Despite the "unfinished business" he has to attend to at Leicester, I recall an interview where Nige referred to "Penny Pinching" at City.. funny he didn't get suspended for that.. but I wonder if he got out while he could having had an inkling for the way City's finances were going to be run.. Some didn't like Nige, I did & he's an older head than Young Nick and maybe kept shtum until he got the right offer.. You've got to applaud what he did on next to nothing and shrewd loan signings.. and the chances are the Allams are looking for more of the same..
Whatever else you say about Pearson, his management team were getting us there......month by month, game by game, it was all falling into place.
I always liked him as a manager and never bought into the 'negative' thing, I thought we played great football in the early part of last season when he was stil with us. I was annoyed at him for leaving in the way he did, the comments he made about it in the media (getting all pissy at journalists who turned out to be right in questioning his loyalty) and leaving for a lesser club who happened to be offering more money. However I do wonder as you have said if he was a bit fed up of the hierarchy and realised their owners were more ambitious than ours. I still think his comments were stupid and he could have made the move easier for everyone, but I'm not sure if I'm as annoyed at him as I was before.
I think he probably didn't like the way things were going re cut backs. One thing that I know happened was when a young player was named in the squad for the first time and was issued with a shirt with a number on that player had to pay for it himself under the Allams. These were not players earning big money but the young lads just scraping through from the Reserves. Possibly more stuff like that went on. I know it is good to save money but the little things can really wind people up. That is probably only a small part of it though as he was never that settled here and thought he wasn't loved enough by the fans.
I know this is a bit of a running joke now - but I DID say this all along!! All joking aside, if you view any of my posts on this topic when he was being accused left, right and centre of chasing the salary I pointed out time and again that was not the reason he was leaving. He knew Adam was going (he thought voluntarily but instead he was pushed), hated MaGuire and simply wouldnt deal with the Allams direct because they wouldnt run it as a football club. He could not work in those circumstances. Gospel* *That's my new way of saying FACT
Pearson was a good manager. But he walked out on Leicesteristan when it got tough and he did the same to us. A character flaw that Nick Barmby could never be accused of.
Not sending Jack Hobbs to a London specialist and suggesting he can get it sorted locally would set the alarm bells ringing if I was a City player. I know this was after Pearson left but for me it shows not a lean business approach but a short-sighted foolishly mean approach.
This is exactly the kind of thing that is getting increasingly irritating for everyone concerned under the Allams. As you say saving money is ideal but it isn't the only important thing. AP was an expert on saving money in the right areas whilst looking after the fans, players and employees but the Allams seem to think it's just about cutting costs everywhere and don't care about the people affected. tigercity, I'd love to see or hear this interview if you could find it.
When it got tough? When was that? At Millwall, Donny and Burnley in his first few away games when we were thrashed?
Oh, and this. Im sure people think his football was defensive cos he had a dour personality and was a defender but we played much more attacking under Nigel than we did Nick.
I think anyone who was 'irritated' by Pearson's interviews - either by their style or content- was an utter ****. Read between the lines, dimbos. Perhaps the canniest manager we've had in RH broadcasting history- always effortlessly ahead of David Burns.
The problem is football is an incredibly tight ship in general and everyone talks to everyone else. Already all managers and players will know exactly what we're like and consequently we'll only get the desperate or foreign ones.
Nope, when he stated having rows with the Allams over money, like when they sacked his and Adam Pearson's PAs without even telling them.
And Dan Pratt, who he had a good relationship with. And Joe Corrigan. I honestly think the writing was on the wall the instance he stood up to leave a press conference, turned around and walked back in to sit down and say how disappointing it was to lose such a valued member of his backroom staff. It was so deliberate and if that didnt tell us something was wrong then nothing will.
Whatever happens with the managerial appointment and the funds made available to him, I will continue to have concerns about the approach to some of the spending. That whole pay for your own mobile phone thing that pissed Nigel off so much was very petty and saved the club peanuts. Making the players go in a coach to the south coast, rather than flying(I know some will see getting a coach for five hours as no big deal, but when you're a highly paid footballer, used to driving a flash car and holidaying in Dubai and Barbados, then it's likely to piss you off), these are athletes being sent off to perform, I think it's again self defeating. I think the Allam's take the approach that footballers are very well paid and as a consequence, should just get on with the job and do whatever they're told. The problem is, that most other clubs don't take that approach and though I'm not on a top footballers salary, if anyone regularly told me that I had to take a four or five hour coach trip, while I had the opportunity to work elsewhere for the same money, I'd almost certainly tell them to go **** themselves.
Maybe that's because at that time, he was telling the truth, in the same way Nick wasn't later on? Adam was sacked because he wasn't saving us money or giving us any value for money either, he was using his City contacts to feather his own nest with his rugby interests, which were his priority NOT City, why do you think there's been no talk or sign of an appeal from him? Slightly amused by the people in this thread claiming Nige (who I rated and was sorry to see go) was better than St Nick. I'm firmly of the opinion that Nige left because he DID have unfinished business at Leicester, and was offered an absolute **** load of money. Simple as that, no conspiracy theories, no evil plans, just a desire to go back and get paid well for it.
