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Realistic Managerial Replacements

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1 hour ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

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. 

Wasn’t Svensson in the running for it before Cifuentes got it? 
Or was he just a foreign name to put out there to make us look like we’d actually looked outside of this country? 
I seem to remember Niko Kovac being in the running before Ruud got it. 

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10 minutes ago, winteriscoming said:

I seem to remember Niko Kovac being in the running before Ruud got it

 

Would that be Niko Kovac, manager of Borussia Dortmund?

 

lol

 

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9 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Would that be Niko Kovac, manager of Borussia Dortmund?

 

lol

 

Yes. At the time before Ruud took over he was readily available. 
I’m not suggesting him coming to us now it was reported that we were interested in him after Cooper left. 

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10 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Would that be Niko Kovac, manager of Borussia Dortmund?

 

lol

 

Kovac was in the running when we sacked Pooper. 
 

He was also in the frame when Enzo left.

 

He was widely mentioned on here as an alternative to Brenda between late 21 and early 22. 

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9 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Kovac was in the running when we sacked Pooper. 
 

He was also in the frame when Enzo left.

 

He was widely mentioned on here as an alternative to Brenda between late 21 and early 22. 

 

I'd personally doubt how much he was genuinely "in the running." He has quite an established, well known style of play that is not what Top wants. 

 

Just paper talk, fan speculation and people reading in to betting odds. 

 

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11 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Kovac was in the running when we sacked Pooper. 
 

He was also in the frame when Enzo left.

 

He was widely mentioned on here as an alternative to Brenda between late 21 and early 22. 

The alternative to Brendan between that time was Kovac, Slot and Glasner. 
How times change. 

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8 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

I'd personally doubt how much he was genuinely "in the running." He has quite an established, well known style of play that is not what Top wants. 

 

Just paper talk, fan speculation and people reading in to betting odds. 

 

Palace managed to get Glasner. 

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4 hours ago, Sly said:

I’d say Ange Postecoglou would be a serious left field appointment at this point,

At this point if we're going to be shit, lets at least be scoring goals and playing good football.

 

I'm Ange in.

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3 minutes ago, BrilliantFox said:

At this point if we're going to be shit, lets at least be scoring goals and playing good football.

 

I'm Ange in.

Yeah it would be disastrous, and fun. Huge improvement on recent times. 

 

Im fully expecting to ditch the season ticket for 2026. Will take a big culture shift in the next 30 days for me to reconsider 

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19 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

Kjetil Knutsen

Great shout but would he come? 

 

He's been there years and although money talks he's gonna suspect he won't be at Leicester that many years!

 

I suppose the other thing to ask that despite the games in Europe what's his experience at the level of the English game - not sure how comparable the football is what he's overseeing atm?

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11 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

I'm not sure you actually read the post you responded to?

 

Tbf I thought at a glance you meant he was too big for us, my bad. 
 

Although this ‘not what Top wants’ stuff is a bit weird given the Smith, Pooper and Marti appointments while not going for the likes of Corberan or Rohl given they are far more progressive than the aforementioned. 

 

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10 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Smith, Pooper and Marti

 

1. Come on, Pooper, are you 12?

 

2. Smith was "anyone will do to steady the ship", not really a long term appointment.

 

3. Puel, Rodgers, Maresca, Cooper, Ruud and Cifuentes were all hired under the expectation that they'll play football the "right way", which to Top is passing football. We know there's a massive lack of football intelligence at the club, all of those men had massively different footballing styles and it was naive to lump them in together but on  a superficial level they were all considered to be "possession" managers and that's why they were hired.

 

I don't believe Kovac would have really been in the running any more than Dyche has ever seriously been considered by the club. He has quite a clearly defined style of play and it's not what Top wants, whether people like that or not.

 

Rohl is the only real outlier we've apparently considered and I think it's worth pointing out he didn't ACTUALLY get the job and we don't know if we really, actually did favour him over Cifuentes. 

 

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5 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

1. Come on, Pooper, are you 12?

 

2. Smith was "anyone will do to steady the ship", not really a long term appointment.

 

3. Puel, Rodgers, Maresca, Cooper, Ruud and Cifuentes were all hired under the expectation that they'll play football the "right way", which to Top is passing football. We know there's a massive lack of football intelligence at the club, all of those men had massively different footballing styles and it was naive to lump them in together but on  a superficial level they were all considered to be "possession" managers and that's why they were hired.

 

I don't believe Kovac would have really been in the running any more than Dyche has ever seriously been considered by the club. He has quite a clearly defined style of play and it's not what Top wants, whether people like that or not.

 

Rohl is the only real outlier we've apparently considered and I think it's worth pointing out he didn't ACTUALLY get the job and we don't know if we really, actually did favour him over Cifuentes. 

 

Where do you sit on next man in? I know in the grand scheme of things we've bigger problems but always interested to get your take. And perhaps your thoughts on a real style of play shift at the highest level which seems to be filtering down to almost anyone but us (due to Tops obsessions...) lol 

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13 minutes ago, AjcW said:

Where do you sit on next man in? I know in the grand scheme of things we've bigger problems but always interested to get your take. And perhaps your thoughts on a real style of play shift at the highest level which seems to be filtering down to almost anyone but us (due to Tops obsessions...) lol 

 

Obviously what I'd love to see is a directional change, it absolutely infuriates me that we have a front three of Daka, Mavididi and Fatawu sitting in front of the likes of JJ and Reid and we use a passive mid block. It's absolutely criminal not having a high press when the two attributes that undeniably define those three players is pace and workrate. We should be topping the charts for sprints, intensity and pressing actions not propping up the table.

 

But, lets be honest, we'll sack Cifuentes and then replace him with some other coach that is sold to Top and Rudkin as "progressive" by whichever agency we're whoring for at the moment.

 

I've lost any optimism for actual change while Top is here. Might change if we suprise everyone with a genuinely impressive appointment to technical director but I assume our methodology for finding one of those will very much resemble our approach to recruiting head coaches. So shit.

 

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Everyone's forgetting that the main criteria for managers seems to be 1. They're cheap. 2. They're desperate enough for a chance they're willing to come to this shit club. 

 

Nobody with an iota of credibility or a reputation to protect is coming near us. 

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18 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

1. Come on, Pooper, are you 12?

 

2. Smith was "anyone will do to steady the ship", not really a long term appointment.

 

3. Puel, Rodgers, Maresca, Cooper, Ruud and Cifuentes were all hired under the expectation that they'll play football the "right way", which to Top is passing football. We know there's a massive lack of football intelligence at the club, all of those men had massively different footballing styles and it was naive to lump them in together but on  a superficial level they were all considered to be "possession" managers and that's why they were hired.

 

I don't believe Kovac would have really been in the running any more than Dyche has ever seriously been considered by the club. He has quite a clearly defined style of play and it's not what Top wants, whether people like that or not.

 

Rohl is the only real outlier we've apparently considered and I think it's worth pointing out he didn't ACTUALLY get the job and we don't know if we really, actually did favour him over Cifuentes. 

 

1. Nah I just don’t take life too seriously outside of work and if a 12 year old referred to Cooper as Pooper I’d find it quite funny. 
 

2. Further highlights Top and Rudders incompetence then which we agree on.

 

3. Same as above then as they are anything but the same and most aren’t even similar in principles.

 

I do wonder how long it will take the club to get a new CEO and technical director in. We are desperate for some brains up there. 

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6 minutes ago, Finnegan said:

 

Obviously what I'd love to see is a directional change, it absolutely infuriates me that we have a front three of Daka, Mavididi and Fatawu sitting in front of the likes of JJ and Reid and we use a passive mid block. It's absolutely criminal not having a high press when the two attributes that undeniably define those three players is pace and workrate. We should be topping the charts for sprints, intensity and pressing actions not propping up the table.

 

But, lets be honest, we'll sack Cifuentes and then replace him with some other coach that is sold to Top and Rudkin as "progressive" by whichever agency we're whoring for at the moment.

 

I've lost any optimism for actual change while Top is here. Might change if we suprise everyone with a genuinely impressive appointment to technical director but I assume our methodology for finding one of those will very much resemble our approach to recruiting head coaches. So shit.

 

I was wondering that about the technical director and CEO tbh. However I think we've sunk too low for anyone on Wasserman or CAA Base list!

 

E.g. Van der Saar, Roy Makaay, Soren Pederson.

 

Genuinely wouldn't be surprised if the restructure was Rudkin CEO, Technical Director Martyn Glover and then bring in Sormaz as chief scout lol 

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1 hour ago, moore_94 said:

Kjetil Knutsen

I think he’s either destined for a bigger job or maybe even loves it that much there that he won’t leave. He’s had several big opportunities already. 

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People saying about we can't sack him because the tech director needs to be in place.

 

It might mean we need an interim manager, as i don't think Marti can continue in a role.

 

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Regardless of whether I or anyone else want them, I would imagine the front runners will be Carrick, Gary O'Neill, Solskjaer, Mowbray and they'll probably try Carsley (Try being the operative word, blokes becoming the new Potter for us).

 

I'd personally like Mowbray, Challinor or Wellens. Of the personal opinion we need to go and try find Pearson V2 rather than someone too expansive.

 

After seeing his Celtic stint, I'm seriously not against an MON interim period either.

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Obviously love MON but comparing Celtic to us is daft. 

 

Celtic obviously have by far the best squad in the league and just needed any old coach with decent man management who could wind them up and essentially just let them get on with playing.

 

Our lot need considerable coaching and MON is very behind the times.

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