New manager wishlist

[TimmyJimmy]

Eustace's wage plus Derby's compo payment enables paying a better wage. Add in a thin scrape of the transfer fees received (and not spent!!!) and we should be able to pay anybody enough to be attractive. Managed decline, it's the only answer. Venky's must really hate us.

[KentExile]

5 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Was Eustace on a similar salary? 

Was Eustace on £600K/year max?

Yes

Can bargains be found at less than market value?

Yes

That does not change the fact that £600K/year is below the average amount that a Championship club would spend on that sort of appointment

Edited February 23 by KentExile

[Mercer]

11 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I would go for at least 8 to 10 clubs. 

Not at all. You can appoint a good head coach for that money. FFS. 

How is 600k not the going rate for mid table Championship club with a bottom 6 wage budget? 

You simply don't get it do you?

If you want to rise out of mediocrity you invest in a quality manager/head coach which you will not get for £600k.

I have already posted that the average Championship manager's salary was £800k 3 YEARS AGO.

What is the point in paying the likes of Siggy, Cantwell and Dennis £18/20k a week (£3millionish per annum) when you are scuttling round to find a manager on relatively a Home Bargains' budget!!!  Absolute madness and incompetence.

[ElTwis]

5 minutes ago, unsall said:

Still expect Niels Frederiksen to be next manager..

Feels like a very 2025 rovers signing. He won't be expensive, isn't likely to be waiting for a PL job and won't come in with a huge weight of expectation. The sticking point is presumably the cost of buying him out of his contract.

 

I wouldn't mind him overall looking at his record and experience, he appears a calm head with some legitimacy about him. There's a decent argument that's what we need rather than an unknown quantity who could be amazing or could be a disaster

[martonrover]

Just now, chaddyrovers said:

Has a good CV and from what I read he is tactical adaptable which is what we need

He'll need to be a bloody miracle worker with a huge turnover of players fast approaching.

[davulsukur]

1 hour ago, Craigman said:

 

This is Nixon’s article. 

So, we aren't taking our time over the appointment, we are just cheaping out on the salary and therefore can't attract anyone.

What does Adam Owen taking a bigger role behind team affairs mean? And why is he doing it? 

What the fuck are these clowns doing?!? 🤡 

#VenkysOut 

[martonrover]

1 minute ago, Mercer said:

You simply don't get it do you?

If you want to rise out of mediocrity you invest in a quality manager/head coach which you will not get for £600k.

I have already posted that the average Championship manager's salary was £800k 3 YEARS AGO.

What is the point in paying the likes of Siggy, Cantwell and Dennis £18/20k a week (£3millionish per annum) when you are scuttling round to find a manager on relatively a Home Bargains' budget!!!  Absolute madness and incompetence.

Ah, but our billionaire owners never refuse a request for funds, don't you know? 😉 

[BigHoz]

Wouldn’t worry about that Nixon article, they’re all in it together, suhail waggot Nixon chaddy, daily fix of winding the fan base up. Ignore it move on. 
 

 

 

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

19 minutes ago, Mercer said:

You simply don't get it do you?

If you want to rise out of mediocrity you invest in a quality manager/head coach which you will not get for £600k.

I have already posted that the average Championship manager's salary was £800k 3 YEARS AGO.

What is the point in paying the likes of Siggy, Cantwell and Dennis £18/20k a week (£3millionish per annum) when you are scuttling round to find a manager on relatively a Home Bargains' budget!!!  Absolute madness and incompetence.

I never will get that. Your manager is the most important person in the club. He should be the most highly paid. 

[MarkBRFC]

On 14/02/2025 at 10:08, MarkBRFC said:

It will be whoever is the cheapest.

As predicted.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 hour ago, London blue said:

I wouldn't take a job for less than market value because of a very slight chance of a promotion.

I’d expect most managers would want double the normal remuneration to come to the shit show that is Blackburn Rovers, not less !

[Forever Blue]

33 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Plenty would. I said from day 1 I expect foreign head coach appointment. Still expect that like Wicky, Ismael or Niels Frederiksen to be the type of appointment unless we go for Edwards or Wellens. 

Gestede and Owen will run the recruitment side of the club and tbh they have more than decent record of that

 

Jackson said it would likely be a foreign manager. 

[neophox]

It won't be Niels F.

[neophox]

It's a huge gamble for every manager taking the Rovers job. You're expected to take a play off playce or you have failed. Who wants to take that risk and get sacked in the summer?

[BigHoz]

4 minutes ago, neophox said:

It's a huge gamble for every manager taking the Rovers job. You're expected to take a play off playce or you have failed. Who wants to take that risk and get sacked in the summer?

Won’t get sacked surly 

[BigHoz]

600k wage for a manager is a joke, minimum we should be spending is 600k plus the 600k compo we’ve just received divided by say 3 year contract. 800k minimum. Always taking money out the club. 

[JHRover]

8 minutes ago, neophox said:

It's a huge gamble for every manager taking the Rovers job. You're expected to take a play off playce or you have failed. Who wants to take that risk and get sacked in the summer?

Nobody is getting sacked as manager here. That would need the Club to make a decision and pay people off. They'd rather we got relegated.

Only one sacking since 2013 and that was months too late which condemned us to League One.

[Mattyblue]

Two, Bowyer in 2015. But point still stands, one sacking in a decade, we don’t pot managers here, a great place to get your feet under the table… but then you do have to operate in VenkyWorld.

[JHRover]

Imagine not being able to attract a half decent manager to this club in this league position despite bringing in a 6 figure compensation sum for the last manager and having a real shot at promotion.

Just further evidence that they don't want promotion and they will happily waste the opportunity if it means saving a few quid.

The biggest selling point of this job right now is a good shot at the play-offs and they're struggling to attract candidates due to the wages on offer. It is just totally pathetic.

I know, let's waste the opportunity, wait until the summer to find someone by which time the job will be far less attractive with half the squad out the door and everyone starting again on 0 points.

[sharpysharps86]

I'm taking the Nixon story with a pinch of salt. There is probably truth in the salary info, but the other stuff about Lowe's chances of staying in the job getting a boost, and Adam Owen's involvement, etc....I think that's the part of the story where he's whacking the wasps nest amongst the fanbase to make the story sound more interesting. Plus, how have we suddenly gone in Nixons mind from interviewing final candidates in London to 'now struggling to bring someone in'....it doesn't make sense.

He's used the names of Cooper and O'Neil, who last managed premier league clubs. Well Rovers are unlikely to be able to match their previous salaries anyway.

To me this is a story to backtrack on the same person strongly naming Karanka as a final candidate only for LT to pour the coldest of water on that.

The salary figure is obviously not great in comparison to what most championship level managers are on, but is anyone that surprised by the club being cheap about it? I'm not.

On another point, I doubt Lowe even wants the job because when it inevitably goes tits up, he'll be shown the door as the scapegoat.

 

[unleaded]

Adam Owen helping with the coaching side isn’t a big deal to me … after all he’s the clubs technical coaching director… Eustace took 2 coaches along with him we are short..Benson is with the goalkeepers mostly …. 

Hes got a vast knowledge & experience in this field and It’s wise to use it for now until a new boss is found … 2 wins out last 3 isn’t bad ….. 

[Mattyblue]

I imagine Lowe would take it, sizeable pay increase (imagine how crap his present cone and bib wage is if we only pay c600k for a manager when in a PL play off place), get sacked, get a pay out and then put the cones out somewhere else if he fanci… oh shit, wait a minute, we don’t sack managers. 

Lowey with a job for life then - would fit well with operation managed decline though.
 

Edited February 23 by Mattyblue

[belfast_rover]

41 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

I never will get that. Your manager is the most important person in the club. He should be the most highly paid. 

I doubt you'd find this very often. Playing careers are short and rewarded in kind.

[islander200]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

If you take out clubs with PL parachute money I think 600k is about average championship head coach salary plus bonuses

That's why we target more the overseas markets for cheaper fees but similar quality of player

Derby ain't a parachute money club and they pay Eustace more than 600k

[MB Rover]

Adam Ownes is gonna appoint himself at some point isn’t he