CLAIM: " NO CONTACT MADE "
Mon May 09, 2016 1:10 am
Cardiff City manager hunt: Port Vale boss Rob Page insists club have not made contact
BY SIMON GASKELL
Monday 9th May 2016
Wales under-21 coach Page has been linked with Bluebirds role and fits the bill as type of young manager Vincent Tan wants, but he maintains he has heard nothing
Former Cardiff City and Wales defender Robert Page insists he has not been contacted by the Bluebirds about becoming their new boss.
One London newspaper claimed that Cardiff want to appoint the 41-year old Port Vale boss as successor to Russell Slade.
Page certainly fits the bill of the younger, stats driven modern-day head coach the Bluebirds are targeting to drive the team forward in 2016-17.
He is on record as saying he wants his team to play adventurous football, with full-backs regularly going forward.
But perhaps they played a bit too adventurously in Port Vale's final match of the League One campaign, with Page's side being hammered 5-0 at home by Walsall!
The result meant Port Vale finished 12th in the table.
Bluebirds sources are playing down the Page link as they step up the hunt in the coming days for the new man to take over from Slade.
But Cardiff are Page's local club and as a key member of the Wales under-21 coaching set-up, he knows the best young Welsh players.
Bluebirds owner Vincent Tan has made bringing through home-grown talent a mantra for the club and the new head coach, Slade having moved the team in a different direction.
As well as holding down his full-time job with Port Vale, Page works as a coach for the Wales age-grade teams and helps develop stars for Chris Coleman's senior squad.
He is close to Paul Trollope, who currently holds down the head coach title with Cardiff and who works part-time with Coleman's Euro 2016-bound side.
Page played briefly for Cardiff after moving to Ninian Park from Sheffield United in 2004. He left after eight months to sign for Coventry, but retains strong links in south Wales.
He comes from Llwynypia in the Rhondda and has vast leadership experience, having captained teams in the four divisions of the English system.
However, Page was adamant the first he heard of the Cardiff speculation was when he arrived at Vale Park for his team's final day game with Walsall.
"That was news to me when I came into the club and heard that," he told local reporters after the match.
"Cardiff City is my club so people will put two and two together but there is nothing in it and I am fully focused on trying to pick up these Port Vale players and rebuild."
BY SIMON GASKELL
Monday 9th May 2016
Wales under-21 coach Page has been linked with Bluebirds role and fits the bill as type of young manager Vincent Tan wants, but he maintains he has heard nothing
Former Cardiff City and Wales defender Robert Page insists he has not been contacted by the Bluebirds about becoming their new boss.
One London newspaper claimed that Cardiff want to appoint the 41-year old Port Vale boss as successor to Russell Slade.
Page certainly fits the bill of the younger, stats driven modern-day head coach the Bluebirds are targeting to drive the team forward in 2016-17.
He is on record as saying he wants his team to play adventurous football, with full-backs regularly going forward.
But perhaps they played a bit too adventurously in Port Vale's final match of the League One campaign, with Page's side being hammered 5-0 at home by Walsall!
The result meant Port Vale finished 12th in the table.
Bluebirds sources are playing down the Page link as they step up the hunt in the coming days for the new man to take over from Slade.
But Cardiff are Page's local club and as a key member of the Wales under-21 coaching set-up, he knows the best young Welsh players.
Bluebirds owner Vincent Tan has made bringing through home-grown talent a mantra for the club and the new head coach, Slade having moved the team in a different direction.
As well as holding down his full-time job with Port Vale, Page works as a coach for the Wales age-grade teams and helps develop stars for Chris Coleman's senior squad.
He is close to Paul Trollope, who currently holds down the head coach title with Cardiff and who works part-time with Coleman's Euro 2016-bound side.
Page played briefly for Cardiff after moving to Ninian Park from Sheffield United in 2004. He left after eight months to sign for Coventry, but retains strong links in south Wales.
He comes from Llwynypia in the Rhondda and has vast leadership experience, having captained teams in the four divisions of the English system.
However, Page was adamant the first he heard of the Cardiff speculation was when he arrived at Vale Park for his team's final day game with Walsall.
"That was news to me when I came into the club and heard that," he told local reporters after the match.
"Cardiff City is my club so people will put two and two together but there is nothing in it and I am fully focused on trying to pick up these Port Vale players and rebuild."
Re: CLAIM: " NO CONTACT MADE "
Mon May 09, 2016 8:36 am
That article is wrong he's from tylorstown and used to live a couple of streets up from me 
Re: CLAIM: " NO CONTACT MADE "
Mon May 09, 2016 5:27 pm
Let me EAGERLY refute a teeny tiny internet rumour so that I get my name linked with the job.
Mission accomplished Mr Page.
Mission accomplished Mr Page.
Re: CLAIM: " NO CONTACT MADE "
Mon May 09, 2016 6:22 pm
Shit player... and shit manager? Absolute nonsense. No offence Robert but you're right at the back of the queue.