Dean Holden - July 2025: now assistant manager at Hull City (p48)

Redmidland said:

Whoever our owners are, they need to tie him down  to a decent contract....now! He has impressed me to date and 12 pts out of 15 + that superb performance at Old Trafford, surely earns him at least a 18 month contract?

At a normal club, yes.

https://twitter.com/CliveHA23719823/status/1623669578877308928?s=20&t=jzicjXYEOsALmHk2RjBBNw

seth plum said:

I think Holden can have high regard for Charlton yet still justifiably take another job.
He is contracted here until the end of the season, but another club might offer him two and a half years.

As well as a nice bonus for avoiding relegation with Hudders. 

Henry Irving said:

https://twitter.com/CliveHA23719823/status/1623669578877308928?s=20&t=jzicjXYEOsALmHk2RjBBNw

Great bloke - he gets what it means to be a football fan.

https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/i-want-to-be-here-longer-term-dean-holden-ready-to-commit-to-charlton-athletic-but-takeover-situation-needs-a-positive-resolution/

Have really taken to him as a man as well as a manager hope he stays 

SELR_addicks said:

shirty5 said:

https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/i-want-to-be-here-longer-term-dean-holden-ready-to-commit-to-charlton-athletic-but-takeover-situation-needs-a-positive-resolution/

For someone that says he doesn't need a new contract and he's comfortable. He doesn't half say it a lot...

Another interesting interview along with the Huddersfield piece and the Andy Scott quote. 

Probably because he's being asked it a lot. 

shirty5 said:

https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/i-want-to-be-here-longer-term-dean-holden-ready-to-commit-to-charlton-athletic-but-takeover-situation-needs-a-positive-resolution/

Wow love this interview. Seriously I vaguely remembered him as a Bolton player and then had to google where he had worked as an assistant/manager. I honestly felt it was the cheapest stop gap option they could find in our current predicament (outside of appointing a current cafc coach) and was very underwhelmed. Not sure anyone has changed my mind so quickly in such a short space of time. Yeah you can be trained or intelligent enough to know the right things to say but it’s just the genuine quality of him as a man and how he seems to just fit and he feels like a manager I can get behind which didn’t think I would say under current ownership. Really do hope we can hang onto him. 

Fanny Fanackapan said:

FULLERpromise said:

shirty5 said:

https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/i-want-to-be-here-longer-term-dean-holden-ready-to-commit-to-charlton-athletic-but-takeover-situation-needs-a-positive-resolution/

Wow love this interview. Seriously I vaguely remembered him as a Bolton player and then had to google where he had worked as an assistant/manager. I honestly felt it was the cheapest stop gap option they could find in our current predicament (outside of appointing a current cafc coach) and was very underwhelmed. Not sure anyone has changed my mind so quickly in such a short space of time. Yeah you can be trained or intelligent enough to know the right things to say but it’s just the genuine quality of him as a man and how he seems to just fit and he feels like a manager I can get behind which didn’t think I would say under current ownership. Really do hope we can hang onto him. 

For me, honest is the word I'd use to describe him.

Something in very short supply off the pitch at our club these days, especially if the name is Sandgaard.

Up to a point. 
He never gave  a straight answer to any of my questions at Bromley Addicks (not that I blame him). 

Thanks Amanda. All the best.

Henry Irving said:

https://twitter.com/CliveHA23719823/status/1623669578877308928?s=20&t=jzicjXYEOsALmHk2RjBBNw

The photo bottom left hand corner, the aerial pic of The Valley, shows how large the old South Terrace was.

SELR_addicks said:

Holden lost it now his buddies aren't there? 

Is it not exhausting existing in a permanent state of snark?

SouthWest_Addicks said:

Happy to be in the minority but not totally won over by Holden as the manager. Very much want him to be in charge until end of the season, but not desperate for him to get the long term contract. As a club we are crying out for stability but I said about Garner at the start. 

In the great scheme of things, does it actually matter who our manager is?
 
Holden could resign tomorrow and Sandgard will find another chump and so it starts again. I like Holden and I liked Garner but I feel no connection to them because I know they’ll be out the door soon enough.