McDermott linked with Leicester job

[From Despair To Where?]

I think McDermott is intelligent enough to recognise a poisoned chalice when he sees one. Madejski may no longer throw money at the club but he does by and large leave managers to their own devices.

The Leicester job has Billy Davies' name written all over it, a massively self regarding "name" manager who's out of work and loves spending other people's money.

[Ferris]

Looks like it's gonna be Lee Clark

[roadrunner]

What ever. I feel for who ever manages us under the chairman's sell an asset as soon as he's worth anything policy. If I was McDermott I'd go for it, he's pissing in the wind here.

[roadrunner]

Looks like it's gonna be Lee Clark

Ambitious to the last.

[melonhead]

What ever. I feel for who ever manages us under the chairman's sell an asset as soon as he's worth anything policy. If I was McDermott I'd go for it, he's pissing in the wind here.

i also feel sorry for arsenal and man utd when they were forced to sell fabregas, and ronaldo

thats football. theres always some bigger richer fish in the pond whose going to eat up all your best fish


or summink

[stickywhisky]

Rinsing even more money out of the foxes in compensation if BM does go...would be immense..

Compensation would be very low as he is on a 1 year rolling contract. Not that money is an issue for them!

[Svlad Cjelli]

What ever. I feel for who ever manages us under the chairman's sell an asset as soon as he's worth anything policy. If I was McDermott I'd go for it, he's pissing in the wind here.

i also feel sorry for arsenal and man utd when they were forced to sell fabregas, and ronaldo

thats football. theres always some bigger richer fish in the pond whose going to eat up all your best fish


or summink

FFS, here we go again. Very few peoipel seem to be able to distinguish between the situations of "forced to sell" and the "unable to stop them leaving."

[southbank1871]

What ever. I feel for who ever manages us under the chairman's sell an asset as soon as he's worth anything policy. If I was McDermott I'd go for it, he's pissing in the wind here.

You change your mind more than a girl Jay. One minute you’re loving Madejski and hailing him as our savour then in almost the next breath you’re slating the way he runs the club.

[Terminal Boardom]

I believe McGhee did think twice, didn't he state he would stay and then changed his mind.

Only if you believe the bile spewing from JM at the time.

I think it would be a good move for BMcD career-wise. Whether he would want to go is another matter.

[Always_Royal]

Well I hope this sums up the situation...

http://www.sportinglife.com/football/ne ... 23240.html

[roadrunner]

What ever. I feel for who ever manages us under the chairman's sell an asset as soon as he's worth anything policy. If I was McDermott I'd go for it, he's pissing in the wind here.

You change your mind more than a girl Jay. One minute you’re loving Madejski and hailing him as our savour then in almost the next breath you’re slating the way he runs the club.

My opinion of JM has never changed. You can't knock him for what he has done for us but up until a point, and that point was the Premiership and then he bottled it and hoped we could get by with cheap buys, and we couldn't. His/our luck ran out.

It's a bit harsh to slate him for getting the books back in order but at the same time it's fair to say it's frustrating watching what was a progressive club now selling it's best players as soon as a big offer comes in. We never used to be a selling club (certainly not in the last 15 years), now we are. It's frustrating, and so I couldn't blame McDermott or any of the coaching staff if they wanted to take up a challenge elsewhere.

[Platypuss]

What ever. I feel for who ever manages us under the chairman's sell an asset as soon as he's worth anything policy. If I was McDermott I'd go for it, he's pissing in the wind here.

You change your mind more than a girl Jay. One minute you’re loving Madejski and hailing him as our savour then in almost the next breath you’re slating the way he runs the club.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2hapwnFwaE

[Hoop Blah]

FFS, here we go again. Very few peoipel seem to be able to distinguish between the situations of "forced to sell" and the "unable to stop them leaving."

To be fair, in the cases of Long and Sigurdsson we seemed to actively encourage them to leave.

They were both under contract at the time and so unable to stop them leaving doesn't really come into it, apart from not wanting to have a disinterested player hanging around the place.

In terms of McDermott leaving us, I'm sure it'll happen at some point, either because his magic runs out and we boot him out or that someone comes and makes him an offer he can't refuse. As you've said elsewhere Dirk, and I totally agree, a lot of his good work here is down to knowing the players inside out and having their support when he took over.

I'm not sure how well he'll be able to replicate or repeat his success here somewhere else where he'll have to win over a new set of players and deal with different expectations, relationships and the need to find players to fit in with a different dressing room.

I'm sure he's a pretty ambitious kind of guy that at somepoint will fancy a bigger challenge with more resources if he continues to prove himself. I can't see Leicester being that job though.

[FiNeRaIn]

Not sure about Long, pretty sure he wanted to leave...however sig absolutely did not want to leave at all, we could have kept hold of him and had no dissent at all from the player who would have been more than happy to keep improving with his friends and a manager he has a lot of time and respect for. However the club accepted an offer and made it clear to him they wanted him gone because it was a good price. Absolutely sickening transfer, doubly so as only a small fraction of that was invested into replacing our best player. Completely annoying transfer for both fans and the player, club were delighted.

[Royal Rother]

What ever. I feel for who ever manages us under the chairman's sell an asset as soon as he's worth anything policy. If I was McDermott I'd go for it, he's pissing in the wind here.

Just a couple from the windchanger...

WANTS - Madejski to carry on as he is. Talk of him not spending on the team is bollocks. If Gorkas comes in for this reported £900k, that's about £1.8m spent on him and Leigertwood alone in the last few months. That's a greater level of spending than before we won promotion to the PL. Add in J.Mills and that's probably £2m in total for those three.

Regarding Madejski, it really does make you appreciate how good he has been for us here and understand also why we haven't had a buyer come along yet. He'll be vetting everyone that shows a serious interest, and thank god he does.

[Royal Lady]

I believe McGhee did think twice, didn't he state he would stay and then changed his mind.

Only to get to go home and shut JM up if you believe him.

Thing about McGhee & Pardew is they didn't have the history at the club and were clearly very ambitious up and coming managers. McDermott seems more in Coppell's mold than Pardew or McGhee's. And as said, a lot of his ability is based on his knowledge of the club and players, which wasn't as much of the case with Pards or McGhee.

What do you consider to be "the history at the club"?

[Ian Royal]

Over 10 years continuous employment on the coaching / scouting staff.

[SpaceCruiser]

Wasn't Pardew the reserve team manager before he became the Reading manager - i.e. was with Bullivant...til Burns sacked him?

[Royal Lady]

Wasn't Pardew the reserve team manager before he became the Reading manager - i.e. was with Bullivant...til Burns sacked him?

Yep and he was a player for a while - if that isn't "history" with the club, I don't know what is. But Ian won't count it as "history" unless anyone has been here as long as Brian.

[Ian Royal]

Wasn't Pardew the reserve team manager before he became the Reading manager - i.e. was with Bullivant...til Burns sacked him?

Yep and he was a player for a while - if that isn't "history" with the club, I don't know what is. But Ian won't count it as "history" unless anyone has been here as long as Brian.

I didn't say they didn't have history, I said they didn't have "the history", as in the same degree of history. Time as a player is quite different to time on the scouting / couching team IMO and Pards, who'd been with us a while in that capacity (though not as long by any stretch) had also been sacked when we binned the reserves for a while.

The key thing is though, they're obviously quite different people. McGhee and Pards were clearly very ambitious and keen to progress as quickly and as far as possible, whereas McDermott is obviously far more in Coppell's style of humility and dedication.

If you want to get picky with stuff I say, you might want to try something a bit more clear cut and try and put together some sort of coherant argument, rather than make yourself look a bit petty and obsessed.