Looking at Watford what a cracking job Nigel Pearson has done there

You can't deny he's had a number of decent achievements as a manager, but I'm a lot less impressed with him as a manager than some people are.

The one he's always credited with is Leicester's great escape a few seasons ago. Impressive turnaround though that was, he didn't, as is often misremembered, come in and rescue them - it was him that had led them into that predicament in the first place.

I'd actually say keeping Watford up would be more of an achievement for him than Leicester as he has only joined them when they were adrift at the bottom. There again, as someone mentioned above, they have a squad of players who really ought not to be down at that end of the table. And is he going to keep them up? If I had to place bets on it, I'd go for neither Bournemouth nor Villa getting the points to overtake Watford. Whatever happens, Pearson has certainly lost that initial new manager bounce that got them out of the bottom 3.

As a firefighter type manager, he may have some virtues but looking at his whole managerial career there's a lot more I wouldn't fancy if I was looking for a manager.
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
He is a manager who puts together a team for promotion and then is able to keep them in the premier League. He isn't a firefighter.
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Yes, fair enough, he's done that when he took Leicester up. He was given a lot to spend, however, and they certainly bent the FFP rules that season. Fair achievement still, although he has never replicated that elsewhere.

He did keep them up in their first season back. Some might argue the squad of players he had should never have been in any danger of going down, mind. Indeed, his successor seemed to get a lot more of out a not massively changed squad the following season.

I get why some people like him as a manager but for me there are far too many negatives outweighing the positives when you look at the overall picture. I also think he's left too many of his longer term jobs in rather dubious circumstances.
 
I had a look at both swansea and Leicester messageboards when we had a choice of Pearson and monk.

The Swansea fans were overwhelmingly negative about monk. They felt he engineered his way into the job, got a decent finish on the back of laudrup and Rodgers players, then started the process of their terminal decline.

Leicester fans on the other hand were almost universal in their praise of Pearson. He had got them through two promotions from league one kept them in the prem, and had put in place a firm structure at the club. They did not see him as someone who had spent shitloads of cash to get a good championship team into the prem but as someone who had rebuilt the entire club from being in the doldrums in league one, flirting with bankruptcy to being a club that was three signings away from winning the title.

To have turned down Pearson for the job twice is just damn silly. Especially when he now has Shakespeare in tow. We could not attract a better manager.
 
No surprise that you can find lots of people on Leicester fan forums praising Pearson. But that's not the only club he's managed. Also, there are Leicester fans who see him differently.

When we were considering him and Monk, his most recent job had been at Derby. That was a complete disaster. I used to work in the Derby area and what I heard from a couple of mates I'm still in touch with, who know people working at the club then, was that Pearson was widely regarded as a bit of an unhinged nutter who would completely lose it whenever he didn't get his way.

Whatever, in the 4 and half years between being sacked by Leicester in summer 2015 and him taking up the job at Watford all that's on his CV is a disastrous few months at Derby and a curious stint at a Belgian 2nd tier club who eventually sacked him.

If he's the managerial genius some think he is, you'd expect a much more impressive record in that time.
 
Juan-sheet said:
He’s just been sacked 🥴
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Ilsan_Boro said:
You can't deny he's had a number of decent achievements as a manager, but I'm a lot less impressed with him as a manager than some people are.

The one he's always credited with is Leicester's great escape a few seasons ago. Impressive turnaround though that was, he didn't, as is often misremembered, come in and rescue them - it was him that had led them into that predicament in the first place.

I'd actually say keeping Watford up would be more of an achievement for him than Leicester as he has only joined them when they were adrift at the bottom. There again, as someone mentioned above, they have a squad of players who really ought not to be down at that end of the table. And is he going to keep them up? If I had to place bets on it, I'd go for neither Bournemouth nor Villa getting the points to overtake Watford. Whatever happens, Pearson has certainly lost that initial new manager bounce that got them out of the bottom 3.

As a firefighter type manager, he may have some virtues but looking at his whole managerial career there's a lot more I wouldn't fancy if I was looking for a manager.
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My number one choice. He done his as a fire fighter at Carlisle and he was as on the coaching staff at West Brom achieving the great escape.
 
Its clear someone at Watford gets a kick out of sacking managers.
As much as Warnock seems to have steadied the ship, We have to think of the longer term future. Go for him. We could get 5 years + out of Pearson. NW is a one year stand in at best.
And the way timings work its very unlikely NP will be available in one year or 2 or maybe never.

Be brave Gibson
 
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