With N.P prefering a different style of football to Sven and you not having the players suitable for him, do you have the funds available in January to buy and how much will it take to rectify your situation. If you need to offload players who will take them on with their wage demands. I genuinley fear for you guys, it could be a very long winter and spring for you all. Merry Xmas btw
The problem you have is that if you change the players in January and you don't get promotion then Pearson will be on his way and the wholesale changes will start again. Pearson did well for us at Hull but he had over a year to change things.
Pearson did a fantastic job for us at Hull. When he came in we were financially at deaths door. Gradually, and initially with no money he assembled a squad capable of getting us into the Premier league. If he is given time, and with Leicesters' money, he will deffo get you were you want to be.
I'd doubt any Hull players would want to leave you for us anyway Patty, unless it's for money which in that case they'd be mercenaries and I wouldn't want them anyway!
Pearson will not go before at least until this time next year. You can't sack a manager who hasn't had a summer to build and prepare his own team. We certainly have the funds to buy in Jan, after which we will be a threat to everyone in the division, so "I genuinely fear for you" should read "I genuinely fear you".
That's not necessarily true. We're a bigger club with better facilities and money to improve. Hull may be 9pts better off now, but our long term prospects are much better that Hull's. I know results haven't been great lately, but the outlook of some Leicester fans seems to have gone from one extreme to the other. Our goal for this season was not the Championship, or automatic, but promotion. The play-offs are a route to promotion. We are 5 points from the play-offs with the January transfer window looming. Pearson is a good manager and in the end he will get us playing the way he wants, just like he has done at every club he's been to.
I hope our owners read this forum These 2 words mark the death of any thread when they both appear together
I don't see the problem with telling the truth... In seriousness, I don't know why clubs get offended when they're referred to as "small". To me, smaller clubs are real football clubs, where the fans actually feel part of something special. I spent the best part of a month in '99 at Ilkeston Town working on a serious of articles around the club. The late great Keith Alexander was manager at the time. They just had to beat Scunny (then a fourth division outfit) to play Premiership Crystal Palace in the FA Cup third round. The club was so open and accessible to fans, it was unreal. I think Keith actually knew most of them by name! The whole experience was a million miles away from what Leicester, in the Premier League, were experiencing at the time. Even I started to feel part of it! So clubs should embrace their status, whatever it may be, and not worry about little facts like club sizes. OK, so smaller clubs may lose players to bigger clubs, but they'll always be a smaller club for them to feed on too! Besides, I always have respect for people that support their own town club. The two or three people I've meet that originated from Hull were all Man U fans.
We have the funds (and the owners have the ambition) - and Pearson will, in my opinion, look to bring in some steel - real ambition and desire - I'll be very disappointed if we do not have a more consisitent (and I'm hoping for better in that sense) second half of the season.
