Watford fans seem to rate Cleverley and think he was harshly treated. In a poll on their not606 site, 94% say it was the wrong decision to sack him.
Reckon we're just putting the feelers out with Cleverley, for down the road if he impresses at his next club. It would be insanity going for him now.
I got chatting to a Watford fan last night randomly, and he rated Cleverley. Said the guy had to deal with board selling off the best talent, not replacing the talent and expecting the same results with youthful players
On the Cleverley stuff, he has the same agents as Still. With my cynical hat on, this only leaked out after the Still stories were circulating because an agent took a phone call from an enquiring journalist and threw in ‘they like/spoke to Tom too’ Could be true, could equally not and be agent work to try and get him in people’s thoughts
It could even be this, but that we did genuinely speak to him as part of a wide recruitment process. Who knows how many candidates we have interviewed. Cleverly could well be one of many and the agent has just talked it up a little.
Shame. Given where we are. I think two years of Dyche is exactly what we need. At least he would get a team to put some effort in
Still excites me more than Rohl. But I'm not sure why, because I know very little about French football or Still's style of play etc. I suppose that unknown quality might itself be exciting? Or maybe it's because I've never been super excited about Rohl?
Yeah, almost certainly. I think lots more people ‘have talks’ about a job in football than we as fans perhaps realise at times, in general. However that doesn’t mean every ‘talk’ is a formal interview or any indication of being in the end game of being seriously in the mix for an offer, oftentimes it’s a phone call or a discussion at a meeting that an agent plays up in the media
Cleverly might be a good signing for someone like Hull next season. As you say, sounds like an agent saying “remember him?”
