Post by Macmoish on Aug 7, 2010 22:30:07 GMT
Still good move by Ian Holloway 
Sunday Mirror
Holloway turned down bumper pay-day to stick with Blackpool
Published 23:00 07/08/10 By Paul Smith
Ian Holloway will create history next weekend when he becomes the lowest-paid manager in the last 10 years of the Premier League.
Despite leading Blackpool to the promised land of top-flight football and an estimated £90million windfall following the May play-off victory over Cardiff, Holloway remains on just £200,000 a year.
It’s a salary more in keeping with a poorly-paid Championship boss.
Holloway’s contract with the Tangerines is based on a verbal option to extend his original 12-month deal by a further year if he succeeded in keeping Blackpool in the Championship.
One Championship club who tried to lure him in the summer – and offered a £600,000-a-year rise – accused him of blind loyalty.
It appears Holloway has no intention of walking away from managing a Premier League club irrespective of what he’s paid.
He felt football turned its back on him when Leicester fired him two seasons ago and only Blackpool offered him a route back.
www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Ian-Holloway-turned-down-a-bumper-pay-day-to-join-a-Championship-side-to-manage-Blackpool-in-the-Premier-League-as-the-lowest-paid-manager-article546747.html#ixzz0vxhZqDAu
Sunday Mirror
Holloway turned down bumper pay-day to stick with Blackpool
Published 23:00 07/08/10 By Paul Smith
Ian Holloway will create history next weekend when he becomes the lowest-paid manager in the last 10 years of the Premier League.
Despite leading Blackpool to the promised land of top-flight football and an estimated £90million windfall following the May play-off victory over Cardiff, Holloway remains on just £200,000 a year.
It’s a salary more in keeping with a poorly-paid Championship boss.
Holloway’s contract with the Tangerines is based on a verbal option to extend his original 12-month deal by a further year if he succeeded in keeping Blackpool in the Championship.
One Championship club who tried to lure him in the summer – and offered a £600,000-a-year rise – accused him of blind loyalty.
It appears Holloway has no intention of walking away from managing a Premier League club irrespective of what he’s paid.
He felt football turned its back on him when Leicester fired him two seasons ago and only Blackpool offered him a route back.
www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Ian-Holloway-turned-down-a-bumper-pay-day-to-join-a-Championship-side-to-manage-Blackpool-in-the-Premier-League-as-the-lowest-paid-manager-article546747.html#ixzz0vxhZqDAu
