Signing new players - Kelly or Mandaric?

[SJN-Fox]

I still think one of the biggest problems is the lack of backroom staff. If Kelly's doing the jobs of a manager, coach, scout etc.. then its too much. He needs to be able to concentrate on managing the team.

I agree, lets give the managers job to someone else.

 

[lcfc forever]

I agree, lets give the managers job to someone else.

sooner the better

 

[newtonfox]

from the mocury

MILAN WILL BOOST CITY SQUAD BY 'NEXT WEEK' Next Story | Previous Story | Back to list 8 readers have commented on this story. Click here to read their views. BY LEE MARLOW & ANDY MANN
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10:15 - 16 February 2007 Milan Mandaric has revealed he wants to sign "two or three senior players" within the next week.

Just three days after completing his takeover of Leicester City, the business tycoon admitted he hopes to bring the players in before next weekend's home match against West Bromwich Albion.

Mandaric, who will spend £9million in his first 15 months in charge, reveals his plans in an exclusive full-length interview in this weekend's Sporting Blue. He is keen to boost manager Robert Kelly's fight to stay in the Championship before going for the big push to the Premier League next year.

Mandaric said: "I think he (Kelly) needs two or three senior players immediately - before the West Brom game. Then we look to next season."

City have been linked with Portsmouth's Bulgarian striker Svetoslav Todorov, with Pompey manager Harry Redknapp hinting the 28-year-old could be on his way to the Walkers Stadium.

But Kelly said: "They are rumours. I think because of Milan Mandaric's history, and where he is from, you are going to get a lot of that.

"The right thing to do and the right way to conduct ourselves is to do it in the correct channels."

Meanwhile, stand-in skipper Patrick Kisnorbo said the players were focused on realising Mandaric's Premiership promotion plan.

Mandaric has declared he would consider himself a failure if City were not back playing top-flight football within the next three years.

He visited the training ground earlier in the week to impress his goal on the players.

And Kisnorbo said: "He said what his intentions were, that we should play in the Premiership. He said he believes in us and we are winners like him.

"We want to get to the top, and with his help we can do it."

Kisnorbo is set to lead the side against Coventry at the Walkers tomorrow for the first game of the Mandaric era.

The defender should again take the captain's armband as Paddy McCarthy's dislocated shoulder is likely to rule him out for the rest of the season.

Kisnorbo said: "Paddy will be a big miss on the pitch and off it.

"He is a great leader, a great guy and we are really going to miss him. Hopefully he can return soon.

"It's a fantastic honour for me to be captain of the team, but I don't really look at it as something for myself.

"We have 11 captains out there. I am just the one that wears the armband.

"Coventry is a big derby. There's always a bit more riding on the game but we are going into it full of confidence."

City are predicting a 25,000-plus crowd for the game at the Walkers which will see Mandaric introduced to the fans.

 

[Melton Fox]

We have 11 captains out there. I am just the one that wears the armband

Fecking pretentious prick also 11 Titanics out there as well then

I hope I never hear another one of the players at the club I support spout this type of bullshit again

 

[Redditch Fox]

Fecking pretentious prick also 11 Titanics out there as well then

I hope I never hear another one of the players at the club I support spout this type of bullshit again

Kisnorbo's infantile statement would be better translated: '" Actually, one of our problems is that we have 11 nonentities none of which are suited to be captain - we are like our manager in having had a charisma by-pass".

I note from MM's statement above that he has of course has taken aboard that a lack of senior players are an issue. Clearly, getting anyone decent to sign for us is going to be a challenge - but if he could break the mold by getting in a 'name' player that syill has something left in the tank (as opposed to AJ) then I think he would be well on the way to getting others willing to climb aboard.

 

[Melton Fox]

Kisnorbo's infantile statement would be better translated: '" Actually, one of our problems is that we have 11 nonentities none of which are suited to be captain - we are like our manager in having had a charisma by-pass".

I note from MM's statement above that he has of course has taken aboard that a lack of senior players are an issue. Clearly, getting anyone decent to sign for us is going to be a challenge - but if he could break the mold by getting in a 'name' player that syill has something left in the tank (as opposed to AJ) then I think he would be well on the way to getting others willing to climb aboard.

It also reads as ""Eh, I might be the captain, but them feckers have to take the blame as well"

 

[Jeff]

Fecking pretentious prick also 11 Titanics out there as well then

I hope I never hear another one of the players at the club I support spout this type of bullshit again

You could try supporting another team, but you still won't be able to get away from that kind of bullshit. I think it' part of the FA's rules that players have to come out with crap like that.

 

[Melton Fox]

You could try supporting another team, but you still won't be able to get away from that kind of bullshit. I think it' part of the FA's rules that players have to come out with crap like that.

I've fecking tried a million and one times, but this fecking place keeps pulling me back each season :icon_lol:

 

[newtonfox]

I've fecking tried a million and one times, but this fecking place keeps pulling me back each season :icon_lol:

it's somthing we all have in us melt we carnt say what or where it is but we have it mate a bit of city in us

 

[Melton Fox]

bit city in us

New York

 

[newtonfox]

New York

do they play better than us :icon_lol:

 

[Melton Fox]

do they play better than us :icon_lol:

I can answer that without any research :icon_lol:

 

[newtonfox]

I can answer that without any research :icon_lol:

have we just found a new role for the FT

 

[Chrysalis]

So at what point is it Kellys fault ? Ok he gets some money spends it and we are at Christmas with 5 million spent and no better.Its ok saying he should be given a chance because he s had no money but has he earnt the right to spend themoney.Can you see RK leading us into the Premier League? I'm sorry but I can't ,we are no better a side on the field than we were a year ago.It boils down to whether you think he's a good Manager...I don't.It seems the only reason that people give for him staying is that ''he's had no money''

I agree he isnt up to the task.

 

[Fosse1884]

I've got nothing against the bloke but I never wanted him here in the first place.I don't understand it when a Manager is sacked and his Assistant takes over,surely the Assistant is partly to blame as well? He has an input on tactics,selections etc and is part of the problem,he should have gone with CL.I imagine the only reason he got the job was because he was cheap.I see no different with RK and MaClaren at England and look what a great job he is doing

Fully agree.
Managers and assistants must take the fall together.