He wishes it said City and not Rovers
“Former Leeds United Coach” is doing some heavy lifting there.
Is Chippy ITK on who’s ITK now? Jury’s outThey are guessing from other posts and general social media leaks, the same as anyone could do.
EC Yellow used to be a prime source of info on transfers in particular, but since certain personnel left that hasn‘t been the case. The other day EC said anything on the subject was just their own view with no evidence to back it up.
Tatabanya had one piece of info re Rodrigues which may or may not have been genuine inside info but nothing else credible on any other transfer. If they genuinely know something then they should elaborate and not give the oddor similar reply to make out they know something. We could all do that and pretend to be ITK. Your bound to be right on occasions, based on the law of averages.
Current Skybet odds have LM as 2nd favourite, most of that is from reading Forum threads as was the Ox Mail’s article the other day. It’s not to say LM may not go to BC, he could well be in the frame, but if it was absolutely certain right now then no odds would be offered on him by any bookmaker.
I hope any rumours are wrong as he’s doing a great job here, but realistically any club at a higher level would be taking a real punt on someone with one good season at MK and about a dozen really decent performances from Oxford in about 30 games here.
I hope he stays with us for a long time as those decent performances are becoming more consistent, and he is building a great team here on and off the pitch, and longer term we could actually be a better proposition than BC in a few years time if the backing of our club from the owners remains in place and continues to increase.
So, is LM off?
I don’t know, if I had to predict from what I know then I reckon we might be ok. But the posts that suggested that there is nothing in it, or that no Championship club wouldn’t be interested before the reports came out, were and are wide of the mark.
What was the adage? Something about having a lettuce in the fridge that lasted longer.
Thanks. I agree with your comments about managers.They should be held under the same rules, unless they leave under a mutual agreement. In which case they cannot move into a new managerial role until the season ends.
and wasn't on jury duty!
I didn't hear anyone calling for this 8 months ago... Be careful what you wish for.
Not necessarily
Ignoring the fact you can't do the same with managers as you do with players (you don't transfer players as such, you transfer their playing registration), all that would happen in real terms would be that, taking BC and Manning as an example, BC sack their manager in late October, they reach an agreement with Manning to take over in January if he is the preferred target, and given that knowledge what incentive is there for OUFC to hold onto him until January and the window opens? We would be better off moving him on, getting in our new manager and giving him a month to assess then the transfer window to adjust.
I don’t think his experience at MK will have helped our chances of keeping hold of him as well. I hope he sticks around for a bit longer and holds out for a club with a chance of achieving something.
Would you be surprised if he sees the season out at Oxford United?
