Next manager

The interviewer needs to have a plan on how to get the best candidates. The plan needs to reflect what City are looking for in a manager. As an interviewer you need to be able to recognise transferable skills and what they learnt from that experience that they could bring to City. I would like to see a manager with resilience, now that is not something you just pick up, you normally learn that as a child actually. Calmness in a crisis and the willingness to go the extra mile and be open to changing your plans if plan A isn’t working. Also the ability to pick both yourself and the players up.

 

A lot of that comes from experience that’s why it’s good to get as many different references as you can. As someone else posted you can be very good at interviewing but less good at the job you are applying for

 

Thank the Lord, a blessing.

 

Good shout and a bit of fun, although some are bound to get serious lol!

Start a thread in General?

 

Pretty fair.

 

That is true. However I expect a good interviewer to suss them out. If I was Sparks I would get someone to help me out.

 

Not if research is undertaken before one sits down . Without giving candidates their own CV asking them questions on their CV alone catches many out because they can even remember their own b/s .

“Yes I studied at Leeds in those halls , what is the name of the nearest pub?” Next!

 

Hughes and Derek Beige boy ticked all the interview boxes..........

 

Absolutely, Warnock, Stuart …they all do a bit of freelancing consultancy work!

 

Absolutely or how could you explain serial-failure Lee Johnson now managing at his sixth club?

 

He doesn't go that far back, but nowt wrong with educating him

 

Shite players - Hughes & Gent's fault
Own nothing - means diddly squat in this day and age, Wetherspoons own less than half their pubs
18k fans - don't knock it, that's almost as many as your beloved Liverpool (who don't own Anfield or Melwood as FSG own them in a separate Co)
Going backwards - appoint the right manager

 

Hughes was a shoe in once his CV was found in the bin and ironed flat, Adams was poached by us, so I doubt he was even interviewed.

 

T

The latter is almost certainly right.

 

Gateshead manager going to MK Dons….

 

Stated days ago as odds on favourite .

 

Days ago? Alexander was only sacked yesterday!

 

Agreed, I like the idea of a base salary and £1,000 per point above 50 points. I think the base salary will be higher now than it was in 2012 though.

 

John Milton

Supposedly, although I rather think it’s been ascribed to a good number of people.

Milton also said “They also serve who only stand and wait”, a quote which is quite descriptive of some of our players over the past few years.

 

Hughes probably fits all the criteria you mentioned!