{"id":908719,"date":"2026-09-28T15:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/908719\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:48:10","slug":"robbie-savage-forest-green-manager-allowed-to-speak-to-other-club-amid-peterborough-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/908719\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbie Savage: Forest Green manager allowed to speak to other club amid Peterborough links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forest Green Rovers have given manager Robbie Savage permission to speak to another club, amid speculation linking him to the vacant role at Peterborough United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The National League side added that Savage would not be in the dugout for Tuesday night&#8217;s game at home to Wealdstone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked on Saturday whether he had any contact from Posh, Savage did not deny the speculation but said he did not know if there had been contact from the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;ve got a game to prepare for and I&#8217;m really excited to watch my team,&#8221; he told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Wales international Savage was appointed at Forest Green on 1 July 2025, having previously managed non-league Macclesfield Town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 51-year-old, who played as a midfielder for clubs including Derby County, Birmingham City, Leicester City and Blackburn Rovers, guided Forest Green to seventh in the table last season but they were beaten in the play-off eliminators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This season they sit 12th after 10 matches, with four wins, two draws and four defeats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peterborough are looking for a new manager after sacking Luke Williams on 19 September following a poor start to the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are currently 23rd in League One with just one win in eight league games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forest Green Rovers have given manager Robbie Savage permission to speak to another club, amid speculation linking him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-908719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}