I’m not bothered that he is going, it’s the manner of him going. People change jobs all the time but he’s been underhand and sneaky. It would seem this all started a week ago. Instead of being up front it’s been done under the clubs nose and going to Stoke’s game yesterday is an utter disgrace. He deserves everything he is going to get from us.
All the talk about the club or Speakman not stumping up money is missing a key point in my opinion (and I still believe this about more than money and contract length). But lets say Alex Neil was offered double his money at Stoke, who are deaperate enough to gamble. We wont necessarily have planned for such an outflow in our approved budget, aligned with FFP and submitted to the EFL. Speakman, I reckon, will have an overall budget to work within, set by the owners. This sort of additional spend, should he want to recommend it, will require approval by the board. It may be the board have said no to matching Neil's demands. I still see the club on a massive upward trajectory and yesterday showed the players can perform without Alex Neil. The next chap in will find a good setup to work in and he can just focus on coaching and games - dream job if you ask me.
Pleased your not my hr director m8 lol, going for an interview with a prospective employer can’t breach a contract, if we tried to stop him we would be destroyed in any court for restrictions of his rights.
He’d had his interview, he attended a game, when he was still employed by us. That’s one hell of a difference
Not really it’s like you getting shown around your new potential workplace and meeting your potential team, I’ve done that several times on interviews and either not been offered or turned down the role, not being argumentative just saying he’s not in breach of any contract of employment I’ve ever seen, and if they tried to be so restrictive it would be unlawful.
Yup that would be different, but then we wouldn’t have to pay him any compo and just sack him v publicly I assume, so if we said that it’ll come out. I suspect we’ve just said go sort it out and if u don’t fancy it come back cos we still want u.
We didn't give him permission, the clause in his contract meant we weren't allowed to stop him. It's a small but subtle difference
Maybe it isn’t a breach, who knows. He wasn’t at his potential workplace by the way, they were away from home. It’s completely disrespectful and their contracts are nothing like normal ones. He is still employed by us officially and whilst we were playing he was elsewhere. This is nothing like being shown round an office of call centre agents
