Then who?

Howe might give us a go, depends if he's getting the right financial backing at Bournemouth, he might decide he's taken them as far as he can?

comment by True Blue (U9486)
posted 17 minutes ago
Howe might give us a go, depends if he's getting the right financial backing at Bournemouth, he might decide he's taken them as far as he can?
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He hasn't just yet but Bournemouth are in freefall and heading back to the Championship unless their form improves. Going on last season they could be in real trouble.

If we stay up and they go down there is a possibility of Howe. But I agree with one of the earlier comments about being a little less trigger happy on him, I think the course of the season for Bournemouth will show more of his mettle or not.

There is also the argument that he has gone as far as he can as a manager in terms of his own capabilities at this present moment.

If we want to stick to the same style/formation/type of personnel that we reverted to against Liverpool, we need a manager who will come in and go with this ethos and that is a delicate decision. If we approach a new manager who wants to instil new ideas (this would be easier to find), then we need to invest hugely again in key areas, continue to play the same formation and style and then look to adapt it with the provision of more quality/PL experienced players who are...well...more adaptable than ours (this part is tricker).

Either way, it is a difficult one, because we aren't in a position where our current strategy and ethos has failed, but rather where we have changed that in order to improve for the future, failed, and reverted back to something which (hopefully) appears to perhaps be able to work again. Building on success is harder than changing after failure....but we know that already...

I think we should just forget about evolving and continue to sign players who will suit this style but with more quality.

This works and while teams will know how we play and try to stop us, as long as we do our job to the letter we will be too much for a lot or teams. Atletico Madrid play in the counter and they do alright so why change something that ain't broke?

I think this is the safest approach for the foreseeable.
I also actively promote commentators saying we play counter attack from 'the back' as it can only aid this misperception.

Unfortunately, if we do continue to revert to our Liverpool-match tactics, I think the removal of and reversion to this strategy may have highlighted to opponents what it actually was that made us so successful and therefore may ring alarm bells for the opposition managers.

My only hope is that commentators like, during the Liverpool match, continue to say 'that's exactly what made them successfully last season' - just after we have hoofed a ball up to Vardy to flick on for Okazaki ...!

Just a little thought, thinking out of the box, how about offering a position of assistant manager to Cambiaso, assisting Shakespeare with the first team but responsible for the development squad then in a couple of years or so promotion to manager, bringing in the players he has schooled.
It was after all Cambiaso who came up with this system of play.
I know there are problems that will need to be overcome - but just a thought
I will put my Tin Hat on now

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If you wanted someone versed in the basics, Harry Redknapp played a nice version of your 4411 from 2009-11. He is a huge character who manages ego in others quite well, andnis hands-off on training (if Shakespeare was to stay)

Leftfield choice, but I would have him above Hodgson. Although it is not saying much

Well, we our views on Hodgson range from being underwhelmed to abject horror. I'm more toward the former than the latter buy he's hardly an exciting, inspiring choice.

A lot of Leicester fans have something against Redknapp for reasons that I can't quite put my finger on. It seems to go back to when he was being rumoured with a move here when we were in the Championship and the fans wanted to stick with Pearson. (Rightly, it proved.)
I've always been more of a fan myself, although with two major caveats: He is a bit "dodgy", and has a propensity to spend a club dry. The fear would be that the owners could back him too much and fill the squad with expensive rubbish. I think ultimately it probably boils down to the same thing as Hodgson in that he's yesterday's man.

I still think Redknapp would have made a fine England manager though. (Providing the press couldn't nail him for anything.)

Zero chance of it happening, but I would prefer him to Hodgson all day long. It was a reponse to someone wishing after someone who sets teams up to play a similar way to how you do.

Harry is a little more gung ho than Ranieri, but he loved a 4411 or a 442.