The season is not yet over in England, with more games to be played, one more round left in Premier League and play-off finals still not finished. Everything comes to a close next week.
We are all waiting for different news regarding the manager situation and also what will happen to the squad of players in and out.
Looking back at previous years and all the different changes of managers that have taken place over the summer period. Last summer we waited for Marti Cifuentes (15th July), the season before Steve Cooper (20th of June), was the new appointment and the season before that Enzo Maresca (16th June) came in.
They were all taking over from interim managers, except Cooper who came in after that sudden situation appearing when Enzo left the club, with no exceptation for that to happen. So a new manager every summer in the past three years, makes it a busy schedule.
Going back looking at the different appointments and talk about leaving it late and so on, fans talking about late appointments and Leicester waiting too long, you must put that in perspective of results. There is no reason to believe that not getting an appointment done before the end of May will be any better than getting it done just hours before pre season training starts.
📅 #OnThisDay in 2015, Claudio Ranieri was appointed Leicester City manager.
— Leicester City (@LCFC) July 13, 2023
…and the rest, as they say, is history 💙 pic.twitter.com/yjxb7lvHof
Going back, looking at this in different decades and under different sircumstances, you have a lot of different scenarios, with a lot of different outcomes. In 1971 when Frank O’Farrell was poached by Manchester United, Leicester went for Jimmy Bloomfield, appointing him on the 23rd of June.
The next man to look at is Frank McLintock, taking over from Jimmy Bloomfield in 1977. This happend on the 9th of June. A year later they made an early decision appointing Jock Wallace on the 24th of May.
Gordon Milne took over from Jock Wallace unexpectidly coming in early August to replace a manager that walked out of the club with a chance to return north.
Martin Allen was an early summer appointment on the 25th of May.
Nigel Pearson was appointed in the 20th of June 2008, for his first period at the club. The next manager to come in during a summer was Claudio Ranieri, he arrived on the 17th of July. Enzo Maresca arrived on the 16th of June.
We are on the 20th of May. No one in the last 50 years has been appointed earlier than the 24th of May. So no situation saying the one is better than the other. The results after a long season are not depending on this, looking at previous appointments.
Marti Cifuentes never put Leicester in the relegation zone of The EFL Championship. Claudio Ranieri won The Premier League, both arriving late. This assumption that leaving things late is a problem could also work well, based on evidence and results.
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