English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers gave a deserving gift to its long time non-performing manager Stale Solbakken by firing him all of a sudden. Perhaps, he joined the team of three managers in less than eleven months, and all of them got the ill treatment just coz their club lost few matches. Doncaster Rovers’ manager Dean Saunders has been appointed to fill his space and he immediately accepted it despite a sign of warning from retiring manager Solbakken. Solbakken, reportedly, warned him that he will have to face the similar problems as he did in his eleven months’ stay at Molineux. But, Saunders remained unaffected by his warning and spent little time in signing the deal. This is not his first managerial job; perhaps he has served as coach also to several clubs, like Bradford, Blackburn, Newcastle and Wales in the past, hence he thinks he has sufficient reasons to assume his competency for the most challenging job at the club.
Saunders, 48 year old, has played for Liverpool and Aston Villa as a striker during his playing career, moreover, he also has sufficient managerial experience, coz he has served the same job at Wrexham and Doncaster. His current club’s chief executive, Gavin Baldwin, issued a statement via club website that reads as, “I have just come off the phone with Wolverhampton Wanderers’ chief executive Jez Moxey and can confirm that Dean Saunders has agreed to take over as manager at Molineux.
“We have agreed a good deal for Doncaster Rovers. Work has already started on trying to find a replacement for Dean and continue our push for promotion back to the Championship. I have spoken with Dean to thank him for the fantastic job he has done here at Doncaster and wish him well for the future.”
Similarly, his new club also informed the world about their new manager via a statement that reads as, “Wolves can tonight confirm that terms have been agreed with both Dean Saunders and Doncaster Rovers for Saunders to become the club’s new manager. The formalities of the move are yet to be completed and a fuller statement will be issued once they are finalised.”
Surely, things are not going to be easy for the new manager, and he will have to experiment something different to remain at the club else he would also be seen in the team of ex-managers.