- Oct 19, 2004
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some 'rock solid' info from cabinessence on ftl:
Nothing special but Sherwood was sounded out around 4 or 5 weeks ago about whether he would take over. It might even have been before the City match! DL told him he was thinking of a change and Sherwood wanted assurances he wouldn't be ditched completely when the new man was appointed. As said in my earlier post, DL found AVB stubborn and arrogant as well as intransigent, particularly over the playing Ade issue. Here was a team struggling to score and they had "potentially" a solution who was costing the club God knows what a week and he point blank refused to play him. DL felt this was bad man management. DL's view was "yes his attitude sucks, but get the best you can out of him until we can get rid" -like any good man manager would. And don't take his ambivalence on the training ground personally. Think most of us thought that as well didn't we?
He also according to DL, got a bit too big for his boots in the summer after bringing home a record points haul and started asking for improved terms (buoyed no doubt by the supposed interest in him from PSG et al - my view here not Rock Solid's). As of the date of his last chat with DL a couple of weeks ago, he has no one specific in mind as a long term replacement which suggests his opinion of AVB was so low or of TS so elevated, that he didn't mind doing the change now rather than waiting for the season to finish. Absolutely no other info on situation as of now.
I'm a fan of a fit and firing Adebayor. But if he's not turning up to train, or not training properly, it's not great man management to be seen to be to weak to deal with it. Before you know it, you've got every **** taking liberties. I can't think of a single top class manager who would swallow that kind of bullshit, and if he did it would almost certainly bite him in the arse.