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rob9872 said:

His stock has never been higher, he's getting all of the plaudits that we know are long overdue and finally recognition for a great job over a sustained period, but that comes with a worry that we'll now lose him.

Surely teams with bigger budgets will be sniffing, is anyone else suddenly more concerned that we could lose him soon?

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No. I think we'll be his final club in management.

rob9872 said:

His stock has never been higher, he's getting all of the plaudits that we know are long overdue and finally recognition for a great job over a sustained period, but that comes with a worry that we'll now lose him.

Surely teams with bigger budgets will be sniffing, is anyone else suddenly more concerned that we could lose him soon?

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Yes, end of next season if we don't go up he may want a shot at the big time, I've said this for a while

How long is his contract ? How long did DK give him for the Playoffs/Promotion request ?

Won't move before then unless something drastic happens.

<edit> Will add, he left us to go to Huddersfield and Rotherham (?). Did diddly squat at either place. Bigger clubs may come in but with them comes different pressures and targets. He may not want them or be able to handle them. Mowbray has had a few clubs but only been successful at a handful.

I think he'll be with us until we get promoted in a year or two, then as we're struggling for survival we'll sack him and he'll continue to be a good championship/lower prem manager. Think Allardyce, Mowbray and the like.

Happy_Martian said:

How long is his contract ? How long did DK give him for the Playoffs/Promotion request ?

Won't move before then unless something drastic happens.

<edit> Will add, he left us to go to Huddersfield and Rotherham (?). Did diddly squat at either place. Bigger clubs may come in but with them comes different pressures and targets. He may not want them or be able to handle them. Mowbray has had a few clubs but only been successful at a handful.

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He’s got to reach the play offs 3 out of the next 4 seasons and win them within that time to meet King’s target.

No I think he is here for the project at this point, I think its clear that there was a plan and we are getting closer and closer. I dont think he would leave at this point.. at least not to another Championship team or any struggling prem really. Why would he? he has almost total control at the club (and rightly so) where else that would be an upgrade would afford him that?

Im sure he'll use any interest to get a bump in wages like he did when Sunderland came sniffing. I just feel like this is now his project and he is so close to securing his goals.

Sick Boy said:

He’s got to reach the play offs 3 out of the next 4 seasons and win them within that time to meet King’s target.

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Well King needs to back him otherwise we'll only be a top 10 side rather than a top 4 side

Alkhen said:

No I think he is here for the project at this point, I think its clear that there was a plan and we are getting closer and closer. I dont think he would leave at this point.. at least not to another Championship team or any struggling prem really. Why would he? he has almost total control at the club (and rightly so) where else that would be an upgrade would afford him that?

Im sure he'll use any interest to get a bump in wages like he did when Sunderland came sniffing. I just feel like this is now his project and he is so close to securing his goals.

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Agree with most of this. Think he actually had more control over the club when Sisu were here which i think he liked. Just judging by his interviews and people supposedly ITK he may have found it a bit of an adjustment when King first came in but sounds to me like hes loving it again

Yes I was thinking this earlier. He's just out thought and out managed two Premier League managers in the past month or so.

I am amazed he hasn't had more interest. Wonder if it's still the Huddersfield thing that puts clubs off, but that's a long time ago now.

Sick Boy said:

No. I think we'll be his final club in management.

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I doubt that …. When we eventually go our separate ways Robins will have no shortage of offers and he seems like a guy with football in his veins.

His interview on 5 live was interesting. Suggested he wouldn’t have his head turned. I think he likes having basically built the club in his image after starting from scratch in league 2, for him to leave a prem club would probably have to offer him more control than they’d be willing to.

He's not a coach, and that's what most clubs go for now. He's a pure manager. Might be what saves him getting poached. You'd have to take him and AV together.

mmttww said:

He's not a coach, and that's what most clubs go for now. He's a pure manager. Might be what saves him getting poached. You'd have to take him and AV together.

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Most managers / head coaches bring their back room staff with them …. If you were hiring Robins you would want him to bring Adi with him. This is certainly not a barrier to Robins exiting.

Sick Boy said:

He’s got to reach the play offs 3 out of the next 4 seasons and win them within that time to meet King’s target.

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I think last season counted as 1, so that would be 2 out of 4 including the season we’re in.

mmttww said:

He's not a coach, and that's what most clubs go for now. He's a pure manager. Might be what saves him getting poached. You'd have to take him and AV together.

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Yep, they'd need to go together. AV says himself he's quite vocal with the manager which Robins obviously likes. Even if AV did stay, we would then need a manager who can work with him, and Robins would need to find a coach as good as AV.
They have molded the club in their vision. If they get poached by a Palace, Bournemouth or even a yo-yo club like Norwich or WBA they won't be able to do that. The mantra will be 'keep us up or get us promoted, and you've got one season'.

I've said this before but for Robins to leave I think 2 things need to happen:

1) Doug has to seriously fuck up in his commitment to levelling up the squad & club in general
2) A club has to make Robins an extremely long term commitment

I think 1) is less likely than 2) and long term commitments to new managers don't really exist. As such, leaving for him is a huge risk when he is constantly progressing and he feels he has the backing of the fans and the owners, which he does.

Personally, not worth worrying about.

Man Utd may be looking at him after Sunday as he would be a very safe and by their standards cheap option. Man Utd fans would welcome him with open arms (the English ones at any rate) and wage wise he would be lower than some of the continental big names.
However, i doubt Robins would go there as he seems like a guy who isnt motivated by glamour and money and is very humble and down to earth. The thing is here, it is his club. He literally has built it from the ground up and at minimum i would think he stays until he gets us in the PL.
Once he gets us in the PL and consolidates us up there like say an Aston V@lla type club, at that point he may leave if a huge club comes knocking for him, again in a few years it may well be Man Utd as that club is such a mess i cannot see them getting things right in the next 3-4 years.
What makes me laugh my ass off is some Leicester fans are saying they should go for Robins. As if Mark would even look twice at them...he wouldnt even look once to be fair.

Deity said:

I doubt that …. When we eventually go our separate ways Robins will have no shortage of offers and he seems like a guy with football in his veins.

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I think the only way he goes is if he takes up and keeps us up and resigns, leaving us on a high.

messiahrobins said:

Man Utd may be looking at him after Sunday as he would be a very safe and by their standards cheap option. Man Utd fans would welcome him with open arms (the English ones at any rate) and wage wise he would be lower than some of the continental big names.
However, i doubt Robins would go there as he seems like a guy who isnt motivated by glamour and money and is very humble and down to earth. The thing is here, it is his club. He literally has built it from the ground up and at minimum i would think he stays until he gets us in the PL.
Once he gets us in the PL and consolidates us up there like say an Aston V@lla type club, at that point he may leave if a huge club comes knocking for him, again in a few years it may well be Man Utd as that club is such a mess i cannot see them getting things right in the next 3-4 years.
What makes me laugh my ass off is some Leicester fans are saying they should go for Robins. As if Mark would even look twice at them...he wouldnt even look once to be fair.

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There would be uproar in the entitled Utd ranks if they looked at Robins.

Sick Boy said:

I think the only way he goes is if he takes up and keeps us up and resigns, leaving us on a high.

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What like Jimmy Hill did.

Sick Boy said:

I think the only way he goes is if he takes up and keeps us up and resigns, leaving us on a high.

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That's stadium naming stuff that.

Offhegoes said:

Yep, they'd need to go together. AV says himself he's quite vocal with the manager which Robins obviously likes. Even if AV did stay, we would then need a manager who can work with him, and Robins would need to find a coach as good as AV.
They have molded the club in their vision. If they get poached by a Palace, Bournemouth or even a yo-yo club like Norwich or WBA they won't be able to do that. The mantra will be 'keep us up or get us promoted, and you've got one season'.

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Robins wouldnt even consider clubs like Wolves, WBA Norwich, Leicester Bournemouth West Ham Brighton Brentford and the such like. All bar West Ham are smaller clubs historically, so the only clubs i think he would be tempted by after he gets us promoted and consolidated in the PL are clubs like Newcastle Tottenham, Man Utd and Everton.
What people here i think fail to understand, and understandably so after where we have been, is that Coventry City is now actually a very big club profile wise after Sunday. The map has changed and Robins and Viveash will know that so there are not many bigger clubs to go to really now. Coventry right now is probably the biggest it has ever been profile wise apart from the Sillett Era obviously after the Cup win albeit with the internet and social media making things much more global, arguably we are now much bigger than back then.

edgy said:

That's stadium naming stuff that.

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Id already name the stadium after him tbh.

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messiahrobins said:

Id already name the stadium after him tb

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messiahrobins said:

Id already name the stadium after him tbh.

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So not the Russel Slade stadium lol

edgy said:

There would be uproar in the entitled Utd ranks if they looked at Robins.

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Yes i am sure there would be but Jim Ratcliffe is new to English football and i would think on Sunday he would have been thinking who are these Coventry lot and wanting to learn more about us and given Robins Utd connection, he potentially could see Robins as a safe choice to appease the die hard fans. Its a tricky one though as Man Utd isnt the same club older ones of us remember from when we played them regularly and it does seem their fanbase is now largely foreign, even at games a lot of the time, so Robins may not be sexy enough for them.
I have family in Manchester, most are Man City fans but there are a couple of reds and they have other Reds as mates, and those local die hard Man Utd fans would have Robins today. But they also dont feel Man Utd is their club anymore and they are a pretty gloomy lot

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So not the Russel Slade stadium lol

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It sounds sexier when you say it i suppose and makes one feel christmassy

No chance.

The whole club is now his. He will want to stay as long as it takes for us to get promoted. He’s said that unofficially many times.

I very much doubt he would destroy that opportunity for the sake of 6 months at a bottom half premier league side.

Robins teams always start slow. He wouldn’t last long enough anywhere else to make an impact. Remember league 2? We were pretty poor in the early stages of the season.

The only reason he lasted here in his first full season was because Sisu got the blame for everything.

You don’t get the impression he’s personally that ambitious or wants to put himself in a spotlight subject to huge stress.
Seems happy to stay under the radar and work at slowly improving things while no doubt taking a solid salary and having a good private life.
I suspect he’d only move if Doug seriously pissed him off over money available or interference.

rob9872 said:

His stock has never been higher, he's getting all of the plaudits that we know are long overdue and finally recognition for a great job over a sustained period, but that comes with a worry that we'll now lose him.

Surely teams with bigger budgets will be sniffing, is anyone else suddenly more concerned that we could lose him soon?

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No. As one of the many pieces in the nationals said (paraphrasing): People ask why he hasn’t gone to a big club, but he’s already at his big club.

There’s no way he leaves this to go and get sacked after a poor run at another club and start all over again. Unless we piss him off I can’t see him ever leaving.

Robins and Viveash seem the perfect fit for us, I think Robins will have learnt his lesson from last time and stay until he is told otherwise.

He clearly gets satisfaction with sky blues today and the fans - think Doug has taken a weight off him by being pro active with the press - watch him smile

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I genuinely love that almost to a man (*or woman) you're saying 'no chance'.

Football and fans in particular have short memories. If, through no fault of his own, we do poorly next season, there will be taxi calls again. We're reasonably (*most) normal on here, can you imagine a toxic Facebook? People shout abuse after a single defeat.

Some say money isn't a motivation, but if a club offers him beyond our means and can serriously secure his families future, then he's no more immune to that than the rest of us.

I too hope Leicester isn't an option, but again, locally, he's known better, he did play for them and if Enzo is sacked by Christmas, I'd be amazed if he wasn't considered.

Imo someone will ask, he deserves the opportunity and I pray that we can match his ambition.

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Leicester owners are more likely to go for another Enzo type. bit more glamorous than Robins. Ive always thought Norwich might be the ones who could possibly tempt him but as they are doing well at the moment I doubt its a concern