The managerial shortlist

[Pragmatist]

So many on social media writing off young up and coming coaches. “What have they won?” “He failed at Stoke”. “Got sacked at x”. “Why? They’re below us in the league”.

Good young managers have to do it the hard way in the lower leagues. They don’t get handed top jobs on a plate just because of their big name playing career. Nearly every manager gets sacked 2 or 3 times in their career, which means that they experienced a bad run with a particular group of players (often those they inherited rather than chose). How many times did Mourinho get sacked?

A good coach is a good coach. They might be at the wrong club with the wrong resources. They may well have an owner or a board with no patience and no clear strategy, who press the panic button far too soon.

Just because a manager coached in Europe doesn’t make him adaptable to Championship or Premier League football. There’s only two English managers currently in the Premier League (Howe and Dyche although McKenna is close), following the sackings of Cooper and Martin. Some of the coaches on our (apparent) shortlist like Schumacher and Williams, Eustace and Robins are de facto among the top dozen English coaches in the country!

A bit of context is always useful in any debate.

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Luke Williams at Swansea mentioned a couple of times this morning. He won't leave them for us I'd not imagine but he'd be one I would be keen on.

Definitely been sounded out

Why would we contemplate him? He’s done nothing to warrant the position… we are currently 8th despite poor form and they are still five points behind us.

Er…maybe we’ve got a far better squad than them?

You're not allowed to suggest that, it was all Carlos' magic that got us where we are... The players are all crap

See my post below