New manager speculation / rumours thread

[Pedro de la Rosa]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

Yeah we're not a terrible prospect to an ambitious manager at this level.
the owner typically backs the manager pretty well.

We will need a full coaching staff as well though.

Presumably Luton will start the season as bookies favourites with the parachute money they'll still be getting, but after them we've got to be in the next bunch of teams along with Plymouth, Bolton, Reading and the teams from the playoffs.

But in terms of the size of the club, you know you can get 33k bums on seats in the top flight. You have got Salech, or at least a lot of transfer budget to work with if he goes. Luton are just as crap as we are, if not worse.

[Coyote]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

I thought you were boycotting anyway?

Oh, I'm not planning to go to matches or give the club any money. But if they do that, then I'm divorcing myself entirely from them for the time being. Didn't say I wouldn't watch them on the Firestick or something. A good manager would be a temporary reprieve from this ownership.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

Ian Evatt now the bookies favourite.

[Rjk]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

Ian Evatt now the bookies favourite.

his Bolton team scored 86 goals in the 23/24 season. imagine that.
when was the last time we scored that many in a league season?

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

his Bolton team scored 86 goals in the 23/24 season. imagine that.
when was the last time we scored that many in a league season?

Wikipedia says "Evatt prefers to play attacking possession-based football, with his Barrow team nicknamed "Barrowcelona" due to the attacking football they played... Evatt frequently decides against naming a substitute goalkeeper on the bench, preferring to have more attacking options and has had outfield players do goalkeeping training, just in case. Evatt will sometimes bring on attacking players when winning matches rather than defensive players, preferring to score more goals than defend a lead."

[WJ99mobile]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

Ian Evatt now the bookies favourite.

Not exactly rave reviews from Bolton Fans

[The Lone Gunman]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

Not exactly rave reviews from Bolton Fans

How many football fans give rave reviews for any former manager of theirs who eventually got the sack? I'd say the percentage is tiny.

[2b2bdoo]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

Issue seems to be he was very stubborn with how his teams set up (can’t be worse than Bulut tho).

Most seem to think he did well but should have been replaced much earlier.

[Hilts]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

2-1 fav out of work

Buckingham 4-1 out of work.

Of course the bookies could be totally wrong but if the short list includes these 2 did we really need to hire from outside to get these sort of candidates.

Hopefully there is someone else outside the bookies radar and they will come up with a good appointment.

Michael Beale has drifted to 16-1 thankfully.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

How many football fans give rave reviews for any former manager of theirs who eventually got the sack? I'd say the percentage is tiny.

They weren’t giving him rave reviews when he was at Bolton, or they weren’t at least last season at least.

https://themanc.com/sport/ian-evatt-reacts-to-negative-chants-by-bolton-fans-stockport-defeat/

[Don Corleone]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

I have very good friends who are Bolton fans, they say the football under him was terrible, very dull , defensive based - fit right in with what we’ve had to put up with under Bulut!

[Don Corleone]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

He also fell out with the fans big time

[Don Corleone]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

All rumour’s anyway, it will be somebody we haven’t heard of before!

[Coyote]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

Evatt is...OK I guess? I don't hate it, but I feel we could do a little better, I'm more inclined towards a few other choices. He seems more like a good choice for a Stevenage, a side who want to be stable in League One rather than gunning for promotion.

As long as it's not Beale, Gerrard or Rooney that's the first hurdle to clear. But Selles or Buckingham would be fine.

[Trigger]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

You would hope he would learn from how it ended at Bolton. It seems he did well there initially.

To find someone with no negative reviews we would need to get someone in at the very beginning of their career, that hasn't worked well for us so far.

During his time there he got a promotion from league 2, play off semi defeat in league 1, play off final defeat in league 1, winners of the pizza trophy. Still only 43, I'm not saying we should be going for him but even at that age he's ridiculously more experienced than some of our recent managers.