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Birmingham City set to offer a new contract to manager Alex McLeish
We want the gaffer to stay, says chief exec...
9 Jul 2010 10:00:00
By Adithya Ananth
Birmingham City chief executive Peter Pannu has confirmed that the club are readying a new offer to keep manager Alex McLeish at St Andrew's.
The former Rangers boss has only a year left on his current contract with Brum, and recently insisted that he would like to have his future sorted out quickly - so that current players as well as potential acquisitions can see that he has jumped in with both feet and is committed to the club.
"We have had extensive talks with Alex and his representative," Pannu told the press. "His agent told us what he wants and we told his agent we will be revisiting the terms and we are currently putting together a new package.
"I will speak to Carson Yeung first before a deal is put to Alex to consider.
"There will be improved terms for Alex, and it will be presented to him after I have met with Carson in South Africa.
"Whether Alex accepts, or doesn't, is purely speculative, so there is no point in me talking about that.
"We don't want people to think that we don't want Alex to stay, just as we don't want people to think that Carson or myself are being pressurised.
"Alex is our manager, we are planning for the new season, and I don't see there being problems."
The former Rangers boss has only a year left on his current contract with Brum, and recently insisted that he would like to have his future sorted out quickly - so that current players as well as potential acquisitions can see that he has jumped in with both feet and is committed to the club.
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"We have had extensive talks with Alex and his representative," Pannu told the press. "His agent told us what he wants and we told his agent we will be revisiting the terms and we are currently putting together a new package.
"I will speak to Carson Yeung first before a deal is put to Alex to consider.
"There will be improved terms for Alex, and it will be presented to him after I have met with Carson in South Africa.
"Whether Alex accepts, or doesn't, is purely speculative, so there is no point in me talking about that.
"We don't want people to think that we don't want Alex to stay, just as we don't want people to think that Carson or myself are being pressurised.
"Alex is our manager, we are planning for the new season, and I don't see there being problems."
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