"It was a race to get out" - Robertson

Pretty incredible interview from Andy.

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-ex-hull-city-defender-2233767

 

It's easy to underestimate what an enormous mess it is behind the scenes and how it must affect the team on the pitch. This kind of stuff is why our managers over the last few years have had such a tough job.

 

Got to admire his honesty

 

Tells us nothing we didn't already know, just disappointing that absolutely nothing positive comes out of this for the club, only acrimonious comments. Best run club in the league, business wise may be, on the playing field the worst without a doubt!

 

Rare for a player.

 

Yes it is , most just leave and don't mention it..

 

Disgraceful we treat our greatest ever manager like that.
Look at the players he brought to us.
We'd have kept Sir Steve we'd be an established PL club now with a thriving academy. And England players playing for us. FFS

 

And he’d still have been a big fat bullshitter.

Nice to see a player speak the truth for once, rather than the usual “nah I loved it it was ace” bullshit.

 

Poor article, no mention of the scandalous fee we got for him or his value now.

 

Very interesting article in todays Hull Daily Mail

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-ex-hull-city-defender-2233767

Andy Robertson admits he was desperate to leave Hull City after a nightmare final 12 months at the KCOM Stadium.

After three years in East Yorkshire, Robertson left the Tigers in July 2017 to join Liverpool after the club’s relegation from the Premier League under Marco Silva.

The left-back bared all in a no holds barred interview with Si Ferry of Open Goal, and discussed his time at Hull, Steve Bruce’s exit, Leonid Slutsky’s attempt to keep him and his eventual departure.

Full interview here

 

Not it's not even a slightly well run club business wise. It's a shambles.

 

I was going to 'like' this post, but then realised that:

• saying 'Best run club in the league, business wise may be' is, sorry to say / no personal offence meant, absolute bollocks!! Business wise the way the club has and is being run is a disaster; it's being destroyed off the pitch, customer (supporter) base is falling off a cliff, revenue streams have been plummeting, etc etc.
• the article probably does tell us, or at least many of us, something we didn't already know, being just how much the off field stuff does impact the players and playing staff.

 

It probably is absolute bollocks Driff, however whilst driving the club spiraling downwards I'll give a degree of credit (not much) for at least ensuring we are not facing administration has we have in the past while revenue streams collapse.This of course is alongside my expectation that the Allams do want out and see now as being the time to do it before the value halves at best over the next 6 months. To stay around for another 12 months say may cost the Allams the best part of c£30m and I don't see them potentially writing that off irrespective of whatever tax benefits it may give them in the bigger scheme of Allamhouse annual accounts.

I'm saying no more as I definitely am no supporter of them!!

 

Though it shouldn't be that hard once someone leaves and establishes themselves elsewhere. Managers may have more confidentiality clauses and have generally a more vulnerable job.

 

Maybe BrAdY will translate this

 

3rd worst, surely?

 

This just confirms what we assumed was going on behind the scenes. It's really a scandal that this happened, and the whole mess falls at the Allam's door.

The only thing I have a question mark over is how much Ehab was instrumental in all this, one assumes his father was aware what was going on, or was this when he was seriously ill and his son took the chance to **** everything up whilst his father's eye was off the ball?

 

Make no mistake, they are both guilty and ****s. Simple as.

 

I have no doubt about that, but things did go downhill faster once Ehab took the reins.

 

I agree, fell off a cliff edge once Ehab took over the reins!