This is the kind of doublethink that is annoying most of us.
He defends the training facilities and suggests they haven't been a problem. Then he whimsically says the players have to go to different venues for different things and that maybe they invested too much on the pitch in the past. However, this is in contradiction to the mantra we have heard for several years that investment in training and the academy has been paramount and part of a strategy.
There is then the annoying use of the term professionalism.
“Look at the guy at Bournemouth, Eddie Howe. He had no previous experience as a manager and look what he has achieved there.|"
Yes Tony, Eddie was funded by an Exiled Russian Oligarc with deep pockets and long arms, you have deep pockets but short arms in comparison and Bournemouth broke the rules on expenditure, but because he gambled £40m of his fortune and it payed off to the tune of £160 Million upon promotion, he cannot be touched by the EFL until bournemouth are relegated.
So yes it was a risk but to use Bournemouth as a comparison is to me tenuous if not condescending, why oh why Tony.
-- Edited by WorcesterMiller on Thursday 6th of April 2017 12:46:15 PM
is this just bad PR. Why not announce this yesterday at the same time as the new manager
and the manager will get these facilities / finances etc etc ?
