Lee grant confident manchester united role will benefit huddersfield town

New boss Lee Grant has spoken of his “readiness” to take his first step into management upon his appointment at Huddersfield Town. The 42-year-old penned a three-year deal with the Terriers

yesterday to lead them into their upcoming League One campaign, with the new manager joining from Ipswich Town. Grant spent three years as first-team coach with the Tractor Boys prior to

taking the reins at the John Smith’s Stadium, and the new boss insists it is the “right moment” for him to take up a managerial position. “I do see it as a good opportunity. Whether it’s

right for everybody, or it’s right for anybody else, I don’t know,” Grant said at his first press conference this morning. “I really can only speak to what’s right for myself at this point

in time for my career, and this level of opportunity, and my level of readiness and the timing, I think just meet at the right time and the right moment. “My goal is to make that work.

Whether it would work for somebody else of a similar age in a different stage of their career, I don’t know. For me, it really is a case of a real readiness, the timing being correct, the

club being right, the moment, the squad, everything fitting really, really well, so I’m really excited by that.” Despite this being Grant’s second role in coaching since his retirement from

playing three years ago, the new manager insisted: “The work that I’ve been putting in is well into over a decade now, well into the back end of my playing career. “Yes I was at Manchester

United as a player, in reality that was a player-coach role. I think anybody that looks at my appearances for Manchester United will see that quite quickly (the former goalkeeper featured

twice in a four-year spell at Old Trafford). I spent more time in the office studying, understanding, listening, learning and absorbing from really top people, and that leads me to be in

this seat today.” Grant highlighted a number of instances where others have had positive spells in charge with limited managerial experience prior, both at League One level and at Town,

saying: “You’ve seen David Wagner come in who hasn’t led a team, you’ve seen Carlos Corberan come in who hasn’t led a team, and we’ve seen success on the back of that. “If you look at League

One over the course of the last three or four years, and you take John Mousinho, Kieran McKenna, Steven Schumacher, Chris Davies, the list goes on, I think you can start to create a picture

of ‘this can work, this can work and this can work in the middle’. “What I’m really pleased about is that Huddersfield Town and myself have huge alignment on what we think has got a really

great chance of working for Huddersfield this year, and that the trust and belief is there for me to be the man to push it forward.”