I was having a wee gander at our potential managers win records. I found this site which has the all time Prem League Manager win records, http://www.barriesview.com/all-time-premier-league-manager-statistics, it's a decent way to compare them all. I also tracked down most of their Championship Stats as well through Wikipedia.
Two seemingly unpopular choices first, that are high in the running
Roy Keane - 28% Prem - 43% Championship (Champions 2006-07)
Owen Coyle - 28% Prem - 38% Championship (Promoted)
Potentials that don't get much negativity
Malky McKay - 22% Prem - 40% Championship (Champions 2011-12)
Michael Laudrup - 27%
David Moyes - 41%
Ex Celtic managers
Martin O'Neill - 36%
Gordon Strachan - 30% Prem - 36% Championship
Tony Mowbray - 21% Prem - 43% Championship (Champions 2007-08)
A few other interesting names
Walter Smith - 29%
Paul Lambert - 29% Prem - 50% Championship
Chris Hughton - 26% - 54% Championship (Champions 2009-10)
Alex McLeish - 24%
My choice
Steve McLaren - 34% Prem - 47% Championship
Stats don't matter too much, but at the end of the day you have to be winning to be successful. Moyes is the standout, even if you remove the year at United he is around 37%. This puts him out of our league, as well as wages. Michael Laudrup is fairly low. He took over a decent team and won the League Cup, but 27% puts him below a host of others who managed worse teams. Roy Keane has a decent win record comparing the rest. He also won the Championship, along with Mowbray, McKay and Hughton. I like Hughton stats, great Championship record with 2 different teams and kept an average Norwich team up an extra year. I think he would have done the same again this year.
Regardless of who we pick, they are going to be a better, more experienced option than Neil Lennon was when he got the job and that turned out ok.
Manager Win Statistics
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A least Coyle can help develop younger players. He's definately not my option, but even he's better than Keane.
We should've gone for Clarke or McLaren, or both? A manager with a modicum of tactical knowledge or coaching ability.
What box does Keane tick as an upgrade to Lennon? A more volitile temper than the guy that lost his temper too much? Less tactical accumen than a guy that had never managed before? Better record in the transfes market? Or is it more down to his status as an ex-pro and where he's from?
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NNH, i'll see you stumbling upto parkhead one champions league night in November with a cheese burger hingin out yer mouth and a tri clour with Keanes face on it draped round you
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What box does Keane tick as an upgrade to Lennon? A more volitile temper than the guy that lost his temper too much? Less tactical accumen than a guy that had never managed before? Better record in the transfes market? Or is it more down to his status as an ex-pro and where he's from
That's so true it's frightening
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comment by NNH - Back in the land of cheese and burgers Aka, the land of Keny's conquests. (U10730)
posted 30 minutes ago
Not being funny I honestly believe if his name was John Smith he would never have been mentioned
And if Roy Keane wasn't Irish he wouldn't be considered
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Agreed mate, I'm not saying Keane is a good choice for you, just that garcia doesn't look up to much and is fancied because his name suggests attacking, tiki taka.
But he doesn't play that way.
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It could be Chicken Tikka Tandori for all i care mate, as long as it's not Keane
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tika-taka is boring as fook to watch