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For the next two seasons, Gabala couldn’t crack the glass ceiling and would sad-
dle consecutive third-place finishes with cup runs which fell at the final hurdle. Ad-
ams most recently was appointed as manager of La Liga side Granada with the
objective of staving off relegation. But the damage had already been done as Ad-
ams’ defensive nous wasn’t enough to overturn a minus-45 goal difference.
Sven Goran Eriksson – Notts County
A year after managing Manchester City backed by the mega wealth of Sheikh Mansour Bin
Zayed, the former England boss was lured to League Two Notts County as sporting director.
In one of British football’s most extreme cases of shady ownership, the takeover would become part
of a wider investigation into the legitimacy of businessman Russell King for the Serious Fraud Office.
Proclaiming to have bought the rights to North Korea’s gold, coal and iron ore min-
ing operations, King was the head of a company worth $2trillion. All the money in
the world to help Sven take the Magpies from League Two to the Premier League.
And the Swede was totally sold on the idea he could do just that, re-
portedly travelling to Pyongyang to visit North Korean dignitaries.
But all was not as it seemed and once ‘conman’ King was embroiled in the investigation for
fraud, the club ran up debts of £7million before being sold for £1 to local businessman Ray Tew.
Eriksson’s seven months at the club were at an end and the Swede later admitted the van-
ishing act had left him stewing in ‘anger’.

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