JHRover

It's 2026 and links to the National League's Forest Green Rovers manager are being downplayed because our owners ambitions probably won't match his. That's the Venky effect.

Well there'd be a lot more media attention on a 'big' club that was in the PL last season going straight down to League One as a direct result of FFP / points deductions. Much more than there would if Rovers/Oxford/Portsmouth just disappeared 'naturally' into League One. I'm sure their owner would be willing and able to throw big money at challenging it which could kick up all sorts of trouble and fuss and be covered in the news, and if he succeeded it would make a mockery of the league table and of the whole FFP/points deduction process. I just think they'll much prefer it if any deduction is 'accepted' by Leicester whereby it can be successfully imposed on them and they accept it because it wipes the slate clean and doesn't directly lead to relegation. Everyone wins that way, Leicester survive and accept their punishment and can start afresh and the EFL can show everyone they've dealt with the issue seriously.

The EFL I bet will wait until the outcome of the season is known or all but known and then make a decision on Leicester, either by imposing a punishment from the start of next season or by deducting them points this season but not enough to tip them into the bottom 3 and relegate them. The chaos and furore that dropping them into the bottom 3 this season and them getting relegated off the back of it would create would be far too much for the EFL mob to handle.

Indeed. At best we get a Watford-esqe succession of foreign head coaches who want to get into English football and perhaps don't mind working under a structure like we are trying (and failing) to impose with recruitment handled upstairs. With such a model you get a new head coach every 12 months at best. More likely that they go for a cheaper option than that which is to give it to someone like Coleman who knows he won't get back into English football any other way than accepting what we are offering.

What do we think are the chances of having a new manager in place in time for Saturday? Unlikely I'd say, I suspect that they will breathe a sigh of relief after the win last night and feel some pressure is off and send DJ to Norwich on Saturday, giving them a full week after that to do something. Although we won I'd say the need for a new manager is even more clear after last night - I'm not suggesting DJ was responsible for that performance but it is quite clear we need a strong, experienced, no-nonsense manager to get to work quickly to give us any chance of survival.

Challinor has logic and the sort of appointment a struggling Championship Blackburn Rovers would look at. Under normal management. Under this lot I doubt they'd even entertain him even if he offered to do it for nothing simply because he doesn't have the right agent/connections.

Looks like a feeding frenzy with the friendly agencies back in control Emboldened after sidelining all challengers they have free reign to run riot without even attempting to hide it anymore.

I'd like to see Savage here. Of all the ex-player suggestions I feel he's the most sensible based on his highly impressive record at both Macclesfield and Forest Green and the logical step up now to a bigger club. He's also very good with the media from his radio days which helps to some degree. Ticks quite a lot of boxes and would generate some interest. But again I don't think we will be looking for that. Not with the two Venky stooges in tight control of everything. They don't want a personality and I think would fear a popular ex-player getting the fans behind them.

I think Allardyce is done now. I wouldn't say no that's for sure, but when i listen to him, plus the fact he's 71 and not really had a proper job in management for over 4 years (apart from 4 games with Leeds) I'm not sure he'd have what it takes any more. I'd have definitely had Warnock here last season after Eustace - think his personality - us against the world, lets have a battle - would have perfectly fit the atmosphere after Eustace went and he'd have hit it off well with people like Batth, Travis, Weimann. Not so sure this group would fit his way of thinking but having said that he's probably still at 77 one of the safest pairs of hands for a side in desperate need of know-how and survival expertise. Trouble is he'd have loved a crack at the run in and play-offs last season - the chance of another promotion, very much doubt he'd love another dogfight working for the buffoons here.

That would just hurt too much for me. I doubt the owners even know who John Eustace is. And as for Gestede and Pasha they'll just mention that he wanted to move closer to his family home and that will be that.

Yes, absolutely. Not keen on Martin at all but at least he's demonstrated some competence in the Championship in his career. Coleman done nothing in club management in years.

Cifuentes will have been on a good deal at Leicester fresh out of the PL. Three year contract I think. Don't think for one minute we'd be offering the money he wants.

I'm not even sure that was my position but hey ho. I agree that he was terrible, I'm sure I've posted at various times that he shouldn't have got the job in the first place and certainly should have gone much earlier than this. I don't think Ismael himself was a deliberate gear in operation dumb down, I think I said that I expected them to keep him in place because he was doing just what they wanted which is getting on with doing the job quietly whilst they stripped the squad bare. I think until very recently that was the case. It seems in the last few days or weeks that has changed. Nixon says that there was a bust up over recruitment which fits with Ismael's 'complicated' comment on Saturday and taken with the fact that the two before him both left for non-results based reasons suggests he might have gone for similar reasons than just him being a poor manager. Anyhow, I'm pleased that after 'decades' you've finally found the 'proof' you needed that the 'spiel' I've been 'spewing' is shite. I'm sure a potential sacking of Ismael - not described as such by the club - proves that everything else I've said going back 'decades' is shite.

Glad to know you've spent weeks reading all my posts and then the first opportunity you get to point out I might have been wrong on something you've spent the day repeatedly replying with the same thing to each one of my posts, without even knowing for certain that I am wrong! "It has been mutually agreed he will step away from his role with immediate effect". Think you might need to find some more important issues to get your teeth into than my opinions, of which you *might* have found one that is wrong.

Rowett would have to be number 1 choice based on his availability, lack of compensation and track record in this position. A no brainer, which means the no brainers in the boardroom won't even speak to him. If I were running the search I'd be definitely speaking to Dave Challinor at Stockport, but suspect this regime would struggle to afford him such is our standing these days and won't have any interest in such people. Nigel Clough and Michael Skubala another two from different backgrounds but have both done mightily impressive work with their clubs in League One. Again as with players we appear to have no interest in such areas these days. Such options would have one eye on relegation, rather than just a 5 month placement and review. I wouldn't be opposed to Bilic until the summer but have reservations about his recent record. I doubt we could afford him or handle his personality. I suspect if it is left to Rudy it is going to be a foreign coach or an agency linked option who we've barely heard of.