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Trumpton Tiger. said:
Jim Rodwell was with Acun's party last night at the game. Ex -Sunderland CEO, ex chairman of Boston Utd, similar role at Peterbourgh, Scunthorpe and Charlton. Ex player and had the same role at the FL as Kesler. He was the man who guided Acun when he first bought the club. He was at City for about 6 months to bed the deal in then he left. Very experienced football man. He is there to advise and possibly our new CEO?
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Old smiler?
 
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Trumpton Tiger. said:
Jim Rodwell was with Acun's party last night at the game. Ex -Sunderland CEO, ex chairman of Boston Utd, similar role at Peterbourgh, Scunthorpe and Charlton. Ex player and had the same role at the FL as Kesler. He was the man who guided Acun when he first bought the club. He was at City for about 6 months to bed the deal in then he left. Very experienced football man. He is there to advise and possibly our new CEO?
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Yep, very handy to have about and knows his stuff.
 
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Trumpton Tiger. said:
Jim Rodwell was with Acun's party last night at the game. Ex -Sunderland CEO, ex chairman of Boston Utd, similar role at Peterbourgh, Scunthorpe and Charlton. Ex player and had the same role at the FL as Kesler. He was the man who guided Acun when he first bought the club. He was at City for about 6 months to bed the deal in then he left. Very experienced football man. He is there to advise and possibly our new CEO?
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Trumpton Tiger, more name changes than Scunthorpe United's last owner. :emoticon-0138-think


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Steven Toast said:
Skubala I think would be on the radar, as would Matt Bloomfield. I would suspect Des Buckingham at Oxford would also be on their shortlist and I really hope their number 1 target is Jimmy Thelin at Aberdeen, but I doubt he'll leave them without a huge payrise.

If he wanted to go foreign (which I don't think would be a popular choice), there's a Faroese manager at AIK in Sweden (step up @Febbos and @Stockholm Tiger ) who has done extraordinarily well so far in his short career. Mjikkal Thomassen took semi pro Faroese club KI Klaksvik to a Europa League playoff place and won them their first title in 20 years, then led Fredrikstad to the Norweigian top flight for the first time in 11 years before taking over at AIK, where he took them from 11th to 3rd after they had a **** start to the season. His average win ratio is 58%, which is pretty impressive.
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Like I said on another thread, Thomassen’s a really good coach but wouldn’t come here. He has an opportunity to qualify for the Conference League next season with AIK and I think he’d only give that up for a Championship gig if it was in similar circumstances as Thorup going to Norwich this summer i.e. not in the middle of the Championship season and definitely not in a relegation scrap and he’d only go to a stable Championship club with a normal, pragmatic ownership and football hierarchy and serious ambitions to get top 6, not a chaotic basket case club like City.
 
GLP said:
I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t. Seeing as they sacked him.
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Maybe he's on garden leave rather than had his contract terminated. No idea if that means compo though but on garden leave you're technically still employed.
 
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M88 EVN said:
Maybe he's on garden leave rather than had his contract terminated. No idea if that means compo though but on garden leave you're technically still employed.
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I think for garden leave to be an option it would have to have been written into the original employment contract. Don’t know if this is a normal clause in Football Manager contracts though.
 
Sir Cheshire Ben said:
I think for garden leave to be an option it would have to have been written into the original employment contract. Don’t know if this is a normal clause in Football Manager contracts though.
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Me neither. I remember Phil Brown was on garden leave when we brought Dowie in and I think Graham Potter is from Chelsea too. No idea if it’s normal practice though, just a guess.
 
M88 EVN said:
Me neither. I remember Phil Brown was on garden leave when we brought Dowie in and I think Graham Potter is from Chelsea too. No idea if it’s normal practice though, just a guess.
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It’s normal practice when clubs want to spread out the payment for the rest of the contract. It wouldn’t surprise if Tim is on gardening leave given he has 2.5 years left
 
Apparently Coventry City’s underperformance this season coincided with Mark Robins falling out with his assistant in the summer.

Therefore we wouldn’t be inheriting the management team that has over performed at Coventry for the previous two seasons.

And given Steve Coopers performance this season, I’m not over excited about him as a prospect either.
 
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TurkeyTeeth™ said:
Apparently Coventry City’s underperformance this season coincided with Mark Robins falling out with his assistant in the summer.

Therefore we wouldn’t be inheriting the management team that has over performed at Coventry for the previous two seasons.

And given Steve Coopers performance this season, I’m not over excited about him as a prospect either.
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Cooper's done quite well this season, Leicester had a shocking squad coming up with PSR pressures and he was sacked with them outside the bottom 3. Ironically though he was sacked because the performances weren't great (in terms of attacking intent) and his previous links to Forest, rather than actual results. So doesn't seem an Acun type of hiring (despite us talking to him in the Summer).
 
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Mark Robins – 4/1
Steve Cooper – 5/1
Steven Schumacher – 8/1
Ismail Kartal – 8/1
Ryan Lowe – 12/1
Matt Bloomfield – 12/1
David Moyes – 12/1
Nathan Jones – 16/1
Alex Neil – 16/1
Scott Lindsey – 20/1
Nigel Pearson – 20/1
Nicky Butt – 20/1
Dave Challinor – 20/1
 
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