Manager Rumour Thread

Bravo

 

My error ....... Oooooops, Currently getting interest - I got the clubs mixed up. Sorry.

 

I could be a long sleep.

 

You'd be better off with an induced coma

 

I'd suggest they will be around for a very long time if they believe the club is worth anywhere near £8m at the moment.

 

They want us in the championship
They want bargain players

 

Precisely my point..

 

According to Posh's chairman, he's in demand.

 

Look forward to your comments in October.

 

But not at Posh.

 

Think the owners master plan is to grind us down, buy the ground and build an ALDI.

 

Neither of those articles you link to say anything at all of substance. They are just bland initial press releases announcing the change of ownership. It's clear it's all just an initial bulletin from the fact that they thought their chat with Phil had gone well!

We don't need to go over their well aired "aspirations " again but they certainly set expectations way higher than they have subsequently been shown willing or able to deliver.

 

Great endorsement from the man that sacked him - he's a brilliant manager but just not for us.

 

For many years since the millennium, this club has fought hard, and pulled together from all angles to keep it afloat, there’s been no magic wand, there’s been mistakes made, honest mistakes, sometimes little gambles that didn’t pay off. However it’s mainly been kept within a structure that wouldn’t hurt the club too much, we’d learnt our lessons the hard way.

Since the second decade of this century, we’d bottomed out, we’d stopped the rot, our fingernails finally gripped, we dragged our feet back into league two from the Abyss, and believe it was, our overheads would not have withstood a place in the national league, we’d have gone.

The climb-back started, the fan-base (through fantastic marketing by the owners and Baldwin) grew, a cup run, Wembley put more bums on seats, prudent management from a professional like PP brought in players that knew their jobs, promotion, a pipedream 18months before. History makers, play-offs in league one, I/we knew we were back. We were all eyeing the Championship, if not that moment then the next season.

The new owners came, PP went, Stu came.

We needed that steady investment for the momentum the club had found

Listening to the rhetoric it was fine, many of us thought pp did one to Bolton as a snub to us, but it wasn’t.
They kept the pricing structure in place, they brought back a firm favourite whilst telling us of cash injections to buy players, told us of their plan to gain promotion within a short amount of seasons.

Then the alarm bells started, Rahic tells us at every opportunity of his depth of knowledge of football, his coaching Badge, noises of the playing budget being slashed. Stu said if Rahic keeps from the training pitch at Rawdon it’s a plus! These cracks hidden firmly by a fantastic season of management by Stu, unbeaten at home all season, culminating in a play-off final

Yet the cracks started to appear, the rot within starting to create a smell.

Budget cuts again, but the rhetoric remained the same, we’re bidding for big (at this level) signings, there’s cash for January. Yet many of the spine of that side quickly left, as the plan that should have been in place would be to model Millwall. Yet we got crap cheap Rahic imports and loans. Maestro Stu again keeping us firmly in the top four.

Then it fell to pieces, all the alledged meddling and arrogance of the guru in the boardroom, Yeovil, the reneging of the agreed Hendrie deal, a very popular player humiliated, the treatment of players that spoke out about it, staff at City for years leaving, talk of reneging of scoring bonuses because penalty goals didn’t count, xmas do’s cancelled. The face of City was Stu trying to face the fans after the club had just had its brains blown out, whilst Rahic is telling us of some big bid for Kieran Moore.

Stu sacked.

Rahic tells us he’s learnt his lesson, yet SG and Warnock depart telling them firmly what is required.

Yet its more cuts, and more of these hidden gems, they’re out there but every club is after them.

A head coach to develop Rahic's signings, yeah when other clubs see this, they'll all follow suit

It doesn’t work like that, it’s not that easy. The plan now for the championship is again a pipe dream, relegation will ensue. All the hard work over the last 6/7 years to pull our club back on its feet is being undone before my eyes. I’ve experienced relegation before, its part of football, I can stomach it, but this is far more fundamental than that and it astounds me when I see people defend this madness. We've worked so hard to get here, its heart-breaking.

 

Great summary! Nothing will change until they’re gone. The slide into league two has started.

 

One hell of a post.

 

And just when you think things can't get any worse
Warburton according to Talk Sport favorite for the Derby job
Strange choice to go to Derby rather than follow the dream with us

 

I know, what’s the mad man thinking? He can’t have used his loaf

 

You wrote that letter didn't you?? (joking)

Totally with you up until all the rumours bit which have been gone over time and time again, including the I know football bit. It's so hard to disagree when you've put it down so passionately and whichever side of the fence you sit all we all want is for our club to try be the best that it can.

 

Yes taking a Championship job over a League 1 job. Crazy.