Hartley is poised to make a decision over his own future having been offered a contract by Greek top-flight club Iraklis Saloniki.
Wilkinson, who is the last English manager to have won the league title with a top-flight club after guiding Leeds to success in 1992, also revealed that, while his plans became bogged down in FA bureaucracy, others were only too happy to embrace them.
Portsmouth, who had lost their opening seven games in the worst start by a top-flight English club in 79 years, picked up their first victory of the season in a 1-0 away win to Wolves at the weekend.
The 1976 FA Cup winners enjoyed a 27-year stay in the top flight before the club were relegated in 2005.
And, despite the controversy surrounding Le Guen's decision to send Fernando Ricksen home for "inappropriate behaviour" on the club flight to Johannesburg, the 21-year-old is only thinking about a successful partnership with his compatriot.
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Having an expensive side that had a number of players with substantial Premier League experience and aspirations to stay in the top flight meant the club was due for a bit of an overhaul once relegated.
Swansea say they made a move for Bodde last season, but Den Haag's recent relegation from the Dutch top flight made the Welsh club's task easier.
Callum Lavender, from Chinnor, Oxfordshire, made the flight last month at Bicester Flying Club, two days after his birthday.
Cooke is not the only top-flight player who started at the club - Huddersfield's Steve Snitch is another Embassy graduate.
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The former England skipper ended his rugby career after 15 years and 339 games in the top flight with Wasps, his only club.
Toshack also pointed out that Hennessey's place could be under increasing pressure from Hull's Boaz Myhill who is likely to playing regularly in the top flight with his newly-promoted club.
Blackpool - whose average home crowd of 8, 611 was the second-lowest in the Championship this season - will be the smallest club in the top flight since the formation of the Premier League in 1992.
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It is a long way from last July when they were taken over by Middle Eastern consortium Munto, with the much-heralded plan of leading the league's oldest club to the top flight within five years.
He achieved his primary goal of keeping the club in the top flight but would have achieved that aim a lot easier if Sunderland had shown the same sort of endeavour, energy and enthusiasm as they did for the most part against Chelsea.
Now Jones has urged him sign an improved deal at the Championship leaders and help guide his home-town club into the top-flight.
Yet all three remain Middlesbrough players, and Southgate says he needs them, along with new signings to get the right balance to bring the club back into the top flight.
The club returned to the top flight of English football this year for the first time since the 1995-96 season, and they currently sit 15th in the Premier League table.
The Stamford Bridge club are second in the top flight and trail United by six points.
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Forest's near neighbor Leicester City, another club to have lost top-flight status in recent years, is now owned by a Thai group -- but Chadwick says there is a big difference in their earning potential.
Currently one club is relegated from the top-flight, replaced by the winners of the Championship play-offs.
But some people are not surprised the city is benefiting from the club's elevation to the top flight.
It will be Mashaba's first job with a club since the relegation from the top flight of South African football of his last side Vaal Reef Stars in 1992.
He revealed earlier in August that he had told the club's board that he would resign if they disagreed with his approach to the club's return to the top flight.
Earlier, Osasuna moved four points clear of the relegation zone with a 1-0 win at home to eighth-placed Getafe, while Athletic Bilbao all but secured another year in the top flight with a 2-1 win over bottom club Mallorca.
For a man who has managed in the top-flight of English and Spanish football, taking over a club at the bottom of the Nationwide Conference might have seemed like one job too far.
On the day West Ham's new co-owners, David Gold and David Sullivan, stepped up their bid to occupy the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Games, the pair will be desperately hoping their club will still be in the top-flight to enjoy it.
However, he has this week insisted he is happy at Cardiff after distancing himself from a report accusing the club of pricing him out of a top-flight move.
Agbonlahor eventually struck to secure Villa's win, which was a 13th successive match without a defeat for the Midlands club and equalled their best run in top-flight since 1898.
Last weekend's defeat to Premiership new boys Exeter condemned the club to their worst ever start to a top-flight campaign.
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