‘It was a mistake to turn out to be Manchester Metropolis boss – I ought to have taken six months off. It wasn’t a really good membership on the time, and I didn’t do a very good job’: Former Premier League supervisor displays on making incorrect profession determination

February 9, 2025

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Manchester Metropolis have solely had three everlasting managers within the final 15 years, with Roberto Mancini, Mauricio Pellegrini and now Pep Guardiola all profitable in their very own proper.

Previous to the Abu Dhabi-based Abu Dhabi United Group Funding and Growth Restricted’s (now Metropolis Soccer Group) takeover of the membership in 2008, although, issues have been loads totally different at Manchester Metropolis, with the membership battling relegations and monetary points.

Frank Clark skilled that first-hand practically 30 years in the past. Brian Clough’s alternative on the Metropolis Floor in 1993, he managed to get Nottingham Forest promoted again to the Premier League on the first time of asking in 1994 earlier than main them to 3rd within the 1994/95 season. A UEFA Cup quarter-final adopted the subsequent season, however by December 1996 Forest have been again on the foot of the highest tier and Clark departed.

Manchester Metropolis the incorrect transfer for Frank Clark

30 Dec 1996: Frank Clark the newly appointed manager of Manchester City faces the Press at Maine Road, Manchester. Mandatory Credit: Ross Kinnaird/Allsport

Clark takes over as Manchester Metropolis supervisor (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)

Simply 10 days later he took over as Manchester Metropolis supervisor, with the membership at risk of successive relegations, following their 18th place end within the Premier League the season earlier than.

He finally managed to assist them come 14th within the second tier, however departed in February 1998 as they struggled in Division One.

8/10/1994 FA Premier League Football - Manchester City v Nottingham Forest, Forest manager Frank Clark. (Photo by Mark Leech/Getty Images)

Clark managed Forest earlier than Metropolis (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)

The membership’s hundreds of thousands of kilos of debt actually did not assist Clark, a key distinction between what he needed to cope with and the riches accessible to Pep Guardiola now, with the European Cup winner recognising now that he made a mistake in taking on at Maine Highway within the first place.

“You possibly can say that once more,” Clark tells FourFourTwo when suggesting the distinction practically 30 years has made on the membership.

“In hindsight, it was a mistake to turn out to be Manchester Metropolis boss – I ought to have taken six months off after leaving Forest, to get myself collectively.

“However Francis Lee supplied me a unbelievable contract regardless that they have been backside of the second tier, so it felt like too good a possibility to show down. It wasn’t a really good membership on the time, and I didn’t do a very good job.”

MUNICH, GERMANY - MAY 30: Nottingham Forest captain John McGovern lifts the trophy as team mates Larry Lloyd (c) and Frank Clark (r) look on after the 1979 European Cup Final between Nottingham Forest and Malmo at the Olympic Stadium on May 30, 1979 in Munich, Germany. (Photo by Allsport/Getty Images)

Clark (far proper) gained the European Cup with Forest in 1979 (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)

That job at Manchester Metropolis proved Clark’s final as a supervisor, although he later changed Nigel Doughty at Nottingham Forest because the membership’s chairman in October 2011.

He lasted lower than a yr earlier than Omar Al-Hasawi – cousin of latest proprietor Fawaz Al-Hasawi – took over these obligations.

‘It was a mistake to turn out to be Manchester Metropolis boss – I ought to have taken six months off. It wasn’t a really good membership on the time, and I didn’t do a very good job’: Former Premier League supervisor displays on making incorrect profession determination

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