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Scottish papers have commented that AN idea to become next Rangers manager have been slashed from 12/1 to 6/4. Thoughts ? Good time to get rid?
Fenway Frank
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Doubt he would although it may be best for all parties. Would Rangers pay him as well as us ? The other things would be how keen his family would be to move back to Scotland and the intense scrutiny he would be under as their manger. I can't help but feel he found it difficult dealing with all the criticism he was getting a couple of months ago and it would be worse there .
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GJP
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Fingers crossed this is a goer.
Canaryboy
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Hey, lets not push our luck. We shouldn't ask for a penny.
Perhaps we could take Warburton and as part of the arrangement he will drop his lawsuit against Rangers?
Fenway Frank
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Warburton, a manager that had his team third in a two horse race
Canaryboy
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Third in a one horse race really.
But we have to be realistic here, we either go for the rookie manager again or we get an experienced manager with 5 to 10 years on his CV but with a blip or two on his record.
If Warburton was top of the SPL right now I wouldn't even be able to mention his name. Just like of Hughton had let us to a mid-table finish in his final season he wouldn't have given Brighton the time of day, and they are 2nd in the league.
Lambert had a tough time at Livingstone, and Worthington at Blackpool.
But I guess that Aberdeen manager would also be a good shout, we would have to ignore that he was sacked with Bristol City in the relegation zone?
The reason I like Warburton is that he has shown himself capable of building an exciting team on a tight budget, plucking talents out of lower leagues (which both Worthington and Lambert did to great success).
Yet another signing of his to leave Brentford at a huge profit in January, Warburton spent £750k on Scott Hogan who went to Villa for up to £15m. Others include Andre Gray, who he purchased from Luton.
That's effectively the inverse to what Alex Neil did when he spent £8m on Steven Naismith, a player that we'd now possibly have to pay to get rid of and one who is so obviously on a downward trajectory (like most 30 year old players) instead of an upward one.
Its ironic actually that our club took a punt on an unknown manager from a tiny club and gave him a shot at a much higher level, but he has since shown a huge bias towards signing expensive players who have already achieved 'status' or 'profile' in the game, rather than taking a similar approach when recruiting playing staff.
Whilst Paul Lambert, a Champions League winner and a club legend at two massive clubs, largely shunned the high profile players and instead went and plucked players like Anthony Pilkington out of league one for about 1/7th of the transfer fee we paid for Naismith (and probably a fraction of the wages too, initially at least).
I would actually swap Pilkington for Naismith even now, and he's still 2 years younger than Naismith.
But we have to be realistic here, we either go for the rookie manager again or we get an experienced manager with 5 to 10 years on his CV but with a blip or two on his record.
If Warburton was top of the SPL right now I wouldn't even be able to mention his name. Just like of Hughton had let us to a mid-table finish in his final season he wouldn't have given Brighton the time of day, and they are 2nd in the league.
Lambert had a tough time at Livingstone, and Worthington at Blackpool.
But I guess that Aberdeen manager would also be a good shout, we would have to ignore that he was sacked with Bristol City in the relegation zone?
The reason I like Warburton is that he has shown himself capable of building an exciting team on a tight budget, plucking talents out of lower leagues (which both Worthington and Lambert did to great success).
Yet another signing of his to leave Brentford at a huge profit in January, Warburton spent £750k on Scott Hogan who went to Villa for up to £15m. Others include Andre Gray, who he purchased from Luton.
That's effectively the inverse to what Alex Neil did when he spent £8m on Steven Naismith, a player that we'd now possibly have to pay to get rid of and one who is so obviously on a downward trajectory (like most 30 year old players) instead of an upward one.
Its ironic actually that our club took a punt on an unknown manager from a tiny club and gave him a shot at a much higher level, but he has since shown a huge bias towards signing expensive players who have already achieved 'status' or 'profile' in the game, rather than taking a similar approach when recruiting playing staff.
Whilst Paul Lambert, a Champions League winner and a club legend at two massive clubs, largely shunned the high profile players and instead went and plucked players like Anthony Pilkington out of league one for about 1/7th of the transfer fee we paid for Naismith (and probably a fraction of the wages too, initially at least).
I would actually swap Pilkington for Naismith even now, and he's still 2 years younger than Naismith.
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Fenway Frank
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What about Maddison, Godfrey and Smith ? Not every signing has been an old codger ?
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CanaryNath
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how often does he play any of them??????
Fenway Frank
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I was just making the point that AN hasn't signed a load of over thirties.
Canaryboy
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Don't know if I'm having a brain fart or something, but do we own a Smith I've never heard of?
Unless you mean Nephew Tom?
Fenway Frank
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Louis Smith, played against Leeds ? Out for the rest of the season I think
dj161
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Louis Thompson?
Fenway Frank
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Oops !! ?
Dubai Mark
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I really do not get this Naismith negativity, prior to being rushed back vs Ipswich, and even then he almost scored an excellent goal, he was playing really well and clearly has a lot more in his engine yet. On topic though, clearly not going to happen, but AN moving on to Rangers would have been a real "win-win" and given any new Manager time to prepare for next season, clearly I'm not expecting a play-off place.
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GJP
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Well it's because he took a long time to show any form after arriving with a good reputation and big fee. It's also because he comes across as a bit of a whinger on the pitch. And because everyone knows he wanted to go to Sunderland in the summer.
Din
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Would really like this to happen. Would also really like Rowett/Warburton as a replacement. Neil is from Glasgow so presumably there's a good chance he's a Rangers fan? (Though there's an equally good chance he'll support their arch rivals as well).
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