{"id":879682,"date":"2026-10-12T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/879682\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:04:10","slug":"robbie-savage-peterborough-united-chairman-darragh-macanthony-denies-illegal-approach-for-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/879682\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbie Savage: Peterborough United chairman Darragh MacAnthony denies illegal approach for boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late last month, National League side Forest Green announced that Savage, 51, had been given permission to speak to another club, before confirming he had been offered the Peterborough job,<\/a> following the departure of Luke Williams.<\/p>\n

“In the negotiations, Peterborough paid no respect to Robbie’s position,” said Vince.<\/p>\n

“He was stuck in the middle. He went there on the Monday, they offered him the job verbally and then they denied offering him the job.<\/p>\n

“Then they said they were going to move on to their second choice, leaving him in a real pickle, and we had no choice but to say ‘look, just take him, that’s the best thing for him’.”<\/p>\n

Vince added: “Robbie is a friend and told us he had an intense personal need to leave. It was impossible to have a proper negotiation.<\/p>\n

“In the end, we said ‘look, just take him on your terms’. We cared more about Robbie than the outcome.<\/p>\n

“Football is not a bad place, but there’s people in it that give it a bad name. Enough said.”<\/p>\n

In response, MacAnthony added: “I have been an owner for 20 years in the EFL and have respect for the process.<\/p>\n

“Good luck to Forest Green in appointing a new manager.”<\/p>\n

Forest Green have not confirmed if they have contacted the Football Association about the matter. <\/p>\n

Following Saturday’s 3-1 win at Leicester City,<\/a> Peterborough host Burton Albion this weekend in Savage’s first home league game in charge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late last month, National League side Forest Green announced that Savage, 51, had been given permission to speak…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-879682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}