The Official Next Manager Discussion Thread

[Bronaldinho]

Thought we was going for Championship experience..

[Chutney]

To be fair, Hantz is a very good manager and a bit of a promotion specialist, he left Bastia in the top half of ligue 1 after taking over in the national D3, this is a remarkable achievement. He turned Bastia from an obscure team in the french lower divisions to a team competing for european football, in a very small amount of time, he'd be a great appointment!

[westcliff white]

He is still their boss so makes sense, I reckon it will be a no comment type answer like stonewalling the questions, if he says I am categorically staying then we fairly well know what's what.

I have heard as I said on another thread, that it isn't completely dead and we may go back in for further discussions over the weekend

[f321ffc]

Steve Clarke  says it has been a "strange week" but says "I know I made the right decision.
From radio Berkshire.

[f321ffc]

Steve Clarke  says it has been a "strange week" but says "I know I made the right decision.
From radio Berkshire.

Clarke: "I wasn't close to joining Fulham. I got permission to speak to them, we had a chat and I came back here the next day"

[Southdowns White]

Oh dear, Is it back to Rigg throwing a dart blindfolded at a number of pictures on a wall then?

[f321ffc]

We have heard now from Clarke his side of the storey "I wasn't close to joining Fulham. I got permission to speak to them, we had a chat and I came back here the next day"  so where do we go now and who will it be, and will FFC make any statement on this.

[Chutney]

We have heard now from Clarke his side of the storey "I wasn't close to joining Fulham. I got permission to speak to them, we had a chat and I came back here the next day"  so where do we go now and who will it be, and will FFC make any statement on this.

I'd like to think they hadn't put all their eggs in one basket and that they were talking to other managers in the meantime.

[PokerMatt]

Makes some of the "do we really want a coach who'll just jump ship after 11 months?? We need someone loyal!!" comments look quite funny now.

[Roberty]

If that is the case who told the press

We are famous for keeping secrets so presumably it was Reading who spilled the beans

Do you think Reading were hoping to save having to pay compensation to him when he gets fired sometime soon ?

[Domino1879]

Surely whoever we go for now will know that they were not the first choice.

[Chutney]

Surely whoever we go for now will know that they were not the first choice.

Shouldn't matter, any manager with an ambition beyond financial gain should see we have a lot to offer and jump at the opportunity to impress and build towards the prem.

[aaronmcguigan]

To be fair, Hantz is a very good manager and a bit of a promotion specialist, he left Bastia in the top half of ligue 1 after taking over in the national D3, this is a remarkable achievement. He turned Bastia from an obscure team in the french lower divisions to a team competing for european football, in a very small amount of time, he'd be a great appointment!

Sounds a lot like Magath... If he can work wonders in a foreign league, then he'll be a sure fire hit here ...

[Chutney]

To be fair, Hantz is a very good manager and a bit of a promotion specialist, he left Bastia in the top half of ligue 1 after taking over in the national D3, this is a remarkable achievement. He turned Bastia from an obscure team in the french lower divisions to a team competing for european football, in a very small amount of time, he'd be a great appointment!

Sounds a lot like Magath... If he can work wonders in a foreign league, then he'll be a sure fire hit here ...

Magath was hopefully a one off...

[Burt]

Chap called Kit Symons is available...

[Robbie]

Get him in now !!!

[Hoppus]

It looks like Pearson is the favorite according to "paddy power" and "ladbrokes". The odds is 1 on him becoming our next manager/"HC".

[westcliff white]

1 = even money

[Baszab]

Very funny...........As previously posted ad infinitum - what was the sense in firing KS with no one lined up ?

A FFC man thru and thru - 8 points behind target with just under 30 games to go - developing his own squad - yes with some defensive frailties

He had the support of the players (one excluded)

Curbs was helping him anyway - so what was the point in removal ?

The club now looks stupid as well as callous

[f321ffc]

"He had the support of the players (one excluded)"
Care to expand on this