 Slade as manager of Cardiff City in 2016 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Russell Mark Slade[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 10 October 1960[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Reading, England | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1994–1995 | Notts County (caretaker) | ||
| 1995–1996 | Armitage | ||
| 1996 | Leicester United | ||
| 1998 | Sheffield United (caretaker) | ||
| 1999 | Sheffield United (caretaker) | ||
| 2001–2004 | Scarborough | ||
| 2004–2006 | Grimsby Town | ||
| 2006–2009 | Yeovil Town | ||
| 2009 | Brighton & Hove Albion | ||
| 2010–2014 | Leyton Orient | ||
| 2014–2016 | Cardiff City | ||
| 2016 | Charlton Athletic | ||
| 2016–2017 | Coventry City | ||
| 2017–2018 | Grimsby Town | ||
| 2019–2020 | Hereford | ||
Russell Mark Slade (born 10 October 1960) is an English former professional football manager and coach.
Having had an extended career at reserve team level, Slade entered professional sports coaching with Notts County in 1993. He briefly took charge of the club as caretaker manager during the 1994–95 season. Slade then had spells in charge of non-league sides Armitage and Leicester United before joining the coaching staff of Sheffield United in 1997. He had two spells as caretaker manager of The Blades in 1998 and 1999 before the appointment of Neil Warnock. In 2001, he took over the managerial post at Conference National side Scarborough before later moving to Grimsby Town in 2004 and Yeovil Town in 2006. He was appointed manager of Brighton & Hove Albion in 2009 but the stay was brief and he was dismissed in November 2009.
In 2010, Slade was appointed manager of Leyton Orient and he led the club to two 7th-place finishes, an FA Cup fifth round replay against Arsenal and took the O's to the 2014 play-off final – a feat which saw win the LMA League 1 Manager of the Year award. He left Orient to take charge of Championship side Cardiff City, and spent two years in charge of the side, finishing in 11th and 8th positions, before being appointed the club's head of football. He resigned from the role after only two weeks and, in June 2016, was appointed manager of Charlton Athletic. He then went on to manage Coventry City, before returning to Grimsby Town once again between 2017 and 2018. His final managerial role to date was with non-league side Hereford, whom he departed in 2020.
Slade developed a reputation for being an effective man manager,[3] and a very savvy operator within the transfer market who never bought a player whilst at Leyton Orient, instead bringing in a number of players on free transfers.[4]
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- ^ Paul Doyle. "Russell Slade: I don't half get a buzz from a good free transfer | Football". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 August 2015.