Nominated for Manager of the Month along with 5 other also-rans. He has taken a lot of crap, as have the club and CR proved the myth of the Manager of the Month award was baloney - so you can vote for him at https://www.premierleague.com/stats/awards
All our managers seem to do nowadays is win awards. Ranieri has won more awards then games this season Im sure Shakey isnt too fussed if he wins or not
One thing I've wondered is if things don't go as we want them to when the season is over, will he be sacked? If so, it seems like we'd be losing an important member of staff, or would he be happy to return to a coaching role for the sake of staying at the club? He may have got an appetite for being a manager now, if so he'd be looking to leave.
His job this season is probably to keep us up and get as far as possible in the champions league. With regards to next season, best scenario for me is to get in someone like Ranieri was last year who will sit back and let shakey coach. We need a manager that can read a game to make the right subs to get us extra points, not one thats going to tamper with a winning formula. There are 2 much worse scenarios though, either Shakey is made permanent manager, which will lead to his eventual sacking down the line, or the new manager makes wholesale staff changes and completly destroys the balance of the club. The most obvious thing is that we need to keep Shakey in his similar role as coach.
Just when I'd starting feeling more positive and happier about our fortunes and position, you two come up with a proper downer of a potential situation. A very valid point, which is what makes it all the more depressing. Shaky has undoubtedly been invaluable to the club and team in our progression to date, we absolutely don't want to lose him.
It is a very valid point. We could do with a manager/coach team in the same way as Martin O'Neill and John Robertson or Brian Clough and Peter Taylor. Pearson and Shakespeare weren't a bad team but the manager didn't have the requisite tactical nous or temperament. Bringing in a new manager will almost inevitably mean that he will want to put his own stamp on the team. Saying that, it will very much depend on which players the club let go and bring in. We might have a different but equally successful way of playing in the future. This season's changes just didn't suit this particular band of players.
If Shakespeare doesn't get the job, he will leave - as we are really likely to get a foreign manager like Mancini, he will be a big loss.
