Spideysense is tingling. Listening back to old interviews, there's a few weird bits. Players choosing to play, injury mysteries, mentions the sack a lot. Maybe there was way more pressure on Des than we expected.
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The Dub pointed out there was no pre-match club interview. His interview on WATG was also different, defending decisions he made re Sam Long for the playoff semis and final. I wonder if there was tension with EW over playing 'his' signings? 8 from the starting XI on Sat were L1 players.
I don’t know the dynamics but the impression was we had a transfer committee. Maybe EW is all powerful? And if so, what decent manager will join that kind of regime at this level?
Waldron is the Head of Football Operations. A non-Director level Director of Football.
As @gingermoods.bsky.social said, he was very happy to be in all the videos and press releases about signings. They were very much presented as his signings.
There’s something, data, points targets each month. Think The Dub touched on it, did they ever truly believe in him & did they really 💯 help him to succeed.
i agree. i’ve listened to some of those old interviews and for somebody who was, at the time, pretty untouchable Des mentions being sacked a lot. he also says several times that he’ll stay ‘as long as he feels wanted’. Like they said on the Dub, i wander if they were ever truly sold.
i remember Des mentioning Mous and others getting new deals and wandered if there was anything in it that we didn’t do the same for him.
i also wander whether he did in fact speak to Wales feeling that he was on relatively thin ice. but as you say, all speculation.
i really hope it doesn’t come out that there were dressing room issues as i’m already feeling the connection that was built with the current squad diminishing a bit.
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As @gingermoods.bsky.social said, he was very happy to be in all the videos and press releases about signings. They were very much presented as his signings.
Funny how that's changed now they all look shit
i also wander whether he did in fact speak to Wales feeling that he was on relatively thin ice. but as you say, all speculation.