How did we end up

A gamble that failed. We were too careless allowing Leeds to speak to Hecky, in my view.

 

Imagine that you are now the chairman at BFC. Your first choice for our new manager is currently out of work. You're free to speak to him when you like, interview him when you like and by doing so, you don't have to ask anyone's permission and you don't have to alert the press to your intentions. You can just go about your business of hiring your first choice manager in your own time without scrutiny from anyone.

In such a situation, why would you go to the trouble of asking the permission of chairmen of other football clubs to speak to their manager when their manager isn't your first choice? Why destabilise their club? Why put their manager in such a position when you have no intention of offering them the job? Your first choice is available, unattached and can be offered the job at any time, so why speak to people already in work when you're not going to offer them the job? Surely, you'd only do that if your first choice, the guy you really want, turns you down.

 

They met the release clause. We couldn’t stop them. Imagine that’s what it usually means when clubs have been given permission to speak to managers at other clubs.

 

But just imagine if the episode went something like this: Club X ask for permission to speak to your manager, who is under (an old) contract. You say "we would be within our rights to withhold permission, but sign this new deal with a £ X release clause and we will give them permission." Far fetched?

 

Yeah because I reckon the club will have already spoken to the managers agent so they will already know what they have to offer etc.

 

I'm not trying to prove Morais was first choice. Frankly I should bloody well hope he wasn't. I wanted Jack Ross but I wouldn't have offered him the job without interviewing him first. Either party can decide they don't want to work with the other after an interview.

 

I remember folk were utterly fuming when we got Bassett, I even went to family open day and he was getting heckled

 

Yeah it was that or dry January

 

Apparently, Morais met with the owners and CEO and began to stroke their face tenderly whilst whispering “believe” with a sultry voice in their ears. He then proceeded to lick their eyeballs.

That’s only way he got the job.