I've noticed that the Brentford manager Mark Warburton is on the betting odds list of potential suitors that may be coming to us. If anyone hasn't heard of him I suggest you read this brilliant piece on him and see if he might be the right man to take our club forward. please log in to view this image Mark Warburton: "I'd rather coach kids than close a £1 billion deal in the city" 21 January 2015 After promotion to the Championship last season, Brentford are now flying in the play-offs and eyeing a sensational rise to the top flight. In April 2014, Nick Moore met the banker-turned-Bee who got them there... It was when a billion-dollar negotiation landed on his desk in the City of London and he just couldn’t concentrate on it that Mark Warburton realised he had to give up his day job. “There was this huge deal in front of me, and all I could think about were the passing drills I was going to do that evening with my under-10s team,” he chuckles about his time as currency trader in Bishopsgate. “I worked for Bank of America, IBJ, AIG, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and you could be turning over two billion dollars a day. I was taking the 5.10am train into Liverpool Street, coming home at 7pm, getting phone calls through the night – the full City lifestyle. You're very well rewarded. But my heart was in football.” And unlike many a desk jockey who has longingly pondered ditching the briefcase in order to “follow their dreams” – the sort of calligraphy-drawn mantra that idiots like to post on Facebook, defying real-world logic that dictates such behaviour is bananas – Warbuton actually did it. He walked away from the trading floor with a 10-year plan in place to gain employment as a football manager, one of the least secure jobs imaginable. “I knew that if I ended up at park level, I’d have really cocked it up,” he says. “My wife and kids thought I was absolutely insane, and in their position I’d have questioned my sanity too.” The Warburton family, however, were mistaken. Miraculously, Dad’s plan came off, and in December 2013 he was appointed gaffer of Brentford after Uwe Rosler’s move to Wigan. “I was delighted,” he says. “I know I can do this. I’m conscious that my background isn’t steeped in the game like other people. "But while I don’t want to appear disrespectful, I think that the City environment and the skills that you learn are translatable. Man-management is getting more prevalent. If you can deal with people, you can do well.” It’s hard to question him. But how did all this actually happen? What do the players and fans think? And could Warburton’s pioneering ideas – more of which later – actually help save English football on a much larger level? FourFourTwo hit the road for a Brentford away day to check whether he’s the real deal. Warburton’s path to management has been intriguing. Like many boys, he grew up wanting to be a footballer, and – as an athletic right-back – he came close, getting snapped up by Leicester City as an apprentice. But he didn’t have what it took. “I was an average player and I didn’t get along with my manager, Jock Wallace,” he says. Instead, he settled for signing at semi-pro level with Enfield. “It was fun, but I ruptured my cruciate ligament twice. I got more drawn into my work life.” Read the rest here..................... Read more at http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features...ose-ps1-billion-deal-city#ildkLJTvLUruV0UX.99
9's, my son was banging on about this man the other day. The Bees would be furious if we took him - an added incentive! Of course, their new stadium is rather ahead of ours.
Your son is very intuitive RTID. It looks like Brentford are way ahead of us and their owner Matthew Benham is a QPR fan.
He's a sharp bloke. How would 'seasoned professionals' who think they are premier league class like Barton and Green take to being managed by a non 'football person' like him?
Interesting guy. Not your typical footballer to say the least. Not sure he's the right person for now, but still better than Harry.
That's an interesting point Stan. I think goalies are excused as that's an art form in itself. You get your goalie in and hopefully he does the business for ya. That's what made the Green/Cesar saga with Hughes so bemusing. As for the Barton idiom maybe that's why Clement would be the better option. However Warburton claims that he can manage anyone. Either of those two would do for me. I'm not in the Sherwood camp, and I would take a lot of convincing otherwise. I think he's a bit of a twat if I'm honest and he's not right for QPR/us.
I think he retains a degree of honesty and a refreshing approach that's been sadly lacking within our club for a while. He can do no worse than Harry. No one can? Can they?
I've been droning on about Clement for a year or so now (Queens can back me up ....or could have in different circumstances). I think we have a very slim chance of surviving the drop and would prefer us to soldier on like Newcastle rather than make a permanent appointment now, unless we can get Clement or Clarence Seedorf and tell them not to worry about relegation (confidentially of course). Entirely agree about Sherwood. I don't have the same visceral dislike of him that I did for Redknapp, but don't think he is a unifying figure in any sense and is definitely both naive and arrogant (you can get away with arrogance if you are Jose Mourinho or Brian Clough. He isn't). Plus this Spurs mafia thing is getting tiresome. I'm quite happy with the Director of Football model, this will work with good European coaches (like Clement actually is after his PSG and Madrid stints) but have my doubts whether Les is the ideal person to fill this role. Hope to be proved resoundingly wrong on this.
I personally think that the Sir Les appointment is wrong and it will inhibit the right man from joining us as no one likes to work under a perceived overlord. Whether that be in football or otherwise. Any new manager wants to be their own man in these circumstances and understandably so. However I do have the visceral dislike of Sherwood already unlike yourself. He seems like he has the capacity to accept the plaudits when things go well.. and he will without fail remind you of this, but lacks the dignity when things go against you/us. He has no hesitancy in shifting the blame to on to others. ( Remind you of anyone? ) He's not for me. But he is the only appointee that would work with Sir Les as the director of football thus rendering any other viewpoint as moot. I did enjoy the Seedorf as an option though and agree that not many have the ability or the right to possess the arrogance of Clough or Mourinho. Maybe only Fergie comes close.
Clement is better than Warburton. We know this because it is Clement who is the best thing since sliced bread.
I find it a little puzzling that Redknapp's possible replacements are already being slagged off before they have even been appointed. Having said repeatedly that I would take ANYONE instead of Redknapp, I am prepared to give the new man my support and time to show what he can do.
The Director of Football and First Team Coach model can work very well. It isn't necessary for one person to report (in a line management sense) to the other. They should work as a team. There is too much to do for one person to have a detailed understanding of everything that is going on. I don't know what Les has been doing that qualifies him for his new role, but it is clear that his new job title is the role he was hired for and the first title was just to save face for Harold. A young team coach that understands tactics and can communicate clearly would do me fine.
I have wanted almost anyone other than Harry since last March. Don't understand why TF and the majority of supporters have stuck with him so long, we played absolute cr*p under him all of his time in charge, after the first month I don't know enough about all the possible different replacements, so as before I'm going to be happy to give almost anyone a go. But for all the needs to bring through young players etc, the No 1 priority has got to be staying in the PL, and I cannot think of a better candidate that who is likely to join us now than Colin. Hope TF is not too proud to admit his mistake and and go back for him, and if he keeps us up again, don't throw him out again after just a few match bad run.
