Ange Postecoglou had a brilliant old school answer to the question of keeping players happy.
It seems that some reporters have still to grasp the concept of having a competitive squad, players getting games on merit and being able to use five substitutes in every match.
Against St Mirren on Saturday Liel Abada, Matt O’Riley, Reo Hatate and Oh Hyeon-gyu were all named among the substitutes.
Abada was on the park after 14 minutes while the other three played for the last half hour, in almost every match Postecoglou leaves his defence untouched but rotates the other six positions among 10 or 11 players.
Asked about keeping players happy within his squad Postecoglou delivered a classic answer to the Daily Record:
Everyone keeps saying I have to keep everyone happy. It’s not my role to keep anyone happy. Am I supposed to go around making them cups of tea or buy their wife some flowers?
They should be happy with a smile on their face every day because they’re doing what they love and representing a fantastic football club. There’s always going to be competition for places and things change pretty quickly in football.
Win bonuses tend to be a great way of keeping players happy.
Just what type of education did these so called journalists get at school.Not one of them has picked up yet on how quickly Big Ange has them sussed.
Lol they are like punched drunk boxers constantly coming back for more punishment.
They might want to ask Micky Beale “Wot ‘e finks” is the best way to keep players happy, given that he could field pretty much a full team with just midfielders. On that, I wonder what those nice people in Nyon made of them adding Cantwell and Raskin to the wage bill while they are on FFP Watch.
With no significant outgoings to balance those incomings on the wage bill (doubt that wee non-entity McCann going to Forest Green for £20 and a box of last season’s trackies will have covered it).
With Cantwell on Roofe-Lundstram level wages and another £1m in confetti shares issued to fund the Raskin deal, after his old club refused to bow to Daily Retard pressure to let him fulfil his dream move to Ibrox on the cheap.
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