Win percentage is certainly a good starting point, but one must dig deeper to gain greater clarity.
Take Ince as an example. The overall win percentage might be good, but there are a few immediate asterisks: he has had five jobs in less than seven years and hasn't stayed in a single job for more than a year; his win percentage comes down to 34.7% when you count L1+ games; he quit MK Dons on the grounds of lack of money; his career has regressed since 2008.
I can. Too many people on here seem to only want to consider big names that have been sacked at least once before.
Morrell has a 62 per cent win rate, according to Soccerbase.
Win percentage is certainly a good starting point, but one must dig deeper to gain greater clarity.
Take Ince as an example. The overall win percentage might be good, but there are a few immediate asterisks: he has had five jobs in less than seven years and hasn't stayed in a single job for more than a year; his win percentage comes down to 34.7% when you count L1+ games; he quit MK Dons on the grounds of lack of money; his career has regressed since 2008.
Not necessarily according to Waggott, quoted in the CT.
Asked if, given City’s current financial situation, it would look to avoid going down that route [going for a manager currently in a job], Waggott said: “It’s a good question and the answer is that if it was deemed to be that the person who was the absolute stand-out candidate and it involved some sort of money – but it couldn’t be what I would call a huge or significant compensation because that’s not where we’re at and there would have to be careful consideration given to that – it may be that a bit of a short-term hit in terms of finance could mean a long-term goal achieved by the club.
“You have to keep it on context. This season is a big one for us. We’re trundling through cups and everything else but the league is what we are really focused on and we all know the figures which could mean an uplift of £4-5million on promotion in terms of income.
"So we would have to consider that if there was to be an approach to someone involving compensation.”
I can't see us going for someone who will need compo either, only one I can think of who we had to pay for in the last 10-15 years was Boothroyd.
Hope we don't for a Phil Brown type, as basically that is what we have always done (When not promoting from within) since being relegated. Managers who have had their success stories already and managed to get a team into the Premiership.
Would prefere someone on a upward rather than downward trajectory.