, Redknapp was scathing about the Moroccan’s fitness, commenting about a reserve game that, “I could have run about more than he did”.spoke to for this article couldn’t defend the idea of digging out a player to the media. As one formermanager, who remains anonymous to protect his current position, put it: “I did it once — by mistake. I said, ‘Well, you’d better speak to them’ and referred to a couple of our defenders when a journalist asked me why we had conceded some goals.
“It’s fine criticising within the confines of the dressing room, but when you start doing things like that, pointing fingers… it’s hard to go back.” “It was a diminishing of trust,” Abrahams says about one such incidence, while not naming those involved for obvious reasons. “It didn’t diminish this player’s confidence — although it can do — but it did impact the relationship and trust they had with the manager.“If the relationship was eight out of 10 before, it then became five out of 10. This was a reasonably socially and emotionally intelligent player: he understood what the manager was trying to do, but he wasn’t happy.