Bruce has reiterated his comments in the HDM... Hull City boss Steve Bruce would 'consider future' if unable to build promotion squad please log in to view this image STEVE Bruce has admitted he will have to consider his future as Hull City manager if his ambitions cannot be matched by the club's hierarchy this season. But ahead of talks with owner Assem Allam on Thursday, the Tigers boss remains confident he will be given the resources to assemble a squad capable of challenging for promotion. With just 19 days left before a new Championship campaign begins at home to Huddersfield Town, City's relegation hangover continues to linger. Just 14 senior players were available for the opening friendly of pre-season on Friday night, a 2-1 win over North Ferriby United, and Bruce has been warned he must sell more players before he can strengthen an already depleted squad. A board meeting scheduled for Thursday is expected to outline a budget for the remainder of the window and Bruce is still hopeful a troubled summer can end with the club placed back on track. "I'm hoping that on Thursday we can all sit down and navigate a plan to get us back to where we all want to be," said Bruce. "If that's the case then I'll be perfectly happy. If not, then I'll ask the question of exactly what they want to do. If I don't think we have a chance of getting back up I would consider my position. "But I still believe when we have the meeting on Thursday I will be given a chance to rebuild this side. "We have three weeks and a lot can be done in three weeks. I'm confident this meeting on Thursday will be beneficial to everyone." City's owners, Assem and Ehab Allam, have taken time away from the KC Stadium since their second application to change the club's name to Hull please log in to view this image Tigers was rejected by the Football Association nine days ago. Previous assertions have made it clear they would sell the club if unsuccessful in their rebranding plans. And they are expected to clarify their own futures when returning from a family holiday. Asked how pivotal a planned meeting with Allam would be to his own position, Bruce said: "I've never really thought about myself to be perfectly honest because I'm still saddened and disappointed. I'm the manager who got us relegated. "I'd love the chance to bring the club back. "I've never thought about anything else over the summer. "As a manager you don't ask for assurances. All I ask is that we have a team that is capable and a squad that is capable of mounting a challenge. "I see the team we've got now and the team we had three years ago when we mounted a challenge, it's unrecognisable. "The nucleus of a very good team is here." Despite already losing eight players since being relegated from the Premier League in May, another couple would appear likely to join the exodus imminently. Norwich's unrelenting pursuit of Robbie Brady and Besiktas' interest in Dame N'Doye would suggest the pair are likely to depart once City's valuations for both are met. "I'll tell no lies, it's been the most difficult summer because of the situation we find ourselves in," Bruce added. "There's been a black cloud hanging over the club and we can't get rid of it. Yes, it's a difficult time but we can still look forward to mounting a challenge in the Championship and look forward to better times." http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull...tory-27444378-detail/story.html#ixzz3gQ6epOmA
Philip Buckingham: Hull City manager Steve Bruce begins to show frustration please log in to view this image STEVE Bruce chose his words carefully before and after Hull City's friendly win over North Ferriby United on Friday evening. They were considered and deliberate. Their significance, too, abundantly clear. Bruce was talking to the media but his voice may as well have been on loudspeaker within the KC Stadium's boardroom. Eight weeks on from Premier League relegation and without a single new signing recruited for a season in the Championship, Bruce could not resist the urge to rouse his employers. The City boss could have said nothing, kept schtum, pretending all was rosy in an East Yorkshire garden he has tended these past three years. But no. Not only did Bruce shovel emphasis onto a scheduled meeting with owners Assem and Ehab Allam this Thursday, but also he even addressed the possibility of leaving his post as City boss should talks not to go to plan. "If I don't have a chance then I would consider my future, of course I would," said Bruce. "I've got to tell the truth on that one." This is pre-season but not as we know it, folks. The optimism that typically flowers in July is nowhere to be found around the KC Stadium. Even the glass half-full merchants are struggling. And so is Bruce. After showing dissent in the wake of Tom Ince's £5m switch to Derby County, an outgoing not helped by Stephen Quinn joining Reading earlier in the same week, the City boss has cut an increasingly exasperated figure as the summer has come and gone. Bruce was his usual ebullient self around the Eon Visual Media Stadium on Friday night but behind the brave face was a concerned manager please log in to view this image . The City boss has come to learn all the hallmarks of a club sliding into a malaise during 16 years in the industry and too many of them currently haunt him. A stripped-back squad has yet to find reinforcements and the manager is powerless to prevent more from walking out. Bruce, of course, is not blameless in all of this. Nor does he profess to be. He was the manager that took the most expensive side in City's history back to the Championship and for all his success in the first two years here, he must also carry the can for a third term unraveling. There have been frank admissions of failure but Bruce also has an appetite to put things right in 2015-16. There is a debt to be paid to a club that could easily have sacked him last season and one he is "happy" to embrace. Yet the challenge needs to be realistic and not doomed from the outset. Bruce needs a sniff of success or feels there would be little point in him hanging around. That leads everyone who's anyone to Thursday and a meeting that Bruce, wittingly or otherwise, has depicted as being the make or break date. Bruce will not ask for £50m or for exit doors to be locked and bolted, but he will call for pragmatism and an ordered sense of ambition. Unless City make moves in the transfer market soon, big or small, there is a danger of being left behind before the race has even started. Middlesbrough, for example, are already making statements of intent. Last season's Championship play-off finalists last week signed Stewart Downing for £5.5m from West Ham United and, regardless of the risks attached when signing a high-earning veteran, the good folk of Teesside cannot wait for the season to begin. The same sentiments do not ring true in East Yorkshire at present. Bruce has done his best to be a one-man cheerleader of late but he now requires help from above. He also needs to know the club's owners still care. Bruce must struggle to see the man who first lured him to the KC Stadium when he looks at the Assem Allam of 2015. Back in the summer of 2012 it was an irresistible sales pitch that convinced Bruce a move to the KC Stadium was one worth making. The pair instantly struck it off and that close relationship was the foundations for some magical days. Bruce remains fond of Allam – that is unlikely to ever change – but the drive to succeed is no longer quite as apparent as it once was in City's owner. This summer leaves supporters unable to draw any other conclusions. Allowing eight players to leave, a figure that could well rise into double figures within a week, without recruiting a single new face borders on the irresponsible. Less than three weeks remain until a new season and City could only field a squad that included 14 senior players against North Ferriby. It certainly didn't feel much like a club hungry to make an immediate return to the Premier League, regardless of a starting XI assembled for the juicy sum of £26m. Bruce had not spoken to the owners in a week that had begun with them "taking a break" from the club following a second failed attempt to become Hull Tigers. With neither a specified budget nor a chequebook at his disposal, this has to be interpreted as an awkward silence between owners and manager. The lines of communication need to open quickly or this nagging sense of indifference and disorganisation will only linger. Bruce, quite understandably, needs answers. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Phil...tory-27444400-detail/story.html#ixzz3gQLVWD8J
Something afoot behind the scenes, I think SB is as much in the dark as we fans are, just hope that the Allams don't turn up on Thursday and throw a grenade into the mix(not holding my breath on that one), honestly believe that the club is at a crossroad, just hope we end up on the right road.
I heard from a good source that Ehab wants Bruce out but the old man doesn't and he doesn't let anyone tell him how to run his business so I reckon Brucey will stay
Allam has given up on getting his money back. If Jelavic and N'Doye go we'll buy useless mystery strikers from abroad or two from League 1.
The price of relegation, we have to get players off the books before we can get any inferior ones in.
That depends on how good the players are we get rid off and how go0od the cheaper ones we get in are.
Burnsy's taken to predicting a doomsday scenario constantly at the moment, he did exactly the same when Allam was buying the club, declaring the deal was off, on the day Allam actually bought the club.
Thats just regurgitated from Fat Burnsys interview. If you read it its quite positive but good old HDM negative as ****.
The fact that Bruce felt it necessary to mention his position is a clear indicator that relations between him and the owners has altered. I have my doubts of him staying and I think we are in for a rough ride. What will be, will be, but, yet again, the club have handled all of this transfer window terribly and that's only so far, I've a feeling it might get a whole lot worse.
If any of you out of towners are in any doubt about the bias of HDM and RH just look at the marks for Rovers players performance against FC. Rovers were absolutely gash and got well stuffed by a comparable team. Yet every player got at least a 6 or a 7. How?
They haven't reported 3 FC fans getting kicked to **** outside the ground either, then the stupid police knicked one of them because they told them he started it even though he was trying to stop fight. Never any trouble at rugby is there?
He seems to have t in for city for sure, i dont think he has had a good thing to say since we were relegated. He probably hasnt been given the amount of interviews he wants.
Did he really say the same things in the HDM as he did on the radio, or is it just filling empty spaces? The HDM website keep rehashing the same story & people keep commenting on it, even though he hasn't said the same things twice to the HDM. I'm pretty sure that RH are doing the same thing with their stories! Don't panic, what will be will be!
