Backroom Staff changes

[isrodger]

Phil Hay ‏@PhilHayYEP · 55s56 seconds ago
Another development - Paul Hart is to return to Leeds United as academy director. Not confirmed yet but I'm told it's happening.
Paul Hart is due to start work at Leeds next week. He was (obviously) a massive influence behind the rise of the academy in the 1990s.
Cellino and Hart have spoken and are both happy. Pearson's influence in this will have been huge.

Hart was in charge of the academy when we won the FA Youth Cups in 1993 and 1997 - with the latter containing many who would go on to become members of O'Leary's Champions League semi final reaching babies.

At first sight this is another huge positive- although is he just a bit too old for that role now?..

[Deleted User 130]

Knowledge, experience, ambition and enthusiasm aren't normally age related

[SiMamu]

http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article ... of-academy
Paul Hart confirmed.

[Sheepy]

Excellent appointment...he's a good guy Paul Hart, will do us a good job.

[Mr Russell]

Very happy to have him back on board, welcome Paul!

[White Knight]

That great bastion of positivity about Leeds United , The Daily Mail, are reporting on the downside of how these backroom changes came to pass. More fuel for the "Leeds in crisis" brigade. Having said that, if it is true it wouldn't be at all surprising

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... paign=1490

[Aces]

That great bastion of positivity about Leeds United , The Daily Mail, are reporting on the downside of how these backroom changes came to pass. More fuel for the "Leeds in crisis" brigade. Having said that, if it is true it wouldn't be at all surprising

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... paign=1490

What crisis?????

The clubs in better condition than it has been in a decade.

This looks like a minor internal matter and it won't effect how well the clubs running at present.

[Mellor]

I saw somewhere that Rossler is on football focus this Saturday - am I dreaming - he'll come across as measured, calm, on top of things. No need to worry. Crisis averted again

No idea what's gone on but the bit where the Mail man claims Pearson was told to find a way to remove Lucy. How does the journo know that. Surely neither Pearson or MC told him and I can't believe Pearson told Lucy he'd come to get her cos MC had told him to. Odd IMO.

[isrodger]

Really is a difficult one - Lucy ward. Given the demise of Redfearn I probably would have wanted her removed from role. That said legally it most certainly is unfair dismissal. The whole affair has been badly handled but even if it had been handled in the most professional manner I fear the result would have been the same.

[Aces]

Really is a difficult one - Lucy ward. Given the demise of Redfearn I probably would have wanted her removed from role. That said legally it most certainly is unfair dismissal. The whole affair has been badly handled but even if it had been handled in the most professional manner I fear the result would have been the same.

Apparently she is saying she had got permission to have extended leave by her line manager, who says he never gave her permission, so she was sacked. Sounds a very minor internal club issue, that occurs in business all the time and makes you wonder why it's even got in the news. Well it isn't really, even though it's a nothing of a story, it gives whoever put it in the news, a chance to try and bad mouth Leeds, which is a massive fail and it's really pathetic, when things are going so well. In fact I would say if they have linked this none story to the word crisis, it makes them look like idiots.