New Contract Nigel Pearson signs new contract

[FryattFox]

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Leicester City: Nigel Pearson agrees new deal as manager

Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson has agreed a new contract with the club, reports BBC Radio Leicester.
The length and details of the Pearson's deal are not yet known.
In the final year of his current contract, which is due to expire this weekend, the 50-year-old guided the Foxes back to the Premier League as Championship title winners.

Ian Stringer stated "News of Pearson committing his future to the club is a timely boost going into an important transfer window for the Foxes and will be welcomed with delight by Blues fans.

"Goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel confessed Pearson's influence was key to him agreeing a new contract. This deal could lead to more signings at the King Power Stadium, including some of last season's key players."

Official confirmation from the club, after eight months of contract talks, is expected later this week.
Pearson has the best winning percentage of any Leicester manager over two spells as boss at the King Power Stadium, and is the only Foxes boss to win more than half his matches in charge of the club.
City are returning to the top flight after a 10-year absence, having set a club record of league victories and their highest points total in a season of 102.
Despite the uncertainty about Pearson's future - and that of nine players who were also out of contract this summer - Leicester finished nine points clear of Burnley in second place.

 

[fox58]

Good news indeed

 

[Motown Fox]

Good news indeed

What no

I'll do it instead

 

[The Old Fox]

Good news indeed

I have to agree. (Where is the gritted teeth icon?):icon_bigg

 

[David Gwilliam]

This is the most important signing of all. I presume that Craig Shakespeare and Steve Walsh Sr are also getting well deserved new contracts.

 

[Blaarev]

Nice

 

[Brown Nose]

NP has managed City for more matches already than any other Premier League manager has at their respective club, apart from Wenger.

The fascinating thing will be whether he survives this season or not. The odds aren't in his favour* but I genuinely wish him well.

*Interesting article

http://footballperspectives.org/end-season-football-manager-statistics-2013-14

 

[Graz]

NP has managed City for more matches already than any other Premier League manager has at their respective club, apart from Wenger.

More than Mourinho at Chelsea?

 

[M17TT C]

Good stuff.

 

[Brown Nose]

More than Mourinho at Chelsea?

Yep

 

[FryattFox]

Anyone else worried that NP is only motivated by getting a new contract?! Now that he's got one, I wouldn't be surprised to see him stop trying completely.

Probably why he's not bothered with transfers and just signed anyone that's available.

And I bet he was just picking where to have his season ticket when he was sitting in the stands last season...

 

[londonfox]

Anyone else worried that NP is only motivated by getting a new contract?! Now that he's got one, I wouldn't be surprised to see him stop trying completely.

Yes! Phew! I thought it was just me.

 

[Miles Away]

3 years, apparently.

Hope he makes it.

 

[londonfox]

His health scare last season wasn't that bad, was it?

 

[FryattFox]

3 years, apparently.

Hope he makes it.

I'd be willing to offer you pretty good odds that he won't.

 

[Miles Away]

I'd be willing to offer you pretty good odds that he won't.

Go on then.

 

[Borderfox]

Still haven't seen this news on the OS, but Stringer is Mr Reliable is he not?

 

[Nottingham Fox]

Still haven't seen this news on the OS, but Stringer is Mr Reliable is he not?

Stringer has stated via the BBC story that the club should confirm it later this week.

 

[FryattFox]

Leicester City ‏@OfficialFOXES 4m
BREAKING: #lcfc manager Nigel Pearson has signed a new three-year contract. #PearsonLCFC

 

[FryattFox]

Leicester City Football Club is delighted to announce that its First Team Manager, Nigel Pearson, has signed a new three-year contract at King Power Stadium.
Assistant Managers Craig Shakespeare and Steve Walsh have also agreed new deals to June 2017.

Under Nigel's leadership, the Club has made enormous progress over the last two-and-a-half years and was last month promoted to the Barclays Premier League, as champions of the Football League, following one of the most successful seasons in its long, proud history.

Leicester City Vice Chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha said: "From the first day I met Nigel, I knew he was the man to take us into the Premier League and I am delighted that he has been able to help us deliver that for our fans.

"He is a man of fine principles, a great leader and he believes in our long term vision for Leicester City, while his qualities in coaching, motivation and player development have been evident in our success on the pitch.

"Nigel is the perfect fit for our Football Club and his ambitions, both short and long-term, match ours."

Leicester City First Team Manager Nigel Pearson said: "I have always seen my long-term future, and that of my staff, at Leicester City. On the back of the success we have worked so hard to achieve, I have always been confident that my future would remain here.

"I feel very proud to be the manager of a Club with genuine ambition, a clear direction in which it wants to go and loyal owners that are prepared to support its development."

Nigel Pearson will lead Leicester City into the Premier League on the back of a record-breaking season in 2013/14, which saw his side win the Foxes’ first ever Football League title with 31 victories and 102 points – both Club records.

Now in his second spell as manager, Pearson, 50, boasts the best win percentage (51.41 per cent) of any manager in the Club’s 130-year history. Between 2008 and 2010, he led the Club to immediate promotion from its first ever season in the third tier of English football, before narrowly missing out on successive promotions to the top flight following defeat to Cardiff City in the Championship Play-Offs a year later.

After an 18-month spell with Hull City, he returned to King Power Stadium in November 2011 under the Club’s new owners, King Power International, and began a journey that would ultimately lead Leicester City back to the Premier League after a 10-year absence.

Aided by the expertise of Craig Shakespeare and Steve Walsh – his assistants overseeing coaching and recruitment respectively – Nigel steadily moulded a squad of hungry young players blended with valuable experience, which reached the play-offs in his first full season back at the helm, but were denied a place at Wembley in heart-breaking circumstances at Watford in the semi-finals.

Galvanised by the experience and strengthened by some seasoned new recruits last summer, the Foxes responded remarkably and were promoted automatically as Championship champions 12 months later – nine points clear of their nearest rivals.

Pearson’s squad will return for pre-season training in early-July, as they begin preparations for the Club’s first top-flight season in a decade, starting at home to Everton on Saturday 16 August.

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