photographer The Thais want to go to the Premier League. Everyone knows this. Why should the Thais give Brian millions to spend considering the crap he has brought into the club every season he has been with us (Blackman, Akpan, Kermit, Manset, Shorey, etc).
Roberts, Le Fondre, Harte, Leigertwood, Gorkss, Griffin, Khizanishvili etc etc And that's before you consider the excellent players he identified for Coppell.
Every manager makes duff signings. Every manager. They aren't going to give anyone many millions to spend so it's a bit of a moot point. The Thais want to go to the Premier League? Well a manager who's secured promotion to the PL with the club would seem a fairly sensible option then wouldn't he.
photographer And why should the Thais trust him to coach, manage and inspire premier league players when Brian has fallen out with Premier League players (remember Guthrie?), saying that they prefer Adkins to McDermott. He has proven this season that he couldn't inspire the premier league players on loan here, as shown by their performances on the pitch. If Brian can't inspire premier league players to beat Huddersfield, then why would the Thais 'give him a chance' to pour even more of their money down the drain?
Ok, so one player. McDermott didn't do a great job in the PL. But then he was being shafted at the time. And we're not in the PL. We could always sack him if we got there. And at the time, he was a very inexperienced manager. I'd expect him to have learnt from those days and do a better job now.
IIRC the only Premier League players we had on loan were Vydra, who has barely played in the Premier League, Piazon who has barely played in the Premier League and Hector, who was only technically a Premier League player. The one thing you couldn't criticise Vydra for was effort, his end product was bollocks and he was shot in the head, but he almost always put the work in. Piazon was a kid who wasn't up to it. Hector did fine. And these are all players that Clarke signed and who had the same level of performance under Clarke. So it's hardly a McDermott issue.
photographer If the Thais were here for the short term, they would have kept Brian here for a comfortable and stable future of mid-table positions every year, while they rake the cash in from REP. Thankfully, from Brian's sacking, it looks as though that's not the case. Not only do they want to go to the premier league. They want to stay there. Something McDermott could never offer.
I don't doubt the Thais aren't here for just the shortest term possible. I also agree they do want us to succeed. That doesn't mean they have a clue what they're doing. McDermott didn't have to keep us in the Premier League, we aren't there and we aren't getting there any time soon.
photographer Brian didn't give European Championship winner Daniel Carrico a chance after just 5 months at Reading. Why should we give Brian a chance to waste money on his useless transfers?
Carrico wasn't fit when he was here, and once we got relegated he was never going to stay. We couldn't afford him and he didn't want to be in the Championship. You'll note that Carrico got no more game time under Adkins and was let go under Adkins. So clearly not a McDermott issue.
The issue here is that once you appoint a manager, you have to give them a proper amount of time to make a difference. Sometimes things pick up immediately. Sometimes it takes six months to a year. There are plenty of examples out there. And there are loads of examples of clubs who sack managers frequently and frequently underperform as a result. THe club desperately needed continuity and stability. Instead we've lost the manager and the DoF in the space of a week.
If the Thais were unsure of McDermott, they should have had the balls to tell Madejski, Hammond and Howe to do one and appointed someone else. Once they appoint him, they have to back him. It could just about have been excusable to sack him immediately at the end of the season, but not two to three weeks later.
This isn't about McDermott, he just happens to be the man affected. This is about a non-existent plan for the club beyond - "lets get to the Premier League" How? "Er... hire manager and do well? Lol"
This may well work out. We may have a good season. But that will not be because of good judgement - of which the Thais have displayed extremely little - it will be down to luck.
photographer We all know McDermott is terrible at scouting and managing players.
Oh. It's a joke. Hi-larious.
