Pearson out?

[DB11]

NP turned this football club around. I don't care what happens he doesn't deserve to be sacked, and even if we did go straight back down I'd want Pearson to stay as his long term vision for the club will only make us stronger.

[suffolk fox]

NP turned this football club around. I don't care what happens he doesn't deserve to be sacked, and even if we did go straight back down I'd want Pearson to stay as his long term vision for the club will only make us stronger.

Think the owners may have had something to do with it? You content with failure in life and second best? With respect how do you know what long term future Mr Pearson has for the club? I could go on but is it worth it. I will hazard a guess that if we are in the bottom three at Christmas his days will be numbered.

You really happy with strange team formations, tactics, dropping of our best players with no reason signing Albrighton and Simpson then not playing them? Lastly, two goals scored in five games. Not good not good at all.

[Raj]

...ok so pulis wasnt there!!!!

[Monsell1976]

NP turned this football club around. I don't care what happens he doesn't deserve to be sacked, and even if we did go straight back down I'd want Pearson to stay as his long term vision for the club will only make us stronger.

Old saying in football, your only as good as your last game.

We have seen the best and worst of Pearson in his time here, but getting us promoted and bringing young unproven promising players in doesn't make him bullet proof.

As much as he's done, the owners have stated they have a 3 year plan, and that doesn't involve relegation, I am fairly sure if this carries on towards Christmas, the owners will thanks him for promotion and say goodbye.

Wether Pearson will turn it round, hope so, but signs aren't looking good, as to wether somebody could come in and do a better job, who knows, but Pearson isn't the only manager out there, and he's inexperienced at this level.

Pearson would never allow it, but would it hurt to get a manager in, who knows the premier league, in an advisory role to help Pearson

[Tielemans63]

Think the owners may have had something to do with it? You content with failure in life and second best? With respect how do you know what long term future Mr Pearson has for the club? I could go on but is it worth it. I will hazard a guess that if we are in the bottom three at Christmas his days will be numbered.

You really happy with strange team formations, tactics, dropping of our best players with no reason signing Albrighton and Simpson then not playing them? Lastly, two goals scored in five games. Not good not good at all.

Whilst I agree with some of your points I am pretty certain he hasn't dropped our best players for 'no reason'. I'm pretty sure there is a reason. The fact he hasn't (until now!) shared the reasons with the media is to his credit imho.

[LCFC Rennie]

Serious question. If you were offered Moyes at Leicester now, would you take it.

[Happy Fox]

Serious question. If you were offered Moyes at Leicester now, would you take it.

 

Hypothetically yes of course he is miles better than NP at this level.

[Carl the Llama]

Not in a million years.

[Guest Col city fan]

Serious question. If you were offered Moyes at Leicester now, would you take it.

You've missed the real question..

Would the owners?

[StanSP]

Serious question. If you were offered Moyes at Leicester now, would you take it.

 

No.

[Howard99]

As if moyes would come here

[ealingfox]

As if moyes would come here

 

Why wouldn't he? He can hardly demand a top job given his last tenure where he was roundly discredited and quite humiliated. Spurs, Newcastle, Everton, Villa all have managers. The rest we have the potential to match and surpass.

 

We're a one-club city with loads of money, a core of British players, a big ground, and most importantly we are in the Premier League.

[inckley fox]

. As much as I agree, there's still no point in sacking Pearson. 

 

Well, I can see the point in sacking him, of course. I just don't think we should.

 

But if I were the owners I'd want a report on my desk by Monday morning asking him to explain why we've broken our transfer record for a striker who scores 5 in 9 then gets dropped when we can't score goals, or why he's dropped our principal creative force repeatedly at a time when we can't score goals, or why he's drastically changing tactics and line-up from game to game, or why he's made eight signings but only seems to be using one or two of them at any given moment.

 

It was interesting to see him out of his seat today. Maybe that's a sign that's he's finally been alerted to the fact that our performances of late have been woefully substandard. In 2013, when we went on a miserable winless run without him coming close to expressing dissatisfaction with his players, he addressed our problems just in time to salvage a play-off place, and save his job. I hope now that he's waking up to our deficiencies, and doing so before it's too late.

 

But there seems to have been a monumental underestimation of the standard of Premier League football. And there's no doubt in my mind that he has a very short period of time to put that right. He often says how he goes home on a Saturday and forgets all about football until Monday morning. Now might be a good time to stop doing that, and take a serious look at what he's doing wrong.

[Howard99]

It's too much of a risk that we will go down. If that happened his reputation would be gone completely. He would rather wait for a better job in my opinion.

[inckley fox]

He came across as being surprisingly calm actually. Said the 'base performance' was okay, and a major improvement on Swansea, that there were one or two things to work on and that we lost the game on fine margins. He also said he doesn't care what other people (possibly implying the fans) think about how we set up, which is fair enough in my opinion because most football fans really do talk an awful lot of shit most of the time. He didn't say anything unreasonable.

 

Is it fair enough? People have suggested his team selections, especially with regard to the midfield / attack, have been bizarre for the past five games. And in those five games we've created next to no chances and scored, what, two goals?

 

I think there's a fair old argument that those people were right. If you looked at today's line-up and suggested we'd struggle to create because our top scorer was left out in favour of a guy who has achieved nothing all season, and very little in his ample past PL opportunities; and our chief creative force was left out in order to accommodate a fourth central midfielder, then you appear to have grasped something which our manager didn't.

 

The work-rate, while better today, still didn't eclipse the opposition's. The side looked disorganised, dispirited, short of ideas. The formation and the line-up was yet another untested combination. I don't see how we can take Pearson's side over that of someone who points out that the manager has failed to settle his line-up, or out-manoeuvre the opposition, because that is clearly what has happened.

 

I want Pearson to stay and be a success. But we have to be balanced here.

[buzzy]

dont sack at moment but continue this form then it has got to be bye bye. his tactics at the moment are awful like 2 years ago in that bad spell playing nugent who is crap at this level beggers belief. sort it out pearson or pick up your p45 in december

[LCFC Rennie]

You've missed the real question..

Would the owners?

Suppose so, not saying Pearson out, however realistically the owners would probably take it. 

[Corky]

I don't think he'll be here much longer, the pressure will grow, the fans will turn and I can see a clamour for change.

 

Don't want him to go but just have the feeling he's on his way.

[inckley fox]

I don't think he'll be here much longer, the pressure will grow, the fans will turn and I can see a clamour for change.

 

Don't want him to go but just have the feeling he's on his way.

 

I'm not convinced it's the end, but the team selection today suggested a manager who is at a loss as to what's wrong right now.

[Master Fox]

Losing Nige would be a disaster. I'm confident he'll turn it around and surprise us all. Sacking him would mean losing Walsh and the whole back room staff setup. We struggled to bring in the right players in the summer which is clear. Nige wanted to give a lot of the players the opportunity of playing in the prem which appears to be a mistake. One or two quality signings in Janurary and we'll blast ourselves into a mid table spot. This wouldn't be Leicester if it was straight forward and just an average season.

[iancognito]

Hahaha. This thread again.

 

Listen to yourselves. 4 months ago he was a God again. All those people who blasted him for being too rigid and predictable are now blasting erratic formations and changes in the team selection.

 

FICKLE

FICKLE

 

FICKLE

 

In a way I actually hope this thread stays alive so I can carry on laughing at you idiots who want a new manager. Yes, let's do a Cardiff, let's do a Fulham - press the panic button and sink without trace.

[Bettsj2]

Hahaha. This thread again.

Listen to yourselves. 4 months ago he was a God again. All those people who blasted him for being too rigid and predictable are now blasting erratic formations and changes in the team selection.

FICKLE

FICKLE

FICKLE

In a way I actually hope this thread stays alive so I can carry on laughing at you idiots who want a new manager. Yes, let's do a Cardiff, let's do a Fulham - press the panic button and sink without trace.

Cardiff and Fulham both recently changed managers and are now doing particularly well.

We cant be blindly loyal to Pearson whilst he masterminds our slide back to the Championship. Sack him now, get Pulis in so by the time January comes, he's got the measure of the current squad and knows the changes to make in January. Otherwise we'll end up offering £12m for Deeney and £8m for McGoldrick again. When that was happening we should have known he's lost the plot.

Boo Nigel Pearson.

Boooooooo!

[jamesmilner]

Pearson saying he didn't CARE what anyone thought wasn't good . If I had that attitude at work with my mistakes my customers would have me sacked . I care very much . I do it my way and they have no choice in that , I make the decisions being the boss but I do care !! A lot !!

[StanSP]

Cardiff and Fulham both recently changed managers and are now doing particularly well.

We cant be blindly loyal to Pearson whilst he masterminds our slide back to the Championship. Sack him now, get Pulis in so by the time January comes, he's got the measure of the current squad and knows the changes to make in January. Otherwise we'll end up offering £12m for Deeney and £8m for McGoldrick again. When that was happening we should have known he's lost the plot.

Boo Nigel Pearson.

Boooooooo!

 

Yeah cos Tony Pulis is the almighty saviour . 

[ealingfox]

I feel like all the comparisons that are going to be made here are with Southampton. When Adkins took them up around this time he had their heads above water, but not looking comfortable at all, even after some spirited performances against the top clubs in the opening weeks of the season. This is the same situation we find ourselves in now.

 

Fitting, given both that we play Southampton next, and I can genuinely see Pearson not surviving a hammering there.

 

They famously got rid and the rest, as they say, is history. Just look at them now.

 

Before you jump down my throat, there is no way that that could happen to us. Why? The differences are in the people at the top of the football Clubs. They had Cortese previously, and people with the foresight and the cultured, widespread footballing knowledge to bring in a Pochettino, and then a Koeman. With all due respect, we have some Thai blokes, who may or may not love the game but do they know much about it?, a bird, and an outdated British Bulldog in Terry Robinson. We could never hope to make such an appointment. The fact that we didn't sign one player from a foreign club in the summer (Cambiasso was a free agent) says it all. 

 

If Pearson was to get the old tin tack, I'd want us to approach Moyes first. If he said no, I would really like us to look abroad before approaching Pulis. But do we have the capacity to look abroad? We would need to scout a manager from abroad in the same way we supposedly do players. 

 

The next appointment would be ridiculously pivotal. Could we really see Terry Robinson and Susan Whelan pulling anything good out the bag? I think the answer is no. Their idea of a cultured appointment would be Steve McClaren or Glenn Hoddle. I can't see them looking for someone in Germany or Spain.

 

It would undoubtedly be Pulis at the top of the list, then a McClaren or a Howe who would turn us down, then we're already reduced to asking the Mick McCarthys of this world. I think this is another of the many reasons why we should stick with Pearson come what may. If we couldn't get Moyes or Pulis, the next appointment would undoubtedly be crap.

 

Let's face it, if Pearson hadn't already been here, would Whelan and co. have even thought of approaching him after sacking Sven (whose appointment in itself reinforces my point)? I'm not sure they would.