An academy chief at Burnley has been pressured to resign after he despatched a brutal evaluation of the membership’s gamers to the mistaken WhatsApp group.
Former St Mirren academy boss David Longmuir has stepped down after his stinging critique of 37 Turf Moor stars was despatched to the Lancashire membership’s Below 21 squad, somewhat than the scout or agent it was reportedly meant for. That result in boss Scott Parker and his Burnley first staff squad getting wind of the damning report, which filleted lots of the signings made by earlier supervisor Vincent Kompany.
It dismissed one participant as a “waste of cash” and described one other trio of getting a “unusual athletic form,” being “garbage” and a “catastrophe – mad man.” The one gamers to flee Longmuir’s wrath had been goalkeeper James Trafford, Josh Brownhill and Josh Cullen. The Clarets head of soccer improvement Paul Jenkins wrote to all academy gamers’ dad and mom in verify that Longmuir’s resignation had been accepted.
Longmuir rose via the ranks as a coach with the Buddies earlier than touchdown the highest job of their academy. Comparable roles at Orlando Metropolis, Shrewsbury City and a plum gig with New York Crimson Bulls adopted.
A supply advised the Solar: “He wrote this report which was fairly scathing about fairly a number of of the first-team. It appears to be like prefer it was written for an agent as a result of there was a number of element about how a lot he thought every participant was value.
“He despatched it on WhatsApp however despatched it to the Below-21 gamers so the first-team and the supervisor discovered. It’s a fairly indiscreet doc so I imagine he was hauled in and the one accessible consequence was that he would go away the membership.”
The report begins: “This isn’t simple to quantity as so many subjective elements re – what they value, present damage, age, and so on. There are such a lot of gamers in addition to Vinny signed loads within the Champ then extra when promoted to the Prem after which as struggling extra once more in January after which extra once more in the summertime.
“Massive concern they’ll’t get gamers out for the finance they spent and it’s been left a large number with that many gamers and Vinny [Kompany] who signed them left.”
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