Stephen Clemence has revealed that Amanda Staveley was 'very good' with him when the former Newcastle United assistant left the club.
Clemence and fellow number two Steve Agnew departed in November, 2021 after staying on, initially, to assist interim boss Graeme Jones following Steve Bruce's exit. The pair, unsurprisingly, moved on after Eddie Howe was appointed as the club's new head coach.
Howe already knew Jones, who had the added advantage of previously working with his staff at Bournemouth, but the Newcastle boss also planned to bring in his own coaching team. Howe, after all, had decided against taking the Celtic job just a few months earlier because he could not get his staff together.
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That should not come as a surprise. Not only are Jason Tindall, Stephen Purches, Simon Weatherstone and Dan Hodges well-aware of Howe's intense demands - the quartet are also able to get his message across to the players even quicker. Given the situation Howe was parachuted into at Newcastle - the relegation-threatened Magpies had not even won a game at the time - that was crucial.
Howe phoned Clemence a few days after his appointment to explain his thinking, 'in a real touch of class', and the former Newcastle assistant spoke similarly of how part-owner Staveley handled his exit.
“Amanda was very good with me,” Clemence told the Times. “She was very easy to deal with. She honoured what was in my contract and I moved on.”
Clemence went on to follow Bruce to West Brom just a few months later, but the 45-year-old now plans to go it alone for the first time and become a manager in his own right.
