Manager for next season...

[norfolk white]

Not sure how I feel about that one, at the moment I just want someone/anyone to come in and get our season started, the fixtures come out in 2 days time, and we seem to be going/doing nothing.

[bathlad61]

Really hoping that the 49ers /Kinnear have been talking with as yet, a surprise name in the managerial merry go round, as all the names being pushed around at present, dont enspire much confidence for the forthcoming season. Potter still available, would fit the bill, as for Vieira, Corberan, Farke & co, surely we can attract better than this.

[WTF11]

Really hoping that the 49ers /Kinnear have been talking with as yet, a surprise name in the managerial merry go round, as all the names being pushed around at present, dont enspire much confidence for the forthcoming season. Potter still available, would fit the bill, as for Vieira, Corberan, Farke & co, surely we can attract better than this.

For what seems the latest of a very great many such posts, I ask again, if you were a manager/coach with confidence in your own ability, a proven track record of achievement in football management at some of the highest and most competitive levels in the world, would you entertain an appointment to a club without a committed, proven ownership, a coaching/management team that is non-existent, and a 1st team squad (lets leave the youth team to one side) the majority of who have release clauses that will see them leave for cheap as chips money? I suspect that Reading would be a more attractive prospect (at least they have a stadium worthy of a Championship side).

[Billyni]

Really hoping that the 49ers /Kinnear have been talking with as yet, a surprise name in the managerial merry go round, as all the names being pushed around at present, dont enspire much confidence for the forthcoming season. Potter still available, would fit the bill, as for Vieira, Corberan, Farke & co, surely we can attract better than this.

We couldn’t attract them after the cowboy clown when we were still in the prem.
We’re worse off now.

[WTF11]

We couldn’t attract them after the cowboy clown when we were still in the prem.
We’re worse off now.

See post #150. We were unattractive before we were relegated, f00k knows how we are are seen now by anyone with a few grey cells between their ears!

[spaldy]

Have to disagree a bit on the analysis. MB obviously saw the potential. Totally revived his career. The same potential is still there for the right coach. we also have a whole lot more money than we did when MB came in. It takes someone that's a little down on their repuation and needs to prove themselves again.

do that job and you are in the prem. The best league in the world. Lose, and it's just a matter of an inept ownership/management group.

Few, if any, more intense and dedicated fans. Something that some coaches never experience. Citeh, Chelsea and some of the other prem teams have thousands of fans dressed as seat covers.

It's a super high risk/high return job if you succeed.

Just sayin

[WTF11]

Have to disagree a bit on the analysis. MB obviously saw the potential. Totally revived his career. The same potential is still there for the right coach. we also have a whole lot more money than we did when MB came in. It takes someone that's a little down on their repuation and needs to prove themselves again.

do that job and you are in the prem. The best league in the world. Lose, and it's just a matter of an inept ownership/management group.

Few, if any, more intense and dedicated fans. Something that some coaches never experience. Citeh, Chelsea and some of the other prem teams have thousands of fans dressed as seat covers.

It's a super high risk/high return job if you succeed.

Just sayin

Sorry m8, no there isn't (the same potential), as a great many players who Bielsa saw as unrealised stars are either no longer with us (Alioski, Klich, Hernandez etc), or spent forces (Bamford, Ayling. Cooper) and no there isn't a "whole load of money", only to acquire the remaining shareholding (£170m) rather than filling the gaps that will be created by those mentioned above (and others) being lost to the 1st team squad, and/or plugging the gaps created by the departure of players such as Rodrigo, Adams, Wober, Koch, Gnonto, Meslier, none of whom can be blamed for wanting away from a basket case of a club with no agreed ownership structure, no coach/management team, and a 1st team that will disintegrate once the EFL give the green light for the takeover to be completed.

And if you're down on your luck at present, is this basket case a realistic "opportunity" to improve matters, brave person who thinks so.

[norfolk white]

Seemingly we can't.

[spaldy]

Curious as who would have more money than us in the championship?

[WTF11]

Curious as who would have more money than us in the championship?

Just a bit of info on those in the investment group we know about;

https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/sport/l...leeds-27160271

So of the $5.97billion that Forbes say the group is worth, $5.3 would presumably be accredited to Lowy, the rest are frankly bit players, none with much more than $120m which compared to other "players" in the football club ownership market is piddly pops. So presumably Lowy will be the one to dig into his pockets.

Fact is we don't know how much money will be made available (we can make a reasonably shrewd guess that none of the minor members will devote their entire net worth to LUFC!), and probably never will. What we do know is that several key players have release clauses in their contracts that would allow for drastically reduced transfer fees now we are relegated (Rodrigo for instance, on a £3m release fee). We also know that the vultures are circling round a number of such players (Gnonto, Summerville, Koch etc) so the demand for their services is clear, the amount we might get is much less so (thanks again Victor).

No other club in the Championship faces the kind of structural upheaval we do with no manager/coach and no 1st team coaching staff, none have as little in the way of corporate infrastructure in place to make preparations for the new season viable as LUFC, no other club in the Championship has a 1st team squad that has the need for strengthening and/or outright replacement that is required at LUFC.

By any rational measure and/or assessment, LUFC is not "fit for purpose".