Next Manager

[TheGoldenGod]

5 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

I was saying it was lazy journalism from unreliable sources all along, but did anyone listen. No, they preferred to wallow in typical LCFC misery.

There were a few on here saying it was nonsense, you weren't alone.

[FerrisBueller]

I’m Dyche in purely on the basis of hearing some Leicester themed motivational WAVs on Athletico Mince.

[Jon the Hat]

I would be pretty happy with Dyche actually.  I look forward to him identifying a brand new chip for his shoulder in our favour, and to finding out what it is.

[kingfox]

Even though I believe the more experienced names are underwhelming, of the managers that are available, Hasenhuttl > Dyche for me. 
 

At least Hasenhuttl plays a better brand of football, plus his track record of developing and using younger players is absolutely excellent.
 

I’d take him on a two year deal, see if he can bring us some stability, then if he is still with us after two years, reassess and potentially get in someone younger.  

[Tommy G]

Just now, kingfox said:

Even though I believe the more experienced names are underwhelming, of the managers that are available, Hasenhuttl > Dyche for me. 
 

At least Hasenhuttl plays a better brand of football, plus his track record of developing and using younger players is absolutely excellent.
 

I’d take him on a two year deal, see if he can bring us some stability, then if he is still with us after two years, reassess and potentially get in someone younger.  

He says chest puffed out with Dyche as his profile picture. 

[kingfox]

4 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

He says chest puffed out with Dyche as his profile picture. 

Someone had to replace the Russell Martin profile pic  

 

I can read Leicester City like a book, Dyche was unfortunately always going to come into the managerial conversation again. 
 

And knowing this club, it wouldn’t be a surprise if we bloody appoint him. 

Edited 4 June 2025 by kingfox

[Scotch]

40 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

On what basis? It makes no sense whatsoever.

You're telling me that a young, big name with experience managing in the UK who looks to play possession football isn't exactly the profile our owners look for? 

[ClaphamFox]

14 minutes ago, Scotch said:

You're telling me that a young, big name with experience managing in the UK who looks to play possession football isn't exactly the profile our owners look for? 

Given that the most important part of that ‘experience’ was an abject failure, I’d hope our owners would steer clear. 

[Scotch]

Ah.... now I see the issue. You still have faith in our owners!

[Iwebema]

1 hour ago, AKCJ said:

I genuinely believe that with good players, a budget to spend, a good academy backing him up and time to implement a proper rebuild that Dyche is the man for the job.

 

He'd be the new Nigel Pearson. Someone that comes in, cuts out all the shit, restores the dressing room in the manager's favour and I think he'd do a good job at trimming the wage bill.

 

I also think that his teams are capable of playing good football but his first priority is winning games. Much rather a manager who works out the best way to score goals than someone who would rather make 95% pass completion for every player as we pass from side to side all day.

 

Yes I think it shows how far we've fallen, but we have. Besides a manager like Rohl (who we're not going to pay the release clause for) we'll be looking at the likes of Ancelotti which is a monumental risk. We're not going to fluke another Enzo.

I can certainly see the argument that its slim pickings based on how we recruit managers, i.e we wont look far and wide, and he may be the safest person we can get. But I personally dont think hes even close to Nigel in terms of innovation and football strategy. 

 

Do I think he could get us back up? Absolutely, minus ludicrous points deductions, I think our squad is going to be very good and it will be hard to fail badly this year.

My worry is he neglects or pushes academy products aside and we end up with a team of old cloggers with no resale value and youth products seeing no pathway and just leave.

 

I feel like dyche is on the back end of his mangerial career within the modern game and is heading down the pathway of a Pardew, where he had some success but the game is moving on and if you dont keep up and just look at the new way of doing things as "nonsense" you become irrelevant very quickly.

 

This is of course only an opinion and I would be very happy to be proven wrong if he does come in! It just feels like a classic lazy and easy appointment.

I'm going to remain hopeful that we can find a way to get Rohl as unlikely as it feels.

[Tommy G]

21 minutes ago, kingfox said:

Someone had to replace the Russell Martin profile pic  

 

I can read Leicester City like a book, Dyche was unfortunately always going to come into the managerial conversation again. 
 

And knowing this club, it wouldn’t be a surprise if we bloody appoint him. 

I know, just pulling your plonker 

[Bluetintedspecs]

What makes me laugh about this forum is that swathes of people were giving it the "it's gonna be Martin ain't it , the club are clueless" they now are giving it the "it's gonna be [insert name to moan about] the club are clueless"

Reality is 'nobody has a clue who it's gonna be but it's a fantastic opportunity to moan like a bitch and slate everything about the club' Happy FoxesTalk days 🤣

[Iwebema]

15 minutes ago, Bluetintedspecs said:

What makes me laugh about this forum is that swathes of people were giving it the "it's gonna be Martin ain't it , the club are clueless" they now are giving it the "it's gonna be [insert name to moan about] the club are clueless"

Reality is 'nobody has a clue who it's gonna be but it's a fantastic opportunity to moan like a bitch and slate everything about the club' Happy FoxesTalk days 🤣

What else am I supposed to do instead of working!? 😅

[stu]

 

Won't be Carsley then.

[kingfox]

25 minutes ago, Bluetintedspecs said:

What makes me laugh about this forum is that swathes of people were giving it the "it's gonna be Martin ain't it , the club are clueless" they now are giving it the "it's gonna be [insert name to moan about] the club are clueless"

it's a fantastic opportunity to moan like a bitch and slate everything about the club'

[Deeg67]

1 hour ago, kingfox said:

Even though I believe the more experienced names are underwhelming, of the managers that are available, Hasenhuttl > Dyche for me. 
 

At least Hasenhuttl plays a better brand of football, plus his track record of developing and using younger players is absolutely excellent.
 

I’d take him on a two year deal, see if he can bring us some stability, then if he is still with us after two years, reassess and potentially get in someone younger.  

Ralph is an underrated manager. Not a world-beater but a very good man manager who develops young players, and passable tactically.

[moore_94]

1 hour ago, kingfox said:

Someone had to replace the Russell Martin profile pic  

 

I can read Leicester City like a book, Dyche was unfortunately always going to come into the managerial conversation again. 
 

And knowing this club, it wouldn’t be a surprise if we bloody appoint him. 

I was hoping as a club we could stop going after people involved for Southampton in the 9-0 

[John rayner]

14 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

I was hoping as a club we could stop going after people involved for Southampton in the 9-0 

Well we need to get a manager in sooner rather than later imo ,,I still believe RVN will still be in charge next season 

[kingfox]

28 minutes ago, Deeg67 said:

Ralph is an underrated manager. Not a world-beater but a very good man manager who develops young players, and passable tactically.

He’d be a bit of a meh option, but with our squad as it is, with a plethora of youngsters coming through, Hasenhuttl would be a great fit imo. 
 

I was delving into average ages of squads and starting 11’s last night, as I’ve mentioned before with Dyche, his name always crops up on the “Oldest Squads” or “Oldest starting 11” lists. 
 

Hasenhuttl is the complete opposite, look at this for example from his time at Leipzig. 

 

His name crops up on the “Youngest starting 11” list while he was at Southampton and Wolfsburg too. 
 

It’s exactly what we need at Leicester City right now imo, a manager who will produce something like the above. 

[foxpleasure]

1 hour ago, Iwebema said:

I can certainly see the argument that its slim pickings based on how we recruit managers, i.e we wont look far and wide, and he may be the safest person we can get. But I personally dont think hes even close to Nigel in terms of innovation and football strategy. 

 

Do I think he could get us back up? Absolutely, minus ludicrous points deductions, I think our squad is going to be very good and it will be hard to fail badly this year.

My worry is he neglects or pushes academy products aside and we end up with a team of old cloggers with no resale value and youth products seeing no pathway and just leave.

 

I feel like dyche is on the back end of his mangerial career within the modern game and is heading down the pathway of a Pardew, where he had some success but the game is moving on and if you dont keep up and just look at the new way of doing things as "nonsense" you become irrelevant very quickly.

 

This is of course only an opinion and I would be very happy to be proven wrong if he does come in! It just feels like a classic lazy and easy appointment.

I'm going to remain hopeful that we can find a way to get Rohl as unlikely as it feels.

Didn't know he was a manager.

[Tommy G]

28 minutes ago, John rayner said:

Well we need to get a manager in sooner rather than later imo ,,I still believe RVN will still be in charge next season 

Whats the manager doing between now and 1st July? Secondly, let them at least attempt to get the right person - what is the point in rushing? (I have no faith they will appoint someone sensible either)

[CosbehFox]

2 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Whats the manager doing between now and 1st July? Secondly, let them at least attempt to get the right person - what is the point in rushing? (I have no faith they will appoint someone sensible either)

I’d argue pre season preparation (which was a disaster under Cooper for example), getting coaches aligned with existing sports science/conditioning staff and alignment of transfer decisions etc (this at the moment you’d assume is all over the place) 

 

They’ve had since the end of April to get this going 

Edited 4 June 2025 by CosbehFox

[Tommy G]

1 minute ago, CosbehFox said:

I’d argue pre season preparation (which was a disaster under Cooper for example), getting coaches aligned with existing sports science/conditioning staff and alignment of transfer decisions etc (this at the moment you’d assume is all over the place) 

 

They’ve had since the end of April to get this going 

Do you think John Rudkin cares about aligning transfer strategy with the new manager?

[FrankieADZ]

if its Dyche, dont expect to see the young lads given a chance, cos he rarely does that

 

id a rather had Martin than Dyche, 

Dyche does not fit the club and the players we have atm

its pretty clear, as the club want to go back to the model of selling one "star" a season, and those are usually up and coming younger talents.....ones which dyche would rarely use

Also point out, look how much better Moyes  has made Everton since he took over from Dyche, in every single aspect

Edited 4 June 2025 by FrankieADZ

[CosbehFox]

2 minutes ago, Tommy G said:

Do you think John Rudkin cares about aligning transfer strategy with the new manager?

No cos he’s shit at his job but that wasn’t the point of the original poster.