A confusing start to Wednesday at Peterborough United after the bizarre goings on of Tuesday!
Peterborough United have still yet to confirm the appointment of Robbie Savage as first-team manager.
In a confusing start to Wednesday morning, the PT asked Posh director of football Barry Fry by text message whether or not any updates were expected today and if there were more interviews planned? He replied ‘yes’, but calls for further clarification went unanswered!
Did he mean ‘yes’ to an update or ‘yes’ to the interview questions, or both? I hope we will soon find out because the chaos is unbecoming of professional football clubs, but the daft ‘has he/hasn’t’ he end to Tuesday was fuelled by the National League club.
It had been yet another bizarre day at Posh which started with the club insisting they still had candidates to interview with a final decision not expected until the end of the week. This was a surprise to many well-connected sources who seemed to believe Savage was a racing certainty to replace Luke Williams.
Forest Green Rovers owner Dale Vince then dropped another bombshell into the narrative by claiming late yesterday afternoon that Savage had been offered the job and a compensation package was now under discussion.
Posh quickly countered by saying both parts of the statement were untrue, while falling short of denying Savage was a strong favourite for a job he clearly coveted.
As with player transfers, clubs usually agree a date and time for a mutual press release when movement of personnel is confirmed so Posh would have been blindsided by the Vince statement.
The National League club are in no doubt a deal has been struck. Caretaker Forest Green Rovers boss Jonathan Gould, speaking to the BBC before a 1-1 home draw with Wealdstone which left his side 13th in the National League, said: “We’re delighted for Robbie. He’s been part of this club for 15 months and we’ve seen some really exciting football here over that period of time. He goes with the best wishes of the football club.”
We have updated a timeline originally published on Monday morning to show the full extent of a chaotic few days.