If it's not true, then one could be forgiven for thinking that someone at the club had gone on a "fishing" expedition.
Or a bigger club appealed to him?
Your glad we had a shaky second half?
The telling thing will be whether he is replaced. You’d assume he has to be but it’ll say a thousand words if he isn’t. If Karl ignores him as is alleged and the board plan to continue their unrelenting support of the manager, there isn’t much point in replacing him. At least not in a hurry.
You’d like to think TW, GF and/or the owners would seek to find out from an employee in a senior capacity especially, the reasons for them leaving or wanting to leave. If those reasons are valid and proven and can be avoided in the future, you’d hope the club would listen, take notice and learn!
I would hope this is the perfect chance for the new board to really stamp their authority on the club moving forward. Clubs like Brentford and Brighton have really pushed themselves to the next level with committed owners and a clear vision moving forwards. We’ve had recent success with recruitment from the LOI but realistically that was never going to last once bigger clubs started fishing in the same pond, can’t help but feel given the last few transfer windows and the news of MT this is the perfect chance to really set the tone for the way the club moves forward.
Should balance that with Cooper, Smyth, Hoban etc.
It’ll be very interesting. I presume the board would have made a counter offer to keep him, should they see this is a major loss. My guess is they won’t as Karl is at the centre of their plans for the future and if the summer is anything to go by, clearly things broke down between them. So my guess is they’ll wish him well without too much resistance and go a different way.
Out of interest why?
We have recruited
Lavery or maybe Fallon would of been the better option at the time we signed Cooper from Linfield
