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I thought he was doing excellent work with Johnson,Agger and Skrtel who all have improved their defending ten fold since he was here.
A dull but well respected coach,shame it didn't work out for him.
 
Yeah, I hope those guys can keep the standard high now that he's not there any more. I also hope it works out for him at W.Brom, but I do wonder if he's management material. Time will tell.
 
So he leaves to go to another club when we have him under contract and we still manage to give him a £750,000 payout, when we would have been due a few bob if we had kept him for a few weeks?

Who in the name of fuck runs this complete car crash?
 
doctor_mac said:
So he leaves to go to another club when we have him under contract and we still manage to give him a £750,000 payout, when we would have been due a few bob if we had kept him for a few weeks?

Who in the name of fuck runs this complete car crash?
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The LMA seem to have moved in to deal with these issues instead of agents. Rodgers used the LMA, so the club didn't have to pay a big amount to another type of intermediary. As you say, with Clarke the club could have made money rather than lost it.
 
WBA are one of the few clubs in English top flight football to have used the DoF system (since they were promoted) to a satisfactory effect. Having been involved with so many other EPL clubs prior to this appointment, Clarke is no novice for the Head Coach role. Will be interesting to see how he fare. Good luck, Steve!


ALBION are delighted to announce they have appointed Steve Clarke as their new Head Coach.

The 48-year-old Scot has signed a two-year contract to take over the reins from Roy Hodgson, following his appointment as England manager.

Clarke arrives at The Hawthorns with more than ten years of Barclays Premier League experience under his belt, having served as assistant manager at Chelsea, Newcastle and West Ham, and, most recently, as first-team coach at Liverpool.

Since beginning his coaching career in 1998, Clarke has worked alongside some highly-respected managers - most notably Jose Mourinho and the late Sir Bobby Robson - and boasts two Premier League titles, plus an FA Cup triumph and three League Cup successes, on his honours list.

Albion's Sporting & Technical Director, Dan Ashworth, said: "I'm delighted to welcome Steve to the Club.

"We firmly believe we have appointed the right man to keep the club moving forward.

"After Roy was appointed as England manager, we cast the net far and wide to identify the most suitable candidate to fill his shoes.

"From the outset, we decided to pursue candidates who are renowned for their coaching ability and Steve was very much at the forefront of our thoughts because of the clubs he has worked at and the high regard he is held in within the game.

"After holding talks with Steve, he emerged as the outstanding candidate.

"Steve has worked alongside and learned from some top managers and, most importantly, he knows the Premier League inside out and what it takes to succeed at this level.

"He is a talented British coach who has served his time in the trenches as a No.2 in order to get an opportunity to be in sole charge of a team - and we are delighted to give him that chance.

"Steve has a real hunger and drive to succeed as a No.1 and is excited about the ongoing project we have at the club.

"We also have a structure in place that will hopefully give Steve the support he needs to carry on the success we have enjoyed over the past three seasons."

Clarke, who has held his UEFA Pro Licence since 2006, began his playing career at St Mirren before moving to Stamford Bridge, where he amassed 421 appearances and won the FA Cup and League Cup.

He hung up his boots after playing the full 90 minutes of Chelsea's European Cup Winners' Cup success against Stuttgart in Stockholm in 1998.
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STEVE Clarke is 'honoured' to have been appointed as Albion's new head coach and says he is determined to keep the 'good times' rolling at The Hawthorns.

The 48-year-old Scot has joined the Baggies with more than ten years' coaching experience in the Barclays Premier League, having served as assistant manager to the likes of Jose Mourinho, Sir Bobby Robson and Kenny Dalglish during spells at Chelsea, Newcastle, West Ham and Liverpool.

He now aims to put the vast knowledge he has gained into practice and prove he can be a success as a No.1 with Albion.

"I'm absolutely delighted to be given this opportunity," said Clarke.

"Becoming a head coach in my own right has always been an ambition of mine and I feel I have served my apprenticeship.

"I've done everything I could as an assistant.

"It's a process I've gone through, with a plan in mind to work as hard as I could alongside some of the best managers and coaches in the world, learning as much as possible from them, before stepping out on my own.

"I've taken something from every manager I've worked with and I've felt ready to make the step up for some time.

"I'm delighted West Bromwich Albion have given me the chance to make that progression and I'm determined to make the most of it.

"'I look forward to meeting and working with a very talented group of players and aim, with their help, to prove I can be a successful head coach."

Clarke says he plans to build on the solid foundations that have been laid by his former Chelsea team-mate Roberto Di Matteo and new England boss Roy Hodgson over the past three years.

"West Bromwich Albion strikes me as a friendly, really well organised club with a fantastic structure in place," he added.

"The Chairman and Dan Ashworth did a terrific job in selling the club's project to me and I fully aim to repay the board's faith.

"The team and supporters have had some good times in recent years and, with their help, I would like to think those good times can continue following my appointment.

"I know from past visits to The Hawthorns how well the supporters back the team and joining a club of such stature is a real honour. I can't wait to get started."
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"Steve Clarke was a fantastic assistant boss to me at Liverpool," Kenny Dalglish told the Daily Record of a man who has also held coaching positions at Newcastle, Chelsea and West Ham.

"The players all respected him and enjoyed their training with him.

"I hear he's about to get the manager's job at West Brom and I'm happy for him.

"It would be a great move for him and for the club.

"It would be the perfect place for him to start out as boss because of the stability of the club.

"In some ways, the job there is a head coaching position and it would allow him to continue with something he does brilliantly.

"At the same time, he could ease himself gently into the role of managing a football club.

"I'm glad he's getting fixed up. He would be an asset to any club."
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doctor_mac said:
So he leaves to go to another club when we have him under contract and we still manage to give him a £750,000 payout, when we would have been due a few bob if we had kept him for a few weeks?

Who in the name of fuck runs this complete car crash?
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I prefer to think of it as a nice gesture to someone who served us well over the last 18 months, and who is being moved on through no fault of his own.
 
tombrown said:
I prefer to think of it as a nice gesture to someone who served us well over the last 18 months, and who is being moved on through no fault of his own.
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Well we must be absolutely fucking loaded then. Here's 3 quarters of a million pounds mate, even though you're leaving to go to a top management position. We paid him very well for his job. I liked Clarke, but I think it is a bloody disgrace if we are needlessly paying people off to that tune.
 
tombrown said:
I prefer to think of it as a nice gesture to someone who served us well over the last 18 months, and who is being moved on through no fault of his own.
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Also I imagine cos they brought in a new manager & team of people he could argue his position as untenable & take legal action.

Regardless, I think the way they've handled it is the right one.
 
Yeah, but there's o sentiment in business. We need new players and it could have been put towards them. It should have been conditional on being unemployed for a certain period.

Otherwise Clarke has had a belter - massive payoff and then given a job he's always wanted a day or so later. Doesn't get much better than that.
 
FoxForceFive said:
Also I imagine cos they brought in a new manager & team of people he could argue his position as untenable & take legal action.

Regardless, I think the way they've handled it is the right one.
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It is ridiculous. Isn't three quarters of a million pounds still a lot of money? If he wanted his dream job we'd allow him to walk out of his contract rather than ask the Baggies for a pay off. That's a balanced concession, and there would have been no legal case (given he's just taken his 'dream' job).

We haven't handled it well. Yet again, we've been ripped off.
 
Darren Moore gave his opinion on the appointment of Clarke - one that he believes Albion fans should throw their full weight behind.

"It's fantastic and I think it's a great appointment," he said.

"He's a very, very knowledgeable man, with an inside-out understanding of the game.

"He's worked under some wonderful people in Sir Bobby Robson, Gianfranco Zola, Ruud Gullit, Kenny Dalglish and most notably, Jose Mourinho.

"His CV speaks for itself and it's very impressive.

"He's a very likeable man and everybody will see that when they get to meet him.

"He's a great head coach to lead the club forward.

"West Brom finished tenth last season under Roy's stewardship and he did absolutely fantastic - that's why England head-hunted him.

"It's now time for us to get behind the new head coach and watch the club move forward.

"I can tell you, if I'd still been a player at West Brom, I would be looking forward to working with Steve Clarke.

"I'd be keen to work alongside him and draw upon all of his coaching experience.

"He has his finger on the pulse in terms of foreign players and I just think it's a wonderful appointment."

Moore also pointed to Jose Mourinho's previous comments about his former assistant as sufficient reason to suggest the Baggies have found the right man.

He added: "How do you become a number one unless someone gives you the opportunity?

"He's a proven number two and he's been fantastic at that.

"He's ready to step up and be a number one.

"Albion have seen his great credentials and they've given him the job.

"Everyone needs to look at the club's past record for appointing head coaches.

"We should all be looking forward to the season ahead.

"You only need to look at Jose Mourinho's comments in the past about Steve to see what he thinks of him - and that's from one of the best coaches of our generation."
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barrymac20 said:
Can anyone explain why we had to pay him off as opposed to west brom paying us compensation?
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I think it was like this
1) Kenny sacked
2) Clarke offers resignation
3) We don't accept
4) We get Rogers
5)............... and all his back rook staff
6) We don't need Clark
7) We thank him and sack him
8) He gets WBA job

I presume they did not want him gone until the new boss was sorted as someone has to be in the managers chair in the interim and they think he may or may not be wanted by the new man, and it was after we sacked him he got the job.
If he resigns- no pay-out if he is sacked there is.
 
There's no way he wasn't sounded out for that job while we were still employing him though. We gave him the flick and within a couple of days he was announced as Baggies manager.
 
Rafiagra said:
Yeah, but there's o sentiment in business. We need new players and it could have been put towards them. It should have been conditional on being unemployed for a certain period.

Otherwise Clarke has had a belter - massive payoff and then given a job he's always wanted a day or so later. Doesn't get much better than that.
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That happens .. happened to me in fact. Got laid off from one company, picked up a cheque big enough to pay for an extension on my house, and walked into a new better job a mile down the road. Sometimes people get lucky with lay-offs & sackings, often they don't.
 
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