Not Steve Bruce

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It will not be Steve Bruce, confirmed by a source close to him.
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Mad Mick or Lee Clark then

 

Tbh I just want a manager, any frigging manager so we can actually have some stability and start to move for players. (p.s when I say any manager, I mean one that isn't Megson, Dowie, Laws etc)

 

Careful what you wish for ! ! ! !

 

Did we really expect it to be Bruce? No shock at all.

 

AHA!! How was Holidays?

 

Some City fans have their heads in the clouds. Remember some berk said on Blunderside that we should try get Rafa Benitez to come manage us.

Can't see McCarthy coming here either. We haven't got the ambition as a club.

 

We honestly don't know that.

None of us have any idea of what the Allam's are presenting to potential managers.

Fair enough, there is the chance that we haven't honestly got a pot to piss in, but for all we know the Allams might have said 'right Mick, here's a 3 year contract, here's 5 million quid to spend, get us to the Premier League!'

 

Maybe not, but the bookies certainly did. (and even now still make him favourite).

 

That isn't how bookmakers work.

 

exactly - bookies may set initial odds to entice - but they dont offer odds as a probability of an event - last year william hill increased the odds of Elvis being found alive from 500/1 to 1000/1 . . . . . i think Hull CIty will have had similar odds for winning the FA cup in the late 90s

 

No, like you I never expected him at all.

But we have a fair idea to the ambition of the club after two loan signings in January, an internal managerial appointment in November and a few cheapy/free signings last summer.

 

Even eliminating January because of the owners' acusations against Barmby making it slightly unclear, the very appointment of Barmby and the underwhelming summer recruitment before that points to a desire to do things on the cheap, suggesting it probably was down to them rather than the manager in January too.

Unless of course, it's that important to stick up for the owners no matter what they do that you would convince yourself that two consecutive managers preferred to give themselves a challenge and achieve success without spending money when it was readily available. La la la...

 

Unless of course it's important to slate the owners, no matter what they do! How does a club spend money it hasn't got? Why not bring back Duffen he wil tell you. Was Adam Pearson not the one appointed to bring the clubs finances into a reasonable state?

 

Oh this is so tedious. Why can't we who have our doubts about the situation just chat about it on here without being slated for not loving the Allams enough. If you want to believe that everything the Allam's do is wonderful and they are going to appoint a top manager and buy a couple of proven strikers and a goalkeeper (I hear Manone still wants to come here), not sell any of our best players and everyone will live happily ever after then that is fine but just discuss it amongst yourselves and do not keep trying to change other people's minds. I will change my mind about the Allam's should the above happen and happily come on here and say to you all that you were right and I was wrong.

 

You couldn't be more right.

There's a high possibility/probability that they have a good idea of who the next manager is and he's not even on the list.

 

That's another one that makes bugger all sense I'm afraid Mel. 'Slate the owners no matter what they do' would be having a go at them even when they do something good, all I've slated them for is negative decisions like sackings, redundancies and penny pinching. If they do anything positive like get us a manager and back them in the transfer market you'll see them being praised on here for it.

 

It's pretty obvious I'm not the Allams biggest fan right now, but I agree, some cost cutting was totally necessary. The last thing anyone wants is to be back in the financial mess before the Allams saved the club (yes, I fully accept that without them we would probably not be here now).

I just don't get how they can do all this penny pinching, a lot of which isn't even known by most, and alot of which caused issues to the squad , renage on contract improvements to our best young players and yet come out in the papers saying they were willing to spend millions in wages and transfer fee's, and we are lead to believe by them that NB/AP didn't want to bring anyone in - and then sack Nick for non footballing reasons.

Now let's just forget that what they are saying isn't true (that's a whole other debate), it just doesn't stack up to be so tight on some very important things, yet suggest such vast amounts of money was made available.

 

Thank god its not Bruce!!!!!

Cant see it been Mick

My hope i Clark (depending on what really happened at Huddersfield) or Billy Davies. Both can build a club on the cheap and play decent football

 

In my opinion Huddersfield were solid but uninspiring under Clark with one very decent striker up front, so not overly keen on him here, still Karl Robinson for me, although even though I'm not a fan of his style of play MM would certainly show intent from our owners.