Manager for next season

[sickbeggar]

Pat Murphy reckons it's Pearson.

murphy has got his head buried underneath the sand

With his contacts and years of journalistic experience, he's probably got far more of a clue as to what's going than most who post on here.

I don't think you need years of journalistic experience to come up with Pearson's name. Most of the posters on here have mentioned him for the last 3 months. It's a lazy obvious appointment and i hope the club will wait at least till the summer and seriously investigate who else might be tempted. If they then decide Pearson is the best bet then fair enough

[mr underhill]

then be afriad

[mr underhill]

and afraid too!

[brian green]

Affray is what Pearson will bring.

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A Leicester fans opinion of Pearson;

I've never felt like the club was in better hands than when he was in charge. He changed the club form top to bottom, not just on the pitch but also off it. He revolutionised the scouting and sports science departments, he doesn't accept things being run badly behind the scenes and will control almost everything. He'd sort you out and give you a great setup to be proud of... if he was given the time to do so, we've profited massively from all the setup he left behind.

The players and almost all the staff absolutely loved him. The person you see in front of the camera is not the person you'd meet in the street, or the one that works with the players. He hates the press, his issues come from that. He can seem boring etc, but it just comes from him not wanting to give anything away. It's all behind closed doors stuff as far as he's concerned, he does it to protect the players.

He's not perfect by any means, tactically he can be frustrating sometimes. He'll stick with tactics and players too long if they aren't working out of loyalty to the players, but he'll get there eventually. What he'll give you though is a young exciting teams, playing with pace and wingers. A team with great spirit that will run through brick walls for each other. You'll feel proud of your club and team again, you'll start the get that affinity with players that you've probably been lacking for some time (we were as well until he came in).

He won't spend money for the sake of it. When he was here it was almost like he treated the money as his own, if he signed someone huge amounts of work went into making sure they were the right people, as well as decent players. They always tried to get "value", that was one of his key words. Scouring the country and Europe for bargains, rather than just chucking millions at the normal names or has beens.

Recruitment is key for Pearson, and that's where the problem is. Steve Walsh, his right hand man is still with us (to anyone wondering why he's not got a job yet, that's why). Will he want to drop down to the championship from a team probably going to be in the champions league... and will you pay the £1m+ that it would take to get him. Without Walsh, I'm not sure I'd have exactly the same faith in Pearson being able to turn you around. With him, I'm positive he could do it.

People need to ignore the shit from last year, that was really blown out of all proportion. He called someone an Ostrich FFS, managers have and will do a damn site worse than that. In all the years he was here, they'd all past of without incident prior to last season, and half of that was all stirred up by the press. Mainly because they hate the fact he is a closed book, he won't give them anything to work with.

[martin o`who??]

I`d be happy with Pearson, we need a change of direction, we've had the bland to the downright invisible running the team over the last five years, Pearson will take the whole emphasis in a new direction, some of the lazy money-grabbing, thieving passengers currently on the books would get it full-bore hopefully - if he only lasted five minutes as long as he spent them with the Zog............

[sid1964]

For all the anti Pearson people on here, then it is a good job we are not looking at someone like Alex Ferguson! Look at the run ins he had with  the press (the boot at Beckham's face etc.......)

We need a strong Manager to sort out this mess (I am not saying it should be Pearson) but we need a Saunders type of character, who can rebuild this club, he will need to be backed not only with players in, but also with regards to getting rid of players, Garde looks like he could have done the job, but for me he just wants to get back to France!

We don't want a Monk and heaven help us if we get Bruce (i Will not be going down the Villa if that happens)

 

[Dave]

That report above sounds word-for-word as if it were written about the "good" Martin O'Neill.

And so we come full circle.

[brian green]

Dave, I was about to post the same thing, word for word.

[Zouch Villa]

Very interesting perspective Ads, and I see a lot of sense in what is written. However, from the many Leicester fans I know Pearson was largely unliked for his arrogant and boarish manner, sticking with failing tactics, although he clearly kept much of the focus on himself to the benefit of the team.  The comments regarding the importance of Walsh is of particular interest, as clearly it's as much about getting the backroom set up right.

I'm very much in two minds about Pearson. I regard him as an unsavoury buffoon, but if he were to be appointed as Villa manager, he would be our unsavoury buffoon who I would support nonetheless.

[Dave]

For all the anti Pearson people on here, then it is a good job we are not looking at someone like Alex Ferguson! Look at the run ins he had with  the press (the boot at Beckham's face etc.......)

So to paraphrase "for the people on here who don't want a shit manager, it's a good thing we're not looking at a good manager!"

How does that work then?

[Ian.]

That report above sounds word-for-word as if it were written about the "good" Martin O'Neill.

And so we come full circle.

I was about to say that myself.

[SamTheMouse]

Who was it he told to "fuck off and die" then?

[brian green]

Ernest Hemingway famously said when he read the word "culture" it made him reach for his gun.  The phrase about footballers "running through brick walls" has the same effect on me.

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The Leicester fan mentions scouting and value for money. Not sure what they have in common with O'Neill!