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Poyet or the Media



Ulloa's Soul Patch

Ulloa's Soul Patch

The Cyclone!
Mar 5, 2013
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Just above the chin.
People often say Poyet is linking himself to Premier League jobs.
But from what I've read from articles and interviews it seems to be the media who do so... ???
 




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Brighton Breezy

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Jul 5, 2003
19,439
Sussex
I guess he does not have to answer questions put to him in such an enthusiastic way. If he stopped giving journalists easy copy, they would soon lose interest in asking him about other jobs.
 




W.C.

W.C.

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Oct 31, 2011
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Walt Jabsco said:
I guess he does not have to answer questions put to him in such an enthusiastic way. If he stopped giving journalists easy copy, they would soon lose interest in asking him about other jobs.
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Like that is EVER going to happen!

Anyway, listening to some people on this board Poyet was constantly touting for work, when in reality, he was asked, by jounos, about some of his ex teams and the premier league and he gave honest answers and talked fondly about clubs he once enjoyed being at. Thems the facts.
 


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Brighton Breezy

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Jul 5, 2003
19,439
Sussex
W.C. said:
Like that is EVER going to happen!

Anyway, listening to some people on this board Poyet was constantly touting for work, when in reality, he was asked, by jounos, about some of his ex teams and the premier league and he gave honest answers and talked fondly about clubs he once enjoyed being at. Thems the facts.
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Journalists are fairly busy people. They would not hike down to The Amex to sit through a press conference about the Albion's next match just so they could ask Gus a couple of questions about the Chelsea job etc (as they have done this season) if Gus just said he was not prepared to talk about other jobs.
 




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m20gull

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Jun 10, 2004
3,421
Land of the Chavs
Interesting reading some of the old newspaper articles and interviews. I liked this quote from a Mirror article in March after the Reading saga:

"Poyet has Brighton poised just outside the Championship's play-off places but was worried he'd taken them as far as he could.

And insiders revealed he has been chasing players this season that the club could not afford."
 


Mowgli37

Mowgli37

Enigmatic Asthmatic
Jan 13, 2013
6,371
Sheffield
It does annoy me when people claim he was "touting" himself for the jobs. They wanted answers, he gave them. I much prefer an honest manager to one who claims loyalty to a club then is off in a flash when a bigger team comes calling. If you were a manager of a team lower than us and were asked whether you would consider the Brighton job you're not going to say "I have no interest in the job", you would say that if the opportunity to manage the club you support comes around, then you would take it. This is all Gus has really did with the Chelsea job.
 






TottonSeagull

TottonSeagull

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Mar 5, 2011
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Totton (Nr Southampton)
Mowgli37 said:
It does annoy me when people claim he was "touting" himself for the jobs. They wanted answers, he gave them. I much prefer an honest manager to one who claims loyalty to a club then is off in a flash when a bigger team comes calling. If you were a manager of a team lower than us and were asked whether you would consider the Brighton job you're not going to say "I have no interest in the job", you would say that if the opportunity to manage the club you support comes around, then you would take it. This is all Gus has really did with the Chelsea job.
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Absoulutely delusional!
 


drew

drew

Drew
Oct 3, 2006
23,063
Burgess Hill
TottonSeagull said:
Absoulutely delusional!
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Exactly. The response should always be 'I am not going to talk about other jobs, my focus is on Brighton' or words to that effect. And then don't make any other comments. Other managers can do it so why can't poyet. Now maybe he thought he was playing the long game by putting pressure on TB but he forgot who is the poker player!
 


Acker79

Acker79

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Nov 15, 2008
31,864
Brighton
If all he said was 'I am not going to talk about other jobs, my focus is on Brighton' or words to that effect then people would complain that he doesn't deny the rumours. Or one time he varies it because he's caught off guard and too much is read into it because it's not what he usually says.

If he does deny rumours, then things change he is a liar and ridiculed (see dougie freedman).

It's a can't win position.
 




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