Mark Venus has said that he is happy being the Technical Director at Coventry City.
Venus told the Coventry Telegraph: “It’s not tricky for me because I think I am in a different job now.
“From my point of view if the board was willing I would like to stay here and carry on with my job in this football club.
“I feel I have found a job that I really enjoy and a job where I have got lots and lots to do and achieve, and I feel I have a responsibility level I have craved. But it would be up to the board really, whatever they decided, but I’d be more than willing to keep going.
“This is my first summer doing this job and I work harder in the close season than I do through the season,” he said.
“When I came in last year I didn’t have the same remit as I do now with the different lines of preparation.
“My job is like an elastic band which is stretching, for the better for me and hopefully for the football club. They have put a lot of trust and faith in me and I enjoy it and I want to give them a return on that.
“I love being part of it and the responsibility. I feel it’s the first time being a non player that I have had my own responsibility, my own desk and my own decision making to fail or succeed on. Being a No.2 the manager always pushes the button and stamps things off, so that’s the part I am enjoying.
“I have started a project and I want to see it through.
“Let’s be honest about this industry, clubs aren’t going to be able to keep their managers long term because it is such a short and volatile profession,” he said.
“We know that before the new season starts two thirds of the jobs that have failed will probably become available so we have to try to have a hope and belief that if every manager moves on to better things from our football club then it means that we must be doing something right in the process of employing them and what they are doing when they’re here.
“That’s the psychology we have to take. We would never want a manager who is doing well to leave because we want to build the football club around what he wants to do.
“But we also have to be prepared that if he moves to better things we have to keep going, and that’s how we have to run our department.
“I think if I owned a football club this would be a more stable job, especially if you feel the person was moving you in the right direction while all the volatility is swirling around on the outside.
“This job should be about building the football club, making it better, running it properly, making it richer and doing cleverer deals – helping give the manager the right options to sign the players to play the way he wants to play, or the club want to play.
“So I think the job should have some stability in it but like all football jobs it should be judgemental and based on what you have or haven’t done.”
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