Manager for next season

[ozzjim]

Howe has a multi billionaire owner and a job for life. 

I would be happy with Warburton too.

[robbo1874]

I'd be happy with Moyes under these (shit) circumstances. He'll be on a tight budget, but showed at everton he can deliver under a tight financial regime.

Failing that, Warburton at Rangers interests me. I think he may be able to do a job for us. Let's not forget, thinking purely short term, our aim for next season is promotion by hook or by crook. Every season we're down there we'll be falling further behind.

I already feel better about things knowing bevington, little and Bernstein are on board and trust that we'll hopefully get the right man in to turn things round. Of equal importance is shifting the shit (most of them) on the playing side of things. Root and branch reform of the whole culture on the playing staff. That's easier said than done admittedly, but it needs to happen if we are to jettison this air of malaise and mediocrity (and that's being kind) in the senior squad.

[frank black]

I would go for someone proven to get teams out if the championship. Moyes is not that man.

The slightly nutty Pearson or Bruce for me.

(I know I've changed my view in 24 hours, call me Cameron)

[robbo1874]

I also think we need some disciplinarians and talent in equal measure on the coaching staff. At the very least I want to see us commence next season with a fully fit squad bursting to go and with a clear idea of the overall system and what is required of each player. The preparation and start to the last couple of seasons under Lambert and Sherwood was inexcusable and contributed hugely to setting the tone of struggle each season. Enough is enough. We really need to be in the top 2 or 3 at Christmas to have a good chance of going up first time around

[dave.woodhall]

I would go for someone proven to get teams out if the championship. Moyes is not that man.

The slightly nutty Pearson or Bruce for me.

(I know I've changed my view in 24 hours, call me Cameron)

Why is it that we scoffed at "Premier League experience needed" in the past but Championship experience is now vital? As with players it seems the Championship is some sort of unique entity, the only level of football that requires a different skill set to everywhere else when in reality it's exactly the same - the best wins.

[dave shelley]

I would go for someone proven to get teams out if the championship. Moyes is not that man.

The slightly nutty Pearson or Bruce for me.

(I know I've changed my view in 24 hours, call me Cameron)

Why is it that we scoffed at "Premier League experience needed" in the past but Championship experience is now vital? As with players it seems the Championship is some sort of unique entity, the only level of football that requires a different skill set to everywhere else when in reality it's exactly the same - the best wins.

Bingo!

[The_ads]

Far too much made of this 'must require championship experience' theory. How many bad managers have got teams promoted over the years. Danny Wilson? Billy Davies? Alex Mcleish? Paul Jewell? Where are these 'great experienced' managers now eh? He's getting a slating on here but many people in and around football absolutely love Nigel Pearson. The persona he demonstrates with the media is not one he replicates with his players. I've heard that the family of Jeff Astle won't hear a bad word against him for the way he treated them at the Albion, and I know Chris Lepowski of the Meaning Evil talks about him very highly. He is a no nonsense, tough, uncompromising character and it's exactly what this football club needs next season.

[villabear]

Ruud Gullit anyone?

http://www.eatsleepsport.com/aston-villa/gullit-admits-villa-job-interest-2082949.html#.Vvz3Z0V4XCQ

As a player he's still probably better even at age 53 than what we've currently got. As a manager it's a non starter surely?

[SheffieldVillain]

He's getting a slating on here but many people in and around football absolutely love Nigel Pearson.

His last employers didn't.

[PeterWithesShin]

Welcome to the site Mr Pearson.

[AVH87]

Warburton is an interesting one, did a good job at Brentford and appears to be impressing in Scotland too. However, would he leave Rangers after just a year when they are about to go into the SPL and do battle with Celtic again for the first time in years? That seems pretty exciting and what he will have gone there for in the first place, can't see him being tempted away this early.

[RussellC]

I can only assume that anyone describing Nigel Pearson as "no nonsense" didn't listen to any of his press-conferences last season. The guy's a pretentious clown, steer clear please.

[The_ads]

Plenty of people tossed themselves off silly when Remi Garde was appointed yet most people scoff at a bloke with a proven track record of promotion. Strange. The fact that he 'appears' to the outside world slightly unhinged actually gives me encouragement that he'll bomb out the cancer that riddles the club. We are not in a position to be particularly choosy and the prospect of David Moyes is fanciful. We are choosing from a very small pool of fish here and at the moment, not many managers out there will be falling over themselves to come here after seeing the complete fuckery of the last few years

[The_ads]

Don't insult my intelligence mate

I can only assume that anyone describing Nigel Pearson as "no nonsense" didn't listen to any of his press-conferences last season. The guy's a pretentious clown, steer clear please.

[PeterWithesShin]

There's no 'appears' about it as it's not rumours or anything, you can watch the videos online of him being an odious twunt. He's going to go postal at some stage, and if he was cracking at a shitty little club like Leicester, then the pressure here if things aren't going well could be what sends him over the edge. Even if he is a great manager, which I highly doubt, I want him to be someone else's problem, not ours.