The only people truly happy would be the film crew you just couldn’t write it the 1st day of filming and we have a **** storm
I’m not a fan of his commentary but he was right. Neil had 12 month rolling contracts at Preston, he would have ****ed off from them if the right club had come in before he was eventually sacked. Neil had a clause put in his contract that he could speak to other clubs, the bloke didn’t want to be here long term and that’s fact not spin.
It’d be like taking back a girlfriend who wanted some space, was seen out with another lad but promises you she never sucked his cock you’d never fully trust her again
Just my twopence worth. SAFC was Alex Neil’s employer at the end of the day. I don’t know if a contract was requested by Neil or offered (Prehab seems to think one was requested and either not good enough or denied but we just don’t have enough info to make a judgement) I just think that at the end of the day he didn’t have enough respect for US as a club to stick around and was off at the first sniff of interest. if a player had done that AN would be seething.
Another thing which has been noticed is he didn’t exactly lay roots here. The devil will be in the detail methinks
Fickle game football, we’ll be alright still plenty to look forward too if he doesn’t want to be part of it that’s fine we move on
Maybe should of seen more into the comments during the press conference about the transfers and the door being smashed down. Club and fans need to move on as quickly as possible, but all the time there is no statement from SAFC or Stoke it's limbo time.
Yup this for me, I have also said both parties are to blame, but there is no way I will condone Neil’s actions nor timings. Both are appalling and totally disrespectful to the club but most of all to us fans, who do not deserve this at all
For all we know he requested the rolling contract with a clause allowing him to speak to other clubs. The club might not be at fault whatsoever other than agreeing to this contract when they employed him. Let’s just wait and see what comes out, I’m past caring now I’m ready for a pint. Haway the lads!
It's worth bearing in mind too that those knocking the door down comments only came after we'd lost/had a bad performance, it was the only time he expressed dissatisfaction with how the window was going - he's always had a touch of petulance and self preservation when his teams don't perform.
The problem is that it went public. I've received offers or applied for jobs while employed then decided to stay at the current job. Technically, (from a contractual pov) this is no different from that. Except in this case, the current boss has been told Neil wants to leave, before Neil made a final decision and no contract signed with Stoke. I've never let my previous bosses find out until new offer was officially on the table, even if using it as a negotiation leverage. Plus here, not only Neil current boss found out, but so did the public. In most of our jobs, we don't have thousands of fans to piss off or annoy
Whatever the rights and wrongs of it all, AN has proven himself to be nothing more than a greedy t**t. If it all fell thru and he walked over broken glass to get back here I'd still not welcome him back. Fkn Stoke for Safc?? Do me a fkn favour man.
