That was not the exact wording used by Dave Whelan after Chris Hutchings was sacked last week.
But it might as well have been.
The Latics are in freefall and it is going take something special to save them from returning to the Football League after three seasons in the Premier League.
Graham Souness was an early candidate, until he ruled himself out, while Peter Reid, Joe Royle and Alex McLeish have all been mentioned as possible replacements.
Former boss Paul Jewell also emerged as a potential replacement barely six months after leaving the club to take a break from the game.
I can understand why any football manager would want an extended holiday given the pressures placed on them from so many different directions.
And if you are going to return to the game why not go back to at a place you know well.
The first question that popped into my head was who would Jewell have as his assistant?
Hutchings was his number two at Bradford City and again at the JJB Stadium before being promoted to the top job at both clubs.
Surely it would be difficult for him to resume that position having recently been sacked by the chairman.
Whoever comes in - and despite the precarious position in which they find themselves at the moment there will be plenty of people who would love the job - looks to be on a hiding to nothing.
Few managers in the country are exempt from criticism at some stage in their careers.
You even hear Arsenal and Manchester United supporters moaning about some of the decisions made by Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson.
Rafa Benitez at Liverpool has long been questioned over his policy of squad rotation, rarely playing the same starting 11 from one game to the next.
He named the same side in two games last week - resulting in wins over Besiktas and Fulham.
But, having thumped the Turkish side 8-0 in the Champions League, they had to wait until late in the game for a 2-0 victory over the Londoners.
I was listening to the second Anfield game on my way home from Halifax Town's FA Cup exit at the hands of Burton and had to chuckle.
Having criticised Benitez on a number of occasions for changing his line-up far too much, the commentator was clearly happy that he had kept faith with the players from the midweek game.
But as the match wore on, and Liverpool were struggling to find the breakthrough, he managed to find another way to have a dig suggesting that another of Benitez's flaws was that he was too slow to react to the way games were going.
Cue the 70th-minute arrival of Fernando Torres who scored 11 minutes later and Liverpool went on to claim the points.
Sometimes you can't help but feel that people want to criticise just for the sake of it.