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Bolton manager Sam Allardyce is facing a backroom crisis ahead of the club's first UEFA Cup campaign.
Assistant boss Phil Brown could be about to take over at Derby, while first team coach Neil McDonald on Wednesday said he would be joining Crystal Palace. McDonald will become Iain Dowie's right hand man at Selhurst Park when the deal is "rubber-stamped". "Sometimes you just know when it's right to move on and this time it's right for me," McDonald told the Bolton Evening News. "I'm leaving the club in a great position, having played a part in helping them qualify for Europe for the first time in their history. "It's been a fantastic experience, a fantastic joy ride for the last five years with Bolton but now I'm looking forward to a new challenge. "It just needs rubber stamping." Brown could be facing a "nerve-racking" decision whether to leave the Trotters and replace George Burley at Derby according to Wanderers' Supporters Association's chairman Tony Pearson. Brown is believed to be in the frame for the Pride Park post along with Yeovil's Gary Johnson. Bolton have qualified for the UEFA Cup for the first time and Pearson said: "I know Phil wanted to get us into Europe and he would be sorry not to be involved in that campaign. "If he is offered the job at Derby he has a nerve-wracking decision to make. "He is now in his late 40s and sometimes when opportunity knocks you just have to grasp it." Brown, 46, has been a player and caretaker manager at Bolton as well as Allardyce's assistant. He has become a firm favourite with the fans in the process. Pearson said: "We would be very sorry to see Phil go as a lot of Bolton's success has been down to the relationship with the manager and the coach. "He is highly-qualified and Sam can leave that side of things to him while he does his transfer wheeling and dealing. "Phil is certainly good enough to be the manager of a club in his own right." Neither Allardyce or chairman Phil Gartside were available for comment about McDonald and Brown. |
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