Skybet are never usually that wrong when it goes odds on. They unfortunately got it spot on with Dowie. I did always think that Pearson would go if he was offered it. Let's hope he proves me wrong. http://www.skybet.com/betting/footb...5_1320425871_b7c164a67e74528e25fd29740031ca45
Based on the odds being offered by various bookies, Leicester will be appointing at least four managers. The fact is, they've got no idea on this one. Nige says he's not interested, that's good enough for me.
just going by the betting odds its a good enough reason to have the thread .... removing or ignoring the thread wont make the fact that NP is a massive favorite to go back to the Foxes dissapear ! For me , in football speak he's done NOTHING to say he isnt interested and these days managers and players dont make those "mistakes"
worth a look later see if any of the other put him odds on, would of thought it only usually goes that low when somebody is at least being lined up to be interviewed, bit strange tho that some others still have him @ 3/1..unless skybet have there fingers on the pulse
He's told the players it's nonsense and he's going nowhere. The bookies have had Keane at evens(or close to evens) all day, they've just switched it to Nige, it will probably be Hughes or O'Niel's turn later tonight.
There'll be some very dissappointed tigers (me included) if Nigel leaves us for the club who stiffed him big time. I only hope Mr Assam and Adam Pearson are pulling out the stops to keep him at City. Offer him a 5 year deal FFS, he's not a manager who needs cash to succeed how could he be a bad bet for a long term deal? The frightening thing for me is looking at the available managers, I wouldn't swap Nige for any of them! Infact I wouldn't want any of them.....
This is what irritates me - he's told the players - so he's obviously not using it as a bargaining position in negotiations, but he's not made a statement and ended speculation, and there's no logical answer why. All he's got to do is say no, and this whole none-story which "irritates him" would be gone.
Would it end it though? Clark has twice said he's not interested, yet this morning he was still third on the bookies list and the local Leicester rag was still claiming he was on the short list. O'Neil said he wasn't interested, yet he's still third favourite with the bookies and the papers are still naming him as the number one target. Even a denial is often ignored and if Nigel doesn't feel the need to announce that he's not interested in a job he hasn't even been offered, then he's free to do so. He's obviously trying to set a precedent by not commenting on such matters at all, otherwise he'll be issuing 'I'm not interested' statements every time there's a managerial vacancy.
I might be cynical here, but maybe its just the bookies doing what they do best, i.e. getting people to put money on things that won't win.
Pearson is a loyal manager but he's not daft. I don't think he will leave us, but he also probably won't commit himself until he knows what's on the table. I'm sure it would take a hell of a lot to lure him back to the club that dumped him, but if for example they offered to make him the highest paid manager in the country, do you think he would turn it down? And before anyone says he owes us loyalty and should stay here no matter how much they offer, just ask how many consecutive bad results it will take before this forum is full of 'Pearson out!' threads? ...5? ...4? ... 3?
If OLM says he's not going he's not going.. bookies trying to get some money in on a few options.., it's a market game like the stock market..
I hope Pearson is a believer in the old saying 'You should never go back'. In all honesty I can't see Pearson leaving us to go back to Leicester, he's built his own team which looks capable of mounting a promotion challenge this season. He has the support of the board and is by and large well received by the supporters and players. Having done all this hard work rebuilding what was a club potentially heading back down to the bottom end of the football league it seems daft that he would leave when he hasn't completed the job he's started to do. He's got a task to fufill here, and i expect him to achieve this with us.
The oddschecker chart now has the longest price on him as evens - so clearly the bookies know something we don't. And several others as well as Sky have him at odds-on. Isn't that the clearest favourite anyone has been so far?
I have to say that for the first time, I am now a bit concerned. All the bookies have him as favourite, it's rare they are wrong but even rarer for them all to be.
He strikes me as a fella with plenty of common sense... He'll stay. Would you go for money or job security? Say he goes to Leicester, he earns more, might be gone by summer (who knows, but that won't happen here guaranteed), from that point on where doe she go? Bounce around a few clubs for a while never really achieving anything? He has a chance to create something brilliant here. I've never understood why players or managers move when things are going so well because more often than not they don't workout. Best example being Hodgson leaving Fulham for Liverpool!
