Right at the minute with the clubs in stalemate over the compensation that has left the clubs and Nigel is a position where either 1 of the clubs has to compromise or Nigel quits. Nigel quit from here so its not out of the question, should Nigel quit then the fee will be sorted by a tribunal. I dont think Hull would get the fee they want out of a tribunal. They would probaly get the same amount of money Hull paid us for Nigel in the first place. Should Nigel quit it will sour the relationship between the 2 clubs and should Nigel decide he wants to sign a player from Hull it will make that difficult. Hull are rumoured to want around 1M and we are willing to pay around 700K which is around the same mark Hull paid us for Nigel. I cant see Hull meeting in the middle or us going up as both Top and their owners both are shrewd businessmen as well. I think if the deal isnt done by tommorow Nigel will resign from Hull and re sign for us and it will go down the a tribunal
We paid you £700k for your manager, who left with your blessing. We want twice that amount for him to return without ours, I think it's fair enough. It will be sorted one way or another, there's no way back now anyone now, but old man Allam will remain as difficult as possible for as long as possible.
Good on him I say, about time someone stood up to be counted, just hope he is using the time wisely to line up another manager. As for coming back for any of our players, from what I heard last night they have lost faith in NP because of what he has done.
You know one thing that I think we lose sight off as we forum warriors take up our clubs position, it's neither our fault or our call. Still it's a laugh having a pop isn't it
If it goes to a tribunal the fee will be around 800K it always towards the middle but saying that i remember when we brought Gareth Williams from Forest. They wanted 5M it went to a tribunal and they set the fee at 500K
This is outrageous! How dare hull be difficult over this...what right do they have? apart from having him under contract that he was happy to sign at the time? just because he looked their chairman in the eye and shook his hand on that deal...they have one hell of a nerve..whats football coming too...i despair..
Who's being difficult? If someone wants to come in and take away a complete management team who are performing very well, then the club losing out deserves reasonable compensation. I don't really see the difference between this and a player transfer, just because the a club wants a player and that player wants that move, does the club the own that player not deserve the going rate for that player? When you wanted Matt Mills, you didn't tell him to come to your place and stay there until Reading agreed to let him go for half what they thought he was worth. When compared to player transfers, I don't see why there's such a difference with the value put on managers. Losing NP will probably affect us far more than losing any single player, yet will would get far more for any of our better players, than we're asking for our complete management team, it doesn't really make sense.
He's under contract at a club he's doing well at. They have some momentum and that will end if a new manager needs to be found. Having money doesn't give you divine right to anything you want. Especially since your super rich owners are suddenly getting stingy over compensation for a manager they are poaching.
Its not just Pearson your taking, but Shakespeare and Walsh. Rumour has it that Allam wants £1.2 million at least in compensation for them. Also it has been mentioned they all could be placed on gardening leave if Leicester dont come up with the money, and leave it in the hands of each clubs solicitors to sort out which could take months.
We should offer them a deal. Offer them 500K for Pearson and if we get promoted this season we give them an extra 1.5M That way they are making about twice what there asking for and if Nigel gets us up the extra bit of money wont mean much to us
From their point of view they're getting about half what they're asking for, because they probably don't think you'll go up.
Hav´nt heard to many people saying this is a bad move for LCFC getting NP back. He´s a very good manager & I´m sure he´ll get us to atleast the play offs but there is a ? mark there. What do all the players think of the SGE sacking, alot of which being his signings ? who will NP want to get rid of ? who will he want to get in ? where does NP need/want to strengthen ? Now Vassel is out for the season will NP go in for Fryatt ? It´s all abit messy for me & although, as I´ve already said, I think NP could get us up I´m not so sure he´ll be able to do enough of a job in the prem because of the way he wants the games played. That could lead to him going in say 18 - 24 months because we are doing poo in the prem & then we are yet again faced with the LCFC managerial-merry-go-round. I think maybe mark Hughes would be a good choose because of his prem experience, just my opinion. Alot of IF´S & BUT´S I know but I´m not to sure going for an ex manager will work out. I guess we´ll all have to wait & see. IF HE COMES THAT IS
As I understand it, there's already a £700k minimum fee required for his release, it's how much on top of that should be paid that's at issue. I'm not really sure why, if the Thai's are so keen on getting NP back, they're bitching about a mere £500k(that's if they are, obviously we don't know for sure what's being discussed).
Would you all be satisfied if we cough up £500k but also agree to sign Jimmy Bullard on a 5 year deal and as our top wage earner as financial compensation to the rest of the division?
Rumours are if the clubs havent agreed terms by tommorow Nigel Pearson will quit as Hull manager and take over here. The clubs could still continue to negotiate but if that fails it will go to a tribunal who will decide
This is how I felt when we lost O'Neill. I suspected that relegation from the Prem would be imminent (and it was) after he left, so his value to our club was higher than any players in my eyes. But managers can just leave and drop you in the sh!t without a bye or leave. There should be some sort of transfer fee on managers just as with players (Celtic should have given us a small fortune!), this would probably encourage clubs to stick with managers longer too instead of sacking them left, right and centre. But as it stands there isn't and compensation is not the same thing. This just covers any lost funds that you might incur when recruiting a new manager.
