I have it on good authority from somebody who used to work at the club that Holloway was offered to Walsall before MOC was appointed and we declined his services.
Whether that was due to timing I don’t know but I can’t see it happening for that reason.
Bonser is currently hiding under a desk in a darkened room, fingers in ears, muttering “please go away, please go away…wake up Jeff its not real…WAKE UP JEFF ITS NOT REAL”.
Get him in! Post match interviews would be far more interesting as well. Who can forget his classic “Right now, everything is going wrong for me - if I fell in a barrel of boobs, I’d come out sucking my thumb!”
This would be the most interesting thing to have happened to Walsall in recent history, but as Belphegor says " You want HOW much?"
“Like interested parties trying to buy the club, you don’t fit our criteria”
Pie in the sky dreams, Bonser will never go for anyone that questions his authority!
I wonder who initiated the contact with the Express and Star? If it was his agent (as opposed to the E&S approaching him) I’d be inclined to suggest this is more of a PR stunt to throw his hat into the ring for other jobs (Plymouth)
The reaction on social media suggests that the current malaise and despondency surrounding the club can be somewhat rectified with the right appointment - get it right please WFC.
Irrelevant of whether he would come or not, it says an awful lot about this club if they don’t speak to him at all.
A manager with the profile of Ian Holloway links himself with the Walsall job. Our board should be jumping on that. Instead they are probably thinking much the same as we all are. “No way we are paying his wages”.
People make fun of Holloway and his crazy antics but the bloke is a good championship manager, got Palace and Blackpool promoted to premier league in last 10 years.
I know what he’s said about creating another Blackpool but they were a championship club when he took over there.
He’ll surely get a club in league 1. I just can’t see what will attract him to league 2 with a club that will just have a mid table budget.
I would be more asking if it somehow happens why the club didn’t just do this as a league one club and then maybe the fantasy championship line would’ve occurred. Holloway was actually out of work in December 2015.
Anyway if he does go to Plymouth then Darrell Clark should be snapped up. Or Keith Hill. Also Simon Grayson is out of work. Manager who has many promotions from league 1 and 2 and would be “big” name to get people interested again.