Chris Coleman? I know it didn' work out for him at Sundeland but the Job he did for Wales was Incredible
Sunderland was a cursed club, there was only ever going to be one result there for any manager. I’d be okay with him coming here, but there are masses of people I’d prefer. I still feel like he lacks experience, and would be a bit of a gamble, when what we really need now is a safe pair of hands.
I would take Coleman 100%, the job he did with Wales was great. Yes he had Bale which clearly helped, but there was more to that team than just Bale. Coleman had to organise the team and yes Bale scored most of the goals and took the majority of the headlines but he also got them very well organised at the back, they had great team spirit in the squad and most importantly he got the very best out of a largely average bunch of players. He made Hal Robson-Kanu look like a top player in that side. And the defence which was mainly made up of Championship and lower end Premier League players did brilliantly. He clearly showed in his time at Wales he was a good man manager as obviously in International management you can't just go out and buy a new player if one is not working for you. I think he would be a great appointment but not sure if he would come here.
That's unfair. He didn't do the job of all the eleven in the team. Coleman found a keeper who did his job, guys who could make the job Bale does easier and got a group not full of big names to overachieve. He'd do a good job for us, away from the last toxic club he managed, where he was always going to fail.
But would Coleman (or may others for that matter) have us? Managers have ego's too remember and we're now well and truly back to being "little old Barnsley!"
I dare say if Monk had come to us in February (purely hypothetical of course) we'd still be in the Championship right now. Not that I think he's a genius or anything, just that he would have probably kept us up.
No idea why people are saying he’s useless at club level after the job he did at Fulham, maybe they can’t remember that far back. He’s probably like most managers & plenty of players, do well at some clubs & bad at others. There’s no set formula, there’s very few who are successful everywhere they go. Simon Grayson’s getting a bit of stick & his reputations gone down because of his last 2 jobs but before that he had a superb record, I don’t think he’s turned into a bad manager overnight it’s just some appointments work & some don’t.