About to win this 6 pointer to take them off of the bottom.
Hudd have declined in no time at all, despite wads of parachute money and some highly paid players departing. An all too common path for clubs (Sunderland, Ipswich).
Talking with a lifelong Stoke fans back in September, he felt the big picture was that billionaire owner Coates had screwed the club by appointing and persisting with Mark Hughes, as well as allowing the squad to age in their latter PL days. That Lambert, Rowett, Jones and the next ones...
This isn’t going to plan.
NSC’ers Nathan Jones haters (only they know why .... probably just spiteful), were ready to laugh at someone losing their job.
Any employee sacked mid fixed term contract, is paid up all the remuneration that would’ve been paid to the end of the contract, under rights conferred by employment law. Exceptions being termination by gross misconduct or by mutual consent. Everton adopt a different approach of paying monthly...
In the same way that we’re told salaries of Brighton’s most highly paid players, or for Ozil, Messi or Alexis Sanchez. Leaks, benchmarking, people in the sport discussing their pay with peers, and good old fashioned tabloid lying.
Definitely, the same as Hudd in their completed games, stinking the division out.
Lambert and Rowett also delivered shite that at Stoke .... IMHO from afar it looks like the owners player recruiting was suspect, as well as the squad which became a bit of a Dad’s Army a couple of years back.
“out of his depth, at a club with a squad on the decline”.
I meant the same as you. Stoke, with their older squad when he took over, would be an incredibly hard job for most managers, let alone younger managers.
I not knocking NJ. Seems a decent guy, impressive work at his previous jobs.
A very typical football story. Doing fantastic at a smaller club whilst learning his trade, he couldn’t resist the huge pay rise offered by a club with a mega rich owner. But NJ was soon out of his depth, at a club with a squad on the decline.
A decent bloke, at least he’ll get a substantial...