Warnock to leave if we get promotion?

It's been touted on BMB before but here is the man himself saying it might be a reality should we achieve promotion this season. If that does prove to be the case, I do hope he stays on in some capacity and what an opportunity that might be for a manager to take over a successful and settled side starting out in a top division:

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/865765/Cardiff-News-Neil-Warnock-quit-Bluebirds-EXCLUSIVE-Championship-promotion

Horses for courses and NW, like MM, is a Championship standard manager, albeit a superb one.

This is a strange article. It's not the eve of his first anniversary in charge - he was appointed in early October.

The main quotes are almost word-for-word what he told reporters at his press conference before the international break

I'd hope he would stay another year if we promotion, maybe working alongside his successor for a better transition period.

I don't know. NW doesn't like the culture of the PL, so I am not sure what he could offer to a successor if we were promoted.

It would be a convenient situation for all if he did retire on promotion, provided his successor had been identified in plenty of time.

However, if we don't go up, I am not sure whether he would want to go again, in which case his experience in ensuring that the club didn't regress would be invaluable.

Speculation regarding this is a tad premature.

My fear is around who we would appoint. It’s pretty difficult to find the next Pocchetino or Dyche!

Thinking about it, didn’t Warnock leave Palace a few months into the season after achieving promotion?

Surely the responsible thing for Warnock to do is to have proper succession plans. 

His number two should be the person to take over with a gradual increase in responsibilities over the season.

Recruitment from within the club would be better than an external candidate who will come and cause a big distruption to the culture of the club; just when we need some continuity.

That's just my view anyway.

Let’s not speculate on this, enjoy the season promotion or not. The PL is not all it’s cracked up to be. Championship football is far more entertaining in the fact nobody can guarantee who’ll get promotion or who’ll get relegated.

Cleve van Leef wrote:Let’s not speculate on this, enjoy the season promotion or not. The PL is not all it’s cracked up to be. Championship football is far more entertaining in the fact nobody can guarantee who’ll get promotion or who’ll get relegated.

It doesn't hurt to speculate. Even if we don't go up this season, the question will remain as to whether NW might retire anyway.

I agree about the PL. Last time was a harsh lesson learned and it has taken the club years to recover from it. If we went up this season, then that is probably time for new owners, new investment and a massively different approach.

The alternative of being a bigger fish in the Championship pond is not so bad.

I’d be quite happy, to be honest, being a bit of a yo-yo club. If we are prudent financially, the money gained from promotion to the Premier League would be enough to clear City’s debts if we get there and stay there or get back in the Prem regularly, as Burnley did for a couple of seasons before establishing themselves.

As for promoting from within, I like the idea but there is no-one at the club ready for a Managers position. Bellamy is better suited to his current role and there are plenty, like Rowlands (?) who are young and talented but have no experience of management at all. Jepson and Blackwell have tried but are more suited to being in the background. If we went up, I’d like us to have been looking from about Jan-Feb onwards, have Warnock involved and be sensible about it (ie no ex players just because they have a big reputation). There are good managers out there that were at small-ish clubs in the not so distant past, such as Dyche (Watford), Pochettino (Espanyol) and Marco Silva (Olympiakos) that would possibly have gone for us in the Prem

I've already submitted my Football Manager CV to Tan and I even embroidered it with a red dragon, just to give it that Welsh-Malaysian feel that I know he loves. Pretty confident of "sealing the deal" any day now...

Arkay Dubya wrote:I've already submitted my Football Manager CV to Tan and I even embroidered it with a red dragon, just to give it that Welsh-Malaysian feel that I know he loves. Pretty confident of "sealing the deal" any day now...

You’re confident of sealing the deal with Tan? What makes you think he wants to sleep with a monkey pimp?

Slimfrog's Son wrote:

Arkay Dubya wrote:I've already submitted my Football Manager CV to Tan and I even embroidered it with a red dragon, just to give it that Welsh-Malaysian feel that I know he loves. Pretty confident of "sealing the deal" any day now...

You’re confident of sealing the deal with Tan? What makes you think he wants to sleep with a monkey pimp?

Did you not read the bit about the embroidery??