According to reports, Sven Goran Eriksson is set to be named manager of Notts County later today!!! Wonder if Hughes knew that when he was offered a deal?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/foo...icle6721474.ece
Notts County will confirm the most unexpected managerial appointment of the summer later today when Sven-Göran Eriksson is announced as the club's new manager.
The former England head coach has been lined up by Arab consortium Munto Finance, which took charge at Meadow Lane last week. The new owners see the appointment as the first step of their ten-year plan, which they hope will take the club into the upper echelons of the Premier League.
County are one of the founder members of the Football League and the oldest league club in the country but finished last season in 19th place in the bottom division. The world's oldest professional club were in the top division as recently as 1992 but have flirted with bankruptcy in recent seasons, struggling in the lower reaches of Division Two since 2005 and playing to crowds of less than 5,000.
Peter Trembling, the club’s new chairman and chief executive, said the club’s potential would finally be unlocked after announcing the takeover deal earlier this month. "I firmly believe this is a momentous day for all those involved with Notts County, particularly the club’s loyal supporters,” he said
Eriksson has been out of work since being sacked as manager of Mexico in April. The former Lazio coach, who was linked with Portsmouth when the Barclays Premier League club dismissed Tony Adams in February, was paid about £2 million in compensation after his dismissal by the Mexican federation, the Swede’s third seven-figure payoff in three years.
He is said to have received compensation of about £3 million from the FA after standing down as England head coach in 2006 and another £1 million when he parted company with Manchester City in June 2008.