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What are you negatives and positives regarding him has the manager of our club?
I must admit I know little about his career but I have read he was praised for Rochdale's style of play and work with homegrown talent and had a very small budget to work with..
He seems to have done pretty well with Manchester City academy to.
But will he have what it takes to get us promoted 🤔.
I know very little about him.
I would have thought he must be well thought of if hes worked with Man City and he was called upon to help Leicester.
It's a huge gamble but so would anyone.
Id rather him than Des Buckingham by a distance.
If it is him I hope decent backroom staff come in.
I think we all must accept that we are in the dark about BBM. If he gets the gig then good luck to him.
This is a good article about him
https://www.mancity.com/features/bri...-of-a-manager/
It's an encouraging article.
Had some difficult times at Rochdale which as a young manager shouldn't just be looked at as failure and he must be rubbish.
Clearly has something for man city to trust him with their super elite development squad.
Could be great, could be hung out to dry.
I don’t mind him or Ramsey but we need a DoF with either.
My favourite would be Steve cooper. Is he still without a club. I think he would make a great DoF too
What's the big deal on this board about a director of football?
Without one, any manager would be reporting directly to Dalman and Choo, who in turn report to Tan. 3 people who know f all in running a successful football club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Paget Flashman
Jesper Daland 4mQuote:
Originally Posted by Harry Paget Flashman
David Turnbull 2m
Roko Simic 2m
Ethan Horvath 4 year deal
Chris Willock 3 year deal
Anwar El Ghazi
Wilfried Kanga 500k loan fee
Will Fish 1m
Famara Diedhiou
Yeah, I don't think Rochdale should be held against him. The club was in such a bad state, I remember when the by-election was going on, people were actually running on "We will save Rochdale football club from extinction." A Sheffield politician also spoke out about what was going on at Wednesday right now.
We're not in that position, not yet at least.
My main fear with Barry-Murphy is that he’ll struggle to cope with the challenge of working for an eccentric owner at a club which, we’re constantly told, is under much more of a media spotlight than is the norm. Like it would have been with Aaron Ramsey, I reckon Brian Barry-Murphy, if appointed, would need someone experienced to act as a buffer between him and the Board - as has been suggested elsewhere on here, that could well be Gavin Chesterfield.
Get away from the crap that goes with the Cardiff job though and I think Barry-Murphy could be a good appointment as far as the football goes.
For me, a completely unnecessary gamble when a steady hand would’ve done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluebird Of Happiness
Trying to hit a home run when a single would’ve won the match.
I would’ve gone for Evatt personally
Evatt was presumably the experienced L1 manager type who would have kept the Trust happy.Quote:
Originally Posted by EastbourneBlue
Would probably have kept us comfortably in L1.
The list of manager options that we appeared to be looking at was really uninspiring.
With Ramsey ruled out Id prefer the gamble on Barry-Murphy and hopefully we can start building a side to get back up in the next few seasons.
With limited experience, two relegations (Leicester and Rochdale), and some coaching kids, what a disaster. There were so many Managers available last season, and we stuck with Riza, and it looks like we're making the same old mistake again.
I dont know anything about the Rochdale relegation but L1 is probably a level too high for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue
Leicester were doomed less face it.
I may be more positive as I'm just thinking its got to be better than Buckingham or Critchley.
So they appoint a DoF that is their yes man anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
Seems like an unnecessary tier of management.
So all the clubs with a DoF don't make bad signings?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
You are right on that point; clubs with DOFs can make bad signings. Even if they have a DOF, they usually have a transfer committee of sorts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Paget Flashman
We need a football-experienced person to help Dalman and Choo, who doesn't need to be a DOF; it could be a Ridsdale-type appointment, but hopefully younger and a bit better.
All brought in by our much-hyped recruitment guru and his team. Unless a DOF is going to take over that aspect of the club, I'm expecting more of the same. Oh, you missed out Ramsey and the highly over-rated Robertson..Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
Some of those players should have done a lot better, let's see if this new Manager can get them playing at their best, but yes so far that list looks really bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
Goutas and Siopis looked OK the season before, but last season in that team they looked poor also.
Strange he hasn’t got one, I guess he can still take a wage from Leicester until he gets a new role….Quote:
Originally Posted by Porth Pouncer
Unless the sacked manager and the club agree on a settlement, they just continue getting paid under the terms of the contract. They don't do or say anything that can get them dismissed for gross misconduct, it is why they tend to drop from the scene for ages.
Steve Cooper is a championship playoff manager nowadays. He is exactly what Leicester should be looking for :hehe:
Looking at the squad he had in his first year at Rochdale it's a wonder they won any games let alone survive comfortably.
2 goal keepers: one 18 and the other they signed from AFC Fylde) although they did sign another 22yo on loan
6 defenders (one a 16 year old loanee, 2 in their mid 30s)
6 forwards (half u21s, 2 well over 30, 1 over 40!)
A midfield made up of 50% academy graduates and 50% free transfers
They also lost narrowly to Man utd on pelanties in r3 of the league cup. A utd side containing Pogba, Juan Mata, Fred, Greenwood, Lingard, Dan James, Wan-Bisaka etc.