at the end of the day, city denying permission means sod all in the grand scheme of things, just like player power if pearson wants to go, he will go, if he doesnt, he wont..
Oh, I can tell you that right here and now. "We never wanted him back anyway!" "His sides play boring football and we don't want that back!" "It was all a smokescreen and we were really in for......" (enter any name here) etc etc etc
He is odds-on with the Bookies to go to Leicester and has steadfastly refused to rule himself out of the running. At the end of the day money will be the answer - either we match Leicester's offer or we don't and he will go. If he does go it's probably not a bad time for us as it gives us time to find a replacement who can then get his preferred players in during the January window. You never know we might even get someone who can score goals!!
I think you're right on all five of those points. If I was NP or O'Neill or Hughes I wouldn't want the Leicester job. As I said up there somewhere, it's a poisoned chalice. But you get used to this being a Leicester fan. We're a joke club atm. BUT, we are a big club, with exceptional facilities and a large fan base that could easily sustain a Premiership side. We've got loads of money and, for the right manager, there's a big opportunity there. Despite what a lot on here are saying, it is a very good squad and so things could be achieved with them. So despite your five points, there are plenty of reasons why some managers might want to chance it. I don't think I'd include NP in that list though. Hull aren't a bad club. Recent Prem experience and a decent sized fanbase. Not very glamorous, but then neither are Leicester particularly. We still trade off our run in the Prem 10 years ago. The only thing that might be of interest to NP, huge salary and the things listed above aside (which I don't think are what motivates him) is the 'unfinished business' factor. Whether he has any sense of that is anyone's guess. That odd interview he gave suggested to me he doesn't exactly feel the love at Hull, so maybe that was a factor. If I was a betting man I'd say NP will stay at Hull with a fat new contract and some guarantees around transfer kitty in Jan.
I wouldn't be unhappy if he came back. I'd rather we were winning ugly than being hit and miss. He's not the first name on my list, but I always liked him and his 'no nonsense' manner when he was in charge. If he doesn't join us, which I suspect he won't, then I'd wish him all the best but I couldn't claim to be hugely disappointed. I don't have a clue who we're after. I just don't want Keane. I'd be very happy with Di Matteo. He makes more sense... he's more aligned with the squad Sven put together.
I can't understand why someone like Hughes isn't the front runner. Going back to Leicester would be a risk for someone like NP, because he's already in relatively stable employment with a club he could yet get to the PL - but Hughes is just gardening at the minute, isn't he? It hasn't done Tony Pulis, Mick McCarthy, Alan Pardew or Roy Keane (at the time)'s reputation any harm going to a club with money, and taking them up. I'm also pretty surprised there doesn't seem to be the inevitable Curbishley link.
Yeah, I'm bemused by the whole debacle. But this is what happens when football becomes a rich man's play thing.
I wonder whether the Leicester Boards thinking has been distracted by the NP response to the press, and his refusal to spell things out. They seem to have been sidetracked into thinking there is a chance to get him. The bookies picked up on this and suddenly hysteria broke out. Pity because the club seemed to have a reasonable "short list" at one time and should have cracked on with interviews and got the job done. Think they all look a bit daft now and should go back to the "list" and start all over. They seem to be treading water now.
Personally I think Nigel Pearson is playing a little game with the fans - he knows there are plenty of whingers still. He's probably doing it so his doubters finally realise what the club might lose? He's using the situation to his advantage, so the doubters will finally think to themselves; 'Wait a minute, I may not like his style of play or his interview technique - but we wouldn't be able to attract anything better'.
What is this "Style of Play" people don't like? Do they go to games? Because all I've seen at home this season is some great attacking football.
No they're stay at home fans, who absorb the sort of tripe the likes of James Lodge or Percy write. Remember actually going to games and making your own mind up is overrated now.
this isnt me saying this, because im not sure what to think of it at the minute..but some people would argue it depends what you call, quality attacking football...because our goals scored column would suggest an argument against the word quality...
I think they're talking about creating chances and looking better going forward. In general we look better on the ball then we did at home last season and we're giving the opposition the run around. We had 14 shots on target yesterday and only Green prevented them from being tonked. I think it's a massive contrast to last years home performances where we were ****e- Scunny, Millwall, Sheff Utd to name a few. It's a massive contrast. What you about the goals for, goals against and goals difference columns is true, but there's always something to work on.
I think Pearsons going the first chance he gets and we've only got a pathetic bunch of moronic malcontents as fans to blame for it, and to blame for what happens after he goes, what a **** up, and I hope the likes of TWF get what comes to them
He's certainly no fool. He could be making a marker with the press, "if I want you to know I'll tell you" or he could just think the longer he keeps this stringing along, the less time a new manager at Leicester's got to rebuild.
