Realistic Managerial Replacements

[Benji]

2 hours ago, Leicesterpool said:

Looks like MON is staying on at Celtic, otherwise I'd welcome it. You could name him manager tomorrow and it would be a home sell out against Ipswich.

 

Richie Wellens still doing a great job at Orient, he's the man we need to get this club up and running.

Fire up the old Blame Wellens thread.

[Gamble92]

2 minutes ago, Benji said:

Fire up the old Blame Wellens thread.

Locked and loaded ready for deployment sir

[Mendi]

Martin O’Neill back at Leicester ? Until end of season type deal?

[jimsmallman]

I want Wellens. Or maybe Carrick. Prefer the former as he seems to be a grafter and I’d like to see him squaring up to Harry Winks. 
 

Not necessarily at training, either. In a Starbucks, hotel lobby, on a dog walk. Just anywhere Winks is.  Even if he’s not our manager. 

[Nolucklcfc]

I almost don’t want any last legends to be managers. Why should they let these players tarnish their legacy?

[Leicesterpool]

I wonder if we chanted the manager we want the board would listen or like everything else we'd be ignored.

[LCFCJohn]

I also want Wellens.

 

Look at one of his scorers at the weekend. His son Charlie. Gerrim in, he can bring Charlie, next trip to Thailand, go all James Pearson and bang, PL title no2 round the corner 

 

I like the Wellens shout and was keen earlier in the year but at this point, we were likely still too big a jump. Now we are a natural step for a higher end L1 manager. He has some bite about him as well. He would have to be given full backing and patience to get rid of the bad eggs though as they would likely see themselves as above him given his playing career was predominately second tier level.

[Sly]

I do think defeat against Derby.

 

Points deduction pushing us into the bottom three.

 

Cifuentes will be gone and we hopefully install someone in the Puel model that is a bit more experienced if not a little dull, to get us up the table  with a pragmatic approach.

 

This squad isn’t capable of playing the football that Tops wants. We need to be realistic with the players that we have and what sort of coach we employ afterwards! 

[Sly]

7 hours ago, Mendi said:

Martin O’Neill back at Leicester ? Until end of season type deal?

His stay is going to be extended most likely to the end of the season with Celtic. 
 

At this point though, I’d take Roy Keane 

[ClaphamFox]

6 hours ago, Leicesterpool said:

I wonder if we chanted the manager we want the board would listen or like everything else we'd be ignored.

The sound of a dozen different names being chanted by different sections of the crowd at the same time is only likely to generate an incoherent noise and, yes, the board would probably just ignore that. 

[Sly]

I sort of see it as we’ve got various options to take us forward at this point.

 

List 1 - We could go down the route many of expect and I’d  imagine the likely favourites will be Michael Carrick, Russell Martin, Gary O’Neil, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, David Wagner, Liam

Manning or Lee Carsley.

 

 
List 2 - We’ve then got the outsiders in people that are in jobs of similar level clubs, who we won’t to pay money for, like Mark Robins, Robbie Keane, Kevin Muscat, Carlos Coberan, Alex Neil, Paul Heckingbottom, Tony Mowbray, Gary Rowett, Liam Rosineior, Brian Barry-Murphy, Stanimir Stoilov, Kjetil Knutsen, Chris Davies or Chris Wilder. 

 

 

List 3 - Then we come to the real left field and people that might slot in and haven’t been considered. People like Damien Duff, Gareth Southgate, Steven Gerrard, Dean Smith, Vito Perreria, Neil Warnock, Sam Alladyche, John Terry, Claude Puel, Mick McCarthy, Stev McClaren, Steve Bruce or Alan Sheehan. 

 

 

List 4 - I’d say Ange Postecoglou would be a serious left field appointment at this point, after his disaster at Forest. Similar to Will Still, who just had a disaster at Southampton, or Daniel Farley if (or maybe when), he leaves Leeds United. John Mushino is another that might be considered, if he gets the bullet at Portsmouth. I’m putting Kieran McKenna in here as well!

 

List 5 - O’Neill won’t come back here. We are a completely different club now, to when he left. Andy King has shown absolutely nothing to suggest he’s capable of being a steady coach, never mind the person to lead us forward. Then we have Brendan Rodgers who gave us 2 years of great football and an FA Cup,  that last 18 months has so tarnished his reputation though, he just wouldn’t be accepted. I wouldn’t come back here, as this squad isn’t setup for him to elevate himself. You can also throw Esteban Cambiasso in here, as he’ll get mentioned but outside of a Colombian U21s stint, he’s not interested. Jesse Marsh is also better off managing Canada at this point. 

 

 

 
List 6 - This is the list of lower league Managers who are making a name for themselves. People like Alex Revell, Michael Skubala, Dave Challinor, Richie Wellens, Graham Alexander, Robbie Savage, 

 

I’m going to say our next two coaches likely come from the above lists. 

At the moment in time, I’d say we’ll be appointing someone from List 1 or List 3, after the Derby game.

 

 

 

 

 

[Tommy Fresh]

29 minutes ago, Sly said:

I sort of see it as we’ve got various options to take us forward at this point.

 

List 1 - We could go down the route many of expect and I’d  imagine the likely favourites will be Michael Carrick, Russell Martin, Gary O’Neil, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, David Wagner, Liam

Manning or Lee Carsley.

 

 
List 2 - We’ve then got the outsiders in people that are in jobs of similar level clubs, who we won’t to pay money for, like Mark Robins, Robbie Keane, Kevin Muscat, Carlos Coberan, Alex Neil, Paul Heckingbottom, Tony Mowbray, Gary Rowett, Liam Rosineior, Brian Barry-Murphy, Stanimir Stoilov, Kjetil Knutsen, Chris Davies or Chris Wilder. 

 

 

List 3 - Then we come to the real left field and people that might slot in and haven’t been considered. People like Damien Duff, Gareth Southgate, Steven Gerrard, Dean Smith, Vito Perreria, Neil Warnock, Sam Alladyche, John Terry, Claude Puel, Mick McCarthy, Stev McClaren, Steve Bruce or Alan Sheehan. 

 

 

List 4 - I’d say Ange Postecoglou would be a serious left field appointment at this point, after his disaster at Forest. Similar to Will Still, who just had a disaster at Southampton, or Daniel Farley if (or maybe when), he leaves Leeds United. John Mushino is another that might be considered, if he gets the bullet at Portsmouth. I’m putting Kieran McKenna in here as well!

 

List 5 - O’Neill won’t come back here. We are a completely different club now, to when he left. Andy King has shown absolutely nothing to suggest he’s capable of being a steady coach, never mind the person to lead us forward. Then we have Brendan Rodgers who gave us 2 years of great football and an FA Cup,  that last 18 months has so tarnished his reputation though, he just wouldn’t be accepted. I wouldn’t come back here, as this squad isn’t setup for him to elevate himself. You can also throw Esteban Cambiasso in here, as he’ll get mentioned but outside of a Colombian U21s stint, he’s not interested. Jesse Marsh is also better off managing Canada at this point. 

 

 

 
List 6 - This is the list of lower league Managers who are making a name for themselves. People like Alex Revell, Michael Skubala, Dave Challinor, Richie Wellens, Graham Alexander, Robbie Savage, 

 

I’m going to say our next two coaches likely come from the above lists. 

At the moment in time, I’d say we’ll be appointing someone from List 1 or List 3, after the Derby game.

 

 

 

 

 

You've named about 50 so it's highly likely 

[JayT - Always A Fox!]

Liam Rosenior for me! Decent job at Hull, doing fairly well in France. Pay the money top and pull your finger out! Don’t think he’ll leave them though, looks destined for PL.

[Gamble92]

8 hours ago, Nolucklcfc said:

I almost don’t want any last legends to be managers. Why should they let these players tarnish their legacy?

The unblemished, revered and mythological legacy of Richie Wellens

[Ric Flair]

I reckon we'd go for Carlos Carvahal

[Tommy Fresh]

3 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

I reckon we'd go for Carlos Carvahal

Said before it's weird we haven't really been linked with him over the past couple of years

[izzymuzzet]

Been a while since we appointed an older manager isn't it? Ranieri must have been the last one over 55 or so? 

 

Reckon we need some grizzled, chain-smoking, leather-faced unit to sort these losers out. Cifuentes, Cooper et al have been too keen to be mates with the players. I want someone with no time for any more friends because he's got 18 grandchildren. I want someone who doesn't know what a TikTok is and insists on players wearing a jacket to dinner. 

[Ric Flair]

50 minutes ago, izzymuzzet said:

Been a while since we appointed an older manager isn't it? Ranieri must have been the last one over 55 or so? 

 

Reckon we need some grizzled, chain-smoking, leather-faced unit to sort these losers out. Cifuentes, Cooper et al have been too keen to be mates with the players. I want someone with no time for any more friends because he's got 18 grandchildren. I want someone who doesn't know what a TikTok is and insists on players wearing a jacket to dinner. 

Mowbray?

[Pliskin]

Big Sam. 

[Nolucklcfc]

1 hour ago, Gamble92 said:

The unblemished, revered and mythological legacy of Richie Wellens

I actually do like Wellens but I don’t think he’d be ready for a job of this size. 

[Muzzy_no7]

MON is too old and people need to look at his recent club experience particularly the job at Forest. My broken left small toe could run Celtic. 

 

Wellens, job is WAY too big for him. Besides has he really excelled enough yet to be offered a job at a club like ours? (I’ll give you the answer, it’s no) 

 

Providing Pearson is healthy enough he’d be a much better option than MON.

 

Bo Svensson might actually fancy us but our board won’t have heard of him. 
 

Carrick and Woodgate would be a relatively safe pair of hands IMO, we wouldn’t go down but I couldn’t see them rallying us for a promotion charge. 
 

Dave Challinor would be an outstanding appointment providing the club also manage to get Simon Wilson and Clint Hill with him. 

[moore_94]

14 hours ago, Leicesterpool said:

Looks like MON is staying on at Celtic, otherwise I'd welcome it. You could name him manager tomorrow and it would be a home sell out against Ipswich.

 

Richie Wellens still doing a great job at Orient, he's the man we need to get this club up and running.

I think O’Neill is only staying for 1 more game, they are just waiting for a work permit for Wilfried Nancy

[Guest]

I've seen a few shouts for Tony Mowbray, can anyone enlighten me as to why exactly? Took over at West Brom with them sixth, sacked with less points per game than Cifuentes has with us. A friend of mine supports them and some of the criticisms were pretty similar to ours at the moment - nice guy but no discernible structure or plan with team and players looking lost, couldn't really manage games and weird team selections like playing Grady Diangana deep in midfield. If the hope is that he'll come in and give everyone a kick up the arse because he's a good old-fashioned proper British gaffer then that hope might be misplaced because the consensus also seemed to be that he was a bit of a soft touch and their discipline collapsed after he took over. 

 

I get that if we do end up looking for a new manager the shortlist is likely going to make for uninspiring reading but I really can't see the appeal. Is it just that Pearson isn't coming back but we still want a 62-year-old former Boro player who's recently been really ill?

[Pliskin]

Gandalf?

[izzymuzzet]

Mowbray = too woke. Big Sam = not woke enough.