Nigel Adkins returns to management as he takes over at Charlton

Nigel Adkins returns to football management for the first time in two years as he takes over at Charlton after Lee Bowyer quit the high-flying League One side to join Championship strugglers Birmingham

  • Charlton Athletic confirm the appointment of Nigel Adkins as their new manager
  • The former Hull City boss has signed a two-and-half-year contract with the club
  • Adkins says he is excited to take his first training session on Thursday morning 
  • Adkins’ appointment comes after Bowyer quit on Monday to join Birmingham

Charlton Athletic have confirmed the appointment of Nigel Adkins as the club’s new manager.     

The former Hull City boss has signed a two-and-half-year contract with the Addicks and will take his first training session at the club on Thursday morning. 

Adkins’ appointment comes after Lee Bowyer quit the high-flying League One side on Monday to join Championship strugglers Birmingham.  

Adkins said: ‘It’s a really exciting opportunity for me – something that has happened very quickly. I’m really pleased to be here and am looking forward to meeting the players and getting started. 

‘I had a conversation with Thomas and he highlighted where he wants this club to go. It’s an exciting and long-term vision. Getting to the Premier League is something that we all want and something that I have done before. I want to achieve that again.

‘The team got a great result on Tuesday night and now we need to keep driving on together, because we have got a chance of winning promotion this season.’  

Lee Bowyer quit Charlton Athletic on Monday to join Championship strugglers Birmingham 

 Bowyer has replaced Aitor Karanka, who had been sacked by the Championship club

Adkins has been out of work since leaving Hull in 2019 – but hopes to achieve the same success he experienced with Southampton between 2010-2013. 

Adkins took the Saints from League One to the Premier League between 2010 and 2013.   

Charlton owner Thomas Sandgaard believes Adkins is the ‘perfect’ manager to get the club ‘where it wants to be’.

He said: ‘I believe Nigel is the perfect personality, with the perfect background and the perfect experience to get us to where we want to be. Both Nigel and I want us to playing football in the Premier League and I can’t wait to see us there.’

Sandgaard added: ‘What I am doing with all the building blocks I am putting in place is slowly increasing the probability that we will win games. 

‘The rest of what happens is decided when the whistle is blown and the game starts. Everything I do on the inside, the infrastructure of the club and now with the new manager is to increase the probability that we’ll end up in the Premier League.’   

More to follow.. 




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