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?
Decent in the sense of seemingly being a pretty nice guy with a good outlook on life perhaps, rather than in terms of skill - which is probably quite hard to judge either way on very limited evidence
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.
Leave home an hour earlier on Saturday ( ie 10am) as Crossbars will be rammed ( get it ? ) with smiley faced Addicks buying rounds & toasting the future following today's positive news.
Just having a look at the Luton team that were under him, lots of familiar names. Bakinson, Isted, Shinnie, Lloyd Jones, Elliot Lee, Famewo, Steer, Lockyer of course.
Just having a look at the Luton team that were under him, lots of familiar names. Bakinson, Isted, Shinnie, Lloyd Jones, Elliot Lee, Famewo, Steer, Lockyer of course.
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!
Hopefully it'll be a case "Yeah, he is, but he's our lunatic."
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.
That is interesting.
Wonder if they've lost faith in Scott & He'll be off
Knew it was too good to be true that we would sign a half decent manager straight away and give ourselves half a chance of getting out of this shit. Jones will get pissed off with waiting for an answer and we will end up with someone like Appleton. Same old Charlton.
Based on? The search for a new manager started last Wednesday. In that time the board would have had to advertise, discard the crap, approach managers, speak to agents, book interviews, reduce the short list, arrange second interviews, make an offer etc.
we are 5 working days into the process. Why would jones get pissed off?
realistically, how long would you expect the process to take?
you do realise that katrien didn't really interview 300 managers in 17!minutes.
I wonder if he'll be able to bring in his own backroom staff.
I’d have thought he’s in a position to demand whatever he wants and if he doesn’t get it then he turns the job down. It wouldn’t be long before another Club comes calling.
Sounds like Rich is a day or so behind on news.. as I said at the start of the week, not everyone agreed Jones was the right direction, but if most agree they would go with it. There was total agreement they wanted Rowett, but unfortunately Rowett didn’t want to come for whatever reason, and likely the reasoning Supaclive mentioned.
But on Wednesday they had all agreed on Jones (I wasn’t told who at this point) Jones agreed to come, most of the financial package is agreed, but a few minor details to go through, but was agreed the club need to focus on trying to get players through the door. I was told an announcement in the next 48 hrs which means today is the day.. Also believe Jones recommended Ramsey and I don’t believe was on the clubs list.
Knew it was too good to be true that we would sign a half decent manager straight away and give ourselves half a chance of getting out of this shit. Jones will get pissed off with waiting for an answer and we will end up with someone like Appleton. Same old Charlton.
Based on? The search for a new manager started last Wednesday. In that time the board would have had to advertise, discard the crap, approach managers, speak to agents, book interviews, reduce the short list, arrange second interviews, make an offer etc.
we are 5 working days into the process. Why would jones get pissed off?
realistically, how long would you expect the process to take?
you do realise that katrien didn't really interview 300 managers in 17!minutes.
- Nathan Jones 6/4 - Nigel Pearson 3/1 - Neil Warnock 4/1 - Michael Duff 5/1 - John Eustace 5/1 - Mark Bonner 10/1 - Gareth Ainsworth 14/1 - 16/1 bar
27th January morning update…
- Nathan Jones 1/2 - Alex Neil 7/2 - Neil Warnock 6/1 - Michael Duff 6/1 - Nigel Pearson 8/1 - John Eustace 10/1 - 20/1 bar
28th January update…
- Nathan Jones 2/1 - Mark Warburton 2/1 - Gary Rowett 4/1 - Alex Neil 6/1 - Michael Duff 8/1 - Neil Warnock 8/1 - Nigel Pearson 10/1 - John Eustace 12/1 - 20/1 bar
29th January update, unchanged from 24 hours ago
30th January…
- Nathan Jones 4/7 - Mark Warburton 4/1 - Gary Rowett 4/1 - Alex Neil 8/1 - Neil Warnock 10/1 - Michael Duff 10/1 - Nigel Pearson 12/1 - Darren Moore 14/1 - 20/1 bar
31st January
- Nathan Jones EVS - Gary Rowett 2/1 - Mark Warburton 5/1 - Alex Neil 10/1 - Michael Duff 12/1 - Neil Warnock 12/1 - Nigel Pearson 14/1 - Darren Moore 16/1 - 20/1 bar
1st Feb
- Nathan Jones 6/4 - Neil Warnock 2/1 - Gary Rowett 5/1 - Mark Warburton 8/1 - Alex Neil 12/1 - Nigel Pearson 16/1 - Darren Moore 20/1 - Michael Duff 20/1 - 25/1 bar
2nd Feb
- Nathan Jones 1/12 - Neil Warnock 10/1 - Gary Rowett 16/1 - Mark Warburton 20/1 - Alex Neil 25/1 - 33/1 bar
If it is to be Jones then that's a statement of intent from the owners as he is levels above some of the recent dross and he certainly won't come cheap.
As good a manager as a currently pretty rubbish bottom half of league one club could surely hope to appoint.
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Leave home an hour earlier on Saturday ( ie 10am) as Crossbars will be rammed ( get it ? ) with smiley faced Addicks buying rounds & toasting the future following today's positive news.
It's been a while !
Possibly the most interesting part of this whole piece. If true, it shows that maybe we are more than a casual investment to these people.
Duchatelet was completely hands off. Sandgaard was like an octopus.
Maybe we've finally found some balance ?
Before you get too excited, it will be Curtis Fleming talking about the match.
But on Wednesday they had all agreed on Jones (I wasn’t told who at this point) Jones agreed to come, most of the financial package is agreed, but a few minor details to go through, but was agreed the club need to focus on trying to get players through the door. I was told an announcement in the next 48 hrs which means today is the day.. Also believe Jones recommended Ramsey and I don’t believe was on the clubs list.
- Nathan Jones 1/12
- Neil Warnock 10/1
- Gary Rowett 16/1
- Mark Warburton 20/1
- Alex Neil 25/1
- 33/1 bar
As good a manager as a currently pretty rubbish bottom half of league one club could surely hope to appoint.