League One - Who manages us?

[ronnup]

Whether we agree or not,  we will be favourites for promotion.  So there'll be a few decent managers who fancy using a club way too big for the league to get a promotion on their CV

[cityfanlee23]

The more I look into Dick Schreuder the more I'm sold. 

I have so many reservations about firstly our capacity to even get him, but if he did sign, massive reservations about our squad being able to play his way, or our capacity to bring in the players he would need to build his style. 
But if he did manage to get our lot playing his system, we would absolutely destroy this division. League one teams simply wouldn't have the capacity to keep track and pick up the right man, he builds his attacks from chaos and I just cannot see L1 teams being able to defend against it. 

I'm not sure he's my #1 target, but my god he would be fun to have as manager. Plus, a season at a lower level would give him a little bit of breathing room to properly rebuild and get a full season of his style bedded in should we go back up. If we are going to gamble on this kind of appointment, now is the time to do it. 

[JimJams]

22 minutes ago, cityfanlee23 said:

The more I look into Dick Schreuder the more I'm sold. 

This popped up in my youtube recommendations the other day:

 

 

[KFS]

1 hour ago, JimJams said:

This popped up in my youtube recommendations the other day:

 

 

I want this for us 

[Trav Le Bleu]

I have the perfect manager for us next season.

 

We need to be at the forefront again, pioneering new and daring methods of achieving long-term success on the pitch.

 

And so I give you... Robogaffer!

 

AI is all the rage now, so we could create a robot that has all the best traits of our previous managers 

 

The grit of Jock Wallace, the tactical nous of Martin O'Neill, the determination of Nigel Pearson, the man management of Claudio Ranieri, and the on-pitch dancing skills of David Pleat (for when we narrowly avoid relegation).

[LCFCCHRIS]

15 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

I have the perfect manager for us next season.

 

We need to be at the forefront again, pioneering new and daring methods of achieving long-term success on the pitch.

 

And so I give you... Robogaffer!

 

AI is all the rage now, so we could create a robot that has all the best traits of our previous managers 

 

The grit of Jock Wallace, the tactical nous of Martin O'Neill, the determination of Nigel Pearson, the man management of Claudio Ranieri, and the on-pitch dancing skills of David Pleat (for when we narrowly avoid relegation).

Can he terminate winks? 

[trooky]

13 hours ago, County Fox said:

I agree with this and think Challinor would suit us.

Out of interest, in terms of first teamers that will be left, who do you worry wouldn’t respect him?? I can only see a handful of the senior pros being left here as most will look to force a move

Definitely Winks, Vesty, Okoli, Kristiansen and maybe BDR. They're all under contract but these have to all leave the club. 

 

Also Challinor has never finished below 8th in 15 years which is quite an achievement at any level. 

[davieG]

[PhillippaT]

2 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

I have the perfect manager for us next season.

 

We need to be at the forefront again, pioneering new and daring methods of achieving long-term success on the pitch.

 

And so I give you... Robogaffer!

 

AI is all the rage now, so we could create a robot that has all the best traits of our previous managers 

 

The grit of Jock Wallace, the tactical nous of Martin O'Neill, the determination of Nigel Pearson, the man management of Claudio Ranieri, and the on-pitch dancing skills of David Pleat (for when we narrowly avoid relegation).

Well, we've long since joined the Dark Side (of gambling sponsors) so why not go all in?  

[nnfox]

14 hours ago, CloudFox said:

The longer there is no "thank you and goodbye" for Rowett, the longer I think he might actually be under consideration.

 

I get hedging your bets, but...it's been 3 weeks since we were relegated. The second that happened, we should have started looking. At the latest.

I agree.  Rowett definitely on the shortlist otherwise we would have heard something from him or the club by now.

[les-tah]

11 hours ago, cityfanlee23 said:

The more I look into Dick Schreuder the more I'm sold. 

I have so many reservations about firstly our capacity to even get him, but if he did sign, massive reservations about our squad being able to play his way, or our capacity to bring in the players he would need to build his style. 
But if he did manage to get our lot playing his system, we would absolutely destroy this division. League one teams simply wouldn't have the capacity to keep track and pick up the right man, he builds his attacks from chaos and I just cannot see L1 teams being able to defend against it. 

I'm not sure he's my #1 target, but my god he would be fun to have as manager. Plus, a season at a lower level would give him a little bit of breathing room to properly rebuild and get a full season of his style bedded in should we go back up. If we are going to gamble on this kind of appointment, now is the time to do it. 

This where im at. If you want to implement a specific style then this is the season 100%. we will be favourites and rightly so regardless of how bad last year was. So a manager “could” walk this league and give him a seasons breather before the championship.

 

Id personally rather a specific style, tactics and identity rather than your Coopers, RVN and Rowetts of this world. Everyone bought into Maresca and look where they got us. Just hope we dont go for that style again.

[1972 Fox]

3 minutes ago, les-tah said:

we will be favourites and rightly so regardless of how bad last year was. So a manager “could” walk this league

Quite a few were saying the same as this before the start of last season, and how wrong they were.

 

My view is that we will not walk this league at all.

 

Although I do realise you have the word could in inverted commas BTW.

[deep blue]

The problem with looking at Challinor as potential new manager is that he has very close association with Stockport.  Even more importantly, in comparison to ourselves, he is working for an excellent owner - a local guy who loves the club and has resurrected it (phoenix from the ashes situation), who appears to have a lot of footballing nous, who is astute in his choice of manager to whom he then gives 100% support, and has so far made no missteps in his top level decision-making.

 

Hard to see Challinor wanting to have any part in the shit-show of our high level (lack of) decision-making. 

 

The only possible way I see us having a chance is if Stockport fail again to get promoted and he thinks he's taken them as far as he can, but they've made a good start so far in the play-offs.

[Bergen fox]

Just get Nigel to comeback. 
he won’t stand for any bull 

[Ian Nacho]

Despite him being awful, I'd probably take Rowett staying on. I've got no confidence in the club making the right appointment. We'd be no worse off if we kept Cooper or RvN. 

[lcfc_forever]

1 hour ago, Ian Nacho said:

Despite him being awful, I'd probably take Rowett staying on. I've got no confidence in the club making the right appointment. We'd be no worse off if we kept Cooper or RvN. 

A few red flags with Rowett, one of which is his lack of playing time for younger players. You could argue the pressure situation meant it wasn't the right environment for the youngsters but a few posters have commented he has a record of leaning on 'experienced players'. We'll be relying on the youngsters so don't have confidence he'll manage them properly. 

[Parker Pen]

2 hours ago, deep blue said:

The problem with looking at Challinor as potential new manager is that he has very close association with Stockport.  Even more importantly, in comparison to ourselves, he is working for an excellent owner - a local guy who loves the club and has resurrected it (phoenix from the ashes situation), who appears to have a lot of footballing nous, who is astute in his choice of manager to whom he then gives 100% support, and has so far made no missteps in his top level decision-making.

 

Hard to see Challinor wanting to have any part in the shit-show of our high level (lack of) decision-making. 

 

The only possible way I see us having a chance is if Stockport fail again to get promoted and he thinks he's taken them as far as he can, but they've made a good start so far in the play-offs.

I agree he does appear to be a proper Northerner! With all his playing and management jobs in the North West. He would be good to consider though but Stockport season isn’t over yet and I would imagine that he stays if they win the playoffs.

[Parker Pen]

1 hour ago, Ian Nacho said:

Despite him being awful, I'd probably take Rowett staying on. I've got no confidence in the club making the right appointment. We'd be no worse off if we kept Cooper or RvN. 

Problem is he’s never won anything as a player or manager and has lost in the playoffs with Burton.

 

 I want a manager that brings us that relentless attacking football and never die spirit. I’m done as is everyone with sideways and backwards ad nauseum.

[Muzzy_no7]

14 hours ago, cityfanlee23 said:

The more I look into Dick Schreuder the more I'm sold. 

I have so many reservations about firstly our capacity to even get him, but if he did sign, massive reservations about our squad being able to play his way, or our capacity to bring in the players he would need to build his style. 
But if he did manage to get our lot playing his system, we would absolutely destroy this division. League one teams simply wouldn't have the capacity to keep track and pick up the right man, he builds his attacks from chaos and I just cannot see L1 teams being able to defend against it. 

I'm not sure he's my #1 target, but my god he would be fun to have as manager. Plus, a season at a lower level would give him a little bit of breathing room to properly rebuild and get a full season of his style bedded in should we go back up. If we are going to gamble on this kind of appointment, now is the time to do it. 

Aluko, Braybrooke, Page, Evans and Nelson would thrive with Dickball.

 

Would be hilarious watching Lascelles, Souttar or Vesty as an overlapping right centre half though.

 

And Luke Thomas as a playmaking wingback😂.

[Chelmofox]

2 hours ago, Ian Nacho said:

Despite him being awful, I'd probably take Rowett staying on. I've got no confidence in the club making the right appointment. We'd be no worse off if we kept Cooper or RvN. 

Rowett is a serial loser who plays the underdog card. It was rippling through his interviews and was part and parcel of our mentality of drawing games we should have won against teams who bang out of form. Probably why he bypassed the youth as well.

 

Next season we need a winner. Someone who is going to come in and push this lot to fight for automatic promotion. The club themselves need to deal with the cultural issues. Our technical director needs to clear out the problem players and give the manager the tools to suceed rather than leave it up to the manager to sort out the cultural failings.

 

A bit like you, i dont have a lot of confidence, but we have to have a bit of belief that the new technical director is going to come in and hit the ground running and do the best job he can, rather than simply be a puppet. I think a new tech director cannot let Rowett carry on - its not only the wrong decisions but also sends out the wrong message.

Edited 10 May by Chelmofox

[winteriscoming]

Guaranteed Ayew gets a contract extension if Rowett stays. 
His obsession with shit old players is one of the reasons not to keep him. 
Also being a dreadful draw specialist Oxford reject manager is another. 

[teblin]

I think it’ll be Davies, if Birmingham decide to make a change. Soon as I saw his name ln the odds.

 

They will think, we know him, he got a team promoted and then established in the championship(spent lots of money).

 

Thats not me saying I want him. Just my gut feeling.

[ClaphamFox]

23 minutes ago, winteriscoming said:

Guaranteed Ayew gets a contract extension if Rowett stays. 
His obsession with shit old players is one of the reasons not to keep him. 
Also being a dreadful draw specialist Oxford reject manager is another. 

We’re never going to see Ayew in a Leicester shirt again irrespective of who takes the job. You can make a strong case for why we shouldn’t give the job to Rowett without making up daft stuff like this. 

[Muzzy_no7]

Lucas Kwasniok

[lfu]

12 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Lucas Kwasniok

Good manager but a príck
His Köln stint has soured my opinion on him as well, he'd be putting out bizarre XIs with players out of position or frozen out for unclear reasons, and angry tirades in press conferences. Not sure I'd trust him to bring through youth

"Lineups: Every week, he astonished everyone at FC Köln with his lineups. Even internally, Kwasniok's experiments were increasingly viewed with skepticism. "What did he pull off today?" even staff members in the press room would ask on match days. His reasoning was often incomprehensible. If his decisions had at least been successful, he would have had the upper hand. As it was, however, questions often remained. Against Hoffenheim, there were four center-backs on the pitch; in Stuttgart, suddenly, not a single one. One increasingly got the feeling that there always had to be one more idea, until eventually he lost himself in his own tactical maze. His meticulousness often got in his own way." 

"And for a long time, he also handled Said El Mala poorly. Only very late did he realize that such an exceptional talent always belongs on the pitch. By that point, a lot of damage had already been done."

 

"Very few knew where they stood with him until the very end. Complete trust was never fully established on either side."

 

"One of his biggest shortcomings, aside from his sporting performance, was his communication."

 

https://www.express.de/sport/fussball/1-fc-koeln/sechs-gruende-fuer-lukas-kwasnioks-scheitern-beim-1-fc-koeln-1249904

Edited 10 May by lfu