All held talks with the club over the past couple of days, according to Percy and Dorsett. Rohl also had talks but more difficult due to situation with Sheff Wed. Club aiming to make an appointment within the next few days.
This list of three is exactly the sort of lazy, unimaginative, visionless managerial appointments you would expect from the King Power charlatans who have driven the club into the ground and seem intent on driving us further and further down.
Assuming that Rohl doesn't come, out of these 3 I would probably go with O'Neil. Not a great choice by any stretch but he has a higher ceiling than the other two. Did a decent job with Bournemouth after taking over from Parker, and an OK job in his first half-season with Wolves before everything went very Rodgers-like. I would sooner have King than Dyche or Wilder.
All in all, it's what we have come to expect from these owners. They haven't got a clue how to get us out of the mess they have created, and they have no idea what kind of manager they actually want, so they just go looking at an agent's list of clients and pick one.
If you want a better manager, we will need to have better owners first.
Dyche, Wilder, G. O'Neil
posted 1 week, 2 days ago
O'Neil is dreadful. Like truly hopeless. Dyche is by far the best of those options by some distance.
posted 1 week, 2 days ago
Rohl is probably the most interesting option out of those five.
I'm not sure about O'Neil, he had a decent period at Wolves, but I will accept Cinci's observations!
Wilder has managed to get Sheffield United promoted but failed miserably to keep them up.
Kingy - love him to bits obviously as a Leicester legend - but he would be the one to steer clear of for me as a massive untried gamble.
I'm afraid I have to disagree Foxello with your anti-Dyche stance, he's easily got the best pedigree for not only getting us back up to the promised land but also keeping us there. Yes the football would likely be messy, negative and boring but if you can stay up that first difficult season then it gives us a foothold to develop the team from there.
One point that you have bang on though is the lack of vision - that managerial shortlist covers a huge vista of playing styles. What is Rudders playing at?
I don't see anything much good about this so am not changing my emoji.
posted 1 week, 2 days ago
comment by Nuneaton_fox (U7936)
posted 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
Rohl is probably the most interesting option out of those five.
I'm not sure about O'Neil, he had a decent period at Wolves, but I will accept Cinci's observations!
Wilder has managed to get Sheffield United promoted but failed miserably to keep them up.
Kingy - love him to bits obviously as a Leicester legend - but he would be the one to steer clear of for me as a massive untried gamble.
I'm afraid I have to disagree Foxello with your anti-Dyche stance, he's easily got the best pedigree for not only getting us back up to the promised land but also keeping us there. Yes the football would likely be messy, negative and boring but if you can stay up that first difficult season then it gives us a foothold to develop the team from there.
One point that you have bang on though is the lack of vision - that managerial shortlist covers a huge vista of playing styles. What is Rudders playing at?
I don't see anything much good about this so am not changing my emoji.
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I am with you with Rohl, Nuneaton. Far and away the most interesting. As regards playing style, that’s a tricky one. We won the Championship with Maresca, but it was mostly dreadful to watch. You got about ten minutes of really good football and another eighty watching the centre backs playing it to each other before giving it to Hernansen then he would start it all over again. I’d really like to see a winger or midfielder taking on his opposite number and leaving him on his backside. That creates holes elsewhere and then it starts to open up. Or the Spurs style from the early 60’s where they would play in little triangles.
Does anyone remember watching Newcastle v Leicester in May 1983. Newcastle won 7-1. It was 6-0 at half time and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything more impressive than that first half. They were unplayable. They would have beaten any team in the world that day.
posted 1 week, 2 days ago
Nuneaton; out of interest, from the current squad, which players do you think would thrive under Dyche? Because, even putting aside my feelings about his style of play and general demeanor, I am struggling to think of a group of players that would be less suited to his style than this current iteration of Leicester City. He needs players who work hard, are defensively resolute and can play long ball effectively - which of the current crop suit that style?
People can call Enzoball boring as much as they like, and I don't think it's a style of play that our fanbase naturally feels accustomed or an emotional connect to. But it's probably the only style that suits this group of players. Unless there was a complete refresh (and there's very few of this group that I actually would like to stay), and that seems unlikely, we need a manager who can get the best out of this group, and I don't see how that is Dyche.
Maybe I am a football snob but hiring Sean Dyche feels like such a backwards step that screams "content with being a yo-yo club". We have a £100m state-of-the-art training ground and we are going to waste it on a guy who plays hoofball and rarely plays young players? It would be such a regression and just be the final nail in the coffin for any hopes we have of being anything close to where we were 5 years ago.
That being said, if we are going to go back to the prehistoric era, we'd probably be better off with Dyche than Wilder. But both are such atrocious choices that it would be like choosing between gonorrhoea and syphilis.
posted 1 week, 2 days ago
comment by Foxello - "a miserable Rodgers obsessed weirdo" (U6985)
posted 37 minutes ago
Nuneaton; out of interest, from the current squad, which players do you think would thrive under Dyche? Because, even putting aside my feelings about his style of play and general demeanor, I am struggling to think of a group of players that would be less suited to his style than this current iteration of Leicester City. He needs players who work hard, are defensively resolute and can play long ball effectively - which of the current crop suit that style?
People can call Enzoball boring as much as they like, and I don't think it's a style of play that our fanbase naturally feels accustomed or an emotional connect to. But it's probably the only style that suits this group of players. Unless there was a complete refresh (and there's very few of this group that I actually would like to stay), and that seems unlikely, we need a manager who can get the best out of this group, and I don't see how that is Dyche.
Maybe I am a football snob but hiring Sean Dyche feels like such a backwards step that screams "content with being a yo-yo club". We have a £100m state-of-the-art training ground and we are going to waste it on a guy who plays hoofball and rarely plays young players? It would be such a regression and just be the final nail in the coffin for any hopes we have of being anything close to where we were 5 years ago.
That being said, if we are going to go back to the prehistoric era, we'd probably be better off with Dyche than Wilder. But both are such atrocious choices that it would be like choosing between gonorrhoea and syphilis.
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Lovely analogy Foxello!
posted 1 week, 2 days ago
gonorrhoea and syphilis??!!
Well that is one description that you won’t find on the EFL highlights this coming season….
Sounds like Dyche is a no go (thank goodness)
Rohl - the legalities of the Sheffield Wednesday situation sound like it could be drawn out and complicated. While I would like to see what Danny makes of our current squad and could he Rohl with it (I make no apologies) if it’s going to drag on then we must move on surely?
So Wilder or O’Neil?
I would prefer my gran to Wilder and she has been dead 38 years!!!
I would like to see what O’Neil could do, I certainly think we would be more easy to watch with him than the dinosaurs.
There isn’t exactly a big pond to choose from so let’s see what this week brings.
UTF
posted 1 week, 1 day ago
Looks like Gary O’Neil then. Probably the best option out of the three mentioned. Reportedly not averse to using the up and coming academy prospects. Could be a good fit,
posted 1 week, 1 day ago
Football League World now reporting that O’Neil is no longer in contention and that the likely appointee is Chris Wilder.
posted 1 week, 1 day ago
So, Hamza captain and Cannon up front after paying £15 million for him.
posted 1 week, 1 day ago
I'm absolutely certain Dyche would have made a better fist of it with our current squad than the previous incumbent. In any event I don't want him anywhere near us if the reports about him wanting to wait for a Premier League opportunity are correct.
I see the rumour mill is getting desperate - they have brought Marti Cifuentes into play now.
I'm just sick of this, utter incompetence not to have a manager in place yet.