Mick McCarthy? No chance, he's definitely past it. Would love Rosenior as a great shout, would he be tempted into it? Wilder I'm a bit suspect of, Cowleys could be great and may be tempted to jump up a league, but may be wary.
I guess it all depends on how deep the new guys pockets are. I wouldnt write Mick off though. Always gets a bad rep as he's pretty dry in the media but where he's been given the tools he's generally done OK in the Champiomship
I guess just surprising you want him when I suggested Hughton and you weren't impressed with him. Hughton has 2(?) promotions out of this league, does McCarthy only have one, from much longer ago?
Guess it's subjective, but feel Mccarthy has done more with the tools at his disposal that Houghton has - though I accept Houghton has had more attractive jobs recently. If there's one manager I could prise away from a L1 club then I've been quite. Impressed by Darren Moore. It'd stick one up the Wendies as well which would be an added bunus.
Tbh I'm a bit surprised they're in mid table. Purely as a means of getting out of the ****e this season I'd probably favour experience. It's just difficult to find a manager who's been in the game a while who's hasn't got some failures on his CV as well as successes. If you gave me my wish though it'd be Rosie under an experienced DOF. You just know you'll get professionalism and the backing of supporters with him.
Don't know if Rosenior is the gamble to take to get out of the relegation zone. I think we'd look to someone experienced like Hughton or McCarthy.
Pretty sure the Turks will have their own ideas. Just hope if they do it isn't an even bigger gamble than the aforementioned. I know he has a relegation on his CV but if Derby hadn't deferred their deduction he'd have stayed up with a limited squad - but I wouldn't sniff at Gareth Ainsworth. Been keeping tabs on Ryan Lowe also, but I agree that the immediate situation calls for proven championship experience.
*Mick has taken both Wolves and Sunderland up from the championship, but both times with limited resources.
Does he? Has done a job at Birmingham, Brighton and Norwich, all without a huge amount of cash thrown at him. Brighton went up on a reasonably tight budget under him.
I can't see any change happening until this alleged takeover either is going ahead or falling through. Until then I think we are stuck with McCann, so any managerial speculation is rather pointless IMO.
He'll he gone by international break. If the takeover is held up then the Allams will be forced to act, or risk being stuck with league 1 club with dwindling support and the financial losses that entails. If the takeover goes through then new regime will act. We're at least a couple of weeks into the due diligence. It'll succeed or fail in weeks. Either way it won't be months.
I think the link to getting Chelsea's best loans was nothing more than speculation on here. Slutsky is a mate of Abramovič so we are going to get first pick was bandied about on here. Much like when the potential Chinese buyers were picking and paying for signings, and our new Turkish owners will bring in Turkish players and manager. Nothing but forum and social media chit chat.
That was my thought too although assumed Shark had better sources than I did, but my memory of that was just people assuming he'd be able to get Chelsea players in but nothing more concrete than SM chat.
All this discussion about our recruitment structure reminded me of this podcast episode with our chief scout. It was recorded in pre-season. He talks generally about his career but there's also some interesting stuff in there about City, how we scout players, and the finances and stuff: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0n...i=iuNDCxKOQ8S5vX9rRbKXtQ&utm_source=copy-link
