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AN Press conference - CANCELLED

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No sane person deliberately wants a rolling contract when you could have a 3 or 4 year deal, especially in football management.
Neil deliberately wanted that by all accounts so as soon as anything like this came up he could fuck off no questions asked.
Hate to say it like but it looks like we’ve been played a kipper.
 
RossTheNinja said:
I'm not blaming you if he's gone.

What you could take from the release is that he was talking with Stoke. That was the information available. You didn't know why he was, neither did I. If I'd asserted that the only reason he'd done so was to get more money from Sunderland and he ended up with a bigger deal from us, you would've correctly called bullshit.

If you'd said your guess was, or if it were me, we'd not be having this conversation.
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All I said was he must have been interested to speak to them at all, which is a pretty good assumtion, and becasue he was interested and the club had made the effort to release a statement, it was looking like he was going.
 
Shieldsman said:
No sane person deliberately wants a rolling contract when you could have a 3 or 4 year deal, especially in football management.
Neil deliberately wanted that by all accounts so as soon as anything like this came up he could fuck off no questions asked.
Hate to say it like but it looks like we’ve been played a kipper.
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Probably sussed out what a basket case we are
 
rocky said:
Recruitment helps get good players in, which we have done. It also helps massively if you have a good coach/manager.
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Not enough. And it remains to be seen across the course of the season just how good the ones we’ve signed recently will be. Are we confident that Alese, Matete, Trai Hume, Bass, Roberts all come into the side and perform at the standard? I’m not and I don’t think Neil is / was either. And I’m not sure he thinks a teenage Costa Rican and French teenager are the answers either. What was agreed RE recruitment between the club and Neil upon his appointment we don’t know. But Neil hasn’t been content with it.

As I’ve said previously, it’s about blend. Will we appoint a competent manager who is entirely happy with our recruitment process? Time will tell now I suppose
 
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