Stockport are piss poor so he will have a nice job on his hands there.Appartently Sven reccomended that Stockport would be a good place to start his managerial career.He can call on his time at the MK Dons too, and his links with Liverpool, Man City and Now Sven at leceister for a couple of players id imagine.
If you're going to start your managerial career you might as well start at rock bottom. There's nothing to lose.Best of luck to him.
Delighted for Hamann. Hope it works out for him and hope he goes up through the leagues quickly. Best of luck Didi.
Was watching him on SSN earlier, man his facial twitch has gone bananas. The lads on après match used to take the piss out of it something wicked. Oh and good luck
From the Telegraph--The Blue Square Premier is no place for a Champions League winner. Edgeley Park, Stockport, is not a likely home for one of the heroes of Liverpool’s storming of the Ataturk. Dietmar Hamann spent his playing career among the gilded and the great. He will begin his adventure in management among the down-and-outs. Even Sven-Goran Eriksson, a man accustomed to turning a blind eye to his surrounds as long as the silver glints bright, cautioned against it. “Deep down he thinks I should have started at a higher level,†said Hamann yesterday. “I have different views on this.†It is easy to think that Eriksson, in this at least, will be proved right. As acknowledged by Hamann’s new paymaster, Tony Evans, the 27-year-old Huyton-born businessman whose six-figure investment in Stockport brought the former Liverpool midfielder to Cheshire, the German has worked with some of the finest managers of the modern era, as well as Stuart Pearce. “His legs were never his best attribute,†said Evans, a Liverpool fan. “He’s always been a thinker.†On occasions such as this, Hamann’s reputation stands at odds with his actions. Evans is right to point out that the 37-year-old is one of those players who has always been groomed for management. He could have started at a higher level, without question, either in his adopted home or in Germany. So why should he choose a club with just nine senior players? Why take on a team which, thanks to a ruinous agreement with Brian Kennedy and his Sale Sharks, does not even have the right to that money earned through its own corporate suites? Why involve yourself with a club that has lurched from financial to existential crisis after crisis for the last decade? Why pin your colours to the mast of a side that, even amid football’s deluded mania and its rampant greed and its endless tales of great institutions humbled by man’s rapacity, stands out as a basket case? “You have got to start off somewhere,†said the German, his sleek, tailored grey suit at odds with Stockport’s Insider Suite (2), its carpet slightly frayed at the edges. “I had to make a decision and came to the conclusion it is a big club in its own right. It is the first time in 106 years they have dropped out of the Football League. It is a big challenge, but if you are not up for a challenge you will not reach the heights you will want.†First, though, Hamann must rise from the depths, and drag Stockport with him. He has not ruled out registering as a player – a wisecrack that he would have to lose weight to do so at odds with his languid, slender form – and he believes he can use his contacts around the upper levels of the game to attract loan players to Edgeley Park, to bolster a squad currently only brought up to playing strength by YTS trainees. The boot-cleaners and apprentices. Stockport is that sort of club now. There is a Year Zero feel to it. He shares his ambition with Evans, his new boss. It would be “premature†to call him chairman, he says. That will come later, by mid-July, possibly, when due diligence may be finished, a new board may be constituted and a majority shareholding taken. There is a Year Zero feel to him, too: he is open, honest, but questions over his previous life, his previous business, are dismissed with the assertion that it is not worth dwelling on the past. “This is my new venture,†he says, bristling with the confidence of the self-made man. High-school dropout at 15, club owner at 27: Evans’s tale should be an inspiring one. It may be, should he ever go into it. Football is a cynical world now, though. The ball is tired. And at Stockport, more than most. This is a club where a Fans’ Trust signed a death warrant, a ground where the vultures have hovered for years. They do not own their training ground. Faith does not come easily. Evans knows that. “Actions will speak louder than words,†he assures, his navy blue suit speckled with rain, his eyes weary from an endless round of interviews. The message does not waver. “The fact is the men who own this football club are intelligent, successful, wise men. They would not have done business with me if they did not believe we were the right men.†The right men? Yes, Evans, as is compulsory these days, has mystery backers. They are not, he is adamant, either Robbie Fowler or Steve McManaman. More crucially to Stockport fans, he insists Stephen Vaughan, the former owner of Chester and held up by many as the factotem of all an owner should not be, is not involved either. He is a friend, though. “If he wants to ring me and get involved, I will definitely listen to him,†says Evans. That is speculation, though. He wishes to deal in facts. He has passed the Fit and Proper Persons Test. Stockport will have a substantially larger budget than they would had he not arrived. Yet, just last year, a company set up by Evans – Anthony Donald Evans, a Knowsley-based insurance firm and call centre, was placed into administration. “It was company I set up from scratch and turned into a multi-million pound organisation with 200 staff,†he says. “You tell me someone who has been successful who has not had a company go into administration. That is the past. This is my new venture.†The past is a place he does not wish to go. He is not alone in that. The more recent alleys of memory lane are dark, brooding ones for Stockport, too. They still fear that journey is not yet over. They still dread that the past is not yet done. Hamann is here to provide a new dawn. Evans talks of a new day, a fresh start. One of the German’s former managers spoke incessantly of corners turned. Stockport know too well that is all well and good. It depends what is round the bend.
I never realised who bad Stockport were.I can remeber them been at the bottem of their league, but forgot which one.Didnt realise they are in the Blue Square Premier league now.I see his new owner has given him a few bob to spend..
They've had a bad 10 years or so,although I think there was a promotion in there under Jim Gannon(I know a lot of fans wanted him back,he's a bit of a legend there). They had a couple of cup runs in the 90,s,finished 8th in the championship around 98 done a bit of work to one end of the ground where there's decent corporate facilities and bought a decent training ground too. The collapse of itv digital hurt them badly,like a lot of other clubs. They're now tenants to sale sharks in their own ground and tenants in the training ground too. In the last couple of weeks their main sponsor,Stockport council pulled out in a move that apparently had more to do with politics than finance(labour getting one over on the lib dems). They've still got a decent core group of fans,they actually averaged higher gates than other teams in the region who are doing much better at the moment. It's tough to attract crowds for the teams in that region with the Mancs and city up the road. Hopefully Didi will use his contacts to bring in some quality loan players as the league is really competitive and tough to get out of.