Realistic Managerial Replacements

[trooky]

10 minutes ago, teblin said:

You could replace and it help the journey, I.E an appointment like Pearson/Enzo who had the authority over the players but also had the long term vision.  But you'd need the board to get it right, they also need to get the other appointments right too.

Enzo had a strong character and will, but this forum would have sacked him after defeats to Millwall and Plymouth. 

 

Lampard is doing a great job at Cov, but 99% of the forum turned their nose up at him when we were looking to replace Enzo. 

 

Marti probably isn't the right man, I've no confidence we'll replace him with the right man, so I would give him another 6 - 12 months to try and build something. 

 

We've become a very average team of overpaid willy pullers and  need several seasons to reset and rebuild everything again. 

[Tommy Fresh]

6 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

Wolves are in the Premier League (for now) and they're Edwards' club. They aren't really comparable situations.

 

Bellamy is an interesting shout though, would be nice to have someone even vaguely interesting as manager after the three ghouls we've had recently. Something on a knife-edge that feels as if it could implode at any time would at least add some spice to proceedings 

Yeah but the term Bellers-Ball 

[CarolinaFox]

7 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

It is he recently joined them and had them 2nd. Muslic wouldn’t be on massive wages and he may see us in the championship and a potential rebuild and chance to manage in the prem if successful as an intriguing and potentially exciting project. 

Very few managers will be looking at a squad 13th in the table with a points deduction looming as an exciting project. We are so far from being that type of club. Edward’s was an anomaly and left for sentimental reasons. So no it’s not the same. 

[Sly]

5 minutes ago, teblin said:

You could replace and it help the journey, I.E an appointment like Pearson/Enzo who had the authority over the players but also had the long term vision.  But you'd need the board to get it right, they also need to get the other appointments right too.

Whilst Pearson do a great job, not once but twice, I think for all coaches they need a bit of luck as well. 
 

This is why the likes of Almorin are struggling now. It takes years to change the squad and we’ve almost got to nail our flag to the mast with the right manager and let them get on with a multi year rebuild. 
 

For me that man isn’t Marti and I don’t think he’s strong enough.

 

If you look at the coaches that have been successful, they have a ruthless streak in them. 
 

I reflect on my crazy prediction that we’d win the league even after a points deduction and I now think that this is the worst squad Leicester have had in the Championship in years.

 

13/14 - Pearson had Schemichel, Vardy, Morgan, Drinkwater, King, James, Schlupp, Mahrez, Knockaert, Wood, 

 

12/13 - Again Schmeichel, Vardy, Morgan, Knockaert, King, Drinkwater, James, Wellens, Dyer, Schlupp, Nugent, Wood and a cameo by Kane!

 

11/12 - Schmeichel, Morgan, King, Wellens, Nugent, Waghorn, Vassell, Howard, Berner, Dyer

 

10/11 - Davies, Bamba, Bruma, Vitor, Morrison, Moore, Mee, Van Anthony, Naughton, Abe, Oakley, Wellens, Dyer, Yakabu, Fryatt, Howard, Waghorn, Berner

 

09/10 - Brown, Hobbs, Mattock, Berner, Powell, Gallagher,  King, Oakley, Clemence, Wellens, Dyer, Fryatt, Gradel, Howard, Kermogant

 

The current squad has technical ability, I don’t disagree, however if they’d been around at current ability in those years, most of them aren’t getting a game. 

 

 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

8 minutes ago, Sly said:

09/10 - Brown, Hobbs, Mattock, Berner, Powell, Gallagher,  King, Oakley, Clemence, Wellens, Dyer, Fryatt, Gradel, Howard, Kermogant

 

Don't disagree with your point in general, but none of those bolded played for us in the league in 09/10 (and Powell only played twice)

 

[trooky]

13 hours ago, Dahnsouff said:

None until the Techhical Director is in place.

The only problem is it's the same fcukwits appointing them. 🤔

[trooky]

46 minutes ago, Sly said:

If you look at the attributes of the players in our squad, they can only really play one way to be successful. Maresca got them to play that way. 

We have invested poorly and whilst players fitted a system, when we’ve changed manager we just can’t adapt tactically. 

 

Winks, Vestergaard, Mavididi, Faes etc are good players in the right system, This is why no one wants them. Technically they are all good players, however they lack the physicality to almost drag us out of this league. You can carry a few players that are limited, you can’t carry 3/4 of a team.

 

With all the will in the world, no manager is getting Soumare to track runners, or turning Ayew or Daka into a prolific scoring forward.

 

This season is almost a “keep us in the league”, we’ll see more tactically limited players leave and then we move on. 
 

We potentially need players with lesser technical ability and more grit ala Okoli rather than Faes etc. 

 

So do we stick or twist on a head coach, that realistically isn’t going to really get that much more from the same bunch? It’s a rough ask and I can see why people wouldn’t want the job in all

honesty. 
 

We have lost the grit that got us promoted 2 years ago. KDH, Vardy, Ndidi all improve this team due to physicality alone. That’s before you talk

about football IQ and actual ability.

 

People mentioned Dyche yesterday but how is he going to set this squad up? I don’t think anyone who’s half decent takes the job.in put current state. 

Dyche has proven himself to be a very good manager and would be doing much better than Marti with this group of players, but the reports are he was never interested in us. 

 

Judging by the last 3 managers we've had nobody decent is interested in us. 

[Dahnsouff]

34 minutes ago, trooky said:

The only problem is it's the same fcukwits appointing them. 🤔

Fcukwit FC thats us.  

[RoboFox]

25 minutes ago, trooky said:

Dyche has proven himself to be a very good manager and would be doing much better than Marti with this group of players, but the reports are he was never interested in us. 

 

Judging by the last 3 managers we've had nobody decent is interested in us. 

This is why we've ended up with our current manager. 

 

Football people talk. They will know what is happening at this club. They will be aware of the astonishing decline, the lack of a coherent long-term strategy and the crippling financial issues. 

 

We're not an attractive proposition for anyone with a semblance of ability or ambition.

[Les-TA-Jon]

13 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

This is why we've ended up with our current manager. 

 

Football people talk. They will know what is happening at this club. They will be aware of the astonishing decline, the lack of a coherent long-term strategy and the crippling financial issues. 

 

We're not an attractive proposition for anyone with a semblance of ability or ambition.

Different thread but now you're agreeing with me 

[RoboFox]

12 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

Different thread but now you're agreeing with me 

I can hold the opinion that Cifuentes should already be gone and we're not an attractive proposition to top managers at the same time.

[Les-TA-Jon]

Just now, RoboFox said:

I can hold the opinion that Cifuentes should already be gone and we're not an attractive proposition to top managers at the same time.

Fair. My main point is that because everything else is so poor, any managerial change can have limited impact, especially given the club has no footballing intelligence to find a decent replacement and as you say the club is not attractive. 

[Happy Fox]

Robbie Keane?

[winteriscoming]

Slot might be available soon. 

[whoareyaaa]

8 hours ago, Sly said:

Whilst Pearson do a great job, not once but twice, I think for all coaches they need a bit of luck as well. 
 

This is why the likes of Almorin are struggling now. It takes years to change the squad and we’ve almost got to nail our flag to the mast with the right manager and let them get on with a multi year rebuild. 
 

For me that man isn’t Marti and I don’t think he’s strong enough.

 

If you look at the coaches that have been successful, they have a ruthless streak in them. 
 

I reflect on my crazy prediction that we’d win the league even after a points deduction and I now think that this is the worst squad Leicester have had in the Championship in years.

 

13/14 - Pearson had Schemichel, Vardy, Morgan, Drinkwater, King, James, Schlupp, Mahrez, Knockaert, Wood, 

 

12/13 - Again Schmeichel, Vardy, Morgan, Knockaert, King, Drinkwater, James, Wellens, Dyer, Schlupp, Nugent, Wood and a cameo by Kane!

 

11/12 - Schmeichel, Morgan, King, Wellens, Nugent, Waghorn, Vassell, Howard, Berner, Dyer

 

10/11 - Davies, Bamba, Bruma, Vitor, Morrison, Moore, Mee, Van Anthony, Naughton, Abe, Oakley, Wellens, Dyer, Yakabu, Fryatt, Howard, Waghorn, Berner

 

09/10 - Brown, Hobbs, Mattock, Berner, Powell, Gallagher,  King, Oakley, Clemence, Wellens, Dyer, Fryatt, Gradel, Howard, Kermogant

 

The current squad has technical ability, I don’t disagree, however if they’d been around at current ability in those years, most of them aren’t getting a game. 

 

 

you can get players like James for 5m and then blow 20m on Skipp and 20m on Soumare

 

Recruitment should be no.1 priority 

[winteriscoming]

I wouldn’t be surprised if we didn’t try and go a similar route like with Maresca type appointment who’s currently an assistant if/when Cifuentes goes. 

Johnny Heitinga - Wasserman client. 
Giovanni Van Bronckhurst - assistant at Liverpool. 
Zsolt Low - assistant at Chelsea and Bayern Munich when Tuchel was there. 

Not that convinced with any of them but could see us looking at them. 
 

 

 

Edited 27 November 2025 by winteriscoming

[filbertway]

Most of these suggestions are gross

[CarolinaFox]

Martin O'Neil once he's done with Celtic. Has them looking pretty decent. 

[BangBang]

Martín Demichelis

Martín Anselmi

Mark van Bommel

[JimJams]

I'd like Bielsa, but looks like he's going to be staying on with the Uruguay job until the World Cup.

[ronnup]

Anyone that can imprint an effective,  recognisable and cohesive style of play.

[Winstonthedog]

On 25/11/2025 at 21:31, frany104 said:

Who the **** in their right mind would want this job. 

They would have to be pretty desperate.....  insane or even both .... no definitely both 

Edited 27 November 2025 by Winstonthedog
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[dannythefox]

Going to struggle getting a replacement now. Personally I don’t think we’ll sack him especially when our best chance of promotion is play offs. Dyche was the one and he’s taken.

[Mr.Bingles]

We’re not getting promoted this season. Not a chance in hell. Pointless changing manager unless it looks like we’ll go down. Keep him whilst all this restructuring is happening, and we get this points deduction out the way. 

[Number 6]

This season is looking a bit of a write off. If Leeds did chop Farke I'd go for him. Built up a team with a good attitude there and at Norwich, and Leeds scored for fun last year. Probably not a Prem manager but not a concern for us in the short term.