New Head Coach

Behave…..

 

Think the mods should ban the private message function just so every bit of info gets posted here.

 

The only thing that's keeping me hoping its Cifuentes, even though I think it would leak at the QPR end, is that we might be finalising everything with HIM before we go to QPR. Of course that's not technically "allowed" but it happens, everywhere.

So we may be concluding a deal with him, and THEN go to QPR. And if QPR have already set a compensation level weeks ago (as Nixon says, I know) , then the leaking from the QPR end might not happen until the deal is already agreed.

 

Happens all the time, aye. Clubs discuss with the manager before agreeing compensation. Stoke would have done the exact same to us with Alex Neil.

 

Still quietly confident we’ll get the breakthrough sometime this week

be it today or not

 

We have to, pre season apparently starts next Monday for us. Can’t have Dodds & Proctor be leading it after that shambolic 3 months.

 

2 weeks today innit?

 

Club said late June so i'd say anytime from next Monday

 

Knowing our lot they will have told the players to report back for 31st June

 

What I've I Missed?

 

I've always believed we'd get our new manager/coach in by 1st July. Happy to chill and relax until then.

 

So that QPR bloke ain't coming then?

 

Which by the clubs own words is after pre season has started.

 

It appears that noone knows

 

I think it needs to be before day 1 of pre-season, personally.

Hell it needed to be earlier than that. But from where we are right now, we need them before day 1. They need to be setting the tone.

 

2 weeks is start of July though…

 

Pre-season definitely starts next week. Which day next week we don't know, but the club have said end of June and I am pretty confident it won't be this week.

 

I believe it does, but what do you think happens first days back?

Practice drilling new formations on how the new coach wants to play. Personal one to one chats with the coach?

I don't believe that, think it'll be more like getting weight, doctors check on fitness, and sizes of new kit

 

This. The first two weeks are basically fitness training and metrics taking.

 

I agree to an extent, I just think that the new Head Coach should be there setting the tone and getting to know the players. And I'd be surprised if they did nothing tactically in the first few days of pre-season.