The past two days have a been a period of great uncertainty within the club.The club has offloaded four players in the space of three days; These include our interview candidate Alban Turok, Edgar van der laan and Francesco Temple. Dutch star striker Kleis Andriessen also failed to impress the manager and has returned to china.
The reasons for letting these players go is not very clear.Most of the fans though were not very pleased with these drastic changes.
'why did he have to sell Alban ? this guy has been one of the most consistent players at the center of defence and as a result we've conceded the least amount of goals in the whole of the campaign.I really don't understand this , rumors also have it that we re in a good position financially.am disappointed .really disappointed.'--- fan
'I kind of like the dutch guy .i thought he was cute and i also heard he was good in scoring goals.its a shame the manager let him go .'-- female fan
The manager being aware of the commotion his decisions have brought to the club agreed to have a short press conference. Here is what he had to say:
PRESS CONFERENCE
'I have been very angry at the way people are talking about these transfer moves.What do they know? I was employed to do my job and am doing it.Who has brought the club success the past two seasons? ME ! and not everybody who watches football on tv and so thinks he is a coach.
Kleiss had to go because of family reasons.He didnt tell me what they were and i didnt ask.I really don't understand why youngsters dont want to just concentrate on their football and just shut up and do what they were brought here to do.Alban was growing bigger than the club so had to go.He started making ridiculous salary demands and with the position the club is in right now we cant afford to make such sacrifices.He's young and hot headed and with time will come to realise that its the coach who is the top dog not players.
''how about francesco temple? why was he sold?'' -- press
Francesco failed to live up to expectation and really i was disappointed with his overall contribution and attitude.He needs to put in more effort and be more aggressive in his play.But saying that we cant have him here on training basis.The club is moving forward and i repeat again cannot afford unnecessary expenses.
''So are we to assume that better players are coming to replace the once that have left?''---press
You have just taken the words out of my mouth.I have successfully negotiated the transfers of three top quality ,hugely experienced players who are going to be with the club for at least one season.Final preparations are underway with documents and other final paperwork .Life in div2 will be very different.Teams are a lot more unforgiven and you get punished for your mistakes and get crushed by superior opponents.We need all the experience we can get.
That is all for now and from now on i hope people will allow me do my job the best way i know how.'
--Manager
The manager was very detailed in giving his reasons for selling the players but one wonders whether all of this would have been avoided if he had taken time to learn about the players.We wait to see who these incoming players are.
Next Issue:
Exclusive interviews with all three players that have been signed.
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