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BIG NAMES PUT DIFFERENT SPIN ON KING’S SKY BLUE VISION

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The LeaguePaper Team
24 November 2024

DARRAGH MacAnthony, the chairman of Peterborough, reckons Doug King is a shrewd operator. Maybe so, but even shrewd operators can be starstruck.
Coventry owner King promised to launch a detailed recruitment process following the dismissal of Mark Robins.
What he ultimately arrived at was a (very) shortlist containing Ruud van Nistelrooy and Frank
Lampard. Call me cynical, but does it seem likely to you that all the data, all the research and all the character profiling that goes into identifying a Championship head coach told King that his best options were a world-famous ex-Manchest...

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