Baz tweeted saying “lots of moving parts” which feels like journalist talk that you could read either way
If we get Mowbray, it's frankly just embarrassing and we look a total shambles! Any manager with a view to a long term project won't touch us, nor should they. I hope its just paper talk, and not genuine. I'd stick with Selles. Anything mid table and up is progress.
Acun's position is untenable for me. I guess he has a new recruitment team in and we have to trust them but my word, we're being ran by a child paying football manager.
I'm not denying we did better the 2nd half of the season under Selles as Walter was a disaster but you also heed to compare teams that did and didn't change manager. Also many teams have a good/bad first half of the season and vice versa and suffer injuries. I think he should keep his job if only for stability. We can't keep changing managers and players twice a season it's just madness.
I’ve just seen that Gary O’Neil has been mentioned as a possible replacement now, so either the agents are doing the rounds or Acun’s actively looking for a replacement. To me, it’s madness to replace Selles after 5 months! He played us to get points, he literally said he knew we needed a draw on Saturday because of other results so went out to save the point we had! The pressure was to stay up, before playing entertaining football. Next season, he’ll start from scratch, with a full pre season, his own players, & get the ones here already into his thinking!
The facts as we currently know them are; Acun made a polarising decision to sack LR and appoint Walter, who was tasked with a top 10 finish. That was a disaster and he had to course correct. Acun brought in Selles who was tasked with avoiding relegation. Selles delivered. Selles was backed in the January transfer window. A number of key players received season ending injuries. I don't consider any of that to make Acun's position untenable. For many I suspect sacking Selles, if true, would be the straw that broke the camels back.
100% agree. Fine to discuss, but some of the comments! Yet again. Some need to wait to see rather than go into kiddies tantrums, meltdowns, dummies out, very personal attacks, etc when at this stage we actually know nothing. It's embarrassing.
Be a crazy decision but equally hilarious so whatever let’s see what happens. Stay up on GD, Coyle having straighteners outside empress and now Mowbray on his way… what a weekend
I'm open-minded until it happens. For me, there's a great opportunity for Acun to learn from the season, change his mindset and keep the goodwill (my goodwill, ha!). In the words of Grace, it's not over.... Yet. However, if Selles is sacked, I'll definitely be tipping over the edge into the Kalman/Orange mindset of Acun cynicism.
So let me get this right. We have employed a new head of recruitment, who is friendly with Tony Mowbray, absolutely no links to Selles at all. Hodge has had more jobs than hot dinners in the last few years, and our chairmen wants Mowbray who’s record is fairly average, then sacking a manager who’s done what’s asked of him.
Acun has kinda made a rod for his own back in firing Rosenior for the way they played, as clearly the team under Selles was definitely rougher to watch than under Rosenior. That said, the squad we had under Rosenior was full of promising PL loanees, and a couple of gems of our own, many of whom then signed for other clubs for 8 figure sums. The squad Selles has had to work with is vastly inferior, especially after injuries. Selles has done a tremendous job with a clearly limited squad, and firing him would be an even bigger mistake than firing Rosenior IMO. He deserves at least until the end of 2025 with a full pre-season and the likes of Belloumi and Millar back in the team to see how the football improves.
Just catching up a bit. Tweet below from Mike White. Sounds nothing but positive in my eyes (as in, what we need). One question. Who's signing was Kyle Joseph? That was a relatively large sum of money for us (£2.5 million). Acun supported (once again) someone's decision making but he must have been left wondering wtf is going on when he's seen him playing this season gone. Mike White @mikewhitesport · May 4 Change is clearly coming. I’m told Martin Hodge’s appointment as new Head of Recruitment is only the start of an overhaul in how things are done in terms of transfers, spending and off-field structure. For City fans, anything to avoid a repeat of this dismal season.
Rosenior had no confidence in Pandur who has gone on to be our player of the season, our defence improved under Selles.
Who’s to say Pandur was ready last season? He was incredibly shaky in preseason and turned it round but let’s not act like we knew he would’ve been the difference last season
Looks a matter of when rather than if , surely the club makes a statement saying it’s not true if we wasn’t going to sack selles
In cases like this quite often an owner would make a statement backing the manager especially with the stir it’s causing on social media , the silence definitely suggests selles is getting replaced
