Newly wealthy Notts County have got director of football Sven Goran Eriksson on the cheap. His basic salary is ‘only’ £250,000 a year and he will have to meet a number of ambitious targets to break through the million pound barrier. One of these is to lead the team into the Premiership. However, many of the targets relate to building up the long-term infrastructure of the club such as producing a home-grown player who goes on to international football and upgrading County’s centre of excellence to academy status.
Newly wealthy Notts County have got director of football Sven Goran Eriksson on the cheap. His basic salary is ‘only’ £250,000 a year and he will have to meet a number of ambitious targets to break through the million pound barrier. One of these is to lead the team into the Premiership. However, many of the targets relate to building up the long-term infrastructure of the club such as producing a home-grown player who goes on to international football and upgrading County’s centre of excellence to academy status. This will not be easy as the club is still looking for their own training ground. Eriksson has insisted that he has joined County for ‘the challenge’ commenting, ‘If it was for the money, I could have earned much more money elsewhere.’ The crowd of 9,396 at the opening day 5-0 defeat of Bradford City was more than double last year’s average when the club was once again at risk of relegation to the Conference.