The players have been woeful all season but whoever decided to tell players in March that they need to go for financial reasons and expect their morale not to be in the toilet is a ****ing moron of epic proportions. The odd player like Amrabat, a veteran of the game who was brought in on a six-month contract, will put up a fight due to a sense of pride and duty. Other players who are young or in their prime years will respond to that news and will be thinking about the next step in their careers, not Hull City’s survival.
You would expect them to all put up a fight because it’s their job but in the real world, a lot of people are fine doing the bare minimum at work, if that. Why would footballers be the exception to this, especially if they’ve already been told they’ve not got a future here?