Former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan has questioned the reasons behind Dougie Freedman’s decision to leave Selhurst Park to take the managerial role at Bolton.
Freedman had lead Palace to fourth in the Championship so far this season, before deciding to join Bolton who are currently sitting in 16th.
And Jordan believes there is more behind the move than just more money and a bigger stadium suggesting that Freedman should have remained at Selhurst Park to continue learning his trade as a manager.
Jordan told TalkSport: “In this situation, Dougie Freedman is managing a team who is fourth in the league and doing very well. So why is he joining Bolton?
“I believe that Dougie Freedman didn’t really want to leave Crystal Palace. He is probably wise enough to realise that he has got a lot of learning to do, and learning his trade at Palace, building up his skillsets, would be more prevalent than jumping out for a club like Bolton who are, to be fair, in a little bit of disarray after dropping out of the Premier League and now starting the Championship in the same way they finished the Premier League season.”
Jordan also suggested that the current owners of Crystal Palace may not have had a good enough relationship with Freedman and may have wanted him to leave in the near future anyway.
“I think this a situation where possibly, possibly, Crystal Palace might not have wanted Freedman for some perverse reason and this has now presented them with an opportunity that has solved their problems.
“There’s no logic here. Dougie Freedman is a very, very popular character and he is very popular with the fans, and it can sometimes be difficult for owners to accept that their manager could be more popular than them.”
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