http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/feb/01/steve-morgan-wolvesCrazy, crazy stuff.
IMHO owners should never be in the dressing room, it should be the preserve of the manager and his assistants.
Once owners/CEO's start to enter the changing room then surely you start to confuse the players as to who is in charge of the team.
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RA definitely has an influence on the playing side at Chelsea, no doubt at all about that.
Morgan is being a bit cheeky here, I mean, Wolves have not spent a lot of dough (in Premiership terms)and were beaten by a Liverpool team that included about 150 million quid's worth of talent, not a really surprising result at all.
Wolves could not have a better manager in place than McCarthy, Morgan would be mad to de-stabilise him.
His reasoning is simple, the owners/directors are only there for one reason - themselves - and are not there for the players at all, its just an ego trip.
"If the owners think they can do a better job than me motivating the players then they're welcome to have a try," he said in one of his books.
I wonder if an owner/chairman has ever done this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ryan_(businessman)
There are plenty of occassions for them to meet the players, and more than enough time to discuss the team with the manager. I would not give a toss if any chairman put a billion in, and bought Messi they have no right to interfere in there?. Managers, coaching staff, and players, and support staff like physio's end of. If chairman want to manage, go ahead and do it?. I am not a particular fan of Mick, but he deserves better than this?.
As Shank's once put it re directors/chairman: "At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the cheques, not to make them out. We'll do that - they just sign them."
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Wolves manager thinking their rot should be ended against Liverpool is a bit delusional.
Is it right? Couldn't care less, if it works and Wolves start defending then yes. Someon who does it week in, week out clearly needs to reasses their staff. Now more than ever a managers success is down to the chairman's support, and financing for wages. Go into the changing room? Who cares, but he certainly has every right to as without the modern chairman most Prem clubs would never sustain the losses.
And no I'm not a senior manager, it's not in my character. I just figure Steve Morgan's success, ownership and business acumen quite clearly gives him the right to confront his well paid under-performing stars. If I remember rightly didn't Richard Murray do this with our useless squad in the winter of 2008?
However, as I understand it, Morgan went in there and bollocked them for "not trying" and "not working hard enough" - and that is surely the managers domain to make those judgements.
For what its worth I can't see how anybody, especially Morgan who has no professional football experiences, can accuse the Wolves players of "not trying" - they are one of the hardest working teams in the Premiership. Were they "not trying" when they got a 1-1 draw at Spurs too? Not trying when Lampard scored a last minute winner for Chelsea at Molineux to make it 3-2?
I think a chairman can intervene on some occasions but this stuff is a step too far and totally undermines the manager, no team can have two bosses, players will not only be wondering if the manager rates them but also if the chairman does and that's not tenable.
and for the record Curbs, whose offer of help was turned down by murray, said McCarthy was his no.1 choice to take over from him