 
 

Rangnick guiding Cinel could be a gamble that sets us up for the future. 

Hamza and Gloukh in the same dressing room will end well  

[PhillippaT]

3 hours ago, JimmyC74 said:

Early Brendan was undoubtedly up there as one of the best managers in our history. no question.

 

If that initial success was sublime, the decline which followed was ridiculous, pitiful and pathetic  - though players, Board and Rodgers all share the blame - and his legacy is tarred by the impact of that relegation and bombscare the Club is now.

 

His status is particularly a consequence of him bringing in Congerton who was a disaster and transfer dealings towards the end but, the Board / Top was as much to blame with this and culpable for not reigning him in / sacking him earlier.

 

 

 

 

I beleive the applicable phrase is: "From the sublime to the cor blimey..."

[sm1]

3 hours ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

You can also add Brian Little to that list as well, he came in and did a superb job of turning the club around. 

Having lived through the Pleat years, this guy was one of the most influential managers we've had. The only reason Little doesn't get the credit he deserves, is because of the way he left.

[Winstonthedog]

Truth be told ... the owner, board and dof have got the club in such a poor state they probably haven't a clue what to do about it... so by no communication and being upfront with matters is the only way they can deal with it  ... there is probably more to things than will ever come to light

[cropstonfox]

Taylor and Rodgers a pair of narcissists

Who's egos got in the way of logic.

Both destroyed other people's teams.

Rodgers had a ride on the back of the good

Players, before he slowly eroded the squad

Filling it with overpaid terrible signings.

Taylor tried to move on the big players

Cottee, walsh etc without signing adequate

Replacements.

Frank mclintock was also a team dismantler who systematically destroyed

Bloomfields team.

He did it with equal incompetence as Taylor and Rogers,but he never had their arrogance .

 

Edited 31 May 2025 by cropstonfox

[CosbehFox]

Francesco Farioli - leftfield but Enzo / De Zerbi style, can see it 

[Spudulike]

7 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

Francesco Farioli - leftfield but Enzo / De Zerbi style, can see it 

And currently unemployed (ie no compo).

[Muzzy_Izzn’t]

1 hour ago, cropstonfox said:

Taylor and Rodgers a pair of narcissists

Who's egos got in the way of logic.

Both destroyed other people's teams.

Rodgers had a ride on the back of the good

Players, before he slowly eroded the squad

Filling it with overpaid terrible signings.

Taylor tried to move on the big players

Cottee, walsh etc without signing adequate

Replacements.

Frank mclintock was also a team dismantler who systematically destroyed

Bloomfields team.

He did it with equal incompetence as Taylor and Rogers,but he never had their arrogance .

 

Is that you John Cooper Clarke??

[cropstonfox]

12 minutes ago, Muzzy_Izzn’t said:

Is that you John Cooper Clarke??

[sishades]

5 hours ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

You can also add Brian Little to that list as well, he came in and did a superb job of turning the club around. 

Imagine the outrage today if our club appointed a manager from league 2!

[LCFCJohn]

8 hours ago, sishades said:

Imagine the outrage today if our club appointed a manager from league 2!

Before my time (or around the time I was born but not obviously following football).

 

I have heard of Brian Little but not really aware of him in the same was as MON onwards when I was a bit older.

 

So whilst he came from Darlington in what is now L2 to us in the Championship, we had just avoided relegation and hadn’t spent a lot of recent time in the atop flight so I suppose we were a different second tier prospect at that point to now for example.

 

That said, personally I just want someone who brings the right attributes. Playing younger players to use the academic, a hard working squad, not fixated on possession for possessions sake but is adaptable in how to face different challenges. 
 

If I could actually pick the new manager, it would still be Wellens as I just have a good feeling about him and what he could bring. It’s not L2 but still someone who has only managed up to L1 level. Unfortunately, when he gets mentioned there are comments about his track record or not having managed at Championship level so I fear you are right. 
 

That said, on here anyway, you see a lot of names mentioned who manage overseas so I don’t think our fans are the problem. It is the owner and board having an obsession with ‘PL experience tm’ that is killing us. 
 

I think if the club showed a willingness to take a punt on someone from a lower league and demonstrated they had done their due diligence, the fans would probably get behind that. 
 

Going back to Little, he obviously did well. Even back then, if it had gone badly, the attitude towards having taken a manager from 2 leagues below might have been different!

[JimmyC74]

8 hours ago, sishades said:

Imagine the outrage today if our club appointed a manager from league 2!

The Club is much different to what it was then - and Little was a young manager with back to back promotions I seem to recall - so I don’t remember the appointment being that controversial (but maybe I am forgetting).

 

I think a lot of fans would get behind a young progressive managerial appointment- the support for likes of Rôhl and Muslic are examples of that.

[Gravel]

Another day on of being no further enlightened as to what the fvck is going on at the top of our club.

 

Happy Sunday everyone.