Unless events take another course, Colin will step down as manager when his contract expires at the end of the season. Even if he decides to rescind his retirement, I hope that GFH donât offer him another contract and instead appoint a young manager with ambition and plans to play decent football. In fact, by 5pm on Saturday 4th May I hope that Gus Poyet is in his new office at Elland Road. So what should GFH be looking for in the new man? How about a commitment to playing attractive football â not gung ho or mindlessly attacking â but a focus on a free-flowing passing game where route one football is banned? Where the team is not just made up of a) people who can tackle hard and b) people who can run fast (as it is under Warnock). Also, how about a commitment not to sign âjourneymenâ in their mid-30s but to bring in young players with potential and mould them in to Premier League quality? This may lead to buying a few duds who never reach their potential, but could also unearth some hidden gems. This, by the way, is not to say that experienced players arenât necessary â of course they are â but our focus should be on âgonna besâ rather than âhas beensâ. We should also bring in players who want to spend their careers playing for Leeds United, not just a couple of years before retirement. He will also need to give the squad a major overhaul. That means, if possible, getting rid of the dross and only retaining the likes of Lees, Becchio, McCormack, Austin, Hall, Green, Byram and Diouf. Finally, the new man should be able to map out how to get the team promoted and how to keep us in the Premier League. In return, GFH should offer the new manager long-term certainty and a promise to give him the resources to build a Premier League quality squad. This will have to involve a bigger wage budget and a transfer kitty of £7-10m. It will also have to mean that Leeds are prepare to bid for the best players in the division. Whether this will happen, I donât know. But I hope it does.
Watching the way watford are playing I'd love to have Zola. I can't remember the last time I watched us played fluent passing football
You still need an element of long ball to mix it up too get out of this league as even wholly passing teams get found out but just not hoofball all the time which nobody will pay good money to see and quite rightly.
MillwallSteve - Swansea got promoted playing some fantastic football. You might have to grind out the odd result but the kind of football we play at the moment would make the Crazy Gang wince.
JW, are you really serious about Poyet? The only thing he's proved is that he has no loyalty to us. All it needs is for someone to wave a tenner in his face & he'll be off. He had his chance with us!
I don't think you can blame him for taking the Tottenham job. Would you turn down a promotion? The guy is a great manager who plays attractive football and has a decent record in the transfer market. Plus he's managed to royally piss off Ken Bates in his time. What's not to like?
Gus Poyet has ruled himself out of the running for the manager's job at Leeds. And the Albion boss says his old club were wrong to get rid of Simon Grayson. Poyet, 10-1 with the bookies to return to Elland Road, told The Argus: "It's a massive club and it's great place to manage, I've got no doubt. "I would go back to Leeds at any time, of course not right now. "We'll see what happens because, like I said, it's a magnificent place to manage." Poyet, who was No. 2 at Leeds to Dennis Wise, is mystified by Ken Bates' decision to axe Grayson, with the Yorkshiremen still very much in the hunt for a play-off place. He said: "I didn't understand the decision. I like Ken Bates a lot but I'm sorry Ken, wrong. "You are only able to base your opinion on the results. I've seen Simon's record at Leeds and I think it's very good, so I don't know if it is something we don't know. "Maybe that is the only situation but at the end of the day he's the chairman, he makes decisions, you live by your decisions. We'll see what happens. "I think you can analyse if it is right or not at the end of the season." Albion's next away game is at Leeds on Saturday week.
I'm all for a manager who can get us playing good quality football, but I fail to see why they have to be a 'young, hungry manager'. Look at the job Bruce is doing at Hull, and the way McCarthy's drastically improved Ipswich already. You can have an experienced manager and still play good football, and you get the added bonus of their experience and ability to build promotion winning teams. Not saying I want another manager Warnock's age, but I'd rather have someone with the experience rather than a manager who's had 2 or 3 half decent seasons in this division and who's greatest achievement is keeping a club in mid table.
Yeah totally agree and I was thinking that at the time of my initial posting mate but very rarely do you see teams playing their way out of this league with total football as I can't remember the last other than Swansea.
Why wait until summer? If he gets sacked imminently (highly likely), we should snap him up. My only concern is what caused him to leave Norwich? A club on the up going to a club that was going nowhere. Greed?
Has anybody been watching how bad Villa are? Lambert is their manager who is probably going to be sacked. Why would we want him?
