Northampton Town manager Chris Wilder is set to take over at Charlton Athletic after a deal between the two parties was ‘done’, according to The Times.
Journalist Gary Jacob claims the League Two title winning boss is now set to depart Sixfields alongside assistant manager Alan Knill.
He tweeted: “Charlton Athletic deal for Chris Wilder done and assistant Alan Knill set to follow from Northampton”
To be fair someone has asked Richard Cawley about the Gary Jacobs (Times) tweet who has replied saying that Gary is someone Richard has total respect for.
They had Phil Chapple and Damian Matthew (maybe others) on a six month rolling contract, so I would expect them to offer Wilder something similar. The bloke lives in Sheffield I believe and used to commute to Northampton, so if he comes here he might need to re-locate, and a six month contract is no basis for upping sticks and moving.
If there is a snag then I would not be suprised. I suspect that if Wilder gets wiser he should insist on everything in writing including football assurances as well as personal contract.
Northampton Town manager Chris Wilder is set to take over at Charlton Athletic after a deal between the two parties was ‘done’, according to The Times.
Journalist Gary Jacob claims the League Two title winning boss is now set to depart Sixfields alongside assistant manager Alan Knill.
He tweeted: “Charlton Athletic deal for Chris Wilder done and assistant Alan Knill set to follow from Northampton”
IF Wilder does sign up for the circus and that's looking a big if at the moment, then at least it's a sign that he is his own man and not taken in by their bullshit. Whatever I still doubt he'll be in charge come the first game.
Isn't it 'normal' football practise these days to offer a manager a long contract and then just break it with a bit of compensation thrown in when you do ?
How can you possibly you build something long term when the entire football management team are on 6 or 12 months rolling contracts?
While it protects the 'business' if something goes wrong, it is a total liability if the club is successful as your asset can walk away. Why would you set up the football side of things planning for failure rather than targeting success? If your judgement is so bad as to get through 7 managers/head coaches in two years and then identify a new one and stick him on a 12 month contract then the question should be why are you still making decisions and not allowing someone with better judgement to make them?
Said it as soon as his name was mentioned. The halfwits running the club can go after whatever manager they want. The second Roland or Meire open their mouths and talk to said manager, its game over.
How can you possibly you build something long term when the entire football management team are on 6 or 12 months rolling contracts?
While it protects the 'business' if something goes wrong, it is a total liability if the club is successful as your asset can walk away. Why would you set up the football side of things planning for failure rather than targeting success? If your judgement is so bad as to get through 7 managers/head coaches in two years and then identify a new one and stick him on a 12 month contract then the question should be why are you still making decisions and not allowing someone with better judgement to make them?
The other thing that it says to me is that Roly isn't looking to sell soon. Otherwise he wouldn't care about the length of the contract, because he wouldn't be here.
Wilder probably didn't know too much about our plight until the past few days. He agreed to meet. Fine. Problem for Duchatelet is that Wilder's got plenty of contacts in the game who have had dealings with us in the last couple of years.
It's slowly unraveling to him what a basket case club we are.
Northampton Town manager Chris Wilder is set to take over at Charlton Athletic after a deal between the two parties was ‘done’, according to The Times.
Journalist Gary Jacob claims the League Two title winning boss is now set to depart Sixfields alongside assistant manager Alan Knill.
He tweeted: “Charlton Athletic deal for Chris Wilder done and assistant Alan Knill set to follow from Northampton”
How can you possibly you build something long term when the entire football management team are on 6 or 12 months rolling contracts?
While it protects the 'business' if something goes wrong, it is a total liability if the club is successful as your asset can walk away. Why would you set up the football side of things planning for failure rather than targeting success? If your judgement is so bad as to get through 7 managers/head coaches in two years and then identify a new one and stick him on a 12 month contract then the question should be why are you still making decisions and not allowing someone with better judgement to make them?
The other thing that it says to me is that Roly isn't looking to sell soon. Otherwise he wouldn't care about the length of the contract, because he wouldn't be here.
He wants someone to get us back up to the championship, he doesn't want someone long term. Once we're back in the championship that's when the Luzons, Peeters', Rigas come in to carry out his dirty plan.
Wilder probably didn't know too much about our plight until the past few days. He agreed to meet. Fine. Problem for Duchatelet is that Wilder's got plenty of contacts in the game who have had dealings with us in the last couple of years.
It's slowly unraveling to him what a basket case club we are.
He knew, he was fully appraised of the situation late last week.
Wilder probably didn't know too much about our plight until the past few days. He agreed to meet. Fine. Problem for Duchatelet is that Wilder's got plenty of contacts in the game who have had dealings with us in the last couple of years.
It's slowly unraveling to him what a basket case club we are.
He knew, he was fully appraised of the situation late last week.
How can you possibly you build something long term when the entire football management team are on 6 or 12 months rolling contracts?
While it protects the 'business' if something goes wrong, it is a total liability if the club is successful as your asset can walk away. Why would you set up the football side of things planning for failure rather than targeting success? If your judgement is so bad as to get through 7 managers/head coaches in two years and then identify a new one and stick him on a 12 month contract then the question should be why are you still making decisions and not allowing someone with better judgement to make them?
The other thing that it says to me is that Roly isn't looking to sell soon. Otherwise he wouldn't care about the length of the contract, because he wouldn't be here.
He wants someone to get us back up to the championship, he doesn't want someone long term. Once we're back in the championship that's when the Luzons, Peeters', Rigas come in to carry out his dirty plan.
Wilder probably didn't know too much about our plight until the past few days. He agreed to meet. Fine. Problem for Duchatelet is that Wilder's got plenty of contacts in the game who have had dealings with us in the last couple of years.
It's slowly unraveling to him what a basket case club we are.
He knew, he was fully appraised of the situation late last week.
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If there is a snag then I would not be suprised. I suspect that if Wilder gets wiser he should insist on everything in writing including football assurances as well as personal contract.
Gary Jacob tells Charlton Life that he heard it was a done deal yesterday.
Rich Cawley implies this morning there's been a snag.
While it protects the 'business' if something goes wrong, it is a total liability if the club is successful as your asset can walk away. Why would you set up the football side of things planning for failure rather than targeting success? If your judgement is so bad as to get through 7 managers/head coaches in two years and then identify a new one and stick him on a 12 month contract then the question should be why are you still making decisions and not allowing someone with better judgement to make them?
Problem for Duchatelet is that Wilder's got plenty of contacts in the game who have had dealings with us in the last couple of years.
It's slowly unraveling to him what a basket case club we are.
Meire,Murray....?