Leyton Orient are set to appoint Carl Fletcher as their new manager as reported by the Bournemouth Echo.
Fletcher is currently the Premier League outfit’s loan manager, having coached the club’s under-21s before he changed roles in the summer.
The report claims Orient have offered Flecher the job and that the two parties are currently negotiating personal terms, with a move looking increasingly likely.
Ross Embleton is currently in temporary charge of the O’s, having replaced the late Justin Edinburgh over the summer after the club clinched promotion from the National League.
Fletcher’s only previous management experience was sixteen months in charge of Plymouth Argyle. He was sacked in January 2013 with Argyle just two points clear of the League Two relegation zone after a 2-1 defeat to Bristol Rovers.
The Bournemouth legend had joined Argyle towards the end of his playing career and stepped up to take the manager’s job after the Pilgrims sacked Peter Reid.
The former West Ham, Watford, Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest player was only thirty-one when he took the job at Home Park in a gamble that didn’t pay off for the Devon club. He’s now perhaps a little older and wiser and a return to management in East London is definitely on the cards according to the report.
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A leftfield appointment if the story is correct and one that may not go down to well with some O’s fans looking for an experienced man to steady the ship after the tragic events in the summer.
Fletcher struggled at Argyle, but the club was in turmoil at the time, and the owners currently at Orient are a different proposition altogether.
It might be a gamble, but one thing is guaranteed, Orient’s owners will have done a vast amount of research and O’s fans should back them if they do indeed appoint Fletcher.
