New manager speculation / rumours thread

[Bald Barry Bastad]

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Based off what the League 1 playoffs showed, the drop off in standard is monumental.


Our squad now should be more than good enough for a top 10 finish.

Talent is not enough in this league. You need fight as well. Our team as it stands is bang in trouble as this lot lack any sort of fight.

[olderblue]

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Talent is not enough in this league. You need fight as well. Our team as it stands is bang in trouble as this lot lack any sort of fight.

Sadly this is bang on the money, most of the current bunch lack any bottle, I can’t remember a time in all my years of following the City where we have seen such a collection of players who were so gutless!

There’s zero fight in a lot of them, no passion and mainly they don’t give a toss

Some of these clowns will be looking to their agents to get them out and onto another gravy train somewhere else

First thing they should be doing is looking at the table to see where we finished, they won’t as they couldn’t care less

In league one, most of them would get kicked off the park, we need a manager who can identify the 4-5 battlers we’re desperately going to need to hold our own in this league

[Hilts]

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Vitor Campelos whoever he is has now entered the betting at 7/2.

[Ninian1962]

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Vitor Campelos whoever he is has now entered the betting at 7/2.

Don`t know if someone at the club has leaked some stuff out (again) but a couple of things to consider

1. In the published minutes of the May 2025 FAB meeting with the club, Chair Mehmet Dalman states that he would like a couple of continental managers to be on the shortlist to be our new manager.

2.According to Wikipedia, Campelos says he was 99% certain he was going to join us as manager when he was managing Chaves in Portugal but Vincent Tan chose someone else - strong hint of another example of ignoring professional football expertise?

[Coyote]

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Campelos sounds like Bulut 2.0. Going to be another guy they dupe into taking the poisoned chalice for their leadership because the British managers know to avoid Tan/demand more money for a harder job.

Tan and the Cardiff brass undoubtedly have a reputation locally. But on a European scale, not as much.

[splott parker]

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Vitor Campelos whoever he is has now entered the betting at 7/2.

Born in the city where we won a European trophy

[Ninian1962]

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Born in the city where we won a European trophy

Algavre Cup?

[jon1959]

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Algavre Cup?

The glory days!

[Der Kaiser]

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Talent is not enough in this league. You need fight as well. Our team as it stands is bang in trouble as this lot lack any sort of fight.

Sorry, would have to disagree. There's **** all talent in League 1 to begin with, and the 2 most 'talented' teams went up automatically this season, even if they spent a bucket load between them.

[Coyote]

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Other forum on "a very good source" is claiming Buckingham has been selected. Could be bogus of course, as they can often get things wrong.

He'd have probably been my second choice behind Selles, seems like probably the best choice we could agree upon and the best out of that final batch of names (him, Evatt, Murphy, Ramsey). I'll back this appointment, Oxford were pretty upset to see him go.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

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Did he or did Liam Manning?

How much of Oxfords success was down to Buckingham. He was sacked after about a year. They were 2nd when Manning left and he took over. They went up through the play offs.

Rowett also turned around Oxford pretty quickly when Buckingham was relieved of duties.

We are probably going cheap. He may get it. If he does lets hope he is a good coach who Oxford were foolish to let go.

Otherwise Tuertos mate may get his wish and it will Ramasut to get his chance in November.🤣

Murphy did not score or assist under Manning, it was all Buckingham (and Murphy himself of course). Manning left after 15 games that season, Buckingham hardly tanked.

[Pedro de la Rosa]

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Don`t know if someone at the club has leaked some stuff out (again) but a couple of things to consider

1. In the published minutes of the May 2025 FAB meeting with the club, Chair Mehmet Dalman states that he would like a couple of continental managers to be on the shortlist to be our new manager.

2.According to Wikipedia, Campelos says he was 99% certain he was going to join us as manager when he was managing Chaves in Portugal but Vincent Tan chose someone else - strong hint of another example of ignoring professional football expertise?

That was Bulut, though?

[the other bob wilson]

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Sorry, would have to disagree. There's **** all talent in League 1 to begin with, and the 2 most 'talented' teams went up automatically this season, even if they spent a bucket load between them.

Our 24/25 side, for all of their alleged talent (I accept they had some, but believe our supporters over rated us in that department - or, at least, we barely ever saw it winning us games) would have had to have produced qualities we seldom saw during the regular season to have made any progress in this season’s League One Play Offs, for all that there wasn’t a great deal of good football on show in them.

[olderblue]

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Our 24/25 side, for all of their alleged talent (I accept they had some, but believe our supporters over rated us in that department - or, at least, we barely ever saw it winning us games) would have had to have produced qualities we seldom saw during the regular season to have made any progress in this season’s League One Play Offs, for all that there wasn’t a great deal of good football on show in them.

If it is Des Buckingham as has been stated, I think his priorities will be

Bring in his own back room staff

Do you keep anyone out of contract?

How can he move out those players, who clearly aren’t up for the task

Identify and sign some experienced league one battlers who know their way around this division and some wingers who can actually beat a defender and deliver a cross

It’s a big task and good luck to him (if it’s him)

[splott parker]

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Algavre Cup?

I sincerely hope you didn’t engrave the trophy