Manager Suggestion Liam Manning

[Fjortoft's Aeroplane]

Any chance we could poach Liam Manning from Bristol City?They're playing quality football like we haven't seen in a long time.

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

Steve cooper for me

 

[FTPE]

To play in midfield? Knocking on a bit.

 

[MayorOJC]

Steve cooper for me

I like Cooper from a tactical perspective, but he's an absolute money spaffer. Crap in transfer windows.

 

[NewyorkBlade]

Nope I think it will still be a blades linked appointment so I'll sling this name into the mix ROBERT PAGE

 

[TJ blade]

Nope I think it will still be a blades linked appointment so I'll sling this name into the mix ROBERT PAGE

Montgomery... got be he's a blade, and full of pashun

 

[Upton_Blade]

Nope I think it will still be a blades linked appointment so I'll sling this name into the mix ROBERT PAGE

New owners will mean new ideas hopefully.

That being said I really hope they don't go for a "name" appointment like Steven Gerrard for example.

 

[Yogi]

I like Cooper from a tactical perspective, but he's an absolute money spaffer. Crap in transfer windows.

Only at Forest he didn’t spaff the cash at Swansea did he thought he was on a tight budget using his England connections to bring in good loans.

 

[Fjortoft's Aeroplane]

Manning's record so far:
2020 & 2021 Lommel:..... 30 games win rate 46.67%
2021 & 2022 MK Dons.....83 games win rate 48.19%
2023 Oxford United......... 29 games win rate 48.28%
2023-2025 Bristol City..... 79 games win rate 35.44%

Bristol City are currently 2 places behind us with a squad value of approx £40 million and really deserved a win when they came to Bramall Lane playing some very attractive football.

 

[Frank the tank]

Manning's record so far:
2020 & 2021 Lommel:..... 30 games win rate 46.67%
2021 & 2022 MK Dons.....83 games win rate 48.19%
2023 Oxford United......... 29 games win rate 48.28%
2023-2025 Bristol City..... 79 games win rate 35.44%

Bristol City are currently 2 places behind us with a squad value of approx £40 million and really deserved a win when they came to Bramall Lane playing some very attractive football.

How did they deserve a win.?

 

[Slug]

Manning's record so far:
2020 & 2021 Lommel:..... 30 games win rate 46.67%
2021 & 2022 MK Dons.....83 games win rate 48.19%
2023 Oxford United......... 29 games win rate 48.28%
2023-2025 Bristol City..... 79 games win rate 35.44%

Bristol City are currently 2 places behind us with a squad value of approx £40 million and really deserved a win when they came to Bramall Lane playing some very attractive football.

May have managed Vini at Lommel then? (Not that he will be here next season anyway!)

 

[Overthehills]

AI will be used to recruit the next manager…

Welcome to BDTBL Hwang Sun-hong, former manager of South Korean (K league 1) club Daejeon Hana Citizen.

 

[Torrix1889]

I like Cooper from a tactical perspective, but he's an absolute money spaffer. Crap in transfer windows.

I don't think Cooper had much of a say in the transfer dealings at Florist

 

[bibbity bobbity boo]

May have managed Vini at Lommel then? (Not that he will be here next season anyway!)

I think he was the manager that signed him for Lommel.

 

[Fjortoft's Aeroplane]

How did they deserve a win.?

They bossed the game playing some really slick football and were denied a goal by one of the saves of the season.
They had 60% possession away from home and 23 shots to our 13. We'd not have any grounds to complain if we had lost that game.

 

[Shadota]

If we end up in the market for a new manager in the summer, he's my absolute first choice. Really has them playing tidy football, only being let down by the lack of a proper goal threat to front. I reckon he could put something really special together with the squad we've got, even with the probable loss of a few in the summer.

 

[Blade56]

If we end up in the market for a new manager in the summer, he's my absolute first choice. Really has them playing tidy football, only being let down by the lack of a proper goal threat to front. I reckon he could put something really special together with the squad we've got, even with the probable loss of a few in the summer.

Agree he would.

We need to lose a few players int summer and Wilder. He’s got good players ingrained with slow football and that needs to change.

Problem is who makes that decision? New owners are Yanks and showed their naivety extending Wilder. The won’t know who Manning is as much as I don’t know the head coach of Miami Dolphins.

 

[Russ]

More chance of their Bernard joining us.

 

[Nick Jansky]

Agree he would.

We need to lose a few players int summer and Wilder. He’s got good players ingrained with slow football and that needs to change.

Problem is who makes that decision? New owners are Yanks and showed their naivety extending Wilder. The won’t know who Manning is as much as I don’t know the head coach of Miami Dolphins.

The people who are advising the owners will know exactly who Liam Manning is.

 

[Withington Blade]

I don't think Cooper had much of a say in the transfer dealings at Florist

It looked a scatter gun approach. There were some poor signings and some decent ones. As you say, how much involvement Cooper had in the transfer dealings is open to debate. From the tone of his interviews at the time, not much I’d guess. Apparently he was adamant that he wanted MGW though, and they got a load of flak for spending £40m on him but they’ll get a good return on that fee if they sell home this summer.

 

[CaptainMorgans]

It looked a scatter gun approach. There were some poor signings and some decent ones. As you say, how much involvement Cooper had in the transfer dealings is open to debate. From the tone of his interviews at the time, not much I’d guess. Apparently he was adamant that he wanted MGW though, and they got a load of flak for spending £40m on him but they’ll get a good return on that fee if they sell home this summer.

Man City bound allegedly. I wouldn't be surprised that fee is north of £75m.

We were incredibly blessed to have him. I'm in a minority that thought his ceiling was higher than Ndiaye's (though I enjoyed watching the latter more).

 

[MayorOJC]

Don't really rate his Leicester transfers either. £20m for Skipp? £5m for a 32 year old Jordan Ayew?

 

[jono_t2000]

Man City bound allegedly. I wouldn't be surprised that fee is north of £75m.

We were incredibly blessed to have him. I'm in a minority that thought his ceiling was higher than Ndiaye's (though I enjoyed watching the latter more).

Just imagine how silly Wolves fans must feel.

Many saying he would never be good enough to break into their first team.

 

[robbiez666]

I know one of our directors knows what it takes to be a good leader, so I'm expecting our next manager to be

 

[Blade56]

I know one of our directors knows what it takes to be a good leader, so I'm expecting our next manager to be View attachment 209016

A gimp?

 

[jimmymuir]

Want Wilder to stay regardless. If the worst did happen and he did depart, it has to be Dyche or Cooper.

 

[Nick Jansky]

Manning is now apparently on Leicester’s radar.

 

[Shadota]

Just decided to have a nosy at Manning's record thus far as a manager. It's very impressive reading, despite not being at the highest of levels.

All following data obtained via Transfermarkt

Lommel SK - Jul 10, 2020 - Aug 12, 2021 - 28 games - 1.61 ppg (points per game)
MK Dons - Aug 13, 2021 - Dec 11, 2022 - 83 games - 1.65 ppg
Oxford Utd - Mar 13, 2023 - Nov 6, 2023 - 29 games - 1.69 ppg
Bristol C - Nov 7, 2023 - present - 80 games - 1.36 ppg

His overall managerial record is:

Matches: 224
Wins: 96
Draws: 55*
Losses: 73

Win rate: 42.86%

*Note that cup fixtures decided in extra time/on penalties have been interpreted as a draw for the sake of the above figures, so as to be equivalent to league fixtures in establishing a final result after 90mins+ stoppages.

His overall performance would likely be higher, but for the performance of MK Dons in the 2022/23 season. For context, in 2021/22, he had a side in League One featuring Jamie Cumming (now at Oxford), Harry Darling (Swansea), Matt O'Riley (Brighton), Scott Twine (now reunited with Manning at Bristol City), and perhaps most notably, Troy Parrott (now banging goals in for AZ Alkmaar in the Eredivisie). Of those, only Cumming remained for the 22/23 campaign, and the team suffered awfully as a result of the players lost, especially Twine, who was their star player. They were not able to bring in enough quality to replace that which departed, and Manning was dismissed in December, with the team 22nd in the table in League One (20th place being safety, as 4 are relegated to League 2).

Dons ultimately finished that season in.... 21st place. Still relegated, but only on the final day. A win for Cambridge over Forest Green, combined with MK's draw vs Burton, meant they finished a point from safety, and 2 points behind Manning's new club, Oxford United.

Overall he has done at least reasonably well, everywhere he has been. Some seasons have been more successful than others, but I'd imagine the list of managers with no failures on their CV is incredibly short (If not non-existent). Has a good philosophy about the game from what I can tell, and in the cases of the 3 English teams he's managed, has been able to coach them into position for potential promotion (Lost in play-off semi finals with MK Dons vs Wycombe in 21/22; Oxford won the League 1 play-offs in 23/24 after his departure, though they were 2nd in the table when he left for the BC job; obviously now has Bristol C in the playoffs vs us).

I've already said before that I'd like to see a managerial change in the summer, regardless of which division we're playing in. Manning is one for me whom would be very capable of expanding on the strong base we have in our squad already, either to have another crack at automatic promotion from the Championship, or to give the Premier League a real good crack, rather than succumbing meekly like we did last season.

 

[BlairBlade]

Isn’t there a highly regarded young German manager who might be, available soon and, interested in taking on a new challenge?

 

[FTPE]

Isn’t there a highly regarded young German manager who might be, available soon and, interested in taking on a new challenge?

Why would Bristol want Rohl?