Puel out

[Miles Away]

Yep, said this before. Stringer was making a big thing out of it after the game and I reckon he was right.

It’s the big unsaid really.

 

[Volpone]

Yep, said this before. Stringer was making a big thing out of it after the game and I reckon he was right.

After which game?

 

[Blue Maniac]

After which game?

West Ham.

 

[The Old Fox]

Serious question: If, as I thought, Top is yet to be confirmed as Chairman, who could sack Puel?

 

[give_us_a_wave]

Lets be honest here. Since the takeover there has been ONE (& a half) managerial appointment(s) that has worked out. & that was a complete fluke. Ranieri came in, it baffled pretty much everyone including most of us. Then came the perfect storm.

Other than that we had the whole Pearson sacked/not sacked/wtf? fiasco plus a selection of duds. Including the ridiculous idea that Shakespeare could do the job.

Bottom line is we got lucky with Ranieri & he got lucky with us. Right man,right team,right time. To be brutal about it, despite the amazing thrill ride it's given us all, there's always been a vague whiff of chaos about us under the current ownership. No way I'm going to complain considering where it's taken us but ****ing hell it's hardly been an example of shrewd decision making has it? Whoever ends up with the boardroom hot seat I'm not expecting things to suddenly calm down.

The mad ride will no doubt continue. Tbh, at this moment it's equally likely to me that 5 years from now we could be back in the CL or back in the Championship. **** knows.

 

[SilverFox]

Serious question: If, as I thought, Top is yet to be confirmed as Chairman, who could sack Puel?

The board of directors presumably. We will have had to spend money to keep the business going. Decisions have been made. Directors will have had to make those decisions.

 

[SilverFox]

These people presumably

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04593477/officers

 

[SilverFox]

Page 4 of last accounts - risks - under the heading football...

Not exactly fulfilling the objectives we set for ourselves.

https://document-api-images-prod.s3...bdaab62eb9967f02e46fee1f9c7e786ff95f1810754b1

 

[The Old Fox]

These people presumably

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04593477/officers

Thank you.

 

[SilverFox]

 

[Blue Maniac]

Lets be honest here. Since the takeover there has been ONE (& a half) managerial appointment(s) that has worked out. & that was a complete fluke. Ranieri came in, it baffled pretty much everyone including most of us. Then came the perfect storm.

Other than that we had the whole Pearson sacked/not sacked/wtf? fiasco plus a selection of duds. Including the ridiculous idea that Shakespeare could do the job.

Bottom line is we got lucky with Ranieri & he got lucky with us. Right man,right team,right time. To be brutal about it, despite the amazing thrill ride it's given us all, there's always been a vague whiff of chaos about us under the current ownership. No way I'm going to complain considering where it's taken us but ****ing hell it's hardly been an example of shrewd decision making has it? Whoever ends up with the boardroom hot seat I'm not expecting things to suddenly calm down.

The mad ride will no doubt continue. Tbh, at this moment it's equally likely to me that 5 years from now we could be back in the CL or back in the Championship. **** knows.

I'm not a huge fan of his but Pearson finished each season in a higher position than the last. The circumstances of his departure and the mid-season temporary sacking aside, it's hard to argue that he wasn't a successful appointment.

 

[SilverFox]

I'm not a huge fan of his but Pearson finished each season in a higher position than the last. The circumstances of his departure and the mid-season temporary sacking aside, it's hard to argue that he wasn't a successful appointment.

and put in place a commendable structure that was perhaps the single biggest reason why we won the league.

 

[Miles Away]

and put in place a commendable structure that was perhaps the single biggest reason why we won the league.

Steady on.

 

[SilverFox]

Steady on.

Well Claudio wasn’t the reason for those signings and I think the sports science made them in some cases better than they were.

But of course Kante. He was probably the single biggest reason

 

[give_us_a_wave]

I'm not a huge fan of his but Pearson finished each season in a higher position than the last. The circumstances of his departure and the mid-season temporary sacking aside, it's hard to argue that he wasn't a successful appointment.

Thats why he's a half. The mental ostrich era detracts from the achievements. Along with the ridiculous nepotism that ended up embarrassing the entire club.

 

[SJN-Fox]

To say nothing of spending most of the season at the wrong end of the table and nearly sending us straight back to the Championship. (Please don’t quote the great escape as nobody in the world believes that was down to him).

 

[City Fan]

To say nothing of spending most of the season at the wrong end of the table and nearly sending us straight back to the Championship. (Please don’t quote the great escape as nobody in the world believes that was down to him).

So you credit him with being at the wrong end of the table, but don’t credit him with the great escape?

Ridiculous, really.

 

[City Fan]

and put in place a commendable structure that was perhaps the single biggest reason why we won the league.

Steady on now. But I agree that he was a successful appointment.

 

[Skitzo]

I cannot stand Pearson I felt his antics were an embarrassment to the club in his final season but you cannot deny he was a successful appointment

 

[Brown Nose]

Nigel Pearson was excellent at building the club from nothing. He made great appointments and enabled the people he worked with to do great things. As a football manager, he was bang average at best and he's now done for. Finished completely by being too principled for his own good and paying the ultimate professional price. He had to sit, stewing with resentment, and watch everything he was building achieve more than he could have possibly dream of. And more than he was ever capable of achieving. It's a career killer and it has killed his career. He'll never be an effective manager again and his two subsequent appointments have proved this conclusively.

Forget him.

Appleton would be a decent shout I suppose. He knows the players and is available. I expect that his distaste for the club would end with Puel leaving. It was obvious that they fell out towards the end of last season and that was why he was crudely and rudely discarded. I thought his caretaker spell last season was very effective.

However, that just feels like a waste of time. Seriously, what's the point to it? We have 15 games left and only need one or at most two wins to be secure. If I were Rudkin or Whelan or Top, I'd stay with things as they are until the end of the season now. However, I would have people working day and night on recruiting the right man in the summer.