Jim Magilton has had a very fortunate start in football management. He was deemed good enough to be offered the managers job, with no previous experience, at one of the bigger clubs in English football.
He knew he wasnt going to be given minimal fund to manage with, but that the expectation level placed upon him was fairly low. In essence- improve the side where you can, improve the quality of football, see where it takes you.
As long as there was improvement, most fans would have been happy for the first couple of years. If he managed to achieve some impressive results, he would be deemed to be some kind of hero.
And so it goes. The first year, signs of definite improvement in the team and the squad and an improved style of football. Much patience when times are hard, much excitement when times are good.
Suddenly, Jim must feel as if hes been offered a job at a higher level. Now there is Marcus Evans money and as we all know, with money comes added pressure. Not only does he have to appease his immediate chairman and chief executive, who have been very supportive of him in the past and who were responsible for offering him the job in the first place, but he now has to appease a multi-millionaire who may be far more demanding about what results are obtained from the money supplied. After all, it is his money.
Whilst every indication has been provided that the manager will continue to be given every support by the board to continue with his job, the fact remains that the stakes are now an awful lot higher. Making a mistake on a free transfer signing from the lower leagues is one thing- making a mistake on a £500,000 forward is quite another. In a few months time, after Jim has been given large funds to invest in the side, it will be interesting to see the noises coming out of the Marcus Evans camp if we have still yet to break our away form.
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