Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has praised Wigan boss and former City loanee Gary Caldwell.
Mowbray told the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner about Caldwell: “He’s a good football man, a smart man and articulate guy who wants to play football a certain way.
“I would have thought Roberto Martinez would have been his biggest influence playing his back threes and spread-out football.
“Your first job in management is very important because if you fail it’s very difficult to get another job. It’s been a pretty spectacular opportunity for him at Wigan who were in the Premier League only a few years ago.
“Coming into a league where they have by miles the biggest budget but he’s still had to manage the players and get rid of those on the biggest salaries and had to find the best players to replace them, so there’s been a lot of movement in and out.
"He’s stabilised everything and got them moving in the right direction, so he’s done a good job and it looks to me they’re going to get the job done.
“It will be a different test if they get promoted, of course, but it’s all part of the test to see if you can keep regenerating your team.
“I think it’s important they get back because as other clubs like Coventry have shown, if you don’t bounce back straight away your revenue streams disappear and you get problems, particularly if you have players on high salaries.
“Championship players might be earning £10,000 a week, half a million a year, and you’ve got three or four of them, that’s £2million before you start so you try to move those players on if you can.
“But if they’re not performing well enough because they’re part of a relegated team then no-one wants them. So Gary has done a good job.”
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