Out of the blue, as it were, ex-Chelsea assistant coach Steve Holland has shot to the top as the Bookie's favourite. Never previously featured. Have to admit his name meant nothing to me. Anyone any background knowledge/opinion of him?
Unbeknownst to me Holland is not in fact ex-Chelsea; he is a first team coach under Mourinho. Apparently, so some of the press say, we have approached Chelsea asking permission to speak to him. He's also Assistant Manager of England U21s and Rigg may well know him through that FA connection. Sounds fairly tenuous to me, unless Rigg is back to trawling through the long list of possibles 'testing the water'.
I posted on the QPR forum under the name RIGG, asking for their supporters views when he was there, the comments so far do not seem very enlightening.
Late tonight the bookies have placed Garry Rowllet fav ~ 2nd fav Nigal Pearson 3rd Curbs, hopefully not him.
Steve Holland was one of Dario Gradi's hand-picked successors at Crewe who, inevitably, failed and was replaced by Gradi. Gary Rowett feels like a desperation link. Not because he's a bad manager (he's done well at Birmingham after doing very well at Burton), but because he's a well-set manager at a competitor. I think the Rigg/head coach thing is slightly overblown. He's looking for the right manager but is not prepared to pay the earth for them (which sounds like the reason the Clarke/Pearson deals fell apart). The flip side of that is you have to take a chance - a manager fresh from failure (e.g. Lambert, Sherwood), an older manager who hasn't worked in a while (e.g. Curbishley) or a young manager without Championship experience (e.g. Rowett when he was at Burton, Robinson when MK Dons were still in L1). Time to step up and make a choice, Mr Rigg!
I'm booked in to do my level 1 coaching course in March. At this rate, we won't have appointed anyone by the time I take it and I'll suddenly be in the frame. Can you imagine kunye's outrage if I was in charge of things?
If the chance of Moyes came up I'd scrap the head coach idea and get him in. It's probably rubbish but I see reports where he says he would be interested in managing Leeds of all clubs. If there is any element in truth in this at least he would consider a championship club. You'd have to worry about his judgement though if he would consider Leeds. I doubt Moyes would come to us but if he did I think we'd have a better chance of keeping Dembele and our other young starlets.
Well, our current back-up keeper 18yr old Marek Rodak signed a 3 year contract extension today. However, he's the exception and I agree entirely with what you say Bidley.
Curbishley was on Talksport saying they are waiting to see who is going to take over, it may happen before the weekend. But then again he didn't seem to know what role he was doing at Fulham, he said it was as an adviser to Kit and now Grant. He sounded a bit miffed, and kept saying 'They' want to do this when mentioning Fulham but tried to correct himself with 'We' in the next sentence. But he was complimentary about Fulham as a club, but it sounds like he is treading water. Meulensteen had also been on earlier and was complimentary on Fulham as a club, he hoped would get the right man in, and get back to the Premier, but the Championship was a tough league to get out off.
Colchester have parted company with manager Tony Humes after their defeat to Crewe. However, the Guardian decline to comment on whether he has been added to Fulham's list of prospective managers http://www.theguardian.com/football...any-manager-tony-humes-crewe?CMP=share_btn_tw On a more serious note, the man named at the top of the thread - Steve Holland - has snubbed our approach (according to the local paper West London Sport). And Gary Rowett has just given a Birmingham City press conference, so we can forget him signing even on Black Friday. Back to the levity then. Rigg's salary £800k + Clarke's offered £500k = Moyes. Just a thought.
I think we will have to change something internally because at this point, with a couple hardly big name managers turning us down, I can't see who would take it on that is actually competent. Sad one for Rigg, seems a bit of a virgin move - wait your time, everything is in place and then BANG, you're left spent, crying and increasingly sleepy. Unless this is all part of the Mike Rigg masterplan for Mike Rigg's life. He's gone from Blackburn to City to QPR to Fulham - each one owned by someone with a ton of cash and no clue about football - and he's taken some nice payouts along with the way. Maybe it's more profitable to be incompetent in the right places than competent in the wrong (ie. clubs where the owners have a clue).
Why do we need Rigg, said it so many times before the out bandwagon started rolling We need a quality manager in full control at a salary to match his ability, but my big fear is with Rigg in command we will only get a yes man.
Fulham wouldn't be Fulham if we didn't show the rest of the clubs in the UK how not to search for a new manager. So Rigg wants to put in place a head coach and DoF much like on the continent. However, there isn't a coach/manager in the UK that wants to take on this role. So why aren't there any European coaches being mentioned? Or perhaps, and this is a little left field and thinking out of the box, why doesn't Rigg abandon his head coach fantasy and go for a decent manager. Probaby because he will be out of a job! It all leads me to think that he's taking the club down this road due to his own inflated ego and self importance purely to give himeself a job. And so the circus goes on.
There was an interesting article on Vforums "The independent" Fulham Forum " Fulham could be a fantastically attractive job for a good manager, good crowds, , lovely spot to watch football, a chairman with deep pockets, and a better than average squad on paper, excellent training facilities and a very good academy.. So what could be scarring many managers is,being a yes man to RIGG " its a shambles." Another article by the west London sports reporter Lyall Thomas says Fulham could loose 3 influential players in the Jan transfer window DEMBELE ~ HYNDMAM ~ & Mc CORMACK Like Roberts players we have not seen the best of at the Cottage YES A BLOODY SHAMBLES
Rangers boss Mark Warburton has told Sky Sports that he is 'flattered' by speculation linking him with the Fulham job, but is intent on staying at Ibrox.
We could call him snowball? Could do worse, not really excited by him. Huudink however would be awesome. Can we tempt Ancelotti?
