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52-year old Leeds United F.C. manager, Brian McDermott has been shown exit door by the Chairman, Salah Noorudin. Failure to understand each other’s and different point of view become an issue for both parties to continue their partnership. This situation put Leeds United future on uncertainty. Salah Noorudin need to make a speedy resolution in this early June to find adequate replacement.
The day after the shocking announcement, Leeds United F.C. board make a bigger shock announcement than their manager sacking decision. In what may be seen as a surprise appointment, Mr Salah Noorudin have named a virtually unknown Indonesian manager as their new manager. Tom Boati, 42 years old, was introduced to fans and journalist alike at Elland Road.
Tom Boati agreed to lead Leeds United after he signed the contract that would give him £8,250/week until June 2014. Along with that, the board would like to facilitate him with £ 2M transfer budget and £237k on wage budget to achieve their season objective, top half finish on the league.
The Press Conference
Andrew McNeill (Sky Sport News) : Brian McDermott, the previous manager has been sacked by your chairman because he failed to satisfy him. Do you feel you have something to offer to your chairman?
Tom Boati : I know that my inexperience’s become the main issue for all of you, journalist and fans. But honestly, I think I have something to offer to this club and after some conversations with Mr Noorudin, we think we have some connection about how this club operate in the future and I feel glad that we are on the same page here. And now, I have the opportunity to make our fans to believe in this interesting project here.
Nathan Martin (FourFourTwo) : Given with all of resources you have today, the finances and the humans, do you feel the expectation to finish in top mid table have been fair and realistic?
Tom Boati : I don’t think the expectation is too much for me, in fact, I try to achieve better than those targets. I know that limitation on my resource become an issue later on, but I do have a planning about how I’ll spend the money and how I’ll capitalize the human resources here. You can expect one or two surprises from our side here.
Alice Watson (FMScout) : How about your personal objective and what project do you offer to the chairman so you can get the job here? What plan do you offer to bring to this club actually?
Tom Boati : My team will operate like a American football, where we will have total 33 player on our squad that will be divided into 1st strings players, 2nd strings players, and 3rd strings player. Maybe it would be huge squad with 33 players on the 1st team, but the 3rd strings player would come from the youth setup and has been placed on the reserves team.
The second policy is, I’ll take a long overhaul to the backroom staff. I know that I not experienced enough to take this club alone, I’ll borrow that experience from my staff, which is picked with carefully and they have to be good on their area.
The last one, we will operate exactly the same with Brad Pitt’s Moneyball movies, where we don’t need a big name, that often make the club suffocate, but we prefer a small name that can offer an impact to us. I know it wouldn’t be easy, but I believe we can do that. We are the challenger and a Challenger team is a team that come together become one, and they always aiming for the top.
52-year old Leeds United F.C. manager, Brian McDermott has been shown exit door by the Chairman, Salah Noorudin. Failure to understand each other’s and different point of view become an issue for both parties to continue their partnership. This situation put Leeds United future on uncertainty. Salah Noorudin need to make a speedy resolution in this early June to find adequate replacement.
The day after the shocking announcement, Leeds United F.C. board make a bigger shock announcement than their manager sacking decision. In what may be seen as a surprise appointment, Mr Salah Noorudin have named a virtually unknown Indonesian manager as their new manager. Tom Boati, 42 years old, was introduced to fans and journalist alike at Elland Road.
Tom Boati agreed to lead Leeds United after he signed the contract that would give him £8,250/week until June 2014. Along with that, the board would like to facilitate him with £ 2M transfer budget and £237k on wage budget to achieve their season objective, top half finish on the league.
The Press Conference
Andrew McNeill (Sky Sport News) : Brian McDermott, the previous manager has been sacked by your chairman because he failed to satisfy him. Do you feel you have something to offer to your chairman?
Tom Boati : I know that my inexperience’s become the main issue for all of you, journalist and fans. But honestly, I think I have something to offer to this club and after some conversations with Mr Noorudin, we think we have some connection about how this club operate in the future and I feel glad that we are on the same page here. And now, I have the opportunity to make our fans to believe in this interesting project here.
Nathan Martin (FourFourTwo) : Given with all of resources you have today, the finances and the humans, do you feel the expectation to finish in top mid table have been fair and realistic?
Tom Boati : I don’t think the expectation is too much for me, in fact, I try to achieve better than those targets. I know that limitation on my resource become an issue later on, but I do have a planning about how I’ll spend the money and how I’ll capitalize the human resources here. You can expect one or two surprises from our side here.
Alice Watson (FMScout) : How about your personal objective and what project do you offer to the chairman so you can get the job here? What plan do you offer to bring to this club actually?
Tom Boati : My team will operate like a American football, where we will have total 33 player on our squad that will be divided into 1st strings players, 2nd strings players, and 3rd strings player. Maybe it would be huge squad with 33 players on the 1st team, but the 3rd strings player would come from the youth setup and has been placed on the reserves team.
The second policy is, I’ll take a long overhaul to the backroom staff. I know that I not experienced enough to take this club alone, I’ll borrow that experience from my staff, which is picked with carefully and they have to be good on their area.
The last one, we will operate exactly the same with Brad Pitt’s Moneyball movies, where we don’t need a big name, that often make the club suffocate, but we prefer a small name that can offer an impact to us. I know it wouldn’t be easy, but I believe we can do that. We are the challenger and a Challenger team is a team that come together become one, and they always aiming for the top.
