Nigel Pearson to Hull ?

[davieG]

If it's true it could have more to do with the uncertain state of the ownership of the club, I know it's been denied but if a change is in the offing then either Pearson could be thinking now's the time to go or maybe the presumed new owners have their own manager in mind - pure speculation but.......

I'm more convinced than ever that this is more to do with Pearson's predicted departure coupled with Mandaric holding back any decent money for transfers/signings in the wake of a takeover than any contract disagreement.

Without suitable funds we can't progress and that would look like failure by Pearson, where as any relative success at a Hull a club in post relegation turmoil would be deemed a success.

[Mort]

I'm more convinced than ever that this is more to do with Pearson's predicted departure coupled with Mandaric holding back any decent money for transfers/signings in the wake of a takeover than any contract disagreement.

Without suitable funds we can't progress and that would look like failure by Pearson, where as any relative success at a Hull a club in post relegation turmoil would be deemed a success.

The most frustrating thing is that its such a backward step... we go through years of instability, get relegated and then get our act together and get back to some consistency, now it feels like we're back to square one with no money, no manager and no chuffin idea.

[Shrenchel]

I'm more convinced than ever that this is more to do with Pearson's predicted departure coupled with Mandaric holding back any decent money for transfers/signings in the wake of a takeover than any contract disagreement.

Without suitable funds we can't progress and that would look like failure by Pearson, where as any relative success at a Hull a club in post relegation turmoil would be deemed a success.

If he fvcks off it's clearly because he was getting no coin from Mandy. If he has to sell some of the team he's worked hard to build up just to be able to make a cash signing, can see why he thinks he can't really take the club much further. Doesn't mean I'd piss on him if he was on fire.

[teblin]

Something has obviously happened behind th scenes at between nige and mandy. Maybe its Milan sticky his nose in again with transfers? Lack of transfer funds maybe?

I had a feeling he may leave but for a prem club not a sidways step, they are are obviously offering him assurances that we can't or won't.

We can't give cash to spend if we don't have it i guess.

[davieG]

Not forgetting the potential impact of Mandaric's upcoming court case.

[1964FOX]

Morning Leicester fans.... I agree Leicester have more cash than us, we are £28 mill in debt but one thing is for sure, NIGEL PEARSON has agreed to join us so MAKES YOU ALL LOOK A BIT PATHETIC REALLY DOESNT IT... Oh yeah who was the knob that says its bullshit,,,, Blame your chairman kidda, you have lost a great manager to a club with no dough, in a bit of turmoil, SAYS A LOT ABOUT LEICESTER WHEN YOUR HERO BOSS LEAVES FOR THAT EH?? Happy days and welcome to the KC Stadium Nigel

If this does turn out to be true then I wouldn't be so smug because if he's prepared to leave us because Milan won't give him any money in order to improve his record as a manager then you will need to be looking over your shoulders every time a premiership club has a managerial vacancy. So if you do get him enjoy it for the short time it lasts.

[Kilworthfox]

Now on the Sky website.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11714_6229203,00.html?

Bizzare!

[davieG]

Latest from the Merc - just confirming the rumours

Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson is understood to be in line to take over as the manager of Hull and could be appointed as early as Monday.

Although Hull are remaining tight-lipped over the identity of Phil Brown's successor, it is being reported that Pearson is the man in talks with the club relegated from the Premier League last season.

Speculation mounted about Pearson's future at City throughout yesterday when it emerged that Hull were interviewing a candidate who managed in the Championship last season.

The discussions are said to have reached an advanced stage, with talks over a compensation package to the target's current club as well as discussions about his backroom staff joining him at the KC Stadium. The BBC are also suggesting that the chairman of the club whose manager Hull wants is on a safari holiday, and reported last night that Milan Mandaric is on a similar sort of vacation.

However, Hull's head of football operations, Adam Pearson, refused to comment when asked about his namesake becoming the new man.

Neither Nigel Pearson nor City chief executive Lee Hoos responded to the Mercury's request for comment on the speculation.

Pearson has another year left on the three-year deal he signed when he joined the club two years ago and his representatives held initial talks with Mandaric during the season.

However, no agreement was reached and the talks were suspended until the end of the season.

The Leicester City manager knew he was likely to have little money, if any, to spend this summer to strengthen his squad ahead of another assault on promotion from the Championship.

He has signed Rochdale left-back Tom Kennedy, but talks on unsettled striker DJ Campbell's permanent switch to Blackpool have broken down.

Pearson has been previously linked with managerial vacancies at Celtic and Burnley after guiding City back into the Championship at the first attempt in the 2008-09 campaign.

City suffered an agonising penalty shoot-out defeat to Cardiff in the semi-finals of the play-offs last season.

Another manager linked with the Hull job has been Blackpool boss Ian Holloway, but he has been quick to play down speculation that he could walk away from the club after failing to agree terms on a new deal.

Holloway said: "Anyone that thinks I would walk out on the club must be mad," he said.

[Toby or not Toby]

Not liking this at all, hope we dont go for Dowie if Pearson does leave.

Wouldn't mind Mark Hughes but I dont think he would come to the championship.

[TigerTiger]

hello all, hull fan here.

pretty shocked at the speed of all this but it appears from our end that it is looking quite likely. local radio has it as looking quite likely. also saw sky sports news earlier saying in talks but that was taken off. are your local radio and other media outlets saying anything?

Morning,

Nigel Pearson has been at the stadium this week, nothing is concrete but they are 100% adament that he is signing on Tuesday latest and bringing Shakespeare and Walsh with him.. Feel sorry for the Leicester fans, unfortunately Money talks, funny thing is , We dont have any!!

[Guest Bilo]

So Holloway has been ruled out of the Hull job because he has said he doesn't want to leave Blackpool.

Ask any Plymouth fan how trustworthy Ollie's word is and then think about whether he can be fully ruled out. After all, he made something of a backward step before when leaving then play-off chasing Plymouth for the relegation threatened Leicester. There may still be a slither of hope.

[TigerTiger]

No, they're financially buggered. Not quite to a Pompey extent but not far off. According to a couple of articles, they're more concerned with trimming the wage bill than making any additions.

http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/sport/HULL-CITY-boss-required-squad-cull/article-2134415-detail/article.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/apr/01/hull-city-loans-russell-bartlett

You need to get your facts right fella before you spout drivel...

[Guest Bilo]

You need to get your facts right fella before you spout drivel...

Don't tell me, tell the journalistic world. The fact that I've posted links to your local rag and The Guardian shows they aren't my words. Not that bright are you?

[TigerTiger]

Don't tell me, tell the journalistic world. The fact that I've posted links to your local rag and The Guardian shows they aren't my words. Not that bright are you?

No you are right, I can't be that bright.. Saying that I don't have a death list 2010 with Liz Dawn on it!! You surely don't believe everything the Guardian writes do you?

[originallambrettaman]

Hull should have stayed at Boothferry Park.

A shit stadium in a shit part of a shit city made sure they knew their rightful place in English football. As it is, in their council stadium, they are the Coventry of the North. No, they're much, much more pathetic than that.

If a pitiful outfit like Hull City is the limit of Pearson's ambition, then frankly we can do better. No-one is bigger than this club and we will recover if this is true, as is looking increasingly likely unfortunately. Bring in Tony Mowbray, have us playing the best football in the division, and show NP exactly what he's missing as he comes to realise how much of a backwards step he has made.

If I was as ill educated and small minded as you, I certainly wouldn't advertise the fact by posting on an open forum.

I'm sure you'd be far more at home on www.lindowlickers.com/forum

[ACF]

"Dave Jones and Bournemouth's Eddie Howeboth rumoured to have been approached."

Dave Jones could be it aswell though guys, and with Cardiff not going to spend much either, he is in with a shot instead of NFP?

[Guest Bilo]

No you are right, I can't be that bright.. Saying that I don't have a death list 2010 with Liz Dawn on it!! You surely don't believe everything the Guardian writes do you?

No, I have analytical skills which is why I read newspapers like the Guardian. Obviously you believe the blokes down the pub and on your forum who tell you that Hull are about to rival Man City in terms of wealth, who themselves believe piss poor spin from local rags, who in turn believed spin from their friends at Hull City. Look at the facts. You're £35 million in debt. You have a Premiership wage bill and a Championship income. Adam Pearson himself has admitted entering into a CVA is a possibility. All the talk since April when your relegation was all but confirmed has been of 'balancing the books' and 'lowering the wage bill.' Don't take my word for it, or the Guardian's, see what Russell Bartlett had to say.

"We face a tough period to trade through the transitional period and readjust the business to life in the Championship, but I am confident we can do that. We are presently preparing plans to trade through and within that process to significantly lower the wage bill and potentially to restructure other liabilities."

Hardly sounds like a club in rude financial health about to outspend every club outside the Premiership does it? Sounds more like than on owner trying to put a positive spin on a dire financial mess. Still, you believe what you want to believe. The rest of us know it's not grounded in anything resembling reality.

[The Doctor]

"Dave Jones and Bournemouth's Eddie Howeboth rumoured to have been approached."

Dave Jones could be it aswell though guys, and with Cardiff not going to spend much either, he is in with a shot instead of NFP?

weren't they just taken over by a malaysian business man with around 800 mill in the bank?

[Ghurkin]

No, I have analytical skills which is why I read newspapers like the Guardian. Obviously you believe the blokes down the pub and on your forum who tell you that Hull are about to rival Man City in terms of wealth, who themselves believe piss poor spin from local rags, who in turn believed spin from their friends at Hull City. Look at the facts. You're £35 million in debt. You have a Premiership wage bill and a Championship income. Adam Pearson himself has admitted entering into a CVA is a possibility. All the talk since April when your relegation was all but confirmed has been of 'balancing the books' and 'lowering the wage bill.' Don't take my word for it, or the Guardian's, see what Russell Bartlett had to say.

Hardly sounds like a club in rude financial health about to outspend every club outside the Premiership does it? Sounds more like than on owner trying to put a positive spin on a dire financial mess. Still, you believe what you want to believe. The rest of us know it's not grounded in anything resembling reality.

It's a shame your analytical skills don't stretch to posts on message boards or you'd have noticed that nobody except you and some Leicester fans are claiming Hull City are massive and going to out spend everyone. What we're saying is that the story in the press lacks some key elements that seem to have also elluded your Sherlock Holmes like deductive skills and our financial state is not as perilous as you'd like to believe and is in most respects healthier than Leicesters.

[kitty_katt_83]

"Dave Jones and Bournemouth's Eddie Howeboth rumoured to have been approached."

Dave Jones could be it aswell though guys, and with Cardiff not going to spend much either, he is in with a shot instead of NFP?

Love your optimism

[Guest Bilo]

weren't they just taken over by a malaysian business man with around 800 mill in the bank?

Allegedly, he isn't likely to spend all that much. So far he's only injected about £6 million into Cardiff, most of it to pay off debts to the taxman.

[bridlington]

weren't they just taken over by a malaysian business man with around 800 mill in the bank?

dave jones has been linked with the job for a good month or so. allegedly he had already had fall outs with the clubs new owners. i don't think there was ever any really substance in him coming to hull though.

[The Doctor]

It's a shame your analytical skills don't stretch to posts on message boards or you'd have noticed that nobody except you and some Leicester fans are claiming Hull City are massive and going to out spend everyone. What we're saying is that the story in the press lacks some key elements that seem to have also elluded your Sherlock Holmes like deductive skills and our financial state is not as perilous as you'd like to believe and is in most respects healthier than Leicesters.

so the talk about financial ruin at the possiblity of a CVA by bigwigs at your club was all an elaborate hoax then?

We may not be the richest team in the world but given what the bigwigs have said i'd think we are a hell of a lot better of than you.

[buzzy]

if it is true the lcfc fans who thought manadric was LCFC saviour will realise he his a complete **** who does not care for yhe club. i hope he his found quilty of the tax invasion and locked up. we can then rebuild with a new owner who will do there best for the club in the long run.there will be rocky times ahead but the foxes never die MANADRIC OUT

[Ghurkin]

so the talk about financial ruin at the possiblity of a CVA by bigwigs at your club was all an elaborate hoax then?

We may not be the richest team in the world but given what the bigwigs have said i'd think we are a hell of a lot better of than you.

Not a hoax, simply jockeying for positions. You really shouldn't take things in the press at face value, there's often more to a story. As for being better, the league seems to argue differently at the moment.