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40 Managers apply

BigRedEvil
BigRedEvil Posts: 11,092
edited December 2008 in General Charlton
Charlton have received more than 40 applications for their managerial vacancy.

Since parting company with Alan Pardew a week ago, the club have been inundated by what one insider described as “high quality” applicants.

Former Bolton and Newcastle boss Sam Allardyce is thought to be among them.

But the board are known to favour caretaker Phil Parkinson who looks certain to be given until Christmas to try and turn the club’s fortunes around.

In a frank and brutal assessment of Pardew’s reign this season, football club chairman Richard Murray confessed that directors were left with no option but to part company with the man they appointed on Christmas Eve, 2006.

He said: “We examined the whole situation. Given that we are in a results driven business, the statistics showed that we had only picked up three points from the last 24 available and our position in the league could not be ignored.

“It was not a decision we took lightly and while Charlton is a club that will always listen to supporters, we will make decisions in the best interests of the long-term future of the club rather than respond to knee-jerk reactions following bad defeats.”

Charlton will have to find more than £1 million to pay off the remainder of Pardew’s contract which had another year to run.

This is certain to restrict any spending in the January transfer window.

So who are they?

Curbs?
Big Sam?
Little Sam?
Mourinho?
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Comments

  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    where is that article from?
  • BigRedEvil
    BigRedEvil Posts: 11,092
    http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=52336
  • WhenIwasLittleBoy
    WhenIwasLittleBoy Posts: 5,430
    Dont you open the post there then.......http://www.kentmessenger.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=52336
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    ta
  • pilchard
    pilchard Posts: 3,763
    Would love large samuel, statement of intent and all that
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,004
    edited December 2008
    Blimey you English hasn't half got good since yesterday! Aren't you bored yet?

    I'm not sure if him turning us into the Bolton of the South is a good or bad idea?
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,521
    [cite]Posted By: yung2368[/cite]If curbs and big same are on the list, we definitely need to pick one of them, anyone disagree?

    parky, your time is up, thanks for giving the club 1 point out of 6 possible in the meantime......

    I WISH YOU'RE TIME WAS UP!!
  • pilchard
    pilchard Posts: 3,763
    failing large samuel, mr parkinson is doing an acceptable job so far
  • WhenIwasLittleBoy
    WhenIwasLittleBoy Posts: 5,430
    [quote][cite]Posted By: yung2368[/cite]If curbs and big same are on the list, we definitely need to pick one of them, anyone disagree?

    parky, your time is up, thanks for giving the club 1 point out of 6 possible in the meantime......[/quote] Is it inset day today
  • pilchard
    pilchard Posts: 3,763
    edited December 2008
    Big similar

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  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    LOL pichard

    Evening Yung trying to get Curbs name in every thread again i see
  • pilchard
    pilchard Posts: 3,763
    edited December 2008
    Hurry up then
  • BigRedEvil
    BigRedEvil Posts: 11,092
    [cite]Posted By: Plaaayer[/cite]

    I'm not sure if him turning us into the Bolton of the South is a good or bad idea?

    Winning football matches?

    I heard it's a good feeling.
  • Plaaayer
    Plaaayer Posts: 9,004
    Lol, how do you remember?
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    you are either a fan yung or your not.

    you dont give up if you are one because of board room decisions

    thats if you are a fan and not curbs love child
  • pilchard
    pilchard Posts: 3,763
    edited December 2008
    Or Kenny Jacketts lovechild.Yes Phil Parkinson is doing an "acceptable job" given time could do a fantastic job.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,521
    Or just a time wasting pillock!
  • pilchard
    pilchard Posts: 3,763
    edited December 2008
    Spot on soundasa£!
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    now now chaps dont be rude you will get accused of picking on the wee lad
  • pilchard
    pilchard Posts: 3,763
    edited December 2008
    enlarged/engorged samuel

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  • nigel
    nigel Posts: 2,454
    edited December 2008
    There's nothing to say Curbs is on the list. I don't think he would 'apply' as such. I think we will have to go and beg him. Which I still think we should.

    That Allardyce would contemplate coming to little old Charlton is encouraging. All due respect to Parky, but he is only a caretaker. If Big Sam is interested and we can work out terms of hire, then we would be bloody fools not to take him. (Assuming we can't get Curbs).

    On the other hand, there are likely to be vacancies soon at Sunderland and Blackburn so if Allardyce came he could very swiftly leave us in the lurch again.(But at least there would be a compensation package from a prem club that would cover Pardew's pay-off?)

    Dunno all the names on the list but in addition to Allardyce, I believe Boothroyd is one of them. Think I'd rather have Parky than him.

    So my list:

    1. Curbs
    2. Allardyce
    3. Parkinson
  • nigel
    nigel Posts: 2,454
    Yung, if you want Curbishley back as much as you say, I suggest you just pipe down. All you are doing is pissing people off by banging on like a cracked record with your bizarre cod syntax which is so fake that it's not even funny...

    Yes, I'd have Curbs back like a shot. But if you carry on like this, I might start to have second thoughts.
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    Or too old. Anyway I'd love to see Curbs back but I'm afaid he's not the man to do what is required at the moment and keep us up this season.But if the board face the fact there's a good chance of relegation and are looking to next season already with resources available for team re-building then perhaps he'd take on the challenge.
  • kinveachyaddick
    kinveachyaddick Posts: 3,890
    If money were no object I reckon the board would go for big Sam as his high profile would be good and keep some interest in our fortunes

    however, given our (by all accounts) fairly desperate situation I presume they are hoping against hope that Parkinson will get us climbing up the table by Xmas and give it to him
  • stilladdicted
    stilladdicted Posts: 4,307
    Sorry if this seems daft but if they've got 40 applicants does it mean the job was advertised somewhere? If it was, why would the board advertise a job that wasn't available? Or do wannabee managers just write in when a manager is sacked?
  • Charlton Dan
    Charlton Dan Posts: 4,937
    Where do you live Yung?
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,091
    Oh here we go - our resident "Wind Up Merchant Outer" is in the house. ;-)
  • Charlton Dan
    Charlton Dan Posts: 4,937
    [cite]Posted By: WSS[/cite]Oh here we go - our resident "Wind Up Merchant Outer" is in the house. ;-)

    Sssssshhhh ;)
  • Charlton Dan
    Charlton Dan Posts: 4,937
    [cite]Posted By: yung2368[/cite]i am asian and grew up in asian and i live in usa now. i have watched football for 30 years so i said what i said.

    Where abouts in the US?
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Yung

    Parky would NOT have been on most peoples list HOWEVER we have NO MONEY and TBH i dont think there is any other option for that reason.

    We are not the club that you left behind you need to get used to it

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