Candidcamera Posted 3 April 2014 Posted 3 April 2014 I go back further must add Jimmy Bloomfield and Matt Gillies. I think Micky Adams too. Only mistake Pearson made was transfer listing Danny Drinkwater last Summer but that's alright now too.
LanguedocFox Posted 3 April 2014 Posted 3 April 2014 Levein really was terrible. Worse than Holloway. I can't see that. Levein signed some decent players - Fryatt, Hume, Kisnoro - and I think he wasn't really given enough time to build the team he wanted. The thing I loathed about Holloway is that he never seemed to take the job seriously. All those cheeky chappy quotes and his "light-hearted" column on the BBC website distracted from a really serious job - and one that, in the end, he wasn't up to.
Istilllovefilbert Posted 3 April 2014 Posted 3 April 2014 Pleat is the manager I dissliked the most, even if he wasn't quite the worse. The guy thought he was bigger than our club because he managed spurs. I recall him quoting to the Leicester Mercury something about he's gone from steak at Spurs to fish and chips at Leicester. Hate it when he co-comentates on TV, and what did he deliberately call Joachim?...jock-him. Cock! A special mention goes to Muck-Geee. Knob
Corky Posted 3 April 2014 Posted 3 April 2014 It's Sir Nigel Pearson by the way I think God is more accurate.
ealingfox Posted 3 April 2014 Posted 3 April 2014 I go back further must add Jimmy Bloomfield and Matt Gillies. I think Micky Adams too. Only mistake Pearson made was transfer listing Danny Drinkwater last Summer but that's alright now too. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this would have been a man-management mind games ploy on the part of NP. If it was even true of course, which considering the list of names was guesswork by the media, it almost certainly wasn't.
Sampson Posted 3 April 2014 Posted 3 April 2014 Levein really was terrible. Worse than Holloway. To be fair to Levein he did revitalise the then godawful youth set-up and seeing the likes of King, Gradel, Moore and Schlupp come through after several years of no one really cracking it is, at least in part, down to him. I disagree about him making good signings and not getting enough time. He took a perfectly decent mid-table Chanpionship side and was sacked with us in the relegation zone. The likes of Douglas, De Vries, Hughes, Williams, Morris and Maybury simply weren't good enough. Hume was a good League One player but a mediocre Championship player. Fryatt and Kisnorbo were good players but They never did much under Levein and other managers got more out of them. Not to mention the football we played under him was awful. He was certainly sacked at the right time and I think giving him more time and we would've gone down to League One sooner. Rob Lelly has an excellent end to that season and essentially kept us up. I get the feeling Levein is a decent coach, but as a tactician and a motivator he leaves much to be desired.
Mark_w Posted 3 April 2014 Posted 3 April 2014 Who was the last Leicester manager to win two league titles? (Obviously I'm aware that Nigel is the only one to win a title other than the second tier, but has any manager won the second tier twice at Leicester?)
TheSharpeEnd Posted 3 April 2014 Posted 3 April 2014 He's the only permanent manager in the club's history with a win percentage greater than 50%.
CosbehFox Posted 3 April 2014 Posted 3 April 2014 We were skint though, he made about 11 or 12 signings when we went up all with a total transfer spending of less than £1mil. All he could really do was acquire cheap veterens who weren't considered good enough any more. I actually enjoyed 03-04, we gave staying up a bloody good go despite not having any money and it's just a shame we conceded so many late goals else we'll have stayed up. Then we hounded him out for being about 10th in the Championship the season afterwards. Hindsight, eh? Then Craig Levein set us back years by thinking the SPL was a better quality than the Championship and signiing all these awful Scottish players. Spot on. Worth mentioning though Adams quit himself. Largely I think in disappointment with himself that a few gambles in Dublin and Keown for example had backfired. There was awful lot of that season left when he went.
The Horse's Mouth Posted 3 April 2014 Posted 3 April 2014 Sven being our worst manager? behave, he was relatively effective upon arrival.
Stadt Posted 3 April 2014 Posted 3 April 2014 He'll be the only manager to have managed us in three divisions.
Guest Posted 3 April 2014 Posted 3 April 2014 I can't see that. Levein signed some decent players - Fryatt, Hume, Kisnoro - and I think he wasn't really given enough time to build the team he wanted. The thing I loathed about Holloway is that he never seemed to take the job seriously. All those cheeky chappy quotes and his "light-hearted" column on the BBC website distracted from a really serious job - and one that, in the end, he wasn't up to.He played Kisnorbo in midfield sometimes though so you've gotta question his judgement and he had plenty of time to build a squad, he just built a shit one consisting of world beaters like Stephen Hughes.Then again Hollowhead played Fryatt on the wing if at all and signed Barry Hayles so they're both pretty crap.
Langston Posted 3 April 2014 Posted 3 April 2014 umm .... Just look at his smug ****ing face. Both he and Holloway were top calibre turds but at least the latter had the humility and decency to admit he'd ****ed up here, Taylor developed some bizarre, warped logic that he actually didn't do too badly with us.
ceredigion Posted 3 April 2014 Posted 3 April 2014 Mark McGhee always made me laugh. Quit Reading to join us in December 1994. Took us down (which wasn't entirely his fault I admit), while Reading went on to get promoted. He said we were a bigger club than Reading and more suited to his ambitions and talents. Halfway into the next season he jumped ship again to join an even bigger club, Wolves. We got promoted at the end of the season while Wolves stayed down for another 10 years. They sacked McGhee long before that though. It might seem incredible to younger fans, but when McGhee joined us, back in 1994 remember, he was being touted as the obvious successor to Ferguson at Man U, when Fergie stood down after a couple more seasons. What a joke. Ferguson lasted another 20 years winning everything while McGhee sank lower and lower. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think he ever managed a single game in the Premier League after leaving us. Never quite found a club that was big enough for him I suppose.
Filbert_Ross Posted 3 April 2014 Posted 3 April 2014 Mark McGhee always made me laugh. Quit Reading to join us in December 1994. Took us down (which wasn't entirely his fault I admit), while Reading went on to get promoted. He said we were a bigger club than Reading and more suited to his ambitions and talents. Halfway into the next season he jumped ship again to join an even bigger club, Wolves. We got promoted at the end of the season while Wolves stayed down for another 10 years. They sacked McGhee long before that though. It might seem incredible to younger fans, but when McGhee joined us, back in 1994 remember, he was being touted as the obvious successor to Ferguson at Man U, when Fergie stood down after a couple more seasons. What a joke. Ferguson lasted another 20 years winning everything while McGhee sank lower and lower. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think he ever managed a single game in the Premier League. Never quite found a club that was big enough for him I suppose. He did with Leicester. Guessing you meant to say 'another single game in the Premier League...'
ceredigion Posted 3 April 2014 Posted 3 April 2014 He did with Leicester. Guessing you meant to say 'another single game in the Premier League...' Yes you're right. I'll edit the post to make it clearer.
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