Blues change boss again - but ownership the bigger question
| Published date | 05 July 2022 |
| Publication title | Birmingham Mail (England) |
Good luck with that contract!
Blues have been through ten head coaches in the last ten years.
A few changes have been justified but most have been a lack of patience and understanding, plus a deflection of the real problems at the club with its ownership and delegated decisions in recent years.
Lately it has been a mess with the ground needing big repairs, the heralded takeover looking chaotic and whichever group are involved will need deep pockets to give Eustace every chance. Good luck with that, too.
Bowyer, who was halfway through a two-year contract, arrived to save Blues in March 2021 from relegation and last season - his first full in charge - the club finished 20th of out 24. Not great but ten points clear of relegation and look at the
It has been with the resources left this summer. It rather tells a story.
needing big takeover whichever involved deep
Mark Kennedy left for Lincoln leaving Bowyer without an assistant and just 12 senior players. All the loan players have returned to their clubs.
Their opening Championship match is a tough one - away to Luton Town. That is three weeks this coming Saturday. So good luck with that, too!
Bowyer, 45, was in charge for 16 months with 59 games. The former Blues player won 17 of those matches, drawing 16 with 26 losses.
His win percentage was 28.8.
chaotic and group are will need pockets.
He will be remembered by Blue Noses for being in the last Birmingham City side to win a major honour (and there have not been many!), beating Arsenal 2-1 in the 2011 League Cup final at Wembley.
Meanwhile, we wish 42-year-old Eustace well. Like Brighton's Graham Potter, he was born in Solihull. As a central midfielder, he played for Coventry City from 1996 to 2003 before moving on to Stoke City, Watford and Derby County.
He was manager of Kidderminster
Harriers in 2016 before joining Steve McClaren as assistant manager at QPR. He did have a brief spell as caretaker in 2019 helping the London club avoid relegation.
Blues' first home match will be on August 6 against Huddersfield and I am sure the loyal Blues supporters will give the new head coach every backing. But what of the club's ownership? Is Laurence Bassini out of the picture? His time at Watford did not finish well in 2012 with a subsequent three-year ban from...
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