I like Foxfan1: “Hull were just above mid table when he left them...it's Steve Bruce that's got them into their current position & without all the fuss, turmoil & inconsistency that goes with Pearson. Bruce knows what it takes to get them promoted & has an excellent record of keeping teams in the premiership...& that's the difference between Steve Bruce & Nigel Pearson!”
Looks like the Leicester owners did us a favour when they took him back. The Allams then got a better manager to replace him. If he is fired (out of the top 7 in the Championship he is looking at most danger of being out of a job first) will he be like Brown in terms of no other chairman wanting to touch him with a barge pole.
I don't agree. Pearson is a very professional manager; the reason why his interviews are so dull. He keeps his cards close to his chest and doesn't let much slip to the media. He'll get a job quite soon after.
I'd fire the fans that aren't backing him tbh. Its just the nutcases that want us to win every game, we could be in Cardiffs position and some of the crazy fans will still find something to moan about. In some ways his approach may work against him, hes building us a very good young team that will only get better in seasons to come, you guys have seen this with Chester and Hobbs, but i personally think this isn't what the owners want him to do. I'd back him until the cows came home, but the owners have put a fair bit of money into the club and would like to recoup some of this money with promotion to the premier league. My personal opinion is that if he finishes below the playoffs or doesn't reach the playoff final, he'll be sacked. If he reaches the playoff final, i think it will be a close call, but will (hopefully) keep his job.
100% agree. The fans might not like his 'cards close to his chest' approach but chairmen will love it. The reason he'll get a job is exactly the same reason Brown wont. He has also proven with us that he can do a fantastic 'ship steadying in choppy waters' job. Steve Bruce is a better manager for the position we're in now, without a shadow of a doubt, but in our first season after relegation I doubt he wouldve done a better job than Pearson. Well, he wouldnt have taken the job would he? It was a nightmare role and Nigel did brilliantly. We couldve so easily been exactly loike Wolves and so many others before.
Yes Nigel, my windows need cleaning. Crack on. I don't rate him - he has been found out. We got the much better deal.
He's a dead man waking regardless. If he get's you up, he'll be replaced by a capable Premier league manager, if he doesn't get you up he's toast. He is in a no win situation. I really don't rate Pearson, not sour grapes at all, watching his football for 18 months was a dour affair, like his charismatic post match interviews. I can't remember if it was Walsh or Shakespeare who scouts the players behind the scenes - they are the real gems, not Pearson.
But you dont get Walsh or Shakespeare without Pearson, Pearson is very good at dealing with the media and letting them keep doing their job, if you haveto have a boring manager for excellent scouting and coaching, i'd take it. Yes hes a closed book, but Leicester has never been a club to give away anything, even when Sven was in charge, they took ages to announce any new signings, even when the deal had been done and had been circulating unofficially for a day or 2. His style of football has improved, its less scraping wins from when he was first here (we had big Stevie Howard so it was very much hoofball that season with knock downs to Fryatt), its more free flowing and dominant football, nothing he can do about our finishing though, well he bought a striker in January, so he knew the problem.
I was glad he left Hull City but annoyed that he was not honest with his reasons for leaving. He gets what he gets but he will get a job somewhere. Do Coventry still need a proper manager by chance ? Maybe the Wendies will sack Jones in the summer and NP can work closer to home.
Whether you like him or not, because of his departure a year & a bit ago, he definitely help us turn our fortunes on the field around. We had some ****e players on our books on daft wages, and he got rid of them. Whatever TWF etc say, it needed to happen, or else this season wouldn't have happened. With that wage bill we could've been doing a Wolves. The team had a go in the latter part of his first season, but it was too late to mount a push. We could learn to grind out results for the run in this season. Anyone who says you wouldn't want City to scrape eight 1-0 wins on the trot in the run in is a liar. A win's a win, performances are a bonus. The performances picked up in the second season, and people were so pissed off when he left, and that's why there's so much animosity over the departure.
I can defo see him there or at Boro, both where he is a bit of a legend. Mowbray cant be far off the sack at the end of the season...
I thought he did a good job at Hull City and started to lay the foundations of a good team ... I even think we would have made the play offs IF he had not walked away.. If he was so **** how come he took us on our longest unbeaten away from home run EVER ??? Anyway ... well pleased how we ended up with Steve Bruce so it's been good that he did walk away so maybe we should thank him rather then hold a grudge . As for his interviews they didn't bother me at all. After PB and his blame everyone else interviews I thought NP was right to say nothing.
I do not drink but I have a bottle of fizzy in the fridge to spray around when we hear of his departure. I do not know what psychiatric disoder I suffer from but I have gone from not blaming NP for leaving for more money to loving every misfortune he suffers(footballwise).I think it is partly due to the Lezzer fans who got all delusional and we are a big club about it.AS we are seeing at Ewood park-KARMA. No amount of huffing and puffing will turn Hull,Stoke,Ipswich or Lezzer into a big club.I for one do not want to be a plastic Manc or Scouser and will happily see out my days as a Tiger-Prem or Conference-I almost like being disappointed now-its too late to change
