Short-lived Leicester City midfielder ready to return to management almost 10 years after his last appearance

Billy Davies is one that has represented Leicester City, Derby County and Nottingham Forest. He was a player at Leicester City for a very short period of time, coming in from St. Mirren, playing only 6 league games in the 1990/91 season, before making a return to Scotland and Dunfirmline Athletic.

Davies returned to England in a coaching capacity a number of years later, being the assistant of Craig Brown at Preston North End. He had prior to this been the manager of Motherwell in Scottish Premier.

He later took over for Craig Brown and became the manager at Preston North End, and after doing a grand job at Deepdale, being offered the hot seat at Derby County, taking them straigt up to the Premier League via play-off’s in May 2007. A struggling start to the next season, in Premier League, made it difficult and he left Pride Park in November the same year.

Then, incredibly, he twice took over as manager of Nottingham Forest, first from 2009 until 2011. In 2013, he returned to the club, and he left in March 2014. When Leicester City was looking for someone to succeed Gary Megson, Billy Davies was one of the possibilities, but Ian Holloway ultimately won the position.

The second round at City Ground made it extremely tough for Nottingham Forest to achieve promotion during his first period, and nobody has given Billy Davies a chance ever since. He reportedly had a job interview with Hearts in 2017, but was reportedly prepared to return in ten years.