16-10-2017, 18:39
(This post was last modified: 16-10-2017, 18:47 by St Charles Owl.)
I'm with Towinjustonce on the subject of Bullen, he has been around for the whole time that CC has and obviously is either just towing the line or not able to get his message through!! Of course that would assume that his message would be any different to CC's and I am not sure that is the case. If DC decides to pull the plug on Carlos then I think we would be better off with a new set up.
Question is what do we want in terms of type of manager?? We could go for a Lambert who know the Championship and has won promotion from it, or Big Sam who gets his teams organized and hard to beat, but without much flair or a complete unknown such as Kevin Nolan or a foreign manager like Carlos when he came to us. One thing is for sure, with a wealthy owner and a team that on paper should be doing better than it is, there will be a very long list of applicants!!
Devon, you are right, changing managers was what started the rot for us back in the late 90s, the grass isn't always greener. The problem with the Championship is FFP these days, teams that do not have parachute payments from the Prem basically have a 3-4 year window of opportunity to spend money to try to get promotion before it has to be scaled back to avoid transfer embargos etc. We are at least 2 years into that and from what has been said the club will be up against FFP limits in the not too distant future! We are probably maximizing ticket revenues, we cannot charge more than we currently do, we have about 23k season tickets and can't expect that to grow in the Championship and our commercial side will only do so much to add money to the pot. We have spent a decent amount on the squad as we needed to but we cannot expect to see many more expensive signings, so Carlos has to get this team moving or we need to make a change to find someone who can get more out of this group of players - that is the dilemma Chansiri finds himself with!!
Question is what do we want in terms of type of manager?? We could go for a Lambert who know the Championship and has won promotion from it, or Big Sam who gets his teams organized and hard to beat, but without much flair or a complete unknown such as Kevin Nolan or a foreign manager like Carlos when he came to us. One thing is for sure, with a wealthy owner and a team that on paper should be doing better than it is, there will be a very long list of applicants!!
(16-10-2017, 18:06)Devongone Wrote: Please take this as well-meant from a supporter of the worst team in the country -
UP isn't the only direction available when you change manager.
All managers are perfectly designed to see the game differently from all supporters. They've been trained to see the game in a way we haven't for 20 years or more. We see THEM as stuck in the mud, but the players are undergoing the same training and see things exactly the same way. Occasionally you'll find a manager who really changes things, but mostly it's a like-for-like swap and you might as well have saved yourself the compensation payment. (Two successive play-offs looks brilliant from the standpoint of the Vanarama looming next season.)
Devon, you are right, changing managers was what started the rot for us back in the late 90s, the grass isn't always greener. The problem with the Championship is FFP these days, teams that do not have parachute payments from the Prem basically have a 3-4 year window of opportunity to spend money to try to get promotion before it has to be scaled back to avoid transfer embargos etc. We are at least 2 years into that and from what has been said the club will be up against FFP limits in the not too distant future! We are probably maximizing ticket revenues, we cannot charge more than we currently do, we have about 23k season tickets and can't expect that to grow in the Championship and our commercial side will only do so much to add money to the pot. We have spent a decent amount on the squad as we needed to but we cannot expect to see many more expensive signings, so Carlos has to get this team moving or we need to make a change to find someone who can get more out of this group of players - that is the dilemma Chansiri finds himself with!!