Championship Season 25-26

[JHRover]

Some malicious lies emerging from Preston where it is being reported that a US-Saudi businessman has held talks about investing in Nob End.

Apparently nobody has told him or the media that nobody would buy or invest in a 'small town' loss making 'unattractive' Championship football club. You are supposed to just exist with disinterested owners who at least pay the bills and never get taken over 

Or is it a different rule book because they are a city?

Edited yesterday at 17:18 by JHRover

[DE.]

4 hours ago, Rogerb said:

Sheff Wed sale seems to have stalled. Bannon off to Millwall suggests further cost cutting.

I think they're expecting the sale after the transfer window shuts now. Basically means the administrators have to continue treating the club like a collapsed business and raise money however they can. Expect anyone who can fetch a half decent price will be gone by the time the window closes. 

Edited yesterday at 18:22 by DE.

[sharpysharps86]

18 hours ago, DE. said:

I think they're expecting the sale after the transfer window shuts now. Basically means the administrators have to continue treating the club like a collapsed business and raise money however they can. Expect anyone who can fetch a half decent price will be gone by the time the window closes. 

Sounds like they might lose one or two more as well. If Rovers fail to beat them at Ewood then there really is no hope for survival.

[JHRover]

Leicester have sacked Cifuentes, no surprises there

Wonder if they will make an approach for Ismael?

[RevidgeBlue]

2 hours ago, JHRover said:

Leicester have sacked Cifuentes, no surprises there

Wonder if they will make an approach for Ismael?

Hopefully Leicester use the same data metrics that we do which all apparently showed Ismael to be by far "the outstanding candidate".

Get shut of the useless twonk and 2.5 years compo on top.

If Carlsberg did approaches..............

Edited 4 hours ago by RevidgeBlue

[KentExile]

54 minutes ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Hopefully Leicester use the same data metrics that we do which all apparently showed Ismael to be by far "the outstanding candidate".

Get shut of the useless twonk and 2.5 years compo on top.

If Carlsberg did approaches..............

Obviously he wasn't nearly as shit (*), but I always thought that Souness was teetering on the verge of the sack when Newcastle paid us compensation to take him to the North East

 

* Souness was great for us in the most part but did seem to be self destructing and falling out with everyone just before he left

Edited 4 hours ago by KentExile

[RevidgeBlue]

21 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Obviously he wasn't nearly as shit (*), but I always thought that Souness was teetering on the verge of the sack when Newcastle paid us compensation to take him to the North East

 

* Souness was great for us in the most part but did seem to be self destructing and falling out with everyone just before he left

Very much so. I nearly posted "Unfortunately I doubt this will be another fairy tale Souness type solution".

We got extremely lucky with that.

[DE.]

Souness was just a right place, right time kind of thing. It worked until it didn't, and it was obvious he wasn't going to turn it around, so Newcastle's approach was a blessing in disguise for us. Souey's only real sustained success in management after his stint with Rangers in the late 80's was with us. He needed a specific environment to be successful, and for whatever reason that was us during the majority of his time here. He wasn't a particularly good manager in his post-playing career, but for us he was great for a decent period. Sometimes it just clicks for a while between a manager and a club. It was an unfortunate end with some really poor signings and fallings out with players, but nothing can take away the achievements of the previous years. 

It'll be interesting to see who Leicester appoint. Clubs in the Championship aren't averse to looking abroad for young, on-the-rise head coaches, so it wouldn't surprise me if it's an appointment of somebody that few on these shores have heard of. I can't imagine many would have been able to tell you much about Kim Hellberg, Vitor Matos, Eric Ramsay, Julien Stephane or Sergej Javirovic before they were appointed at Boro, Swansea, WBA, QPR and Hull. Leicester aren't exactly flush with cash, either, and are looking at a likely points deduction in the near future, so they aren't going to be hugely attractive to bigger names.  

Edited 2 hours ago by DE.