ROBERTO DI MATTEO has been confirmed as the new manager at West Brom after only one season in charge at the MK Dons, and he will hope that the move doesn’t prove to be too big a step too soon, as Paul Ince found during his brief tenure at Ewood Park last season.
The former Chelsea and Italy midfielder has taken to management like a duck to water, steering the Milton Keynes outfit to the League One play-offs in his debut season as a manager, but in the Baggies, he takes on a side that will be expected to bounce straight back into the Premiership at the first time of asking.
The Championship is a notoriously tough division to navigate, and with the likes of Newcastle and Middlesbrough joining the party, it doesn’t look like getting any easier. Di Matteo was a fantastic player in his pomp; cool, calm and clinical. He will need all of those qualities and more if he is to avoid the same fate that befell Ince, who is now, ironically, in the running to return to the MK Dons.
The former Chelsea and Italy midfielder has taken to management like a duck to water, steering the Milton Keynes outfit to the League One play-offs in his debut season as a manager, but in the Baggies, he takes on a side that will be expected to bounce straight back into the Premiership at the first time of asking.
The Championship is a notoriously tough division to navigate, and with the likes of Newcastle and Middlesbrough joining the party, it doesn’t look like getting any easier. Di Matteo was a fantastic player in his pomp; cool, calm and clinical. He will need all of those qualities and more if he is to avoid the same fate that befell Ince, who is now, ironically, in the running to return to the MK Dons.
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