Who will be the new Charlton coach? - p103. Nathan Jones confirmed

Genuinely quite excited if we do get Jones. Obviously the man is a lunatic but he's been very successful at this level, he knows the place and it's a higher level manager than I ever would have expected. Who would have suggested we'd hire a manager whose last job was in the Premier League? Still plenty of time for it to fall through but if we pull it off it'll be a coup. Plus best of all, he's not Appleton!

Scoham said:

Cawley’s added more to his article.

https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/sport/charlton-athletic-target-nathan-jones-as-their-new-boss/

Jones was on the final two man shortlist for the Millwall job.

Thought this was interesting too:

Curtis Fleming took caretaker charge of Charlton’s 1-1 draw at Blackpool last weekend, assisted by Jason Pearce.

The pair are expected to still be at the helm for Saturday’s home match against Derby County.

American investors Gabriel Brener and Joshua Friedman took a more hands-on approach to the process of bringing in the new man after the short tenures of both Dean Holden and Michael Appleton.

Jones left Southampton in February 2023 so does this mean he could if he wished applied for the position when we sacked Holden?

Yeah. Scott was busy trying to convince Kayne Ramsay to sign.

Even better news if the owners are looking to get more involved.  I always felt Methven and co had oversold the project, and I’m guessing their time is up based on how it’s panned out so far.  Not time is up in that they’re out the door, but presumably, people with that money don’t dick about.  

SamB09 said:

Who is this Reams that keeps getting mentioned?

joey essex?

Joey Wrexham, more like.

If its Jones then that's fantastic news! If it's the money men stepping in to protect their investment from Scott and Co. that's even better! Now if we can get a No 10 in during the next 35 minutes...it'll be superb!

cabbles said:

If it’s Jones, then it’s a reason to be positive.  A definite step up on Garner, Holden and Appleton.  We really need this appointment to work.  Good signs 

That’s a big leap of faith for you mate! Cheerful, Reasons to be Cheerful 😉

RonnieMoore said:

TheAddicks4Ever said:

golfaddick said:

MarcusH26 said:

ALL sides  ?  How many are there ? Surely there are just 2 - CAFC and Jones.

BOTH sides would be more apt / grammatical. 

YES his terms might be that Scott has to leave before he becomes the Manager 

why are people now obsessed with Scott .. been said he has no influence on the playing side his job is solely recruitment like Steve Gallen … and CM has no say in the day to day running of the club .. again been said to many times yet people still go on and on 

  I'd say choosing the manager has very big influence on the playing side. And he's shown he's pretty useless at that.

Scoham said:

Cawley’s added more to his article.

https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/sport/charlton-athletic-target-nathan-jones-as-their-new-boss/

Jones was on the final two man shortlist for the Millwall job.

Thought this was interesting too:

Curtis Fleming took caretaker charge of Charlton’s 1-1 draw at Blackpool last weekend, assisted by Jason Pearce.

The pair are expected to still be at the helm for Saturday’s home match against Derby County.

American investors Gabriel Brener and Joshua Friedman took a more hands-on approach to the process of bringing in the new man after the short tenures of both Dean Holden and Michael Appleton.

With a bit of luck they are realising that Rodwell, Scott and Methven are not up to the job and are damaging their investment. Private equity and hedge fund types don't give many chances. 

Also confirms who is leading/controlling the investment consortium.

I'm now wondering who leaks to who. Some very credible people on this forum have had different info to Cawley on some things, and been right where Cawley has been wrong, and talked up some parties.

Cawley now feeds a line about Brener amd Friedman, otherwise hitherto unmentioned, possibly as a condition of getting this news, and to reposition their influence? Interesting.

If I may draw a comparison from the NFL, very respected talking heads who break news like Adam Schefter and Ian Rapoport often tweet news with "this deal was negotiated by X agent" or "[personnel involved in hiring] was a big say in this appointment", and it's clearly a line from their source.

So I wonder if there's a bit of selective leaking going on!

RonnieMoore said:

TheAddicks4Ever said:

golfaddick said:

MarcusH26 said:

ALL sides  ?  How many are there ? Surely there are just 2 - CAFC and Jones.

BOTH sides would be more apt / grammatical. 

YES his terms might be that Scott has to leave before he becomes the Manager 

why are people now obsessed with Scott .. been said he has no influence on the playing side his job is solely recruitment like Steve Gallen … and CM has no say in the day to day running of the club .. again been said to many times yet people still go on and on 

I thought Scott was the Director of Football no? However if you’ve seen his job specification, I bow to your superior knowledge. Any chance of posing it up on here ?😏

LargeAddick said:

Valley11 said:

Excellent news. I hope he gets to bring in his own team. Never seems to work when a new manager is told to work with what’s already there, as decent as Fleming is. 

On what evidence is Fleming decent?

In a human being sense

IF Jones gets appointed then that’s a real statement of intent and hats off to the money men, cause he won’t be cheap

throw in a few decent signings in the summer and there are possibly reasons to be cheerful

….. is he’s just gotta keep us up first 🤣