All you get by offering a manager a contract is compensation when they leave. It doesn't make them more likely to stay. Do do that, you need to make them want to stay, if there is demand for their services as there surely will be at some point for Powell.
TJ and MS offered the managers job to a complete rooky at a time when the club was on its knees. In the relative short time since that appointment what possibly could have gone any better ?
Envious eyes will have been watching Chris Powell's excellent start to his managerial career. Make no mistake he will be on a number of clubs radar. Don't think he couldn't get a Premier gig either. Has done more and will achieve more than PDC will at Sunderland. We need him signed as soon as possible. It's a slight worry that if rumours of a takeover have any substance it could be difficult for the current owners to extend his contract regardless of his having done well.
Hopefully Leicester will go for another box office name like Sven. O'Neill hopefully! Although if not and the unthinkable happens, Denis Wise and Ray Wilkins anyone? ;-)
Envious eyes will have been watching Chris Powell's excellent start to his managerial career. Make no mistake he will be on a number of clubs radar. Don't think he couldn't get a Premier gig either. Has done more and will achieve more than PDC will at Sunderland. We need him signed as soon as possible. It's a slight worry that if rumours of a takeover have any substance it could be difficult for the current owners to extend his contract regardless of his having done well.
If he goes, he goes but let's make sure CAFC give him the resources to stay here longer and that we receive decent compo if/when he does go... Imagine if Curbs had stayed a little longer and West Ham had come sniffing when they pushed Pardew or just look at Swansea.
The management team are far more important than any single player - our team have followed the plan, hit the targets and can only add value to the enterprise should it be sold to new owners. If new owners want to do a QPR/Blackburn with new managers and players every six months then perhaps they are not right for CAFC who have had three decent managers in nearly 30 years with a few "caretakers" in between.
So sign him up with a bumper release clause please!
I would not rush into it, 6 different scorers today tells me his tactics are all over the place, we still need to get the ball up to our strikers, these midfielders will not keep scoring.....................;-)
Envious eyes will have been watching Chris Powell's excellent start to his managerial career. Make no mistake he will be on a number of clubs radar. Don't think he couldn't get a Premier gig either. Has done more and will achieve more than PDC will at Sunderland. We need him signed as soon as possible. It's a slight worry that if rumours of a takeover have any substance it could be difficult for the current owners to extend his contract regardless of his having done well.
If he goes, he goes but let's make sure CAFC give him the resources to stay here longer and that we receive decent compo if/when he does go... Imagine if Curbs had stayed a little longer and West Ham had come sniffing when they pushed Pardew or just look at Swansea.
The management team are far more important than any single player - our team have followed the plan, hit the targets and can only add value to the enterprise should it be sold to new owners. If new owners want to do a QPR/Blackburn with new managers and players every six months then perhaps they are not right for CAFC who have had three decent managers in nearly 30 years with a few "caretakers" in between.
So sign him up with a bumper release clause please!
Give him the resources and he will definitely stay. He loves this club and this club loves him.
Envious eyes will have been watching Chris Powell's excellent start to his managerial career. Make no mistake he will be on a number of clubs radar. Don't think he couldn't get a Premier gig either. Has done more and will achieve more than PDC will at Sunderland. We need him signed as soon as possible. It's a slight worry that if rumours of a takeover have any substance it could be difficult for the current owners to extend his contract regardless of his having done well.
If he goes, he goes but let's make sure CAFC give him the resources to stay here longer and that we receive decent compo if/when he does go... Imagine if Curbs had stayed a little longer and West Ham had come sniffing when they pushed Pardew or just look at Swansea.
The management team are far more important than any single player - our team have followed the plan, hit the targets and can only add value to the enterprise should it be sold to new owners. If new owners want to do a QPR/Blackburn with new managers and players every six months then perhaps they are not right for CAFC who have had three decent managers in nearly 30 years with a few "caretakers" in between.
So sign him up with a bumper release clause please!
Give him the resources and he will definitely stay. He loves this club and this club loves him.
As I said before, I don't even think it's about resources. Chris will stay unless he's forced out, in my opinion. If he wasn't that man he wouldn't be here now.
I do agree, but his reputation will be growing and he might start getting some decent offers - what is going on behind the scenes may provide an influence we don't need.
TJ came into this with an objective- he knows football and must know we are close to that objective. Very close. Ending the season strongly will help attract the people who have the required funds- and it isn't loads of money.
When you compare the managerial records of Chris Powell and Paulo DeCanio, I am surprised that one of the bigger Clubs haven't been in for Chris already. Surely, now is the right time to offer him a contract extension and at least guarantee a bumper compensation payment if and when he decides to move on.
I do agree, but his reputation will be growing and he might start getting some decent offers - what is going on behind the scenes may provide an influence we don't need.
TJ came into this with an objective- he knows football and must know we are close to that objective. Very close. Ending the season strongly will help attract the people who have the required funds- and it isn't loads of money.
We may be close to becoming a very capable Championship team - indeed that was arguably true last summer had the anticipated squad editions been possible - but it's quite another thing to win promotion. Even if you make the play-offs, only one out of four teams go up. And you still have a business that loses millions of pounds a year in the meantime and has to compete against teams with increasing parachute payments. So I wouldn't agree that Charlton is a cheap option, but I suppose it depends how deep your pockets are.
He broke so many club records in our promotion season and that was done because the board backed him. Last season was turbulent, but despite the numerous difficulties, Chrissy et al managed that late but remarkable rally. I do understand the board wants to sell asap, I do understand they are skint, but to not show faith in the Man For All Seasons would, IMO, be cutting off their noses to spite their face. At least give him a year's extension, as others have said, it really does make sense.
If the present owners are selling, there is no way he will be offered a contract.
Any new owners would probably want to appoint a new management team, without having to worry about paying out a compensation package. (If you remember, it's what the present owners did to Parky when they brought in CP in the first case.)
Sorry, guys, but you can't have it both ways. It's either keep the owners, and keep CP, or lose both.
It has been quoted before that there is a turbulent relationship between TJ and CP, if this is the case then, running down CP's contract maybe the cheap way for TJ to rid himself of his manager. Equally there maybe a contract in front of him, but he is seeking reassurances on future investment in the club.
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The management team are far more important than any single player - our team have followed the plan, hit the targets and can only add value to the enterprise should it be sold to new owners. If new owners want to do a QPR/Blackburn with new managers and players every six months then perhaps they are not right for CAFC who have had three decent managers in nearly 30 years with a few "caretakers" in between.
So sign him up with a bumper release clause please!
TJ came into this with an objective- he knows football and must know we are close to that objective. Very close. Ending the season strongly will help attract the people who have the required funds- and it isn't loads of money.
Any new owners would probably want to appoint a new management team, without having to worry about paying out a compensation package. (If you remember, it's what the present owners did to Parky when they brought in CP in the first case.)
Sorry, guys, but you can't have it both ways. It's either keep the owners, and keep CP, or lose both.
Very rare in the English game for that to happen with managers. 98% of the time they are sacked or pinched by another club,
The man builds teams that work for each other on and off the pitch - and his players invariably bust a gut for him.
That would have been noticed.