pre-season tour of Sweden!

[WhiteJC]

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2010/07/02/2005312/glenn-hoddle-in-contention-for-fulham-managers-job-as-club?
Glenn Hoddle in contention for Fulham manager's job as club target replacement in same mould as Roy Hodgson
Ex-England boss joins shortlist of Curbishley, Eriksson, Hughes & Mowbray

Glenn Hoddle is in the frame to take over as manager at Fulham as the club target a training ground-style coach in the mould of ex-boss Roy Hodgson, Goal.com UK can reveal.

Alan Curbishley, Sven-Goran Eriksson and Mark Hughes are on the board's radar but there is also strong support for a manager who will not disrupt the coaching structure already in place at Craven Cottage.

Goal.com UK understands that former England boss Hoddle and ex-Celtic and West Brom manager Tony Mowbray are considered to fit the bill as high calibre tacticians who can minimise the changes for players used to a coaching-oriented culture.

Hoddle, who was also considered for the West Ham post after Gianfranco Zola was dismissed, is believed to be interested despite his commitments to his own football academy in southern Spain.

The 52-year-old former Tottenham boss has not returned to management since stepping down as Wolverhampton Wanderers boss in July 2006 but he is still regarded as an original thinker with a strong coaching reputation.

Despite being sacked at Celtic, Mowbray is also well regarded at Craven Cottage for his managerial spells at Hibernian and West Bromwich Albion.

Former Charlton and West Ham manager Curbishley, who has been out of work since his acrimonious departure at Upton Park in September 2008, has a strong connection to Fulham as his erstwhile No2 Mervyn Day is now part of the club's scouting team.

Eriksson, who has stepped down as Ivory Coast manager, remains a strong contender but support is dwindling for Hughes.

It is believed that hiring the Welshman would require too dramatic a change to the club's coaching set-up because Hughes would want his close-knit backroom staff of Mark Bowen, Eddie Niedzwiecki, Kevin Hitchcock and Glyn  Hodges to join him.

Fulham chief executive Alistair Macintosh has been charged with identifying Hodgson's successor. He will whittle down the shortlist before presenting the names to chairman and owner Mohamed Al Fayed.

Although the non-World Cup players return to pre-season training next Tuesday, club sources say they are in no rush and a more realistic timeframe is to have the new manager in place by the time the first-team squad set off for their pre-season tour to Sweden.

Fulham will strongly resist any move by Hodgson to return to Craven Cottage and buy some of the leading players.

Former Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy is considered a more viable target for Hodgson than defender Brede Hangeland, who signed a new four-year contract last November and is valued at £10m by the club.

[White Noise]

Paging Nick the Swede.

How has there been no info about this?

Surely a few Fulham fans would have liked the chance to max out their travel weary credit cards even further?

[The Equalizer]

Pre-season tour of Sweden suggests that Hoddle isn't in the running at all and it's been arranged by Sven.

[WhiteJC]

Pre-season tour of Sweden suggests that Hoddle isn't in the running at all and it's been arranged by Sven.

MacIntosh 'hinted' at a pre-season tour back in February

[finnster01]

Paging Nick the Swede.

How has there been no info about this?

Surely a few Fulham fans would have liked the chance to max out their travel weary credit cards even further?

There's a lot worse things to do in the world, than go on a Fulham jolly to Sweden in July.
I can't believe the Fulham marketing people hasn't done something. Actually, the more I think about it, I sure can...
Who cares about organizing something for the fans to travel with the club for the summer? Now everyone has made their own holiday plans. We don't count for shite anymore.