Mike Oxlong Posted 27 January Posted 27 January From BBC Sport Former Southampton and Rangers manager Russell Martin is among the candidates to take over as Leicester City manager following the sacking of Marti Cifuentes. (Football Insider), external Former Leicester City player Gary Rowett and Hearts manager Derek McInnes are also being considered by the Foxes. (Mail) Out of Martin, Rowett and McInnes I'd prefer the latter but only because I know the least about him
ClaphamFox Posted 27 January Posted 27 January 9 minutes ago, Mike Oxlong said: From BBC Sport Former Southampton and Rangers manager Russell Martin is among the candidates to take over as Leicester City manager following the sacking of Marti Cifuentes. (Football Insider), external Former Leicester City player Gary Rowett and Hearts manager Derek McInnes are also being considered by the Foxes. (Mail) Out of Martin, Rowett and McInnes I'd prefer the latter but only because I know the least about him Thankfully the Martin rumour is from a crap source. 2
teblin Posted 27 January Posted 27 January 1 minute ago, ClaphamFox said: Thankfully the Martin rumour is from a crap source. Indeed. Though we have been linked with him since even before rodgers left, which worries me. Again he's better that Marti in my opinion, but still think he's have a big task winning people over. 1
Popular Post kingfox Posted 27 January Popular Post Posted 27 January Is Rowett really comparable to Cifuentes? Not that I want him, but his record is better than people give him credit for. Back-to-back 10th place finishes at Birmingham. Took Derby to the play-offs. 8th, 11th, 9th, 8th at Millwall, just missing out on the play-offs by a whisker on two occasions. Did the job Oxford was hoping for and kept them up last season. His stint at Stoke is the only real stain on his CV. If the reports are correct about experience, that leads to candidates like Rowett, Mowbray, Carvalhal. Rowett on a permanent basis, no thanks. Rowett until May, could be better, could be worse. 10
trooky Posted 27 January Posted 27 January (edited) We're not going to get the manager we want, may as well get used to it FT, and the new man will still play Winks, Luke Thomas, Vesty, Ayew, Daka, BDR, Soumare...... Fresh start and all that... Edited 27 January by trooky
fox_favourite Posted 27 January Posted 27 January (edited) 36 minutes ago, Mike Oxlong said: From BBC Sport Former Southampton and Rangers manager Russell Martin is among the candidates to take over as Leicester City manager following the sacking of Marti Cifuentes. (Football Insider), external Former Leicester City player Gary Rowett and Hearts manager Derek McInnes are also being considered by the Foxes. (Mail) Out of Martin, Rowett and McInnes I'd prefer the latter but only because I know the least about him Seeing a Hearts manager linked is giving me the shakes, as I'm still scarred from Craig Lavien days. Also, he's doing a great job in Scotland and has a chance to stick one up Celtic and Rangers, so I wouldn't leave that at all for this chaos. Whether the summer is possible Edited 27 January by fox_favourite
teblin Posted 27 January Posted 27 January 12 minutes ago, kingfox said: Is Rowett really comparable to Cifuentes? Not that I want him, but his record is better than people give him credit for. Back-to-back 10th place finishes at Birmingham. Took Derby to the play-offs. 8th, 11th, 9th, 8th at Millwall, just missing out on the play-offs by a whisker on two occasions. Did the job Oxford was hoping for and kept them up last season. His stint at Stoke is the only real stain on his CV. If the reports are correct about experience, that leads to candidates like Rowett, Mowbray, Carvalhal. Rowett on a permanent basis, no thanks. Rowett until May, could be better, could be worse. I agree about Rowett better than Marti and is probably better than many of the options. Issue I have with the interim appointment. Is what happens if GR comes in we win and we do really well. We won't make the play offs because of the points thing but say he wins 10/11 out of the last 18. Does he then earn the right to keep the Job? That goes for any interim appointment. I listened to him talk yesterday on the 2nd teir pod, and he likes the bigger picture stuff too. I don't think he is the most inspiring appointment, but we could do a lot worse. He's pragmatic(so was cooper i know ), we haven't kept a clean sheet for half a season, so maybe that where we should look.
UniFox21 Posted 27 January Posted 27 January Talksport reiterating Rowett this morning. But important to note most sources didn't have us sacking Cifuentes until a few hours before, having all said we weren't sacking him
Wink84 Posted 27 January Posted 27 January 7 hours ago, BrilliantFox said: Thats the problem right there. They won't bring him in as "interim", they'd give him a 3 year contract as the permanent manager. They literally stated they're looking for a permanent candidate. "First Team Coach Andy King will take charge of team preparations on an interim basis while we undertake a process to appoint a permanent manager." Can still be a permanent manager til the end of the season though. Although likelihood is it won't be.
AjcW Posted 27 January Posted 27 January 2 minutes ago, Wink84 said: Can still be a permanent manager til the end of the season though. Although likelihood is it won't be. I think that's the only reason O'Neil is on the betting list. The definition of permanent. If it doesn't work out in France he'd likely be a top candidate in the summer.
Pliskin Posted 27 January Posted 27 January Given our circumstances Rowett is probably ideal. He’s worked under constraints before and this is what we need, someone who isn’t going to be bothered by the bullshit and will be happy to work with what they have. I think he’s fairly open to youth players too…. I imagine that he wouldn’t suffer fools like Ayew.
Wink84 Posted 27 January Posted 27 January 27 minutes ago, kingfox said: Is Rowett really comparable to Cifuentes? Not that I want him, but his record is better than people give him credit for. Back-to-back 10th place finishes at Birmingham. Took Derby to the play-offs. 8th, 11th, 9th, 8th at Millwall, just missing out on the play-offs by a whisker on two occasions. Did the job Oxford was hoping for and kept them up last season. His stint at Stoke is the only real stain on his CV. If the reports are correct about experience, that leads to candidates like Rowett, Mowbray, Carvalhal. Rowett on a permanent basis, no thanks. Rowett until May, could be better, could be worse. The main thing ive liked that ive heard about Rowett is he makes his teams hard to beat and defensively better. Thats something we've needed all season. It's easy to mock him being sacked by Oxford but hes a proven championship manager and done fairly well at every club hes been at. This is the current level were at and with our current scenario and a points deduction looming and don't honestly think we can expect much more right now. 2
Chelmofox Posted 27 January Posted 27 January So we are all at the stage where we’ve started convincing ourselves Rowett is the right choice? 1 3
Tommy Fresh Posted 27 January Posted 27 January 59 minutes ago, kingfox said: Is Rowett really comparable to Cifuentes? Not that I want him, but his record is better than people give him credit for. Back-to-back 10th place finishes at Birmingham. Took Derby to the play-offs. 8th, 11th, 9th, 8th at Millwall, just missing out on the play-offs by a whisker on two occasions. Did the job Oxford was hoping for and kept them up last season. His stint at Stoke is the only real stain on his CV. If the reports are correct about experience, that leads to candidates like Rowett, Mowbray, Carvalhal. Rowett on a permanent basis, no thanks. Rowett until May, could be better, could be worse. Careful mate, despite you stating you don't want him to have it permanently the above actually means you're backing him for the role
AjcW Posted 27 January Posted 27 January Just reading all these Top interviews. If he's serious about the Tech Director dictating our style of play, there's no way we can hire a permanent manager before he is in place. The interview mentioned he can't say who it is legally. I think it's quite clear it's going to be Andy Goldie. King will take charge for a few games. If he gets a few wins Martin will come in straight away, if it's looking like we're settling into mid table Martin will come in in the summer. That's what i've taken from it all anyway
Fox1norfolk Posted 27 January Posted 27 January 1 hour ago, Mike Oxlong said: From BBC Sport Former Southampton and Rangers manager Russell Martin is among the candidates to take over as Leicester City manager following the sacking of Marti Cifuentes. (Football Insider), external Former Leicester City player Gary Rowett and Hearts manager Derek McInnes are also being considered by the Foxes. (Mail) Out of Martin, Rowett and McInnes I'd prefer the latter but only because I know the least about him Maybe the Hearts manager just might just knock them into shape, no logic to it, but he’s Scottish
Andrew Posted 27 January Posted 27 January 1 hour ago, Mike Oxlong said: From BBC Sport Former Southampton and Rangers manager Russell Martin is among the candidates to take over as Leicester City manager following the sacking of Marti Cifuentes. (Football Insider), external Former Leicester City player Gary Rowett and Hearts manager Derek McInnes are also being considered by the Foxes. (Mail) Out of Martin, Rowett and McInnes I'd prefer the latter but only because I know the least about him Another Scottish manager from Hearts. Remember the last one 🙈 1
Katy Posted 27 January Posted 27 January If we appoint Russell Martin then we deserve everything we get. 2
Wasyls Pec Deck Posted 27 January Posted 27 January No thanks to hiring a Hearts manager. Been there, done that and it’s Sunday league football up there. We don’t want another manager who is out of their depth and not used to clearing up a mess like ours or being in a scrap. As mad as it sounds, but given the situation, we could do far worse than Gary Rowett. And I can’t believe I’m saying that.
nettle Posted 27 January Posted 27 January I'd give it to Dave Challinor, Someone on the up bit like a Brian Little type appointment get the club sorted out
kingfox Posted 27 January Posted 27 January 50 minutes ago, teblin said: I agree about Rowett better than Marti and is probably better than many of the options. Issue I have with the interim appointment. Is what happens if GR comes in we win and we do really well. We won't make the play offs because of the points thing but say he wins 10/11 out of the last 18. Does he then earn the right to keep the Job? That goes for any interim appointment. I listened to him talk yesterday on the 2nd teir pod, and he likes the bigger picture stuff too. I don't think he is the most inspiring appointment, but we could do a lot worse. He's pragmatic(so was cooper i know ), we haven't kept a clean sheet for half a season, so maybe that where we should look. If it happened, of course they’ll be a wave of for and against arguments, you’re already seeing that debate with Carrick at Man Utd. I just think our aim right now needs to be short-term stability. If Rowett came in and made us harder to beat, that’s probably the biggest ingredient we need right now. Looking at Oxford last season, he did manage a run of four clean sheets in nine games, with a few 1-1 draws thrown in the mix. 1 hour ago, Wink84 said: The main thing ive liked that ive heard about Rowett is he makes his teams hard to beat and defensively better. Thats something we've needed all season. It's easy to mock him being sacked by Oxford but hes a proven championship manager and done fairly well at every club hes been at. This is the current level were at and with our current scenario and a points deduction looming and don't honestly think we can expect much more right now. As I’ve stated above, first and foremost we need to be harder to beat, if Rowett could bring those credentials then it’s exactly what we need right now. I’m starting to get sick of mentioning just how bad our defensive statistics are He’s proven to be a solid unspectacular manager, a bit like Alex Neil, Paul Heckingbottom, John Eustace. It might not end up being attractive, but you know what you’re going to get. Unfortunately we’re not as attractive as we once was, being linked to the likes of Rowett just shows how far we’ve fallen, right now as depressing as it may be, his previous credentials make him a realistic candidate. 43 minutes ago, Tommy Fresh said: Careful mate, despite you stating you don't want him to have it permanently the above actually means you're backing him for the role Don’t worry mate, just defending him on certain aspects like I did with Dyche in the summer. I won’t be changing my display pic to Rowett anytime soon 1 1
kingpowerout Posted 27 January Posted 27 January Talksport talking up Rowett but it’s worth mentioning he was studio guest last week and clearly has links with someone at that studio as he’s been in there a few times. i think they are talking him up because they want to take some credit for whichever job he lands by claiming they provided him with a platform no evidence but just a hunch and the same thing happened when MON went back to Celtic
Spudulike Posted 27 January Posted 27 January 2 hours ago, Mike Oxlong said: From BBC Sport Former Southampton and Rangers manager Russell Martin is among the candidates to take over as Leicester City manager following the sacking of Marti Cifuentes. (Football Insider), external Former Leicester City player Gary Rowett and Hearts manager Derek McInnes are also being considered by the Foxes. (Mail) Out of Martin, Rowett and McInnes I'd prefer the latter but only because I know the least about him Derek McInnes!? Total failure at Bristol City. Nah, you're alright thanks.
Foxin_Mad Posted 27 January Posted 27 January I think we are too big for Rowett. Stoke are the only comparable club he was at, and he was absolutely honking there, they hate him. At that point they hadn't long been relegated and he really struggled to manage the clowns with egos in the squad, he lost the plot and kept talking in the third person. He probably better with a more hardworking honest set of players, which we dont have because this lot have been meticulously selected by the clown lord Rudkin.
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