Why didn't the journalist ask him about his relationship with John Stephenson? When Poyet says
does he actually mean "I already got one Head of Football fired, so I didn't feel too threatened"?
So the manager tells the chairman he wants out in the summer. Then almost immediately after a terribly dispiriting loss to our bitterest rivals in the play-offs, he publicly questions his own commitment to the club. The next day he refuses to deal with the players out of contract, telling the...
The key point here is, a player is an asset of the club. If another club (at a higher level) wanted one of our players, we wouldn't stand in their way if that club met our valuation of the player. Of course we wouldn't just tear up the player's contract and let them leave for free.
Gus told...
I wonder how he would be regarded by Fulham fans, given his Chelsea background, love for all things Chelsea, and oft-stated desire to manage them at some point? I can't imagine it would be a particularly endearing quality, for many of them?