It's the Stephen Kenny Thread

avfc wrote: DeclanDaly wrote: It’s a project and we can’t afford anyone else. Bed in, because Kenny is probably going to be here for a while unless something ridiculous happens   Lose in Belgrade, fail to beat Luxembourg and get tanked in Portugal and he's gone.   Covid has altered what salaries Football League managers can expect to get.   Our best ever manager was a proven Football League manager - this is the type of CV we should be looking to get.   Pay off Kenny and 500k will get you a very decent proven football league manager.   Exploiting the Granny rule to its fullest extent is absolutely key to this gig.

sausy wrote: would Pearson bring Peyton on board as GK coach?

I do not think that Nigel Pearson should be our manager.

Banjaxed wrote: avfc wrote: He's not on Trap/MON money, we can. But why is a manager from an amateur league on 500k? Madness.   Covid has changed salary expectations.   Ireland are paying a similar salary to comparable countries of size/success.  You can't just ignore the going rate within whatever industry. Does Kenny deserve to be paid ABOVE the going rate? No way. Hasn't earned that as yet. If you don't think somebody is worth the going rate (in any walk of life) then don't hire them.  You've made your mind up about Kenny already. Fair enough. Time will tell whether he was over paid... or under paid for that matter.

avfc wrote: Banjaxed wrote: avfc wrote: He's not on Trap/MON money, we can. But why is a manager from an amateur league on 500k? Madness.   Covid has changed salary expectations.   Ireland are paying a similar salary to comparable countries of size/success.  You can't just ignore the going rate within whatever industry. Does Kenny deserve to be paid ABOVE the going rate? No way. Hasn't earned that as yet. If you don't think somebody is worth the going rate (in any walk of life) then don't hire them.  You've made your mind up about Kenny already. Fair enough. Time will tell whether he was over paid... or under paid for that matter.     TBH - No human being should earn more than 100k.   There should be a maximum wage which should not be more than 10 times the minimum wage.

I'm not sure we should be going down the route of "proper football men"

Edited by Jimmy Raggatip - 21 Jan 2021 at 8:35pm

People quickly forgetting the impact Covid had on our squad for the majority of Kenny's games. Despite this, he stuck to the game plan and promoted youth rather than reverting to older players. On top of that, he clearly had a game plan and wanted to keep the ball. Didn't work but Jesus, lads, give him a chance for a full campaign.

I'm fairly neutral, if unconvinced, in terms of Kenny so far. But, as well as forgetting about our own Covid issues people seem to forget that for our most important match so far Slovakia were badly hampered by Covid, probably to a worse extent than we were, and we still couldn't beat them.

Edited by You Tell Me - 21 Jan 2021 at 9:07pm

Proper Football Man Neil Warnock is available lol