Its called an illegal approach when it's a player, or tapping up if its done circuitously, same for managers as is it players.If the manager, while under contract and that may mean more than it does in your business ( I don't know if stalking the first team counts), approaches another team and touts themselves without asking their own club then that's a breach of contract.
Your not that up on current events though for a bloke who says he's in the loop on everything
Only hearsay but I also heard from some fans last week that the cambridge job wasn't the only one Jim had been up for.
Thing to remember is that an employment tribunal make their decisions based on the balance of probabability. so what's the probabability that he'd applied for another job without telling anybody?
suspect it will be one of those that goes down the civil route after which both sides will declare a resounding victory. But that might be just me being Mr Cynical.