I think someone should put the case for Pele to return so here goes.

Pele left the club at the TOP of the first division in 2001. On Saturday at Love Street eight of of the thirteen who played were signed at one time by Pele. Think about that this is 2007, nearly six years on the bulk of the team were signed by this man.

John Roberston and Craig Brewster carried it on, did well, and got jobs on the back of these players.

Robertson failed at Hearts and Livingston and fled at the first sign of cutbacks at Ross County as Smithy's ludicrous spending on wages came home to roost. Craig hardly won a game at Dundee United.

Many will say Pele also failed at Pittodrie and I partly agree with that. The job he took on was massive . He inherited an overpaid squad of bad professionals. He had to cut the wage bill and overturn the playing staff. He had to buy at the cheap end of the market.  Sheerin, Hart, Heikenen and Tosh all contributed. He gave youngsters like Diamond, Foster and Considine their debuts.

At the end of his only full season they finished 11th but the injury list was horrendous. McNaughton, Anderson and Diamond were all out for the last few months of the season and he ended up having to play guys he had already freed!. He made a bad signing in McQuilken but to his immense credit he accepted it and moved him on quickly unlike his successor and Ritchie Byrne.

Unfortunately he was sacked and despite a poll in the Aberdeen evening paper which showed about 90 per cent thought it was wrong. He did not get the chance to complete the job. Who knows what would have happened when all the players were fit at the start of the following season. Jimmy Calderwood got the benefit and also money to spend.

He has slowly rehabillitated himself firstly at Forres where he built a decent side and now at Peterhead where he seems to building a decent team.

I for one think he has one big job left in him and would welcome him back, Anyone else?

Bump - just in case anyone else sees sense  :016:

How about appointing Pele as director of football, and get Grasser to clean the windows.

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I like your style

How about appointing Pele as director of football, and get Grasser to clean the windows.

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I like your style

Nothing would have greater poetry than for Pele to return and take us to Europe. I would love it, but it aint gonna happen.

He had/has his problems, which, like CC, have a pressure sensitive cut-off point. He may have changed, but I doubt it. Like CC, I think he has the ability, but not the temperament.

However, I am very surprised that the club haven't approached him in a scouting capacity.

They did, but he couldn't find his woggle.

None!!

Went to an SPL club - pressure - couldn't hack it - end of! (Blame Miller if you like but I think it was Millers)  Is he not going to be under pressure here?

Nice Guy - Fosters team spirit(I will refrain from the Fosters line) How often did he attack the young players HE had put on the field, in print, following a bad result ''Not fit for playing in the Highland League'' is one quote I recall. Aye, super help to team spirit!

If he was all that good he would have been snapped up even as a back room staff member, by a big outfit, long ago.

He is a has been that provided us with a base to work from and lots of super memories.

He'd have us tying the opposition in knots.

I actually think it's Peles tough streak that is missing right now.

He wouldn't be my first choice as replacement, but his willingness to crack heads wouldn't be among my reasons for voting elsewhere.

This is the SPL, not nursery school and a few of our players could do with a firm dose of reality before things get much worse.

Heart says yes

Head says no

The thought of Pele at ICT gives me a warm glow  :010 :010: :010: :010: :010:

That guy gave us some of the best days of our lives.

Who knows what state his head's in these days? What do the Tete-de-Pierre fans think?

One game stands out for me think it was 5-3 home to Queen of the South :024:. Pele is in the past and that's where he should stay. We have got to start showing ambition to get where we want to be.

One game stands out for me think it was 5-3 home to Queen of the South :024:. Pele is in the past and that's where he should stay. We have got to start showing ambition to get where we want to be.

Your right he's in the past but so is Brewster so I hope he stays there.  I'd rather see Paterson back than Brewster though.

Pele will be back in the SPL with or without us. Give him a couple of years and he'll have Peterhead in the first division - possibly playing against ICT, then other clubs will start looking at him, although I honestly think he has what it takes to get there even with a club like Peterhead. Has everyone forgotten the fact that the man was nothing short of a football genius??!! A flawed genius perhaps, but a genius none the less. :clapping03:

You could be right so let's get in there first.

He's doing so well with Peterhead he nearly got them relegated last year and got thrashed 4-1 by the mighty Alloa Athletic in the first game this season.

He is not proven in the SPL and should not be a candidate, much as I appreciated what he did in the lower leagues with ICT.

Aye, I'd forgotten Robbo's, Brew's and Charlie's enviable records when they took over  :016:

Personally I think it could be too soon for Pele to get back into the top flight with the pressures that brings. The guy is still recovering from his past problems and, just now, he is enjoying both his careers. Until he's 100% sure that he can give up one career and take the other on full time, without the need to drown his sorrows, he will stay as he is.

Pele was a legend, a flawed genious. We played some amazing ENTERTAINING football, which hasn't been witnessed much since his departure. He moved to Aberdeen apparently under much pressure from Shearer. His experience in the spl was unpleasant and short lived. Exactly like that of both Robertson and Brewster. Of the 3 i would ask which was the better football manager with experience and the only answer is Pele.

Not too keen on the idea of going back at all but of the 3 Pele would be my chioce.

I have to say that nostalgia pleads a case for Pele to return but what seems to stand out to me is the HUGE gamble that would be taken by his appointment at the club - not only is this a massive step up from peterhead on so many levels but shouldn't Inverness as a club be looking to activly move forwards and upwards. Weather we can afford the sheffield golden boy is another story and of course whoever we appoint there is going to be a gamble involved but I'm really not sure Pele is the man for the job. I don't like the idea of brewster or robbo coming back much at all but i have to say I can see the club going for Brewster out of those three - I hope not though.