It's hard to identify a candidate in the current market.
Who will it be, how soon can he be put in place and is it too late to do anything this season?
Is Sol Bamber ready to be given a chance ? Interim position at least maybe.
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It's hard to identify a candidate in the current market.
Who will it be, how soon can he be put in place and is it too late to do anything this season?
Is Sol Bamber ready to be given a chance ? Interim position at least maybe.
Nigel Pearson or Mark Hughes for me.
Paul Cook.
It will be someone cheap and desperate for work
Gazza as his number 2 ?
What about the bloke who got Fulham promoted the tme before last ?
I'm thinking Mark Hughes.
Do it by Saturday!
Hughes record as a manager is one of perpetual failure. Nigel Pearson would be a good shout.
It’ll be Bamba I reckon.
What about that painter/decorator fella ?
He could paper over the cracks.
Eddie Howe is being suggested and that'd seem a great option to me. A history of getting promotion and staying there.
It'd please a certain section who were always after Sir Niel too because he's definitely more inclined to possession and holding the midfield.
It'd be nice to move up a notch rather than appoint a less prestigious budget choice and this'd fit the bill.
No two separate things. I was thinking of the little beardy bloke with the suit , although someone said he's changed his appearance and got a gig with WBA ,( wonder if they know it's the same bloke).
Anyway, that's all academic now because I've now changed my mind and more or less decided on Eddie Howe.
In fact unless I hear from Klopp or Mourhino by Saturday I'm gong to call Vince and tell him to just go with that.
Someone vaguely realistic would be Alex Neil at PNE. Half their squad is out of contract in the summer, he could bring some of them here and he's a safe pair of hands. We're a bigger club than Preston, and they've got a major rebuild unless Davies, Hughes, Pearson, Browne and Johnson sign new deals. Would we pay to get him? Probably not. Is he the answer? Probably not :hehe:.
I was gong to say something amusing ,but seriously I do think Sols got a future in coaching - management. He's an unparalleled motivator with a wealth of experience and a good brain. He's doing all his badges and stuff and like anyone he's got to start somewhere.
It's almost a shame to spoil the jokey mood of the thread but it is a serious issue in reality and in that spirit I'm backing Sol 100% for future management but I'm not sure he's ready yet , or that he should start with such a big job. No, I think ,and still being serious, that Eddie Howe would be the ideal man for the job. He can use the high quality players we've got to produce the consistent high quality football they're obviously capable of and his history shows that he knows how to produce over a long period of time, not just occasional winning runs.
Which is really what i went on to say, but you know as an interim appointment until there's someone in place it might work for everyone. Good on his CV and a statement of intent.
He can't do any worse than Mr Harris over a few games and maybe the novelty factor would get a few good results in the mean time.
You're definitely right though that we need a more established man as soon as possible. We really should be very near the top with the players we've got but it's probably too late to even think of automatic promotion this season. However, it's also probably not impossible to reach the play offs with a more professional set up. Can't EXPECT that from the new manager at this stage but might happen if we act quickly and it could certainly be turned round by next season.
Paul Cook is the realistic option.
Giggs should beat them all to the role and make a good fist of it .
When was the last time we had a manager who left something behind beyond the playing staff itself ?
This club is long due a manager that can look beyond the short-term, first eleven. I think Harris is probably trying to do something like this, but it doesn't seem to working and it isn't obvious in which direction this "project" is going.
Howe would be a good candidate for someone who could instil a culture. Hughes less so. I like Hughes, but Howe is still a youngish manager with what appears to be a modern approach to managing a football club.
The only problem is that Howe doesn't fit the boards cheap, yes-man profile.
Wish he could've turned it round but he can't. Every opportunity was there but he couldn't connect with the players. Sometimes it just goes like that and it's a shame but there it is. He's had bad luck, I'll give him that but he's got nowhere to go wth this strange and constantly changing system. It's been proven not to work by now and he hasn't got any other ideas.
When he's blaming the players publicly that means he doesn't know what the problem is so he can't solve it.
They're good players and it's not their fault if he wants to lay them in some whacky system. To rage against them when it doesn't work is an act if desperation and I should think it's alienated them completely by now.
Pearson wouldn’t be a bad shout, can’t imagine players not putting in a shift under him? What the hell will he make of Murphy?
Exactly the same as someone like Pullis would, he would motivate him to get the best out of him by demanding he ups his performance
Hows about
Bellamy and Bamba
Much as we all love Craig Bellamy and that's why the club tried to bring him on as a coach, I'm afraid he hasn't got the temperament for it. You can't represent any big club or organisation and go round saying anything you lke without thinking about it.
I definitely think Sol could do it in the future though and I'd love to see that. In the immediate future though we need someone with experience and technical knowledge and Howe seems ideal as the man to repeat what he did st Bournemouth and get us into and established in the Premieship . That's the next stage.