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Who should be the next permanent manager of Leeds United AFC?

  • Neil Warnock

  • Roberto Di Matteo

  • Dave Jones

  • Alan Curbishley

  • Sean O'Driscoll

  • Steve Bruce

  • Billy Davies

  • Gus Poyey

  • Gianfranco Zola

  • Gordon Strachan

  • Karl Robinson

  • Steve McLaren

  • Lee Clark

  • Dougie Freedman

  • Other

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Andy King's Crown Jewels said:
I'd be surprised if it's Clark, Warnock, Freedman or Robinson.

Clark and Robinson are both testing the lower leagues as young managers and are doing very very well. Why would they leave their respected clubs for a sinking ship? Warnock won't come because it's well publicised that Bates is tighter than a duck's arse. Freedman has build a very talented young squad who just got knocked out of the Carling Cup on penalties, literally seconds from Wembley, plus it's the club he loves.


Personally I think someone along the lines of Gordon Strachan or Gary McAllister, people with strong associations with your club would be more likely to take up the role. However Bates could go for one of his Chelsea mates and pinch Di Matteo.

It remains to be seen who the next manager will be, but what wasn't forseen was Grayson's departure which reeks of panic sacking to me.
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I could see Robinson coming, he's only at MK Dons after all, Clark wouldn't have to move either.
 
Have to say Lee Clark has impressed me in the time he has been a manager, he also looks like the kind of manager who gets on with the players but knows the boundaries and isn't scared to make the players know who is boss, when it is required. However, if the aim is to get back to the EPL then it can only be Warnock.
 
Got to be Warnock - he gets people motivated and gives a damn - he gets irate and excited. Emotions are infectious and you need to do that to lead. Poyet has brains, so is a possible contender. We don't need another 'yes' man.

But to be honest, who will come? Most would ask for guarantees about money for transfers, and FFS, we have just missed the window. I'm concerned that the statement says 'get more out of the existing squad of players' - reading between the lines we were never going to get anyone new and KB expected a miracle in the transfer dealings. Everyone will read that too.
 
I hate to say but Warnock, he's got the passion we need to get the players motivated. He'd make the club hated but that's what we need, us against them like the -15 days.
 
Hi guys/girls it's my first post so be kind!! I think warnock on a short term contract ie end of season then see where we are would be a good shout! Would like gus or Clark but why would they leave there current club.
 
Take it from me it's Phil Brown as your new manager.. He will be cheap and he is out of work ...
 
Its going to be Lucas Radebe, he needs a fan favorite to get the season tickets renewals in.

Otherwise the cash cow might dry up :emoticon-0102-bigsm
 
I said it should be Lee Clark but i think its likely to be someone without a current job, i.e. Neil Warnock or Dave Jones not that i'd like either of them to be manager
 
I wonder if the great dictator is weighing up a package for Mourinho after all he's looking to get back into English Football!! ;)
 
Torbaywhite said:
Hi guys/girls it's my first post so be kind!! I think warnock on a short term contract ie end of season then see where we are would be a good shout! Would like gus or Clark but why would they leave there current club.
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Welcome! :)

Out of the ones currently being mentioned, Warnock looks like the obvious choice. My concerns are that A) he has settled down in London; B) he's always banging on about how he spends the weekend in Cornwall at his second home and; C) he won't want to work with Bates (he's worked with difficult chairmen in the past, but nonetheless financially supportive ones).

I'm sure he'd have taken the Leeds job a few years ago, but he's growing old now and I don't think he'll fancy it. I also think he'll look useless in his first season due to not having a squad with the type of players he likes. This lot are built and programmed to play the Grayson Way, not the Warnock Way, and those are two starkly-different philosophies.
 
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