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Malky Mackay open to return to management in Scotland

BBC

Tuesday 13th December 2016

Former Watford, Cardiff City and Wigan boss Malky Mackay would consider a job in Scottish football as he looks to get back into club management.

The 43-year-old former Celtic defender told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound that he is looking for a quick return after being sacked by Wigan in April.

"For a manager, one of the attractions is to build your own team, maybe not on a huge budget," commented Mackay.

"As a football manager, it's about what you do with the budget you're given."

Asked if he would take a management job in Scotland, Mackay replied: "Yes."

He said he had been offered such a position "in the last couple of years".

"I really enjoy football management and I think it's something I think I'm cut out for," he told listeners.


"I'm passionate about it. I really enjoyed my time at the clubs I've been at and I think I've helped to build the clubs I've been at.

"To be a football manager, you've got to have mental strength and have that toughness in terms of being able to take criticism and have belief in what you're doing on the pitch.

"The TV money is not there in Scottish football right now. If and when Rangers get back to the Premier League, they might be a more attractive prospect."

Of particular interest to Mackay would be to one day take charge of Celtic, a team he makes a point of coming home to see once a year.

"The Celtic job, I don't think there is anyone that would look at it and say that they wouldn't want it," he said.

"Obviously you are very respectful to who is in a job, but it's a huge, worldwide job.

"I've been there inside the fabric of that football club during a very colourful period in its history.

"It's an institution. You only need to look at the fan base worldwide and the potential, in terms of what a couple of the managers recently have done in Europe, to see how good a job that is."

Mackay is awaiting the findings of an FA investigation into claims that he sent texts of a racist, sexist and homophobic nature while the Cardiff manager.

"I have made mistakes, I said that at the time," said the former Scotland defender, who welcomes the investigation.

"But I would ask people to judge me on the person they know and what I have been in the last 20 years in football."

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Looks like Malky MacKay is to be the Scottish National teams new performance director.

Good job keep him away from money and transfer fees

Malky Mackay: The man behind Cardiff City's promotion

By Dewi Hughes

BBC



When Malky Mackay held his first training session in charge of Cardiff City, he barely had enough players for a game of five-a-side.

Such was the mass exodus that followed Dave Jones' sacking in the summer of 2011, the new manager was greeted by a threadbare squad still smarting from a second successive Championship play-off defeat.

Less than two years on, Mackay has transformed the squad and delivered promotion to the Premier League. Another two points from their remaining three games will see them promoted as champions.

The team he has built embodies all the attributes that made the 41-year-old Scotsman a respected player and now marks him out as one of the most promising young British managers in the game.

"He's been immense," said striker Craig Bellamy, who returned to his hometown club in the summer of 2012. "He's really grasped what this club is about because we are a different breed down here.

"The fans have taken to him, the club's taken to him. He's really pushed us forward with his professionalism.


"Financially this club is going to grow, there's no doubt about it. And with him at the helm it's just going to allow us to do it in the right manner."

Cardiff were tipped as relegation candidates in Mackay's first season. Instead he led them to the play-offs, where their limitations were highlighted in a comprehensive defeat by West Ham United, who went on to win the final.

Before that, Cardiff pushed Liverpool all the way in the Carling Cup final before eventually losing on penalties.

Inheriting a Cardiff squad scarred by play-off failure and in need of rebuilding represented a tough enough prospect for an experienced manager, but Mackay arrived in south Wales with a mere two years' experience behind him.

Add to the mix the pressure that accompanies having a billionaire owner impatient for Premier League riches, and this was the ultimate test of Mackay's credentials.

But the former centre-back, whose office walls are adorned by inspirational biographies and leadership manuals, emits an unwavering belief in his methods and principles. And the key to his success has been to install those same traits in his players.

"The honesty of the boys is second to none," said captain Mark Hudson, who was brought to the club by Mackay's predecessor.

"We put everything into every game and into training and we've taken on board what the manager has demanded of us."

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Looks like Malky MacKay is to be the Scottish National teams new performance director.

Good job keep him away from money and transfer fees

Wez,once again picking on Malky.

I think you better have a good hard look at Vincent Tan,right up to Warnock coming in,the facts show from Ole,Slade to Trollope,Tan continued to waste money on players,the Big difference is,Malky achieved beyond success for Cardiff City

And you can't say any manager would with money as Ole failed,Leicester,Derby,Forest all originally failed with big money.
You have to have a good manager with money and you get success and Malky did it,a true fact

Looks like Malky MacKay is to be the Scottish National teams new performance director.

Good job keep him away from money and transfer fees

Wez,once again picking on Malky.

I think you better have a good hard look at Vincent Tan,right up to Warnock coming in,the facts show from Ole,Slade to Trollope,Tan continued to waste money on players,the Big difference is,Malky achieved beyond success for Cardiff City

And you can't say any manager would with money as Ole failed,Leicester,Derby,Forest all originally failed with big money.
You have to have a good manager with money and you get success and Malky did it,a true fact

Picking on Malky grow up annis,as i said it's a good job for him atm he's not very good with money and BTW he failed at Wigan and Cardiff

Looks like Malky MacKay is to be the Scottish National teams new performance director.

Good job keep him away from money and transfer fees

Wez,once again picking on Malky.

I think you better have a good hard look at Vincent Tan,right up to Warnock coming in,the facts show from Ole,Slade to Trollope,Tan continued to waste money on players,the Big difference is,Malky achieved beyond success for Cardiff City

And you can't say any manager would with money as Ole failed,Leicester,Derby,Forest all originally failed with big money.
You have to have a good manager with money and you get success and Malky did it,a true fact

Picking on Malky grow up annis,as i said it's a good job for him atm he's not very good with money and BTW he failed at Wigan and Cardiff

Grow up? Not once have you ever given Malky any praise or even agreed he was succesful for Cardiff City,even though he's Cardiff City's most successful manager for over 50 years

Are you serious?

Failed at Cardiff City? ? ?
Promotion/Champions /Wembley / Never relegated etc

Wigan, with Tan hounding him every second and spent a £million trying to prove stuff,yet proved nothing,other than ruin Malky's career.

I say Good Luck to Malky

From Twitter

Dave Briscoe ‏@tobytyke69 Be good to see him back in the game
@AnnisAbraham

f*cking great manager,good luck Malky

Vinny Tan I a vindictive so and so.fell out with Malky so he destroyed him.

Vinny Tan I a vindictive so and so.fell out with Malky so he destroyed him.

Malky helped along the way. But don't let the facts get in the way for a leftie liberal to make a point that he was the victim.

Looks like Malky MacKay is to be the Scottish National teams new performance director.

Good job keep him away from money and transfer fees

Wez,once again picking on Malky.

I think you better have a good hard look at Vincent Tan,right up to Warnock coming in,the facts show from Ole,Slade to Trollope,Tan continued to waste money on players,the Big difference is,Malky achieved beyond success for Cardiff City

And you can't say any manager would with money as Ole failed,Leicester,Derby,Forest all originally failed with big money.
You have to have a good manager with money and you get success and Malky did it,a true fact

Picking on Malky grow up annis,as i said it's a good job for him atm he's not very good with money and BTW he failed at Wigan and Cardiff

Are you serious?

Failed at Cardiff City? ? ?
Promotion/Champions /Wembley / Never relegated etc

Wigan, with Tan hounding him every second and spent a £million trying to prove stuff,yet proved nothing,other than ruin Malky's career.

I say Good Luck to Malky

Got us promoted then wasted the biggest ever budget for a promoted team then got sacked by cardiff for being a racist and then got sacked by Wigan coz he was useless I think he's a failure

Looks like Malky MacKay is to be the Scottish National teams new performance director.

Good job keep him away from money and transfer fees

Wez,once again picking on Malky.

I think you better have a good hard look at Vincent Tan,right up to Warnock coming in,the facts show from Ole,Slade to Trollope,Tan continued to waste money on players,the Big difference is,Malky achieved beyond success for Cardiff City

And you can't say any manager would with money as Ole failed,Leicester,Derby,Forest all originally failed with big money.
You have to have a good manager with money and you get success and Malky did it,a true fact

Picking on Malky grow up annis,as i said it's a good job for him atm he's not very good with money and BTW he failed at Wigan and Cardiff

Are you serious?

Failed at Cardiff City? ? ?
Promotion/Champions /Wembley / Never relegated etc

Wigan, with Tan hounding him every second and spent a £million trying to prove stuff,yet proved nothing,other than ruin Malky's career.

I say Good Luck to Malky

Got us promoted then wasted the biggest ever budget for a promoted team then got sacked by cardiff for being a racist and then got sacked by Wigan coz he was useless I think he's a failure

how you can call malky a failure is beyond me he got us to the top flight in god knows how many years and a carling cup final, its safe to say he made history with us even if he did fail in the pl.

Annis sometimes you have to let go and admit you were wrong.

Wez is spot on, even you and Carl could of got us promoted with the money Malky had and the budget he had kept us up.

Good luck Malky.
One of the best managers we have ever had

Bloody hell, if he's so good how is he still looking for a job? and please no crap about waiting for the right one to come up!!!
lots of mistakes made by all parties in that sorry saga but end of the day he allegedly made racist comments and got caught.
still say its a shame DJ didn't have that money to play with.

Annis sometimes you have to let go and admit you were wrong.

Wez is spot on, even you and Carl could of got us promoted with the money Malky had and the budget he had kept us up.

What a load of crap.

Annis sometimes you have to let go and admit you were wrong.

Wez is spot on, even you and Carl could of got us promoted with the money Malky had and the budget he had kept us up.

Where this Malky had a huge budget to get us promoted comes from I do not know...

Yes he had a decent wages budget to bring in some players no one can argue with that ...we did pay big salaries in that season to some players...however let's get our facts straight 4 of the biggest influences on our promotion season Bellamy, Hellguson, Conway and Cowie where all free transfers...Leone Barnett was signed on loan for a few months to shore up the defence and did brilliantly...Gestede was a free transfer who made a few important cameos...Fraser Campbell cost only 750k in January and in fact our biggest signing Nicky Maynard at 2.5million was injured for the whole season....

Let's put this in some perspective and bear in mind Notts Forest in the same year paid more on 1 player when they paid 9 million for Assombalomba than Malky spent on his entire squad

Malky for all his off field faults was an outstanding manager that season!!!

Annis sometimes you have to let go and admit you were wrong.

Wez is spot on, even you and Carl could of got us promoted with the money Malky had and the budget he had kept us up.

Spot on

Annis sometimes you have to let go and admit you were wrong.

Wez is spot on, even you and Carl could of got us promoted with the money Malky had and the budget he had kept us up.

Where this Malky had a huge budget to get us promoted comes from I do not know...

Yes he had a decent wages budget to bring in some players no one can argue with that ...we did pay big salaries in that season to some players...however let's get our facts straight 4 of the biggest influences on our promotion season Bellamy, Hellguson, Conway and Cowie where all free transfers...Leone Barnett was signed on loan for a few months to shore up the defence and did brilliantly...Gestede was a free transfer who made a few important cameos...Fraser Campbell cost only 750k in January and in fact our biggest signing Nicky Maynard at 2.5million was injured for the whole season....

Let's put this in some perspective and bear in mind Notts Forest in the same year paid more on 1 player when they paid 9 million for Assombalomba than Malky spent on his entire squad

Malky for all his off field faults was an outstanding manager that season!!!

Well your logic comes down to what you regard as a 'budget'. It appears you count only transfer fees and not wages. Bellamy was on a reported £36kpw which works out to nearly £1.9m for ONE player

In that promotion season we lost £35m if my memory serves me right. Whichever way you want to put it that is one hell of a budget and one you would expect to get promotion from.

Malky got us into the Prem,respect for that but on a personal level he screwed up big time.People shouldn't let their anti-rebrand feelings cloud the issue.I believe Malky would have been sacked from any club for his misdemeanors but to date I've seen no concrete evidence that it was Tans fault,only rumors and hearsay.I can't think of any job anywhere where you diss your boss and stay in employment

Annis sometimes you have to let go and admit you were wrong.

Wez is spot on, even you and Carl could of got us promoted with the money Malky had and the budget he had kept us up.

wrong about Malky? thats your opinion and thats what this forum and life is about different opiniins :thumb right:


And you can't say any manager would with money as Ole failed,Leicester,Derby,Forest,QPR,Brighton etc all originally failed with big money.
You have to have a good manager with money and you get success and Malky did it,a true fact

What did Malky achieve the first season with NO money and a small squad,League Cup Final 2-2 v Liverpool and Play-off Championship Semi-Final.

Following season given £10mill got us not only promoted,but runaway Champions What more could he do? ? ? Please tell me?

Annis sometimes you have to let go and admit you were wrong.

Wez is spot on, even you and Carl could of got us promoted with the money Malky had and the budget he had kept us up.

Where this Malky had a huge budget to get us promoted comes from I do not know...

Yes he had a decent wages budget to bring in some players no one can argue with that ...we did pay big salaries in that season to some players...however let's get our facts straight 4 of the biggest influences on our promotion season Bellamy, Hellguson, Conway and Cowie where all free transfers...Leone Barnett was signed on loan for a few months to shore up the defence and did brilliantly...Gestede was a free transfer who made a few important cameos...Fraser Campbell cost only 750k in January and in fact our biggest signing Nicky Maynard at 2.5million was injured for the whole season....

Let's put this in some perspective and bear in mind Notts Forest in the same year paid more on 1 player when they paid 9 million for Assombalomba than Malky spent on his entire squad

Malky for all his off field faults was an outstanding manager that season!!!

Well your logic comes down to what you regard as a 'budget'. It appears you count only transfer fees and not wages. Bellamy was on a reported £36kpw which works out to nearly £1.9m for ONE player

In that promotion season we lost £35m if my memory serves me right. Whichever way you want to put it that is one hell of a budget and one you would expect to get promotion from.

Tony agree with you..yes wages budget would have been big...but I was just putting it into perspective Malky DID NOT have a massive transfer fund...Derby, Forest, QPR, Leicester, Brighton to name just a few have all spent lots more in recent seasons and NOT been promoted.

Also don't forget we walked the league that year...top from October to the end of the season no one got near us and promoted with 4 games still to play!!!

Malky did brilliantly that season without spending a fortune...whether people like him or not let's not forget the true facts

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Jordan Thomas
A good manager sacked by a rubbish board of directors


Dave Sherwood
He should still be at CCFC


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Malky allways be in citys heart wright or wrong



Laura Simmonds
Well done malky loved him as manager

Annis sometimes you have to let go and admit you were wrong.

Wez is spot on, even you and Carl could of got us promoted with the money Malky had and the budget he had kept us up.

Where this Malky had a huge budget to get us promoted comes from I do not know...

Yes he had a decent wages budget to bring in some players no one can argue with that ...we did pay big salaries in that season to some players...however let's get our facts straight 4 of the biggest influences on our promotion season Bellamy, Hellguson, Conway and Cowie where all free transfers...Leone Barnett was signed on loan for a few months to shore up the defence and did brilliantly...Gestede was a free transfer who made a few important cameos...Fraser Campbell cost only 750k in January and in fact our biggest signing Nicky Maynard at 2.5million was injured for the whole season....

Let's put this in some perspective and bear in mind Notts Forest in the same year paid more on 1 player when they paid 9 million for Assombalomba than Malky spent on his entire squad

Malky for all his off field faults was an outstanding manager that season!!!

Well your logic comes down to what you regard as a 'budget'. It appears you count only transfer fees and not wages. Bellamy was on a reported £36kpw which works out to nearly £1.9m for ONE player

In that promotion season we lost £35m if my memory serves me right. Whichever way you want to put it that is one hell of a budget and one you would expect to get promotion from.

Tony agree with you..yes wages budget would have been big...but I was just putting it into perspective Malky DID NOT have a massive transfer fund...Derby, Forest, QPR, Leicester, Brighton to name just a few have all spent lots more in recent seasons and NOT been promoted.

Also don't forget we walked the league that year...top from October to the end of the season no one got near us and promoted with 4 games still to play!!!

Malky did brilliantly that season without spending a fortune...whether people like him or not let's not forget the true facts

Sorry MM did spend a fortune when wages are taken into consideration. It is nonsense to divorce wages from transfer fees and come to a conclusion MM spent little. The evidence is clear in the company accounts we lost over £30m that season which means it cost us that much to get promoted. No if's no but's.

Some Malky haters are saying he wasn't a good manager ...because he was a "racist".

if he was, and it is just an opinion what is or not a racist ... even if he was that doesn't make him a bad manager.

Apparently he spent far too much and paid far too much in wages ....if he did, does that make him a bad manager ?

Are the men who manage Barcelona, Real Madrid, Man Utd - classed as bad managers because they buy their success ?

If Warnock was unexpectedly given £20 million to spend and we went straight up this season, would you say he was a good manager, or it was just the money ?

No - you would say he was good.

At the end of the day Malky was very successful for us. Whether there was money involved or not is irrelevant.

Annis sometimes you have to let go and admit you were wrong.

Wez is spot on, even you and Carl could of got us promoted with the money Malky had and the budget he had kept us up.

Where this Malky had a huge budget to get us promoted comes from I do not know...

Yes he had a decent wages budget to bring in some players no one can argue with that ...we did pay big salaries in that season to some players...however let's get our facts straight 4 of the biggest influences on our promotion season Bellamy, Hellguson, Conway and Cowie where all free transfers...Leone Barnett was signed on loan for a few months to shore up the defence and did brilliantly...Gestede was a free transfer who made a few important cameos...Fraser Campbell cost only 750k in January and in fact our biggest signing Nicky Maynard at 2.5million was injured for the whole season....

Let's put this in some perspective and bear in mind Notts Forest in the same year paid more on 1 player when they paid 9 million for Assombalomba than Malky spent on his entire squad

Malky for all his off field faults was an outstanding manager that season!!!

Well your logic comes down to what you regard as a 'budget'. It appears you count only transfer fees and not wages. Bellamy was on a reported £36kpw which works out to nearly £1.9m for ONE player

In that promotion season we lost £35m if my memory serves me right. Whichever way you want to put it that is one hell of a budget and one you would expect to get promotion from.

Tony agree with you..yes wages budget would have been big...but I was just putting it into perspective Malky DID NOT have a massive transfer fund...Derby, Forest, QPR, Leicester, Brighton to name just a few have all spent lots more in recent seasons and NOT been promoted.

Also don't forget we walked the league that year...top from October to the end of the season no one got near us and promoted with 4 games still to play!!!

Malky did brilliantly that season without spending a fortune...whether people like him or not let's not forget the true facts

Sorry MM did spend a fortune when wages are taken into consideration. It is nonsense to divorce wages from transfer fees and come to a conclusion MM spent little. The evidence is clear in the company accounts we lost over £30m that season which means it cost us that much to get promoted. No if's no but's.

Tony, Malky achieved what he was asked to do and yes his 3rd season he spent big,but so do all other managers, Malky wasted a lot of money on players I agree,he was still learning, but how have managers at clubs like QPR,FOREST,LEICESTER,DERBY,BRIGHTON etc spent in the past?


Have they been successful straight away after spending £50mill/£100mill etc etc?
Some are still trying to be successful years on and still spending,money helps big time,but does not guarantee success.

Some Malky haters are saying he wasn't a good manager ...because he was a "racist".

if he was, and it is just an opinion what is or not a racist ... even if he was that doesn't make him a bad manager.

Apparently he spent far too much and paid far too much in wages ....if he did, does that make him a bad manager ?

Are the men who manage Barcelona, Real Madrid, Man Utd - classed as bad managers because they buy their success ?

If Warnock was unexpectedly given £20 million to spend and we went straight up this season, would you say he was a good manager, or it was just the money ?

No - you would say he was good.

At the end of the day Malky was very successful for us. Whether there was money involved or not is irrelevant.

ABSOLUTELY SPOT ON

So racist he had steven Caulker as a a captain in the premiership, Loved how the left wingers were queing up with pitchforks eagerly waiting the kimbo and frazier Campbell interview.They were left grasping at straws when both said Malkys behaviour towards them was impeccable.

Budget? ok more then the likes of Bournemouth,burnley etc but what did money do for QPR last coupke of seasons.Leicester during the Malky years etc etc.

So racist he had steven Caulker as a a captain in the premiership, Loved how the left wingers were queing up with pitchforks eagerly waiting the kimbo and frazier Campbell interview.They were left grasping at straws when both said Malkys behaviour towards them was impeccable.

Budget? ok more then the likes of Bournemouth,burnley etc but what did money do for QPR last coupke of seasons.Leicester during the Malky years etc etc.

Again Spot on

F.uck Malky.