If David Unsworth becomes a successful manager he has the opportunity to perhaps look back to this week as his finest hour. Imagine that 2 days before a match you’re appointed caretaker manager and later in the day 2 of your best players have their loan agreement ended. Then 1 day before the match you’re told two more of your players have had their loan ended and the centre forward is being sold, while another key player is being told he shouldn’t be there as Manchester United are challenging his loan contract.
Today it was announced that Stoke City have followed Manchester United by taking back their two loan players. Stoke advise they need the players to cover through a difficult fixture period. Some people are speculating that the relationship between Manchester United and Stoke managers is close and there is a good chance it has associations with the sacking of Darren Ferguson. This is surely not true?
If such a network does exist perhaps it would be best to be well out of it as PNE seem to have had more loan players in the last 12 months than ever known and it seemed the team wasn’t really ever going to settle or seem to be the genuine item. To give the impression that PNE are hooked so dependantly onto Manchester United is a loss of dignity, despite the glow. From using their training ground to loaning players and who knows what else. The more information that is popping out about this period the less concerning the dismissal becomes. It can’t be good for Darren either.