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What now
Leicester City ?
THE
CUNNING FOX - LEICESTER CITY WEBZINE - 22.06.2008
Milan
Mandaric appointed his 6th manager of Leicester City last week,
just one and
a half year after taking over the club. The 6th man in is
former Southampton manager Nigel Pearson. What type of manager
will the club get now ?
Nigel
Pearson has most of his life been an assistant, and that
is not a bad thing, but will he be able to stear a club like
Leicester City out of the problems they are in.
Pearson has a good reputation in the game and he has been with
major clubs such as Newcastle, WBA and Southampton.
But the questions are many ?
TCF wonders
1. What type of football would you like to play ?
2. What type of system would you like to build your winning
formula on ?
3. How will you build up your squad of players and what areas
must be strengthened ?
4. What do you know about City's current squad ?
1. Who will replace Gareth McAuley ?
2. Will there be money available to strengthen the team ?
3. Do we have to sell to buy ?
There are a lot to find out and hopefully City's pre-season
games will give a few answers to what we are wondering about.
TCF believe that the clue to get straight back up is to keep
most of the best players from last season. The loss of Gareth
McAuley is massive and if City decide to sell Mattock they will
have trouble finding the right players to take over.
City went down with a total of 52 points, and the best defence
in the league, the problem was to score enough goals.
Nigel Pearson, a former central defender, what does he know
about offensive football and how will he manage to get City of
in a winning way ?
Pearson played for Shrewsbury, Sheffield Wednesday and
Middlesbrough. During his years at those clubs he was learning
his trade from guys such as Graham Turner, Chic Bates, Howard
Wilkinson, Ron Atkinson, Trevor Francis and Bryan Robson.
Pearson won the League Cup with Sheffield Wednesday in 1991, but
had to see the 1992 Leauge Cup final and FA Cup final from the
stands after breaking a leg in the League Cup semi-final.
Pearson played in the 1997 League Cup final for Middlesbrough
against Leicester, and he helped Middlesbrough winning promotion
twice from the Championship.
As a manager he was in charge of Carlisle United in the 98-99
season when they remarkably managed to stay up after a goal
scored from on loan goalkeeper Jimmy Glass.
He resigned as manager of Carlisle in 99 and joined former City
manager Gary Megson at Stoke, and was part of Megson's first
team coaching staff. Pearson stayed at Stoke until 2001.
Pearson joined WBA and was both assistant and caretaker manager
at the Hawthorns. After that he was assistant manager at
Newcastle and also a caretaker between the time Sam Allardyce
was sacked and Kevin Keegan appointed.
Pearson moved on and was appointed manager at Southampton in January 2008.
Milan Mandaric has a guy in charge now, that at the age of 45
will get his first real major chance as a manager, since his
periods as manager of Carlisle and Southampton just lasted a few
months.
TCF and other City fans just have to wait and see what will
happen, and hope that Pearson is the right man for the job.
The good thing about Pearson is that City fans have not judged
him and will give him time, as City fans have done with most of
the men that has come in after Martin O'Neill eight years ago.
Good luck to Nigel Pearson, he needs that !
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