Statement from Mr Barber

[kevtherev]

Totally professional statement, as you would expect from Barber.

 

[marshy68]

If you are simply not allowed to say what the alleged breaches of contract are in such an internal investigation at this stage (even with Poyet protesting his innocence of the charges), then that is probably as much as he can say.

Something needed to be said, so credit for that.

I am not reassured at all about the contracts and recruitment, because had we had someone in charge six weeks ago dealing with all that then and now, we could be more optimistic about the season. But there is no point moaning about it, that's the way it is, and we may well not have a permanent manager for a while.

Still puzzled about the interim position. Do you get a real stopgap and allow him to sign players the new bloke might not like, or not let him sign anyone and leave it all to the last minute (and maybe miss out). Or appoint the interim that you eventually want, just call him an interim and change the title later on.

Me too re - interim. Shirely the interim has to be the next permanent manager and just called interim or head coach for legal reasons.

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

Good e-mail, covers a lot of bases.

You do have to wonder if they will communicate the interim plans to the fans, they STILL havent said anything about friendly ticket info OR who we are playing in our first home friendly !!

 

[bWize]

For someone who doesn't care, you seem to be getting a bit wound up by some of the responses to your post

Wound up?

lol.. Bless

 

[soistes]

Odd - that line was missing from the version that I was sent.

"Similarly, we continue to work behind the scenes on new contracts for those players who were with us last season and we want to retain"
(I assumed, perhaps wrongly, that was whom he was referring to)

 

[The Birdman]

I love Gus but I trust TB and PB lets move on , bring on the Championship and the new training ground.

 

[Butch Willykins]

Totally professional statement, as you would expect from Barber.

This

 

[Chicken Runner61]

There you go then. All is now well with the world.

Let's move on and forget about....erm...the last bloke who managed us.....foreign bloke.....No sorry...it's gone.

I think I know who you are talking about tanned bloke with long short curly teeth?

 

[somerset]

For what its worth, that's spot on for me, reassures me that the club are doing things by the book, showing restraint in the face of temptation to enter a slanging match,..... excellent.

 

[16 bit 44.1]

Oh it's never going to satisfy some of the fish wives on here! Gus has been sacked for breach of contract - it may or may not be as bad as they make out but he's gone and that's that. All the other flimsy crap is just that. The BBC thing is just pure pantomime and i think the club has done well to not drag itself into a childish "he said, she said - you stole my sweets" battle.
And as for other clubs slagging us off without even bothering to see if there is another side to last nights perceived "announcement fiasco". Who cares!! Let them get on with it.. Especiallly when one of the clubs doing it is Leeds!! Bloody hell - Leeds criticising us for the way we do things is akin to Gary Glitter complaining about being offended by page 3 girls!!

 

[brakespear]

I never ceased to be amazed by some people on here. They moan because the club tell us nothing and "fail" to communicate. Then when they do they moan.

This - seems a reasonable enough email to me.

 

[WhingForPresident]

Give him a break, he's only ruined our reputation and lossed all our appeal to new players and managers
If I had to choose the way we would sack poyet, on live TV would be my first. Great going Paul

If you can't even spell lost, I suggest he probably isn't shitting himself over your opinion.

 

[glasfryn]

OK I don't like Barber,but the guys got a job to do, and really I don't like the way he is doing it but fair does to the man the email was pretty good, also pretty late.
lets all move on
interim manager Mark McGhee
knows the club willing to do the job and will be favourable to the fans/supporters/customers

 

[peterward]

Barber is just good with words. I didn't feel any sincerity from that email and think the guy is a cock if i'm honest

this, sincere but needed to be said

 

[oldalbiongirl]

Very pleased with this statement. Shows an awareness of how people are feeling, but also a professionalism that they cant start releasing information whilst the legal process goes on. There is nothing the club can now do, they made their decision to suspend and then dismiss Poyet rather than negotiate and therefore they now need to follow the legal process surrounding this. I can't say one way or the other who is right or wrong, I don't have the facts. If/when any information is released subsequent to the appeal process, perhaps then we can see who we think has the high ground and why decisions were taken. Until then, we can't really start blaming anyone, can we?

 

[bhawoddy]

Hopefully this statement will be understood by the minority of fans who want to speculate at every turn to suit their own agendas..........

 

[Diego Napier]

Give him a break, he's only ruined our reputation and lossed all our appeal to new players and managers
If I had to choose the way we would sack poyet, on live TV would be my first. Great going Paul

Your grasp on reality and what actually happened is as credible as your spelling

 

[blue2]

Totally professional statement, as you would expect from Barber.

Agree quite happy with this now let's get OS on bard for Thursday

 

[somerset]

Me too re - interim. Shirely the interim has to be the next permanent manager and just called interim or head coach for legal reasons.

That may be the case,.... who knows?... but also, someone like Oscar may just want to hold fire until he is sure this is getting resolved,.... which may be too late of course, but we have no choice.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

There you go then. All is now well with the world.

Let's move on and forget about....erm...the last bloke who managed us.....foreign bloke.....No sorry...it's gone.

Why not, he was involved for less than 7% of games I (& you) have seen us play and in 10 years time will be down to 4% and counting...Ships that pass in the night