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Parkinson to Reading

DENCH
DENCH Posts: 98
in General Charlton
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2293791/Reading-looking-make-Bradford-boss-Phil-Parkinson-manager.html


it is DM .. but still..

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  • Super_horns
    Super_horns Posts: 1,299
    Linking the fact he is out of contract and a former Reading great together...
  • MattD
    MattD Posts: 1,530
    edited March 2013
    Parkinson is currently the lowest paid manager in League Two, thought to be earning just £50,000-a-year.
    'Just'

    Sigh

    He must be like the only somewhat reasonably paid manager atm
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    Think Bradford have offered him a new contract haven't they?
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,238
    Well as i live only 11 miles from Reading and have a few mates who support them and think he is a "Reading legend" often said to me that they lost respect for Charlton when they sacked him, I used to ask them would they swap him for Mcdermitt, well i hope he joins them and see what a great manger he isnt.
  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    Hope he joins them and does really well.

    Great guy.
  • floydroadfaithfull
    floydroadfaithfull Posts: 4,778
    Hope he gets it
    Will do well with them in championship

    Top bloke deserves big break
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Sometimes football defies logic.
    Sack a bloke who got you into the premiership on a shoe string and replace him with someone who is struggling to win the second division with one of the biggest clubs. LOL
  • GretnaGreenAddick
    GretnaGreenAddick Posts: 3,085
    Hope he gets it and does well.
  • Barn Door Varney
    Barn Door Varney Posts: 2,000
    floydroadfaithfull said:

    Hope he gets it
    Will do well with them in championship

    The only way he would get Reading out the Championship would be by taking them down to League 1!
  • floydroadfaithfull
    floydroadfaithfull Posts: 4,778
    Biggest club of league 2?
    I don't think so

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  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    floydroadfaithfull said:

    Biggest club of league 2?
    I don't think so

    OK below is a list of the second division clubs in their current order, please point out the ones which are bigger clubs than Bradford. (This should be good, I'm waiting)

    Gillingham , Burton Albion's, Port Vale, Northampton, Rotherham, Cheltenham's , Exeter, Fleetwood, Oxford Utd, Southend, Bradford, Chesterfield, Morecambe, Wycombe, Bristol Rovers, Dag & Red, Rochdale, Wimbledon, York , Barnet, Aldershot, Torquay , Plymouth , Accrington
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 12,054
    Can't see him getting it. A big difference between being linked and genuine interest. Surely he doesn't have the experience they need. Mind you, stranger things have happened.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    What record does he have to say he will get them up

    Dooomed appointment
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,643
    Parkie deserves to move up a league or two but I doubt it will be Reading, it would be a half sensible decision, but getting rid of McDermott was a stupid decision, so expect an unknown foreign manager
  • fossdeneboy
    fossdeneboy Posts: 403
    If he gets the job I can see a lot of crap loan players joining Reading next year.
  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,398
    Francis and McCormack they will be cheap.
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    Won't happen but would be hilarious.
    MattD said:

    Parkinson is currently the lowest paid manager in League Two, thought to be earning just £50,000-a-year.
    'Just'

    Sigh

    He must be like the only somewhat reasonably paid manager atm

    Managing 30 odd staff, taking abuse in the news on tv and countless Internet forums, working a high pressure 80 hour week with endless travel.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,823
    He is a legend there but not sure the Russian owner would want to go down to league 2 for his manager.
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    50k a year would explain why he got our job full time and kept it for so long. Aren't Reading still in the PL? Why would they sack McD for someone with no credentials?
    Being a nice bloke does not make you a PL level manager, especially when Adkins is available. My advice to Phil would be take the pay rise and spend the next few years on the project to get Bradford out of the bottom division which is "work in progress". If he did go to Reading he'd soon end up unemployed.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,507
    I can't see PP getting the Reading job. It'll go to a foreigner, perhaps with some Prem/FL experience, or to a British manager who is in between jobs; an Adkins type

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  • ColinTat
    ColinTat Posts: 2,794
    They're relegated. Mcdermott was much more likely to get promoted. Adkins would be a fool to take it, should take cardiff/leicester a club who failed to go up but are ambitious and willing to over spend in the prem. I honestly can't see any capable manager taking it: bit like wolves last season. They can only go for a champ manager or below. Someone like Saunders before he took wolves: Unless they go for trap door Dowie.

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