Rob Page: It feels like a win
Manager Rob Page says that Port Vale’s dramatic draw with Swindon Town “feels like a win.”
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About Rob Page
The former Wales International joined the club as part of Micky Adams’ coaching team in 2011.
Initially a youth coach, he was promoted to the role of assistant manager after the departure of Geoff Horsfield in 2014. Later that year, Page took over as Port Vale manager when Adams departed.
He was manager of the Valiants for a two year spell bringing in the likes of Anthony Grant, Ben Purkiss, Jak Alnwick and Uche Ikpeazu before leaving to take up a similar managerial position at Northampton Town in the summer of 2016.
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Manager Rob Page says three centre-halves “will be needed” and he views Ryan McGivern as a left-back rather than central defender.
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Page prepared to look at loan forwards
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Port Vale assistant manager Paul Bodin has told the Sentinel that if players in the squad perform then there may be no need to move into the loan market.
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Page ‘in talks’ with new players
Port Vale manager Rob Page says the club needs a “shake up” and “there are definitely going to be new faces in the building.”
Rob Page agrees two-year deal
Port Vale have announced that Rob Page has signed a two-year contract with the club.
Smurthwaite gives Page a clean slate
Chairman Norman Smurthwaite has told Signal Sport that manager Rob Page will be allowed to work “without any handcuffs of anything to do with the past.”
Vale retained list ‘early next week’
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