So... who now?

[ArabianNotts]

Butt was first team development manager and worked with Rashford, Greenwood et al.
Fits in to the brothers plans.

[nw6pie]

Butt was first team development manager and worked with Rashford, Greenwood et al.
Fits in to the brothers plans.

Nine years in the job at Old Trafford, but it’s a big step up into management. He’d need someone senior above him, I suspect, the same way Rooney has McClaren at Derby.

Gannon seems like another option, but given that Stockport fired him because they wanted to change the “culture” and appointed an U-23s coach from Brighton, I can’t see how he meshes with the Reedtz brothers’ plans.

[Elite_Pie]

Steve Thompson would do for me - better for getting us out of this league than Mr Ardley 😏

How about the dream team of Steve Thompson and Ian McParland?

Thompson controls the football side, McParland makes his tea.

[breman]

Forget that idea they are at Portsmouth lol thought they were out of work note to self check first lol

[Mapperleypie]

How about the dream team of Steve Thompson and Ian McParland?

Thompson controls the football side, McParland makes his tea.

That's been the Reedtz brothers plan all along by all accounts. They have been playing the waiting game until both were available at the same time. Ardley is simply collateral.

[forwardmagpie]

How about the dream team of Steve Thompson and Ian McParland?

Thompson controls the football side, McParland makes his tea.

Given a choice even you would Shirley choose McParland over Thompson !!

[Mapperleypie]

Given a choice even you would Shirley choose McParland over Thompson !!

Neither ideally.

[Kyle95]

Sadly judging by social media the new gaffer will be written off due to not being named Neal Ardley. I'm assuming the new gaffer will be out of work, so i'd go for Kenny Jackett, Phil Parkinson, Richie Wellens or David Flitcroft. I know Flitcroft is DOF at Port Vale, but he may be tempted by a managers job again.

[matt_magpie]

I’d be shocked if it’s Doyle even in an interim basis considering we are in with a shout of getting promoted. The only way I see him getting it is if he’s really jumping out behind the scenes to club hierarchy that he’s the next best thing and ready to go straight in and in my opinion would have to stop playing.
Then I can’t also can’t see us getting a Jackett, Flitcroft, or someone else off the merry go round or a rookie. Surely it will be done on stats, i.e manager performance taking in account the players they have managed, which I assume they have some scoring system for every player, well a lot of them.
Certainly going to be interesting.

[slack_pie]

Lots of good speculation on who the next manager will be, I think Football Radar will have had a big say with their stats who the new manager will be.

I don't really understand how they could take a data-driven approach to picking a manager. The only obvious statistics are things like win percentages and points per game, but that doesn't take into account the type of club a manager is managing. A 45% win rate might be amazing at one club but awful at another, depending on the clubs' respective expectations. Or am I missing something?

The only obvious criteria I can think of is someone who's happy to work under their data-driven approach to scouting and signing players. Not every manager would be happy being told which players they should look at by an analyst who has never played the game or managed a club. So we can probably rule out all those headstrong types who need things to be done their way, which ironically is the type of manager who seems to do well at Notts.

Looking forward to seeing who they've got lined up.