| Julien Stéphan talks dreams, transfers, and that Coventry game – Interview on 10:15 - Sep 13 with 301 views | Lblock |
| Julien Stéphan talks dreams, transfers, and that Coventry game – Interview on 10:11 - Sep 12 by Hunterhoop |
It’s worth listening to, L Block. As you know, I am hugely sceptical and critical of the overbearing nature of our rather under qualified CEO/DOF. I absolutely feared he would appoint a puppet into the first team coaching role. And I am very sceptical about our organisational structure (on the playing side of things).
Listening to the interview though, Stephan talks quite assertively. The way he quite carefully phrased a number of things felt more like a message to his boss than to Clive or the fans. Indeed, he talked as if he was coming from a position of strength. Yes, he won his last game, but prior to that we were bummed in the gob 7-1. It came across like he has been empowered and any game model has been put firmly in a draw for now. That’s good.
Whether that is Nourry empowering him - would show real growth in his maturity and the first sign of good leadership behaviour I have seen from him - or Ruben has once again had to get involved (he was here for the Charlton game) and empower Stephan, I do not know. Hopefully the former. But it does feel like something has happened behind then scenes. Perhaps Stephan’s personal pride was hit by the Coventry game and he had it out with Nourry, and Nourry, knowing Stephan walking 3 games into the season would be a disastrous look for him and kill his career, agreed to give Stephan the reins. That would show remarkable balls from Stephan. But, equally, you can see how he would have had a fair bit of leverage there.
Anyway, I’m speculating. But Stephan’s tone and wording in this interview is VERY different to his first few for the official club channels, so I doubt nothing has happened. |
All points taken and agreed with.
I’m in a weird place with the Nourry situation
I quite liked his early approach to rip up a lot of things behind the scenes.
We were carrying coaches who had been absolute failures for years.
Also agreed / agree with the youth approach that if you’ve not made it by a certain age then you’re not going to make it here (you might elsewhere and we’ll give you a glowing reference)
However, dictators don’t make for good leaders
JS allowing the GK situation and the Plymouth situation to occur so early in his tenure burnt a lot of my feelings and a much needed win against Charlton doesn’t put out that fire.
This is a HUGE task this season and I really fear for this massively young and inexperienced squad and management set up.
We’ll see.
A draw today would be a good start to this chunk of the season |  |
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| Julien Stéphan talks dreams, transfers, and that Coventry game – Interview on 11:29 - Sep 13 with 166 views | sdm1508 |
Hi Clive. Thanks for taking the time to do that. I apologise if you have already said this somewhere, but as the person who was sat facing him, how did he come across to you? After you walked away from the interview, what were your impressions of the manager? |  | | |
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