New Manager-who Would We Get?

[Iain7_mfc]

 

I hate the wee bastard, Aberdeen fans didn't like him and i think he would be a disaster if he became the manager.

 

his record doesn't lie though!

[steelboy]

nijholt or mccallister for me now.

 

if we get luke he'll probably be able to get us in a few decent foriegn lads, maybe even someone along the lines of bauben at dundee united who was freed at ajax but is a decent player for the spl.

 

if we get gary mac it'll be a sign JB is willing to spend a bit of cash and he'll probably fund a couple of porter/hughes type signings.

 

either one of the two and a new faces will have us bouncing first day no matter what happens in europe.

[TheLip69]

Shockingly, if the dates are right, I have seen Motherwell play under every manager except George Stevenson and Sailor Hunter. I'm going to lie down.

[Kmcalpin]

Jim Gannon remains the outstanding name mentioned so far,

 

Certainly Mr Gannon is one of the favourites on this Board, although I doubt if he'll be anywhere near our wanted list for various reasons. Interestingly, he wasn't universally liked amongst the County support for his public comments and he had a very short fuse. A bit of a loose cannon.

[Kat]

Shockingly, if the dates are right, I have seen Motherwell play under every manager except George Stevenson and Sailor Hunter. I'm going to lie down.

 

 

Thats an amazing feat. Outwith Malpas who was the worst?

[weeyin]

Roger Hynd, if I was to guess.

[Yabba's Turd]

Shockingly, if the dates are right, I have seen Motherwell play under every manager except George Stevenson and Sailor Hunter. I'm going to lie down.

My old man's seen them all.

[Kmcalpin]

I see the Lip & Yabbas old man claim to have seen all our managers. I really hope thats not true.

 

They've seen P.B. MacDonald, Alex McIntyre and W.H. Barrie? Now I'm getting on in years but even my late father had never seen them and he began going to FP in the 1920s.

[Rickoza]

Nijholt speaks in the Herald.....

 

Terminator salvationMOTHERWELL: Luc Nijholt tells Stewart Fisher that he would love to return to Scottish football if the Fir Park club’s board can match his ambitionLUC NIJHOLT has urged Motherwell to get in touch with him regarding the vacant manager's job at the club. The Dutchman, who is still fondly remembered from his role in the club's 1991 Scottish Cup winning team, is out of work following a successful season as assistant manager to Co Adriaanse at Austrian champions Red Bull Salzburg and has emerged as an intriguing and credible candidate to replace Mark McGhee, who left for Aberdeen this week.

 

His competition for the role includes Gary McAllister, Derek Adams, Terry Butcher and Chris McCart but Nijholt has told the Sunday Herald he would be interested in a return to Scottish football - assuming, that is, that the Fir Park club's board can match his ambitions.

 

From his time as a youth coach at AZ Alkmaar, to a three-year stint as a manager in his own right at down-at-heel Dutch club Stromvogels/Telstar, Nijholt has prided himself on developing youngsters. But a little bit of cash for experienced players would help too. And with two other nameless clubs, neither of them Dutch, also interested in his services, Motherwell - already facing a July 2 start to their Europa League campaign - have another incentive to get things moving sooner rather than later.

 

"Absolutely it appeals to me to get back into working as a manager again," Nijholt said. "I have to think about it, but I definitely want to come back to Scotland one day. Whether it is this time or the next time I don't know yet. I need to speak to my UK agent this weekend and work out if I will apply. On the other side, Motherwell have my number because I applied two years ago for the job. They should have my number somewhere."It also depends what kind of future the club has," he added. "I am used to working with young players - all those I work with are always pleased and they always give me a lot of compliments - but it depends on what the club want to achieve."

 

For all the ifs, buts and maybes, the Dutchman's mind this week already seemed to be working out the logistics of the role. Nijholt kept his home in Holland during his season in Salzburg, but - save his 19-year-old son Gianluca, who is a youth team player at FC Utrecht - would have no problems uprooting the rest of his family should he end up in Scotland.

 

"The last time my family stayed in Holland, when I went to Austria, so that is key as well," Nijholt said. "They will be travelling as well if the club decides that it wants to take me."

 

Nijholt was a steely character during his playing days - YouTube footage exists of him inviting Roy Keane to have a square go during his time at Swindon - and a season in the presence of coaching royalty in the form of Adriaanse has clearly rubbed off on him.

 

That all came to an end when Adriaanse declined the Ajax and Alkmaar jobs to take a sabbatical from the game, but the 47-year-old Dutchman feels Motherwell would be landing a manager with the same belief in attacking football and a strong disciplinarian streak if they go down the foreign route.

 

"At the moment Co is on holiday,"

 

Niholt said. "He wants to have a wee break although whether it is a sabbatical or just a few months we don't know yet. But he told me before I started working with him that one or two years working with me then you go your own way' because he rated me quite highly and said that I had to be sure to move on to be a coach or a manager somewhere.

 

"We worked together at AZ when I was doing the youth policy there and we are quite similar.

 

We like attacking football and we are disciplined coaches. In terms of personality we are different, but as coaches we are similar. That is the reason why we have worked together twice already. This year we reached the championship so we managed to reach our targets."

 

Nijholt would be a popular, if somewhat left-field, choice among the Motherwell fans. In addition to his failed attempt at the job prior to the appointment of McGhee, he was back at Fir Park as recently as last summer to participate in the Phil O'Donnell tribute match. It was an emotional occasion, especially considering that O'Donnell named one of his sons Luke, at least partly in his team-mate's honour. He is reasonably up to speed with the club's playing staff and recent results, and his English is almost flawless.

 

"I played a part in an excellent team and an excellent squad, we were a lot of friends together," Nijholt recalled. "And of course, the biggest prize we won was the Scottish Cup in 1991. I am always keen to watch how Motherwell are doing. They didn't start that well this season but they finished very well."

 

The only downside of Nijholt's CV is the fact that he has only spent three years outright as a manager, during which he narrowly missed the Eredivisie play-offs during his time at Stromvogels/Telstar. "It was one of the poorest clubs in Holland," he explained. "We had to work with young players, and although we played some lovely football, we needed just a little but more money to spend. But it was still a good experience. I picked a small club because I wanted the experience of being a manager. I could just have signed another contract there but I decided to move on, because three years was a long time for me."

 

Nijholt's fiery playing style at Fir Park earned him the nickname The Terminator'. He might just be the man to end their search for a new coach.

[Well-Made]

That story is so good it had to be posted twice.

 

From yesterday.

[johnstone]

Christ, give the man the job!

 

If we end up with some old school Scot, when we could get a young dynamic Dutch coach who insists youth is the way forward then its curtains for the well!

[Motherwell Seagull]

Certainly Mr Gannon is one of the favourites on this Board, although I doubt if he'll be anywhere near our wanted list for various reasons. Interestingly, he wasn't universally liked amongst the County support for his public comments and he had a very short fuse. A bit of a loose cannon.

 

As Irish says, Gannon has certainly done the business on the pitch - but if County supporters are to be believed, his wages were roughly double that of McGhee (when he left us). If true, we will not be able to afford him, or his fancy suits!

[well-army]

The sun has Mcallister down as being interested.

 

 

 

Sun Clicky

[Steve Diggle]

You could always get Luc in with an Alex Smith / Tommy McLean type figure while developing Craigan in the wings.

 

The Calderwood, Jeffries, Williamson scenario just isn't cutting it for me.

 

Although they've achieved moderate 'success' it's at a cost - to the detrement of the football on show.

 

I'd like us to at least make an attempt to play football / develop youth otherwise we might as well shut up shop and go play junior football (like Killie (the poor mans Auchinleck Talbot try to do).

 

I'd much rather we had a fucking go at it than sit back and attemp to grind out draws to survive.

 

Cmon the Well

[Tartan_Special]

At first I originally wanted Leech to succeed Mutley, then flirted with the thought of either Lambert or McCallister, but the more this goes on the more I am swaying towards Nijholt.

Having someone who has worked along side the likes of Co Adriansse <spelling> available for free would be stupid not to snap him up and a risk worth taking.

[MelvinBragg]

As Irish says, Gannon has certainly done the business on the pitch - but if County supporters are to be believed, his wages were roughly double that of McGhee (when he left us). If true, we will not be able to afford him, or his fancy suits!

My understanding is that Gannon might be out of the running. As soon as the takeover at Stockport happens, he can have his job back is what I've heard...

[andybug]

Is Glenn Hoddle out our league?

Think the poll should be restarted with the updates made to recent events ie Hughes, Leitch , McCallister etc etc

[Leroy Trusco]

Is Glenn Hoddle out our league?

Think the poll should be restarted with the updates made to recent events ie Hughes, Leitch , McCallister etc etc

 

 

Not only out of our league but out his bloody mind!

[MelvinBragg]

Think the poll should be restarted with the updates made to recent events ie Hughes, Leitch , McCallister etc etc

While I reckon folk might object, you have a point. There are probably a few Nijholt voters who have switched allegiances to McAllister given he's expressed an interest (how many of the A.N. Other votes are actually Gary Mac votes?). It would also be interesting to see where the Scott Leitch and John Hughes votes would now go. I hve a feeling it might not be quite so cut and dreid for Nijholt now.

 

As I've said to others, I reckon all it will tell us is how the web-enabled Well fans are feeling. I reckon we'll probably find ourselves with a manager whose name hasn't even featured on this thread, a figure right out of leftfield...

[Infamous Wee Grafter]

I heard we made an enquiry for Willie McStay but he was getting paid mare money at Celtic. He's now off to Hungary to manage some Celtic feeder club.

[Mourin-Hoe]

I will support Airdrie if Adams is named manager.................

[swordfish]

I will support Airdrie if Adams is named manager.................

 

OK bye then! You'll fit in nicely with that crowd with thinking like that.

[Welltastic]

My tuppence worth is McAllister as Manager with Luc Niholt as Asst Manager. That way we have the potential for a line of succession should McAllister be successful as well as allow Niholt to develop the youngsters into their full potential/build relationships with squad if he in turn takes over the hotseat .

[MelvinBragg]

I'm just wondering what sort of time frame John Boyle is working on. With talk of interim managers, is it going to be weeks? Given the work needing done on the squad, I was hoping it would be sooner. Or is the new guy going to be here but simply have a watching brief for the first couple of games...?

[Mourin-Hoe]

OK bye then! You'll fit in nicely with that crowd with thinking like that.

 

 

Ive played aginst Adams, ive played against a team managedby Adams and trust me if thats what were wanting to take us forward we will get nowhere!