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Your support makes all the difference.Terry Venables was yesterday interviewed by the Leeds United chairman Peter Ridsdale for the job left vacant by David O'Leary's dismissal.
Although Celtic's Martin O'Neill and the Republic of Ireland manager, Mick McCarthy, are still the favourites to succeed O'Leary, Venables' interest in taking over at Elland Road is genuine. Since resigning as the England coach in the wake of Euro 96, Venables has devoted most of his time to television, interspersed with coaching Australia and occasional eclectic forays back into club football.
Neither his chairmanship of Portsmouth nor his few months as manager of Crystal Palace in the 1998-99 season could be counted as anything other than failure, although his salvage of Middlesbrough in the early months of 2001 demonstrated that his coaching acumen was still finely honed. As a former chairman and chief executive, Venables would be well aware of the pressures of a plc needing to make savings and could probably be counted on to accept the financial realities at Elland Road better than O'Neill.
Although Bryan Robson still held the title of manager when Venables came to the Riverside in December 2000, he was reduced to a figurehead as Venables steered Middlesbrough from bottom of the Premiership to mid-table. Venables rejected the chance to succeed Robson, choosing to honour a lucrative contract with ITV, although his time on Teesside generated an affection for the North. Previously he had never managed, coached or played for an English club outside the South-East.
O'Neill is still the front-runner, especially in view of his failure to give an unequivocal pledge of loyalty to Celtic.
Middlesbrough have agreed a fee with Atletico Madrid to sign Juninho for the third time. Boro are expected to open negotiations with the 27-year-old Brazilian after agreeing terms yesterday.
The signing came on the day that the Italian international Massimo Maccarone completed his protracted £8.15m move to the Riverside from Empoli. The striker has signed a five-year contract.
Middlesbrough's 35-year-old mifielder, Robbie Mustoe, is to follow another veteran, Paul Ince, out of the club after rejecting the offer of a new contract. Gareth Southgate will replace Ince as captain.
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