CONFIMRED - Veljko Paunović

[linkenholtroyal]

This Millsy character might be up there as one of the worst posters I have seen on the teamboard. I mean he will never quite get to Westwood's level but he is having a go.

You have to have ambition I spose.

[Westwood52]

This Millsy character might be up there as one of the worst posters I have seen on the teamboard. I mean he will never quite get to Westwood's level but he is having a go.

I'm much worse than Westwood, trust me.

You ain't seen nuffink yet.

Hmm and I thought I stood alone.Seems OMA has even more issues than initially diagnosed.

[TiagoIlori]

I’m really not convinced he’s the man either. Talksport and Jonathon Low doesn’t count as a source.

[Millsy]

Serious question - as we're now in the business of regressing roles, can we regress Bowen all the way back to left-back? We are short in that department.

We used to have player-managers, what about player-DOF?

[Hound]

Is there actually any substance in the rumours of Bowen moving upstairs other than a few local journos spaffing about on Twitter?

Bowen's done an OK job as manager and I think he's good for the club so actually seeing him move to a role with a bit more job security wouldn't be a to bad as long as we replaced him with someone with a bit of nous.

One thing for sure though, the level of clarity and communication from the club is appalling.

tbf, don't know why they should be giving us a running commentary of what they are doing. They gave the news about Howe.

Sure they'll announce it as soon as its all sorted.

[Lower West]

And I thought that the running of Watford was a joke..............

Seems as if we've Gomes Mk2 on the way.

[royalp-we]

Not a clue what’s happening. The local rags usually have a steer on what’s going on. Only going by the press that we are flying to Portugal, who knows if that’s actually happening

JLo now reporting that Paunovic will be manager with Quinton Fortune as assistant.

I’ll have everything with a huge pinch of salt please!

[andrew1957]

Surely this has to be a wind up. Firstly we were going to appoint one Serb I had never heard of and now we were going to appoint a different one I have never heard of whereas what we desperately need is a manager with experience of this league

This after appointing a Portuguese that none of us had heard of who turned out to be a nice bloke but a useless manager. Bowen steadied the ship so it looks like his prize is to get pushed back upstairs as he was far too successful.

If this bloke is appointed you can virtually guarantee we will start poorly yet again, then he will be sacked by Christmas and Bowen reappointed to save the day.

Fing shambles.

[Old Man Andrews]

Surely this has to be a wind up. Firstly we were going to appoint one Serb I had never heard of and now we were going to appoint a different one I have never heard of whereas what we desperately need is a manager with experience of this league

This after appointing a Portuguese that none of us had heard of who turned out to be a nice bloke but a useless manager. Bowen steadied the ship so it looks like his prize is to get pushed back upstairs as he was far too successful.

If this bloke is appointed you can virtually guarantee we will start poorly yet again, then he will be sacked by Christmas and Bowen reappointed to save the day.

Fing shambles.

You're not a fan of foreign people are you? You still have Brexit to fall back on pal.

[Millsy]

I did voluntary work in the Balkans and I can tell you that Serbians are really good at mass murdering, oops sorry I mean football. I think.

[strap]

Surely this has to be a wind up. Firstly we were going to appoint one Serb I had never heard of and now we were going to appoint a different one I have never heard of whereas what we desperately need is a manager with experience of this league

This after appointing a Portuguese that none of us had heard of who turned out to be a nice bloke but a useless manager. Bowen steadied the ship so it looks like his prize is to get pushed back upstairs as he was far too successful.

If this bloke is appointed you can virtually guarantee we will start poorly yet again, then he will be sacked by Christmas and Bowen reappointed to save the day.

Fing shambles.

You're not a fan of foreign people are you? You still have Brexit to fall back on pal.

Stupid left-win PC woke comment that bears no relationship to the point in question. I thought better of you.

[Old Man Andrews]

Surely this has to be a wind up. Firstly we were going to appoint one Serb I had never heard of and now we were going to appoint a different one I have never heard of whereas what we desperately need is a manager with experience of this league

This after appointing a Portuguese that none of us had heard of who turned out to be a nice bloke but a useless manager. Bowen steadied the ship so it looks like his prize is to get pushed back upstairs as he was far too successful.

If this bloke is appointed you can virtually guarantee we will start poorly yet again, then he will be sacked by Christmas and Bowen reappointed to save the day.

Fing shambles.

You're not a fan of foreign people are you? You still have Brexit to fall back on pal.

Stupid left-win PC woke comment that bears no relationship to the point in question. I thought better of you.

Why have you turned up again you lunatic? No shock to see you defending anti foreign comments.

[Snowflake Royal]

Surely this has to be a wind up. Firstly we were going to appoint one Serb I had never heard of and now we were going to appoint a different one I have never heard of whereas what we desperately need is a manager with experience of this league

This after appointing a Portuguese that none of us had heard of who turned out to be a nice bloke but a useless manager. Bowen steadied the ship so it looks like his prize is to get pushed back upstairs as he was far too successful.

If this bloke is appointed you can virtually guarantee we will start poorly yet again, then he will be sacked by Christmas and Bowen reappointed to save the day.

Fing shambles.

You're not a fan of foreign people are you? You still have Brexit to fall back on pal.

Stupid left-win PC woke comment that bears no relationship to the point in question. I thought better of you.

Have you not read any of his posts before then?

[Old Man Andrews]

You're not a fan of foreign people are you? You still have Brexit to fall back on pal.

Stupid left-win PC woke comment that bears no relationship to the point in question. I thought better of you.

Have you not read any of his posts before then?

Defending bigotted comments now Ian. There is no end to your talents........

[Snowflake Royal]

I'm defending nothing. I'm firmly on the offensive about the shite you consistently output.

[genome]

Surely this has to be a wind up. Firstly we were going to appoint one Serb I had never heard of and now we were going to appoint a different one I have never heard of whereas what we desperately need is a manager with experience of this league

This after appointing a Portuguese that none of us had heard of who turned out to be a nice bloke but a useless manager. Bowen steadied the ship so it looks like his prize is to get pushed back upstairs as he was far too successful.

If this bloke is appointed you can virtually guarantee we will start poorly yet again, then he will be sacked by Christmas and Bowen reappointed to save the day.

Fing shambles.

You're not a fan of foreign people are you? You still have Brexit to fall back on pal.

Stupid left-win PC woke comment that bears no relationship to the point in question. I thought better of you.

Does the phrase "left-wing PC woke comment" make anyone else cringe inside deeply?

It's on a par with "virtue signalling" in the reductive bullshit stakes

[Snowflake Royal]

You're not a fan of foreign people are you? You still have Brexit to fall back on pal.

Stupid left-win PC woke comment that bears no relationship to the point in question. I thought better of you.

Does the phrase "left-wing PC woke comment" make anyone else cringe inside deeply?

It's on a par with "virtue signalling" in the reductive bullshit stakes

I tend to find anyone complaining about left-wing wokeness is, at best, casually xenophobic.

Strap has a history of xenophobic rants on here.

[Sutekh]

Why haven’t the club learned from previous mistakes of appointing inexperienced but nice people to the manager’s job. Why are the club even considering changing MB for another guy who looks to have minimal knowledge of the English game and who has no record of anything other than winning the u-20 World Cup with the Serbia in 2015, but then the international arena is different to domestic club management. If a change was felt to be needed, why are the likes of Chris Hughton, Gareth Ainsworth, Eddie Howe seemingly not even being spoken to?

Then we’ve got the entire first team all jetting off to Portugal for a training camp despite the fact that there’s a cup fixture to be played which leaves a few u18 and u23 players to make up the side - or are they going to pop back to play the game?

And, even with the previous management team still being at the club, we’ve now got another manager who’ll want to look at each player and make his own decisions and no doubt the club will have yet another slow start and we’ll all be wondering if new bloke can make it to Xmas as manager.

For the record at least Вељко Пауновић (that’s Veljko Paunovic in the Cyrillic alphabet) does speak fluent English, works well to bring the best out of younger players, and he is a fan if the possession game (just hope it’s not the Jaap Stam possession experiment again though).

OK it all might work out well and Reading might suddenly click but given the previous track record is anyone rushing off to put that bet on promotion?

[Stranded]

Well if it is Paunovic - this makes for an interesting and relatively positive read:

https://twitter.com/BeesAnalytica/statu ... 4565533700

[Nameless]

Why haven’t the club learned from previous mistakes of appointing inexperienced but nice people to the manager’s job. Why are the club even considering changing MB for another guy who looks to have minimal knowledge of the English game and who has no record of anything other than winning the u-20 World Cup with the Serbia in 2015, but then the international arena is different to domestic club management. If a change was felt to be needed, why are the likes of Chris Hughton, Gareth Ainsworth, Eddie Howe seemingly not even being spoken to?

Then we’ve got the entire first team all jetting off to Portugal for a training camp despite the fact that there’s a cup fixture to be played which leaves a few u18 and u23 players to make up the side - or are they going to pop back to play the game?

And, even with the previous management team still being at the club, we’ve now got another manager who’ll want to look at each player and make his own decisions and no doubt the club will have yet another slow start and we’ll all be wondering if new bloke can make it to Xmas as manager.

For the record at least Вељко Пауновић (that’s Veljko Paunovic in the Cyrillic alphabet) does speak fluent English, works well to bring the best out of younger players, and he is a fan if the possession game (just hope it’s not the Jaap Stam possession experiment again though).

OK it all might work out well and Reading might suddenly click but given the previous track record is anyone rushing off to put that bet on promotion?

Most of that disappears if the job specs of the various people are correctly in place.
Assuming the new guy comes in as a first team coach type man, tasked with working with a group of players to deliver results. Training ground based, match focused etc etc.
Bowen is responsible for recruitment, scouting and everything that isn’t about the next 2 or 3 games. He has input into playing style, is the source of knowledge about the league, opposition, players etc etc.
The new guy works with what he has, he isn’t given the option to make huge changes to,the squad and the 6-8 players talked about are already lined up and waiting to come subject to confirmation of FFP status.
What happens to O’Shea and Eddie will be interesting and where Fortune comes from and fits in I don’t quite see.

It could make sense as long as it is what all parties have bought in to. I can’t see on what basis Bowen’s still here otherwise.

In terms of the names menti9ned, no way would Ainsworth quit Wycombe at this point, Howe would expect way too much money and Hughton would be looking for a PL job or a nailed on promotion contender. We’d be a gamble, which could work, but not short enough odds for someone wanting to work at the highest level.

Recruitment will be very interesting. 8 players seems a lot to be bringing in, I hope we are focusing on quality rather than quantity otherwise we may as well have kept Osho, Blackett etc.