Realistic Managerial Replacements

[Stadt]

3 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

Just heard his name on the radio about Cardiff. I'd forgotten him. As you say, he couldn't be any worse - having had six decent months at Cardiff is roughly equivalent to 18 mediocre months at QPR. 

 

On a wider note, I remain hopeful that someone down there actually knows what they are doing. Jordan James, Aaron Ramsey, Barry Murphy were all shrewd leftfeld deals. The sales of that pitiful imbecile Coady and JJ were decent business too. 

 

Someone, somewhere in the weird Buddhist monk, garish KP gold, forever in our hearts, don't sit on the front row world of Seagrave, there's a secret good 'un beavering away

 

 

Hard to prove any of it and I vacillate on him anyway but I think it’s Glover. Fatawu was a great piece of scouting.

Edited 16 December 2025 by Stadt

[HankMarvin]

3 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Hard to prove any of it and I vacillate on him anyway but I think it’s Glover. Fatawu was a great scouting.

Linked to Liverpool before the Sporting move then again with Liverpool Man U and Everton before us. 
He certainly was on the radar of other clubs 

[Stadt]

5 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

Linked to Liverpool before the Sporting move then again with Liverpool Man U and Everton before us. 
He certainly was on the radar of other clubs 

Well they didn’t sign him. There wouldn’t have been good performance data so it would have fallen on traditional scouting to pull the trigger.

Edited 16 December 2025 by Stadt

[Merchant_Banker]

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Ancelotti sacked in Brazil!

[winteriscoming]

I’d have Mowbray until the end of the season. 
There are some other decent readily available managers. 
Bo Svensson 

Leonardo Jardim - very unlikely. 
Adi Hutter - even less chance than Jardim. 
Bo Henriksen 

Diego Martinez 

Then you get the usual ones which these clowns will of heard of Martin, Carvahal, Carrick and Gary O’Neil. 

 

 

 

 

 

[FrankieADZ]

1 minute ago, winteriscoming said:

I’d have Mowbray until the end of the season. 
There are some other decent readily available managers. 
Bo Svensson 

Leonardo Jardim - very unlikely. 
Adi Hutter - even less chance than Jardim. 
Bo Henriksen 

Diego Martinez 

Then you get the usual ones which these clowns will of heard of Martin, Carvahal, Carrick and Gary O’Neil. 

we looked at him in the summer tbf

[winteriscoming]

3 minutes ago, FrankieADZ said:

we looked at him in the summer tbf

Did we though? 
Or was he just a foreign name we put out there to make us look like we looked further afield than just this country. 
I think we do it with most managerial appointments. We throw a foreign name in days before we make an appointment. 

[FrankieADZ]

Just now, winteriscoming said:

Did we though? 
Or was he just a foreign name we put out there to make us look like we looked further afield than just this country. 
I think we do it with most managerial appointments. We throw a foreign name in days before we make an appointment. 

im pretty sure we did, i cant remember the article,he was a number of managers we looked at

[winteriscoming]

1 minute ago, FrankieADZ said:

im pretty sure we did, i cant remember the article,he was a number of managers we looked at

I hope we look at him if/when Cifuentes goes. 
I do seem to remember that Niko Kovac was supposedly in the running before we hired Ruud. 
Not suggesting we have any chance of getting Kovac now but there does seem to be a pattern with him and Svensson. 

[Saxondale]

There aren't any you daft sods. Honestly, seriously, who is going to come here? And who would you want to come here out of the managers who are realistically available? This is why we've ended up with less favourable appointments the past three times. 

[MPH]

5 minutes ago, Saxondale said:

There aren't any you daft sods. Honestly, seriously, who is going to come here? And who would you want to come here out of the managers who are realistically available? This is why we've ended up with less favourable appointments the past three times. 

 

if we’re desperate, and I think we are, then I would seriously entertain the prospect of getting MON in until the end of the season… 

 

I wouldn’t have said that 2 months ago

[cityfanlee23]

8 minutes ago, MPH said:

 

if we’re desperate, and I think we are, then I would seriously entertain the prospect of getting MON in until the end of the season… 

 

I wouldn’t have said that 2 months ago

I think with basic tactical tweaks we will perform better on the pitch, coupled with tactical tweaks what we need is the players confident and fighting for the badge, for that, they need the 12th man behind them. 
The 12th man comes from MON/NP walking out of that tunnel and giving the fans a massive boost. 

 

Bring MON in until the end of the season, let him properly help King, once we find a manager to come in long term we can use King as the assistant manager, from there we can start the process of developing coaches and managers from within the club. 

Edited 20 December 2025 by cityfanlee23

[Dahnsouff]

MON is a past manager sure, but he would not have the same affinity as he showed with Celtic I imagine, so seems unlikely IMHO.

[MPH]

2 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

MON is a past manager sure, but he would not have the same affinity as he showed with Celtic I imagine, so seems unlikely IMHO.

 

it’s incredible the losing run they were on before he was manager, the winning run when he joined and then the losing run they have been on since he left

[Dahnsouff]

1 minute ago, MPH said:

 

it’s incredible the losing run they were on before he was manager, the winning run when he joined and then the losing run they have been on since he left

Oh, he would be ideal, just don't see him coming.

[Walshy5]

I honestly think that we'd have been better off sticking with Ruud than appointing this clown!

[MPH]

58 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Oh, he would be ideal, just don't see him coming.

 

yeah that’s fair enough really. The short stint going back to Celtic would be a  way to sign off on your career…

[Claudio Fannieri]

Tony Mowbray is the most realistic option for me. 18 month deal to help transition to a younger more dynamic squad similar to the job he did at Sunderland 

[winteriscoming]

9 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

Tony Mowbray is the most realistic option for me. 18 month deal to help transition to a younger more dynamic squad similar to the job he did at Sunderland 

You don’t even need that. Give it to him till the end of the season. 
 

[Fazzer 7]

I reckon Serena Wiegman would do a better job than Marti

[Tommy Fresh]

1 minute ago, Fazzer 7 said:

I reckon Serena Wiegman would do a better job than Marti

Someone didn't know how to spell that did they 

[Bob Weasel Fox]

2 minutes ago, Fazzer 7 said:

I reckon Serena Wiegman would do a better job than Marti

Mavis the Tea lady would do a better job than Marti 

 

awful manager 

[Fazzer 7]

1 minute ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Someone didn't know how to spell that did they 

No. Took a guess. You know who i mean though

[CarolinaFox]

Just for fun: Michael Skubala at Lincoln City. He is the anti-cifuentes. Plays with momentum in mind, and is not overly concerned with playing cautiously. He's the type of manager that might really kick on at Leicester and get us back to winning. We need to regain that assertive edge we lost under Enzo in the Championship: the belief that we should be winning, and the game management and tactical approach to make that happen. His managerial approach is a better fit for us if we are truly pushing for promotion this season. He would make the jump up to us if we came calling. 

[Saxondale]

On 16/12/2025 at 19:21, Paninistickers said:

On a wider note, I remain hopeful that someone down there actually knows what they are doing. Jordan James, Aaron Ramsey, Barry Murphy were all shrewd leftfeld deals. The sales of that pitiful imbecile Coady and JJ were decent business too. 

 

Someone, somewhere in the weird Buddhist monk, garish KP gold, forever in our hearts, don't sit on the front row world of Seagrave, there's a secret good 'un beavering away

 

 

Or, maybe, just maybe, the decision making by the club management is nowhere near as bad as people make out.
 

We’re in the position we are because of a series of managerial appointments that haven’t really worked. But the market for top managers is extremely difficult. Fans like to whinge at what the club does but usually cant offer any realistic alternative options.

 

Honestly, which managers would fans actually want? The football world has become so brutal that managers lose their reputations incredibly quickly. Consequently, I bet most people couldn’t even pick more than about three managers they’d really want even out of those currently in the PL.

 

And as for those who spout names of random foreigners:

 

1) We don’t know that the club doesn’t approach any of these people

2) Very often, of our rival teams will employ a random foreigner, and it’s relatively rare that they actually become successful.

3) I suspect in most cases people are being unrealistic about who would actually come. I seem to remember people in the past calling for Jurgen Klopp and Tommy Tuchel! 
 

Whilst our past three managerial appointments haven’t worked out, you can’t really fault the logic behind them.

 

* The Forest bloke was seen as a sensible choice at a time when it’s clear our first choice didn’t want to come. He had a demonstrable recent record of turning Forest from utterly woeful to a PL side. Most people thought he was a reasonable appointment, if not particularly appealing.

 

* RvN was seen as a bold, ambitious choice and a long term investment in a young, hungry manager. It didn’t work out, but this is exactly the sort of appointment that many fans call for. The gamble didn’t pay off, but you can’t know until you try.

 

* Cifuentes may be a less logical choice, but at the time there were so few options available, and that’s still the case.

 

Futhermore, several of the managers who fans have been calling for in the past have gone elsewhere and been awful. I really wanted Potter, and he was abysmal at West Ham. Lots of fans wanted Will Still and he was a complete disaster at Southampton.

 

But LCFC fans these days will whinge at anything and everything. I seem to remember that Maresca was only about 50% popular and was disliked by the “FORWARDS, QUICKER” imbeciles. He is probably one of the best managers in the English game today.