New manager speculation / rumours thread

[Coyote]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

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."

I love doing that on FIFA where goalkeepers never get injured, but that's gimmicky as hell in a real game.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

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

Yeah, probably someone not mentioned anywhere.

Don't think Bulut's name had been mentioned at all had it? Vitor Campelos was favourite at that point I think.

(I remembered if was someone Portuguese but had to Google it. According to Google's AI overview "Erol Bulut was the most recent Portuguese manager of Cardiff City." 🤦*♂️)

[Rjk]

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!

they scored 86 league goals in a season, can it really have been that bad?

they didn't get any better unter Stephen Schumacher either from the look of things.

[Coyote]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

Buckingham probably suits the profile as a young Warnock the best (team rebuilder that sees promotion), and Evatt does to a lesser extent. But Selles performed wonders at Reading, and that's indication he can work well under immense difficulty. For all of Tan's faults, he's not Dai Yongge bad, so I think it would be an easier job for Selles.

Remember Hull put themselves in the position they were in by massively overspending in the previous season that had a strong Leicester, Leeds and Southampton relegated from the Prem prior, whereas Fulham, Bournemouth and Forest stayed up. It's not Selles fault they barely stayed up, hell, I'd argue he was a big part in why they did, so I rate Selles highly and think he'd be the best choice.

I'm on the Selles train personally, feel he fits the profile of what we need. Buckingham would be better if we had more competent ownership, but we don't.

[MOZZER2]

Re: Manager Linked -Richie Wellens

Ian Evatt being linked now

was heavily linked when Bulut got the boot too

[Dave St]

Re: Manager Linked -Richie Wellens

It's Ian, will be announced soon to boost season ticket sales

[MOZZER2]

Re: Manager Linked -Richie Wellens

It's Ian, will be announced soon to boost season ticket sales

will it really boost season tickets if he's appointed ?

https://www.bettingodds.com/thesackrace/managers/ian-evatt

[Hilts]

Re: Manager Linked -Richie Wellens

It's Ian, will be announced soon to boost season ticket sales

🤣🤣🤣

[Hilts]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

Evatt into evens. Hopefully it's a flutter of bets due to in the know rumours.🤣

[Trigger]

Re: Manager Linked -Richie Wellens

will it really boost season tickets if he's appointed ?

https://www.bettingodds.com/thesackr...gers/ian-evatt

Think he has a decent record, realistically probably one of the better ones on the list. Two promotions, two failed play offs, a Wembley win the fl trophy. Far more of a record than a few of our recent managers.

It won't excite the fans particularly but with this club, just getting in a semi competent manager might convince the odd person to renew.

[Trigger]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

Evatt into evens. Hopefully it's a flutter of bets due to in the know rumours.��

Probably.

I'd be genuinely very shocked if we hired someone already.

[Harry Paget Flashman]

Re: Manager Linked -Richie Wellens

Ian Evatt being linked now

was heavily linked when Bulut got the boot too

Its ianevattable that he'll be a flop here.

[LA Bluebird]

Re: Manager Linked -Richie Wellens

Nearly a 50% win rate in over 250 games mostly at the L1 level, plus a promotion on his record. Think we could do a lot worse.

[Coyote]

Re: Manager Linked -Richie Wellens

Nearly a 50% win rate in over 250 games mostly at the L1 level, plus a promotion on his record. Think we could do a lot worse.

We could absolutely do a lot worse, but I think we could do a little better. I'll settle for him though and I'd back him if we made that decision.

[FormerlyJohnnyBreadhead]

Re: New Manager recruitment process in place

they scored 86 league goals in a season, can it really have been that bad?

they didn't get any better unter Stephen Schumacher either from the look of things.

They were actually worse under Schumacher.

I wonder if the negative reviews from Bolton fans is a case of familiarity breeding contempt, because the stats suggest scoring goals has never been a problem with his sides - even last year (when they scored 39 goals in his 26 games).