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It will be a bit awkward for Venkys when quite a few of the Derby Rovers team, that wasn't considered good enough for Championship football, makes it into the Premier League 😂 Eustace + staff Batth Sanderson Travis Weimann Brereton Diaz Szmodics Nyambe We've now seen that a bit of extra money, ambition, and trust does go a long way. It's even more awkward that deep down we probably like their players a lot more than our own! 🤣

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Another good source list… c/o @Miller11

Here’s a database to start the search… https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/trainer/verfuegbaretrainer/statistik#google_vignette

We hired Pishmael when we were 5th in the League. Cheap, ambitionless, a real momentum killer. We wont hire anyone ambitious or outspoken. I cant help thinking we'll end up with Ryan Lowe. I also think they will try and hire an ex favourite on the coaching staff to help quell any future boycotts. Lets not fall for it.

We don't have a target man upfront. We haven't had one all season, the error has been acknowledged by the outgoing manager but nothing has been done. We are really lightweight up front.

We did not sign a single player of proven Championship quality, when our squad is bloody screaming out for it. Rudy Gestede is taking us down.

4 real options as I see it. 1. Relative unknown doing a decent job overseas with an interest in managing in England. We'd be a good stepping stone for that. 2. UK based relatively inexperienced lower league manager looking to step up 3. UK based, out of work, Desperate to get back into it 4. Random out of work manager who's agent approaches RG expressing interest. My pick is option 1, RG I suspect will pick number 4.

Yep agreed. Any strikers currently free transfers?!

Which one of the new signings didn’t he play? Kargbo? Gueye?

Catching up, so not sure if this has already been mentioned… I was listening to the BBC Lancs Nixon interview and, apparently, VI has not been happy with the quality of signings, and problems with Gestede have been brewing for a few weeks. The club is also unhappy that he has not been playing some of the new signings. VI was a poor coach/manager, but - as we know - we are always going to have problems with this structure and the personnel (RG / SS) around it.

And give him a contract, if he keeps us in the Championship.

The best we have, could do worse than Johnson, he partnered Lowe, and won 2 out of 3, before Ismael came.

Ange would be a total disaster here, his whole philosophy is built on a combination of high intensity running, rotations and speed. Our current squad is brainless and slow. A match made in hell

That window relegates us.

In terms of dud owners, Forest to Rovers is out of the frying pan and into the blazing pits of hell.

Yeah but the media Circus he would bring would be absolutely brilliant. Unfortunately that's the reason he will never be offered the job here.

Pasha and Rudy probably lied to him about how far along negotiations were and then did the old "oh the deadline is today?" work scramble.

Can't remember the last time we had odds as low as 4/11 for a home win! I know Sheff weds have been in worse form than us like but we still have the issue of needing to score. A change in manager and going back to basics and a something like a 442 can work as Carrick has shown, only difference being he has the likes of Cunha at his disposal 🙁 Above all else the players didn't seem aligned with VI, or that they particularly liked him or his tactics. Johnson I assume is reasonably well liked at the clubs, he and whoever the permanent boss is needs to get the players on board with him and make it so they'd run through brick walls for him. Ultimately the players are extremely well paid and its disappointing that they should ever underperform based on who their manager is, but it's not exactly a rare occurrence in football. We'll definitely see a few changes tonight, probably a reflection of who's worked their bollocks off in training. I'm going for a 3-0 home win, Cantwell, Moroshita and Yuki all on the scoresheet.

The new title of this topic has brightend my day.

Had JDT been suitably backed we would have had Premier League Footy by now. So, what the hell difference does it make how good of a manager we get. The best and brightest don not get backed and leave with us looking good for playoffs. Venkies gotta go all there is to it unless that happens we are on a merry go round, a slide more like.

Gerrard didn’t do that well with rangers btw, 1/9 trophy’s won in a 2 team league and then bombed with Villa. Don’t see him as the man to drag us to safety and then don’t see him sticking around for league 1. No thanks from me

Steven Gerrard is a good shout. Might fancy it and stay in his house.

Why should we not give it to DJ if he strings some results together.

Timing of the sacking on transfer deadline day is just weird. It is as though the Raos now have so little time to be bothered with Rovers that they have been relying on monthly bs reports from Pasha - injuries, refs, unusual monsoon weather, underlying financial plan working, blah blah - but suddenly noticed match day receipts falling off a cliff and the league table in the January month end report and panicked. Pasha gets a carpeting and Ishmael gets the chop. This could be opportunity knocks for Damien Johnson and not a case of a planned replacement