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Dean Holden - Jan 2025: joined the coaching staff at Adana Demispor in Turkey (p47)

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  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,037
    Fair play, probably getting paid a fortune! 
  • SomervilleAddick
    SomervilleAddick Posts: 3,575
    Well he won’t be buying the fans a beer at the local pub, that’s for sure. 
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    That’s Gerrard’s mob innit?
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    SuedeAdidas said:
    That’s Gerrard’s mob innit?
    Yep.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,851
    Gribbo said:
    Finally got a new job. Good luck to Deano -


    It's funny how "First Team Manager" at Charlton sounds much more impressive than "Head Coach" at Bristol City, which was actually a bigger job.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,045
    killerandflash said:
    Gribbo said:
    Finally got a new job. Good luck to Deano -


    It's funny how "First Team Manager" at Charlton sounds much more impressive than "Head Coach" at Bristol City, which was actually a bigger job.
    He's got a better agent than Aneke.
  • cafc_se7
    cafc_se7 Posts: 2,274
    Fair Play Deano! I hope he is in their equivalent of the Oak buying their fans some lemonades. 
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,276
    Good luck Dean, great he has got himself a new job so quickly.  
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,851
    Ettifaq is right next to Bahrain, so he'll probably live there. That's where Gerrard (and Henderson before he left) lived.
  • Lewis Coaches
    Lewis Coaches Posts: 5,408
    Funny when I was last in Bahrain i thought it was an island?
    over causeway 84 KMS 80 minutes drive according to google.
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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,850
    Good luck to him. Seemed like a genuinely nice fella.
  • SDAddick
    SDAddick Posts: 14,467
    Remember after his first couple of months when things had gone pretty well he was constantly linked with with Championship jobs. It always felt like bullshit because it clearly was his agent angling for him to get a longer contract at Charlton. 

    Fast forward less than a year and he's been out of work for six months and turns up in Saudi Arabia.

    Best of luck to him, but it's pretty clear he's not going to be a manager. 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,766
    edited March 2024
    Class, hopefully Alfie’s found well soon.

    https://x.com/deanholdenuk/status/1770873435649880553?s=46&t=ynww82GMl7VKBjthBflU0g
  • Mike
    Mike Posts: 6,166
    Top man. Hope Alfie is found soon.
  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,927
    Liked him. Decent fella. Good luck Dean in the middle easy...will probably need it!
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,766
    Al Ettifaq won 5-0 away from home yesterday evening. Hope he’s enjoying himself out there..!
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,485
    edited May 2024
    Wonder if he's stuck a oner behind the jump in the Sheikh's Arms yet?
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,622
    Couldn’t be more pleased for him. Probably on very good money and living a great lifestyle. Needs to build back a reputation which was tarnished at The Valley not entirely of his own making. Good on him. Very decent man.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,045
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    Couldn’t be more pleased for him. Probably on very good money and living a great lifestyle. Needs to build back a reputation which was tarnished at The Valley not entirely of his own making. Good on him. Very decent man.
    All his Christmases have come at once.

    Good luck to him though.
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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,622
    Despite Gerrards previous shortcomings as manager I think it’s clear he’s going to get another English job sooner or later. Would be nice to think Holden can become SG’s regular number two and get a long career in the job he obviously loves. Not sure he’s cut out to be the gaffer but I suspect has a lot to offer as a number two. 
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,045
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    Despite Gerrards previous shortcomings as manager I think it’s clear he’s going to get another English job sooner or later. Would be nice to think Holden can become SG’s regular number two and get a long career in the job he obviously loves. Not sure he’s cut out to be the gaffer but I suspect has a lot to offer as a number two. 
    Agreed, he's a peoples person.
  • Ferryman
    Ferryman Posts: 2,921
    Gribbo said:
    Finally got a new job. Good luck to Deano -


    I wonder if he'll go down the pub with their fans?
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,045
    Ferryman said:
    Gribbo said:
    Finally got a new job. Good luck to Deano -


    I wonder if he'll go down the pub with their fans?
    That was a stunt Methven approves of, I imagine he picked up the tab.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    I was in the pub last night with one of DH's close mates. Exchanged a text and video message with Dean on this guy's phone. He clearly felt he wasn't given long enough at the start of the 23/24 season, and said he genuinely loved his time at Charlton.  
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    edited December 2024
    Oh - and he's no longer assistant manager at Ettifaq. Seems he and the sporting director have carried the can for Gerrard's lack of success for some reason? 
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,622
    Certainly one of the good guys
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,225
    Algarveaddick said:
    I was in the pub last night with one of DH's close mates. Exchanged a text and video message with Dean on this guy's phone. He clearly felt he wasn't given long enough at the start of the 23/24 season, and said he genuinely loved his time at Charlton.  
    Had a long chat with him at the FSA Awards.

    Certainly not a fan of the SMT
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,055
    Henry Irving said:
    Algarveaddick said:
    I was in the pub last night with one of DH's close mates. Exchanged a text and video message with Dean on this guy's phone. He clearly felt he wasn't given long enough at the start of the 23/24 season, and said he genuinely loved his time at Charlton.  
    Had a long chat with him at the FSA Awards.

    Certainly not a fan of the SMT
    Which is interesting considering they’re the only reason he got the job in the first place. 

    My suspicion has been that he was never meant to last as long as he did but he was too popular/a preferred candidate wasn’t available 

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