02 Jun 2014 13:08:27
So a mate of mine reckons he was talking to Massimo at a taxi rank in Leeds on Saturday.

This is what I managed to get from him: He said the next manager would not be Italian. he said that he likes Festa, he is a funny man, but not a good man, and that he basically said Zola is a something that rhymes with sick. Finally he said that he wanted a British manager (something I think he's said before) and that it would be someone we didn't expect.

I've no reason to doubt him, but it still doesn't give us much to go on.

1.) 02 Jun 2014
02 Jun 2014 13:28:50
He only landed back last night .
I think this is a wind up again

2.) 02 Jun 2014
02 Jun 2014 16:17:10
He has stated he does not want a manager, so its strange he's changed his mind,? coach,,,,,

3.) 02 Jun 2014
Just hope he doesn't know ken Dodd

4.) 02 Jun 2014
We are not going to have a manager. We are going to have a coach

5.) 02 Jun 2014
How bout brightons, just sacked manage? dunno his name?

6.) 03 Jun 2014
Sorry, yeah, I said manager when I meant coach. Good spot.

I'm not saying what was said is necessarily FACT, just that a friend of mine, who has no reason to lie, says he saw him and talked to him. Not entirely unrealistic when you think that he pretty much talks to anyone who'll listen, and is regularly seen around the place in Leeds.

Of course if he was out of the country at that time, then it is impossible that he had this discussion, and he must've talked to an imposter. or made it up.

Oh, and I looked back over what my mate had said, and I was wrong, he didn't say he wanted British, he said it wouldn't be an Italian.

7.) 03 Jun 2014
Also, I don't exactly comment on here often with rumours. In fact I don't really do it at all. Its no wind up Survivor, just what I've been told.

(and relayed in a poor way - using the term manager when I should have used Coach.)