Manager for next season

[supertom]

I think it really hits home when you look at the bottom 3. It doesn't matter who you have as manager. If the set up at the club is rotten then they've got no chance. I'm no Benitez fan at all, but he's a decent manager. He's a champions league winner. He's won trophies left, right and centre. I expected him to do better at Newcastle. They do have some ability there but the problem is when everyone high up at the club reeks of Apathy. When no one seems to give two fucks, it filters down to the players. It's rotten. We're the same. Almost all of our players couldn't give two shits. They turn up, jog nonchalantly round the pitch. They ignore their managers and split off into their little cliques and depending on which clique your in, you either sit quietly in the corner and hide away or (in Gabby's clique) strut around like a piss bag as if you own the bloody place.

I think this season you'll see the three right clubs going down. The most deserving. Ourselves, Newcastle and Sunderland will be the three biggest clubs in the 2nd tier. We'll be by far the biggest to have been at that level since we last were ourselves. But we're all being run by shysters and we've all signed too much over the hill drek, combined with mercenaries or just players who aren't good enough. We all have players who don't work hard enough. We all have coasters who do the bare minimum who have represented the club for years, but done so with a decline, year on year in effort.

We fully deserve to go down. If Newcastle or Sunderland make an unlikely escape, it'll be a travesty.

As for next season. This new board has to put things right. We need to make the most of the newly appointed football knowledge. Someone to say that it's not acceptable to have such a cretinous squad. Because otherwise it won't matter who we appoint as manager. We might as well put a can of bake beans in the dugout to oversee our fall to League 1.

[TonyD]

Moyes is yesterday's forgotten dour SM.   Cannot understand the clammer to sign him. 

[CT]

I know this has been years in making, I know this whole season has been appalling, but I hope what's happened over the last few matches hasn't put off some of the potentional names for us next year.

Could you really blame Moyes, Pearson, Rodgers etc for looking at what's going on and saying "I don't want or need any of that"?

Seeing players who are not only useless, but have just given up and have shown no professionalism whatsoever, and thinking they would have to try and motivate them next season.

We'll end up with Neil Warnock or Steve Evans.

[Walmley_Villa]

Must admit my thoughts on Moyes being a good assignment are diminishing, another dour Scotsman who has allegedly turned us down before. Is he the right man for a Championship campaign? I'm not so sure.

[Monty]

We're really going to need to be ruthless. Gary Rowett would be a very good appointment in my view - good manager, promising, up-and-coming, knows the league and would be hilarious to see the looks of confused rage on the faces of our simian neighbours.

[TonyD]

Warnock wouldn't be a bad short term appointment to get up back up.  Still think NP is the guy. No brainer. 

[Monty]

Still think NP is the guy. No brainer. 

'No brainer' indeed.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Moyes is yesterday's forgotten dour SM.   Cannot understand the clammer to sign him. 

My thoughts exactly TonyD.

Way past his sell-by date.

Someone younger, with something to prove, and with the brain/staff to do it.

[Walmley_Villa]

Moyes is yesterday's forgotten dour SM.   Cannot understand the clammer to sign him. 

My thoughts exactly TonyD.

Way past his sell-by date.

Someone younger, with something to prove, and with the brain/staff to do it.

The next Eddie Howe would be nice. Bournemouth looked sharp and played with flair and discipline, two things missing from VP for a good while.

[Toronto Villa]

They also have benefitted from the core of that squad being together for a few years, having success and good player acquisition. You don't need to break the bank to stay up in the PL, or even finish mid table. And apparently this season you don't need to do it to win the damn thing.

[Steve kirk]

If Moyes is out of the running we will probably go for one of the so called Championship specialists, there are quite a few but these are probably the leading candidates.
Pearson
Dyche
Bruce
McCarthy
Hughton
I think of those 5 I would go for Chris Hughton.

[The Laughing Policeman]

If we got Hughton in it'd upset the neighbours, some of whom didn't like him because of his skin colour.

[john2710]

What jobs are going to be available, Us, Newcastle, Swansea, perhaps Everton, West Brom & Sunderland.

Who's suitable for us?

Pearson - a man who would give Trump a run for arrogance, his coaching team is still at Leicester.
Moyes - yesterday's man? Turned us down when we were in a much healthier position.
Bruce - experienced and proven ability to get sides promoted and then relegated.

Rodgers - not stupid enough to even consider us as a option.
Houghton - experienced, harshly treated at Newcastle. Not a big enough character to take on the challenge we offer.
Pullis - no thanks.

There's a risk with each, even with Graham Taylor, his sides were frowned upon for long-ball football. I'm confident that those with the task of finding a new manager now have the experience and knowledge to make the right choice.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Who signed Vardy and Mahrez? Was it Pearson?

Yes.
Well he was the manager at the time anyway. I have no idea on their transfer set up. Though of course Pearson would undoubtedly take full credit.

Tim Sherwood recommended both to Pearson. Honest. He just doesn't have the bottle to say it right now but give him time.

[achilles]

I know this has been years in making, I know this whole season has been appalling, but I hope what's happened over the last few matches hasn't put off some of the potentional names for us next year.

Could you really blame Moyes, Pearson, Rodgers etc for looking at what's going on and saying "I don't want or need any of that"?

Seeing players who are not only useless, but have just given up and have shown no professionalism whatsoever, and thinking they would have to try and motivate them next season.

We'll end up with Neil Warnock or Steve Evans.

To be fair Neil Warnock has done an absolutely fantastic job at Rotherham, considering where they were when he took over!