Next Manager/ Season

[lmarsha_926]

Pearson took a dead team last season and they kept them up, the majority of that team could now by League Champions  He brought Mahrez and Vardy

[thabucks]

Yep a perfect storm of circumstances came together for Pearson and he did a great job in keeping them up can't deny that. But If he is such a good manager how come Sunderland Newcastle Swansea etc didn't appoint him? His overall record is poor. He is a hateful character. And I'll think you'll find it was Leicesters version of paddy Reilly who found Vardy & mahrez not Pearson personally. 

[lmarsha_926]

1 minute ago, thabucks said:

Yep a perfect storm of circumstances came together for Pearson and he did a great job in keeping them up can't deny that. But If he is such a good manager how come Sunderland Newcastle Swansea etc didn't appoint him? His overall record is poor. He is a hateful character. And I'll think you'll find it was Leicesters version of paddy Reilly who found Vardy & mahrez not Pearson personally. 

He has finished in the top 6 in the last 2 Championship season he has managed, they finished 14th which is good for a newly promoted club, we need a manager for the Championship

[TRO]

We are not a team heading for a european competition next season.

We are a team keen to avoid division one.....never mind trying to get promotion.

we need to understand the tough old league we will be in, when we start speculating on the next manager.

[thabucks]

Failed miserably at Southampton sacked twice by Leicester for falling out with the board. Poor at Hull. And this sums up why I don't want him near our club 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/leicester-city/11711901/Nigel-Pearson-was-a-bully-and-deserved-to-be-sacked-by-Leicester-City.html

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Nigel Pearson was a bully, and deserved to be sacked by Leicester City

So it transpires you can be sacked for who you are as much as for what you do. Nigel Pearson's abrupt defenestration at Leicester City, amid claims by the club of "differences in perspective", could more accurately be distilled as a toxic clash of personalities. He had, quite frankly, become a liability, his habit of revelling in his image as a brutish, unreconstructed PE teacher anathema to Thai owners who have set great store by moral rectitude and a spirit of goodwill. In an age when a Premier League manager is required to be at least plausibly ambassadorial, Pearson's incorrigible narcissism offered as solid a pretext as any for being fired.

Not that this is a popular view. Gary Lineker, who has repaired his own feud with Pearson, spoke for many when he asked Leicester, rhetorically: "Could you kindly reinstate him like the last time you fired him? Are the folk running football stupid? Yes." Alas, it is far too sweeping a brushstroke. Under Lineker's logic, every foreign owner becomes tarred as some dastardly interloper, ruining our game, corroding its soul, while underlining time and again the failure to appreciate the rough-edged characters that Harry Redknapp might call "real football men". 

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On the contrary, Leicester chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and his fellow directors deserve at least a measure of gratitude for allowing a bully like Pearson to be perceived in his proper light. For if one cares to look beyond his team's stirring riposte last season, winning seven of their final nine games to stay up, one sees an arrogance and recidivism of sufficient gravity for ejecting him long ago. 

First came the 'throttling' of Crystal Palace midfielder James McArthur, a thuggish act that divided the club's board so starkly that he was dismissed and reinstated in the space of two hours. 

Then, in an outrageous slur upon flightless birds everywhere, he bizarrely derided one local journalist as an "ostrich". Naturally, given that many an audience with Pearson was an exercise in snarling one-upmanship - he labelled another reporter a "p---k" for posing a legitimate question, and told one of Leicester's own fans to "f--- off and die" - the word was not uttered affectionately. Image-wise for his employers, he was radioactively awful. 

^{Nigel Pearson holds down James McCarthur}

As such, they gave him the pink slip. It should have happened four months earlier, when Pearson, in the most egregious example of his ungovernable aggression, pinned McArthur to the ground by the neck and then boasted about how hard as nails he was. "I'm more than capable of looking after myself," he said, smirking. Yes, we gathered that, Nigel. We have heard the story of how you single-handedly fought off a pack of wild dogs in the Carpathian Mountains more often than most retellings of Goldilocks. 

• Who will be the next Leicester manager?

The one problematic aspect of Pearson's departure is that it was immediately triggered by a scandal not of his making. It is understood to be the video of his son James, a fringe player at Leicester, involved alongside two team-mates in a sex act with Thai prostitutes and then subjecting them to some choice racist abuse. 

^{James Pearson was sacked by Leciester for his part in a leaked video}

There is a debate to be had, in this case, about whether a young man's sins ought to be inflicted upon the father. After all, to make somebody redundant based solely on the actions of a family member would a establish dangerous precedent indeed. Should Stuart Pearce be viewed differently because his brother is an activist for the far-right British National Party? Should Joey Barton be rendered unemployable because one of his siblings is a convicted murderer? To embark upon such a path would be lunacy. 

That said, the episode in Thailand was hardly the most glowing look for Pearson. On the one side were Far Eastern benefactors looking to turn a tour of their country by the team they had bankrolled into a laudable cultural exchange mission. On the other were the classic 'boys on tour', producing a piece of amateur pornography with extra lashings of bigotry. That is about the most glaring "difference in perspective" it is possible to conceive, and not one that reflects well on the iron discipline supposed to have been one of Pearson's few redeeming qualities. Footballers' orgies on official business might have been de rigueur in George Best's pre-cameraphone day, but not when you are wearing a club jersey advertising the Thai tourist board. 

Where Pearson is concerned, though, it pays to recall the wisdom that it is the last straw that breaks the camel's back. He has been let go not as a direct consequence of Pearson Jnr's excursion to a Thai brothel but as punishment for his accumulated misdeeds. As Seneca once observed, "it is not the last drop that empties the water-clock, but all which has previously flowed out." 

^{Nigel Pearson salutes Leicester fans after a win at Southend in 2009}

A pithy verdict on Pearson was provided in the wake of his efforts at strangling McArthur. "Once a bully, always a bully," said Trevor Sinclair, the former QPR and West Ham winger. "Nigel Pearson shouldn't be allowed in the dugout." Ultimately, Leicester's powerbrokers agreed. By their statement that "we are acutely aware of our position, and that of our players", they illustrated beyond doubt their conclusion that Pearson had brought the club into disrepute. And in 2015, such fundamental discord between owner and manager is almost always a fatal line of rupture. 

To present Pearson as some sacrificial lamb in the overseas meddling with our national sport misses the point. He brought his demise upon himself, having flouted the universally acknowledged edict that if you antagonise the money-men, you walk the plank. His departure might briefly denude the Premier League of some colourful vernacular in interviews, but it is no cause for howling lament - least of all by ostriches.

 

[Fairy In Boots]

If they fail to gain promotion we should go after Rowett, we won't however because Randys had his fingers burned before by hiring from that particular club.

[andym]

50 minutes ago, lmarsha_926 said:

Pearson took a dead team last season and they kept them up, the majority of that team could now by League Champions  He brought Mahrez and Vardy

if you give him all the credit for keeping leicester up, is it not also his fault they were in such a precarious position in the first place?

As for Leicester's recruitment - down to Steve Walsh not Pearson. 

[TRO]

27 minutes ago, andym said:

if you give him all the credit for keeping leicester up, is it not also his fault they were in such a precarious position in the first place?

As for Leicester's recruitment - down to Steve Walsh not Pearson. 

so our recruitment success in the early eighties was down to Tony Barton not Ron Saunders.

If Randy Lerner is at Fault for so much and not his staff, I don't see a level playing field here.

Dislike Pearson by all means , but lets have some consistency

[TRO]

39 minutes ago, Fairy In Boots said:

If they fail to gain promotion we should go after Rowett, we won't however because Randys had his fingers burned before by hiring from that particular club.

Thats had McLeish

now linked with 

• Bruce
• Hughton
• Rowett

spot the trend.

[supernova26]

Go for Sean Dyche.

Burnley or Aston Villa? He can only achieve so much at that nothing club.

Edited March 20, 2016 by supernova26

[Fairy In Boots]

11 minutes ago, TRO said:

Thats had McLeish

now linked with 

• Bruce
• Hughton
• Rowett

spot the trend.

I'd say some of that is lazy journalism, but seriously though I would like Rowett as a rule I'm not interested in Blues ex managers but Rowett is a good young manager and I think we could do a hell of a lot worse

[TRO]

1 minute ago, Fairy In Boots said:

I'd say some of that is lazy journalism, but seriously though I would like Rowett as a rule I'm not interested in Blues ex managers but Rowett is a good young manager and I think we could do a hell of a lot worse

I'm not in a position to argue.

The fact they are ex Blues has no affect on me whatsoever......Only their ability to do the job.

The recent managers from Big clubs has not worked so , who am I to judge.

[TRO]

1 hour ago, thabucks said:

Failed miserably at Southampton sacked twice by Leicester for falling out with the board. Poor at Hull. And this sums up why I don't want him near our club 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/leicester-city/11711901/Nigel-Pearson-was-a-bully-and-deserved-to-be-sacked-by-Leicester-City.html

 

so Brian Clough slapping a fan around the head was accepted...... but that is not

That to me with James McArthur was just "horse play"

...and Jose didn't bully the team Doctor.......come on.

I know Aston Villa are becoming lighweights.....but this is ridiculous.

If you only knew the antics of some of Football's managers you would find this cringeworthy.

Ps Martin O'Neill throttled Reo Coker in training.

Edited March 20, 2016 by TRO

[Mantis]

So the board are apparently specifically targeting a British manager, so it's more than likely that we'll end up with another neanderthal PASHUN manager. What the **** is the point in appointing someone like Garde and then presumably going for a manager who will be the exact opposite? Just like when we appointed Houllier and then got McLeish - it makes no **** sense. And then when the next couple of managers fail (because everyone does) we'll probably get in another foreign manager who will try and shake things up who will then of course fail because the shits we have in the dressing room can't be arsed.

It's just a **** vicious circle.

[TRO]

38 minutes ago, Mantis said:

So the board are apparently specifically targeting a British manager, so it's more than likely that we'll end up with another neanderthal PASHUN manager. What the **** is the point in appointing someone like Garde and then presumably going for a manager who will be the exact opposite? Just like when we appointed Houllier and then got McLeish - it makes no **** sense. And then when the next couple of managers fail (because everyone does) we'll probably get in another foreign manager who will try and shake things up who will then of course fail because the shits we have in the dressing room can't be arsed.

It's just a **** vicious circle.

No Disrespect to Remi, but he has hardly changed the culture of the playing side of the club.....and considering that everything is broken.....might be a good time, to start again.

I take your point and  judging by what I have read in the Birmingham Mail tonight by Steve Hollis he has addressed the very point of having a stable format in the playing side of the club.....so his intentions are clear and he has Brian Little to advise him.

I think we have seen enough over the last few seasons to see where the major problems lie.

We have tried various types of manager, foreign and British to no avail.

 

Ps I can just see it now, Brian suggests and unpopular fan choice, that will put the "cat amongst the pidgeons"

[Zatman]

10 hours ago, Villan4Life said:

Neil Warnock aka Colin rocket polisher

Anyone?

The guy is an absolute **** weapon but every team he manages he gets to prem league from championship!!!

Taken over at Rotherham and they are on a winning streak for first time this season thanks to him

Just sack him a few games into new season when he gets us promoted with Paddy Kenny as our keeper lol

after watching Guzan today, I pray we have Paddy Kenny soon

[Zatman]

5 hours ago, Mantis said:

So the board are apparently specifically targeting a British manager, so it's more than likely that we'll end up with another neanderthal PASHUN manager. What the **** is the point in appointing someone like Garde and then presumably going for a manager who will be the exact opposite? Just like when we appointed Houllier and then got McLeish - it makes no **** sense. And then when the next couple of managers fail (because everyone does) we'll probably get in another foreign manager who will try and shake things up who will then of course fail because the shits we have in the dressing room can't be arsed.

It's just a **** vicious circle.

because we tried twice with foreign managers and twice we got shit managers, I wanted Garde as I thought he be good and would get us playing football and he has been absolute poison

He will be even worse in Championship and better we get manager who knows the league

[dudevillaisnice]

The main concern is the budget. If there is no money to spend in the summer it is irrelevant who is in charge to be honest, nothing will change until Lerner decides to invest again or sell the club. I hope if there is a good budget in place we don't give it to Bruce. I hope Moyes would be tempted it would be a coup and as suggested before he could rebuild his career and this club. 

[Jareth]

If we go for Pearson, I am very cool with him strangling some of our senior players.

[Demitri_C]

Hughton or rowett for me. Would love warburton but can't see him leaving rangers.

I would not be suprised if we went for mccoist