A new Director of Football will join the Yeovil Town set-up on Monday as the club comes under the ownership of SU Glovers, according to Matt Uggla.
The owner-in-waiting has also apologised for any offence he caused during Saturday’s 1-0 defeat at home to Bromley which saw manager Mark Cooper and captain Josh Staunton both talk openly about difficulties in the dressing room.
In a series of posts on his Twitter account on Sunday, Uggla said he would learn from mistakes and said he was “fully behind” Cooper as the club battle to avoid relegation from the National League.
He said: “If the supporters think I have anything but love and respect for them then I’m shocked. We have inherited a relegation battle and this is a baptism of fire. At the end of the day the supporters are here for the rest of time and as owners we plan to be here for decades to come.
“Frustrations yesterday were high amongst everyone at the club. But I am fully behind Mark and think he is more than capable of turning results around. But more than anything we have to come together as one.
“I apologise if I offended anyone but certainly never have and never will aim anything at the fans who I have nothing but love and praise for. I’m young and new to this so will make mistakes which I will learn from and maybe should learn to not speak so much in the heat of the moment and in pure frustration.
“This is a long journey and we need to be on it together. Tomorrow we have our new director of football coming in and I’m excited by working with both him and Mark. Let’s stick together on and off the pitch.”
Following the defeat, pictures posted on social media showed Uggla talking at length with Cooper and his son and midfielder, Charlie, who picked up the sponsors’ man of the match award for his performance in the defeat, on the Huish Park pitch.
During the game, Uggla posted on his Twitter account calling on supporters in the Thatcher’s Stand to get behind the team. The tweets have since been deleted from his timeline.
In his post-match interview, Cooper admitted there had been a difference of opinion in some recent signings with new arrivals winger Callum Harriott going off with an injury at half-time and striker Reo Griffiths and midfielders Zanda Siziba and Scott Pollock, who all appeared in the second half, failing to have much of an impact.
Cooper said: “We are always going to differ on targets and players we are going to bring in, that’s just the way it is, Matt has made it clear he is going to recruit the players he is going to recruit and that’s fair enough – it’s his money and it’s his club.”
Staunton called for unity in the dressing room and admitted the integration of a number of new arrivals during the heat of a relegation battle had not been easy.
He said: “It is important every single player is pulling in the same direction and it is my job to unify the dressing room. People are under pressure and pressure does strange things to people in terms of decision making and characteristics, this would be a much easier integration if we were relaxing in the middle of the table.
I wonder who the new Director of Football is? Harry Redknapp would be awesome ???
Hope its Barry fry
The badge tells you. What they should be doing. Archived with Unity.
Isn’t Barry Fry director of Football at Posh? Oh well as long as it isn’t John ?
Think Ian Holloway would fit perfectly.
[…] “We are always going to differ on targets and players we are going to bring in, that’s just the way it is, Matt has made it clear he is going to recruit the players he is going to recruit and that’s fair enough – it’s his money and it’s his club,” Cooper said. […]