Peterborough deny making illegal approach for Savage

Darragh MacAnthony denies claims by Forest Green owner Dale Vince that Peterborough made an illegal approach for manager Robbie Savage. Robbie Savage won his first league game as Peterborough boss at his former club Leicester on Saturday Darragh MacAnthony has denied claims by Forest Green Rovers owner Dale Vince that Peterborough United made an illegal approach for manager Robbie Savage. Vince told BBC Radio Gloucestershire that he initially refused Peterborough permission to speak to Savage. He said he was forced to agree to the move after the League One side approached his former manager directly before appointing him on 2 October. "He's [Savage] a friend and it was very hard to say no, so I said 'fine, go and talk to them'," said Vince.

"Peterborough themselves have covered themselves in no glory here. They came to us and said 'we would like to speak to your manager'. "We said no and so they spoke to him and then he came to us and said 'I hear Peterborough want to speak to me'. So, that's an illegal approach." However, Posh chairman MacAnthony, writing on X, said the process to appoint a new manager was "100% correct and proper, following all the rules". Late last month, National League side Forest Green announced that Savage, 51, had been given permission to speak to