OVERVIEW OF NON-PLAYING ACHIEVEMENTS

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WYCOMBE WANDERERS F.C. – Manager

• When I joined Wycombe, they were losing

£6,000 a week and I was asked to reduce the

Player budget from £1.6m to £800,000. I

achieved this within one year.

• With that 50% cut in the budget, the following

season we were Division 2 title challengers but

more importantly, we achieved financial stability

with the selling of Nathan Tyson - a player I

found from Reading F.C.

• I also brought Matt Bloomfield, Russell Milton

and Mike Williamson to the club, and they all

went on to have first-class careers. I promoted

Ikechi Anya from the Academy and gave him his

first-team debut.

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FEYENOORD ROTTERDAM – Coach

• I trained over 10 players at the Feyenoord

Academy that went on to play in the top five

leagues in Europe: amongst them:

‣ Jonathan De Guzman

‣ Royston Drenthe

‣ Stefan De Vrij

‣ Bruno Martins Indi

‣ Evander Sno.

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PORTSMOUTH F.C. – Coach & Manager

• As Assistant Manager responsible for all the

coaching, I helped Portsmouth win the 2008 FA

Cup for the first time in their history.

• As their Manager for 16 matches, I had to sell all

the players to try and raise £6m by the end of

the financial year to save Portsmouth from

administration. I sold Jermain Defoe to

Tottenham Hotspur F.C. and the club survived

relegation. I then terminated my contract by

mutual consent.

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FK QABALA

– Manager & Football Director & Advisor

• As Manager in 2011, the club achieved 12 clean

sheets in a row, which is the 85th best record in

Football history.

• As Football Director, I built a squad on a US$6

million budget that qualified for three years in a

row for the Group Stage of the UEFA Europa

League from the qualifying rounds: a Europa

League record.

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