Preece on Vaz

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/footba...e-gruelling-rise-of-west-hams-ricardo-vaz-te/

 

That is a cracking read.....

I think Mr Preece, will make a fantastic journalist.

 

Shame he pursued the wrong career for twenty years.

 

Hang on, it was Big sam that turned his career around. Said so himself.

 

I can't remeber that? When where? Quote?

 

A really good insight into how Hillcroft manage the players. A great read. Hope Preece does well in his journalism career.

 

Steve Claridge said it on the Football League show last saturday night.

 

Great read, well done Mr Preece!

 

So in conclusion we DID leave it until after people like west ham made offers before we bothered to offer him one and our manager treated him like **** in training thinking that breaking an employee was acceptable. Cant think why he wanted out myself...

 

If they had broken him as you say

Then he'd have disappeared from the scene, as he'd so nearly done in the Summer when no one else wanted him. However, there was a huge turn round in his goal return, his commitment to the demanded team ethic and all round performances. So the man management from Hill and Flitcroft worked. It defies logic to try and claim otherwise.

 

Re: If they had broken him as you say

Kev can you have a word with Hill and tell him to use those tactics at half time !! Ta!!

 

What was wrong with those used at home to Reading??

 

Re: What was wrong with those used at home to Reading??

Did we win??

If not they didnt work.

 

Errr

What about at home to Cardiff, then? No, scrap that one. Millwall? Hang on. Blackpool? No, give me a minute. Ipswich? Oh ******!!!

 

I dread to think what happened during the half time team talks last season!

Should have done pretended it was pre match and we might have finished in mid table!

 

Re: If they had broken him as you say

It isn't me who says they broke him, it's one of our players who witnessed it in training day in, day out.

David Preece: "They broke him. They quite literally ground him down so they could begin rebuilding him from scratch. Every day in training, whenever he didn’t do as they asked they would give him dogs abuse. Some days it was so ferocious even the rest of us thought they were taking it too far"

 

Re: If they had broken him as you say

Agreed - Preece says they "broke" him. But it damn well worked! Evidence of good man-management for me.

 

Re: If they had broken him as you say

Evidence of workplace bullying for me.

Theres a young lad at work who management abuse on a daily basis. Slating him for the slightest thing, forcing him to do things that the rest of us don't have to. Giving him a million jobs to do and then abusing him for not completing them all to a high enough level because he is rushing. He's the best worker we've got because he puts in 100% effort trying to impress them. By that logic their man management has worked because their breaking of him has made him a better employee. I'd say they are bullies though and that it is terrible man management but that's just me.

 

Re: If they had broken him as you say

Aww, poor Ricardo, bless him. Bullied all the way to the bank. (Thanks in no small part to Hillcroft).

 

They appeared to have done a good job rebuilding him

He's never scored as many goals, nor played as well in his career. It's had a positive effect on him. Which brings up the question whether they had actually 'broke' him. It could be argued they made him realise what he could achieve with the abilities at his disposal if he put in the effort. If it had had an adverse effect on him, there's no way he'd be preparing for the coming season as a Premier League player. Some people need an arm round the shoulder, some a kick up the back side. A good manager knows which is required when an individual is not performing as required.