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O/T Manager Sack Watch

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Tottenham coach Sherwood wants Blackburn talks


By Andrew Tuft

Wednesday 17 October 2012

Tim Sherwood is eager to meet with the owners of Blackburn Rovers as the Tottenham Hotspur technical co-ordinator warms to the idea of filling the vacant managerial position at Ewood Park, the Daily Mirror has reported.

The newspaper adds that Sherwood wants to sit down with the Venky’s hierarchy in charge of running the club to get further insight into the budget he would have available, as well as listen to the owners’ plans for the future of the club.

Blackburn are said to have wanted to speak with Sherwood last weekend but did not receive permission for the meeting from Tottenham. But if Spurs do give their consent then Sherwood will travel to Switzerland to meet with Balaji and Venkatesh Rao.

Sherwood was the Blackburn captain when Rovers won the Premier League title in 1995, under the management of Kenny Dalglish. The former England midfielder left Blackburn for Tottenham in 1999, having spent seven years at the club.

Ian Holloway is also a contender to replace Steve Kean at Blackburn, with the Mirror claiming the current Blackpool boss would actually represent a cheaper alternative than Sherwood.

http://www.adifferentleague.co.uk/p6_0_17148_tottenham-coach-sherwood-wants-blackburn-talks.html
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In what world could Sherwood ask for more than Holloway!? Where does that comment even stem from?
 
Spursalot said:
Does it say it would just be wages?


How much would they have to pay in compensation to us/blackpool?
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good point, i just read it quickly and thought WTF! I guess Sherwood could have a 3 year contract where Holloway has a get clause etc..
 
BBC Sport Football: Tottenham have rejected a formal approach from Blackburn to speak with technical co-ordinator Tim Sherwood about becoming their next manager.
 
Bolton have asked Crystal Palace for permission to speak to Dougie Freedman. Why would he want to leave a club he loves, that are currently doing well, to join the disaster that is Bolton? I don't see much difference in the potential of the two clubs considering their financial difficulties.
 
Sky Sports Football @SkyFootball
Crystal Palace have given boss Dougie Freedman permission to speak to Bolton about their vacant manager's position.

Two hours later:

Sky Sports Football @SkyFootball
Crystal Palace reject an official approach from Bolton to speak to manager Dougie Freedman about their vacant position.


:lol:
 
Jordinho said:
Sky Sports Football @SkyFootball
Crystal Palace have given boss Dougie Freedman permission to speak to Bolton about their vacant manager's position.

Two hours later:

Sky Sports Football @SkyFootball
Crystal Palace reject an official approach from Bolton to speak to manager Dougie Freedman about their vacant position.


:lol:
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Sky really are no better than any of the journo's in the written press
 
That's obviously not quite true...At least they do have a source, and get a lot right, but it's frustrating that they can be so wrong sometimes. It does seem that sometimes its guess work, based on the facts, but presented as news....maybe that's just their take on the situation though hmm
 
Jordinho said:
Sky Sports Football @SkyFootball
Crystal Palace have given boss Dougie Freedman permission to speak to Bolton about their vacant manager's position.

Two hours later:

Sky Sports Football @SkyFootball
Crystal Palace reject an official approach from Bolton to speak to manager Dougie Freedman about their vacant position.


:lol:
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Well, it possible that Dougie Freedman asked the club what the hell they were thinking and told them to change their answer.

Though it's classic Sky, report something, then report its not true after all.
 
Sky Sports Football ‏@SkyFootball

Crystal Palace have now granted Bolton permission to speak to their manager Dougie Freedman.
 
From The Independent.

"Blackburn Rovers supporters were last night holding an emergency meeting to consider a boycott of Saturday's game against Watford in protest at Shebby Singh's desire to appoint Billy McKinlay as their new manager. The club's global adviser is said to want a young British candidate who has an untarnished reputation and to mould him into the "next Jose Mourinho". "

How the flying fudge is Shebby Singh going to mould the "next Jose Mourinho"?? :ross: overblown egotistical taco...
 
An interesting look at Freedman's switch from a Palace supporter:


Dougie Freedman's move to Bolton shows modern football at its worst

The Crystal Palace manager's decision will take some explaining, says a member of the club's Supporters' Trust


Chris Waters
Thursday 25 October 2012 11.24 BST
guardian.co.uk

Any football fan knows that when your manager says: "I think I'm halfway there in getting the club the way I want it to be, and I'm not the sort of guy to leave jobs half done", he'll be off before you even get to sing his name from the stands.

But this one feels like an unusually low blow. We expect plot twists at Palace: administration, last-day escapes from relegation, flamboyant owners and the rest. In the last couple of months, though, it actually began to feel as if things were settling down: financial stability, realistic ambition and some sound summer signings, giving the home-grown talents, Wilfried Zaha chief among them, the space to perform. We were playing good attacking football and had pushed into the play-off places. And then this.

Legend is a horribly overused word, but in this case it fits. Dougie Freedman was one of our own: a man who had scored more than 100 goals for the club, many in crucial games such as his astonishing late winner at Stockport that kept our Championship status back in 2001. He joined the club's management team in the depths of administration and, with Paul Hart, steered the side to improbable survival on the last day of the 2009-10 season at Hillsborough.

He was the face of the club, and he seemed to represent its new ethos, too. He believed in developing youngsters and giving them the chance to shine, he seemed to understand the need for sustainability after all the overspending. He is even a member of the Supporters' Trust, involved in the plans to build a new training ground.

All of which makes his departure even harder to follow. Moving from one club to another might be more understandable if the new job was obviously attractive – but he has joined a club with dwindling crowds, 12 places lower in the same division, and with a pressure for immediate results that was not there at Palace.

Palace's board and fans all bought into the club's new approach – standing by the theme of Financial Fair Play after the overspending of the past, building gradually, bringing the academy kids through, and evolving the style of play. And now Freedman has walked away from all that: lured by a big salary at a club which is £110m in debt. It is modern football in a nutshell.

And he has taken a huge risk with his reputation as a manager – which was already in its formative stages.

This is a manager with the same win percentage at Palace as Paul Jewell had at Ipswich; a manager who finished last season with one win in the final 13 games; and a manager whose side managed zero shots on target in 120 minutes in our biggest game of the past few years: the second leg of the Carling Cup semi-final at Cardiff.

Palace fans forgave him all this. I very much doubt Bolton fans will do the same.
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"... lured by a big salary at a club which is £110m in debt. It is modern football in a nutshell."
 
The best way to stay in business as a manager is to move clubs often.

Eventually you'll either fail or succeed at your current club. Should you succeed (ie. win promotion), expectations will be raised and you most likely won't be able to meet them. Either way you'll eventually fail and you only have a few years at best before you're almost destined to be sacked. The managers of all the teams promoted from the Championship are in a worse position than those that didn't quite make it.

Only a handful manage to get their level of success just right in order to stay at one club for a long time (unless you're extremely successful like Fergie). Moyes and Wenger come to mind. Pulis will stay with Stoke as long as he can keep them around 8-14th place.
 
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