Reed Out, Pardew In.

Mikk · 12-24-2006, 07:29 PM

From: BBC

Quote:

Charlton head coach Les Reed has left the club by mutual consent to be replaced by recently sacked West Ham United manager Alan Pardew. Pardew has signed a three-and-a-half year deal at the Valley and becomes the team's third manager this season.
Reed was originally drafted in to replace Iain Dowie but has failed to turn the club's fortunes around.
He managed just one victory at the helm and lost to League Two side Wycombe in the Carling Cup quarter-finals.
Saturday's 2-0 defeat at Middlesbrough left Charlton seven points adrift of Premiership safety and in increasing danger of losing their top-flight status for the first time in seven years.
Reed was promoted from his job as assistant manager after Charlton parted company with Dowie 12 games into the Premiership season in the middle of November.

Reed lasted just 41 days in charge - one of the shortest ever Premiership reigns - even though chief executive Peter Varney said his job was not under threat last week.
Dowie himself had only been appointed in the close-season to replace the long-serving Alan Curbishley, who ironically has now taken over from Pardew at Upton Park.
The news was announced at 1900 GMT on Christmas Eve and Charlton say they will make no further comment until holding a press conference at 1330 GMT on Boxing Day.
Their next match is not until Wednesday night when they entertain Fulham.
Curbishley had been in charge at The Valley for 15 years.
Pardew was sacked by West Ham two weeks ago, after just over three years in charge, less than a month after Eggert Magnusson's Â£85m takeover of the club.
In that time he led them into the Premiership via the play-offs and then last season took them to the FA Cup final where they were seconds away from lifting the trophy against Liverpool.
Steven Gerrard punctured their dream by hammering in a spectacular last-minute equaliser to make the score 3-3 and force a penalty shoot-out which the Hammers lost 3-1.
However, their efforts earned them a place in this season's Uefa Cup but they went out at the first hurdle to Palermo.
Pardew was previously in charge at Reading and, while there, led them into the League's second tier in 2001/02. They reached the play-offs for promotion to the Premiership the following season but failed to go up and early on in the next campaign he moved to Upton Park.

Well i'm a little surprised he's back in managment so quick and that Charlton gave Reed no chance at all.

It seems a little suspect that they have parted ways and already have a replacement ready. I'm guessing the Charlton board were discussing with another manager after Reed's first game in charge.

Invictus · 12-24-2006, 08:46 PM

Surprised?

I'm surprised this hasn't happened earlier. Les Reed was absolutley out of his depth. Last week against Liverpool and this week against Wycombe where both games Reed was lucky to survive against.

Will Pardew keep them up? Doubt it. Was Reed the right man for the job? Not in a million years.

Charlton had to make this change or they would be planning for Championship Football by the end of next week. I mean did you SEE how bad they where last week and this week. I've seen Sunday league teams play better.

The Phantom · 12-24-2006, 08:47 PM

Les Reed simply had to go... no doubt about it. Results have shown for themselfs that he is in no way capable of managing a football team let alone a Premiership one. He may be a good coach, but a manager he aint.

Glad to see Alan Pardew back so soon... bet he was hoping for christmas off!! lol. He'd always been given a rough time at West Ham and I was never sure why. Hopefully he can help Charlton move up the table slightly, as I never like seeing them struggle (Unless Les Reed is in charge of course!)

Mikk · 12-24-2006, 08:49 PM

I have seen the performances i just think it was a bit of a slap to him that they publically came out, said they wouldn't change managers again in the season and within 41 days he's gone.

It seems that they should have installed him as a caretaker first and then given him a permanent job instead of having him announced as the full time manager and then go back on themselves and appoint someone else.

Tyler Durden · 12-26-2006, 05:32 AM

I'm happy for Pardew, being a Palace fan I've always had a liking for the guy! Reed wasn't given that long, but what we saw was dreadful

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