- Burnley’s academy boss has resigned from his position after a WhatsApp blunder
- He reportedly despatched a scathing report on the gamers to the fallacious group
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Burnley‘s academy supervisor has reportedly resigned after fiercely criticising the membership’s gamers after which unintentionally sending his report back to the fallacious WhatsApp group.
Dave Longwell took up his place final November to information the membership’s younger gamers whereas the primary crew have been enjoying within the Premier League beneath Vincent Kompany.
However he has now left his position after lower than a 12 months resulting from inadvertently sending his scathing report – which criticises Kompany and the primary crew – to the Below 21s slightly than for an agent, as reported by The Solar.
A supply instructed The Solar: ‘He wrote this report which was fairly scathing about fairly a couple of of the primary crew.
‘It seems prefer it was written for an agent as a result of there was a whole lot of element about how a lot he thought every participant was value.
Burnley’s academy supervisor Dave Longwell (left) has resigned after sending a scathing report to the fallacious WhatsApp group
Dave Longwell’s report was essential of the gamers and likewise appeared to indicate his frustration with former supervisor Vincent Kompany (pictured)
Burnley have been relegated from the Premier League after only one 12 months again final season
‘He despatched it on WhatsApp however despatched it to the Below 21s gamers so the primary crew and the supervisor discovered.
‘It’s a fairly indiscreet doc so I consider he was hauled in and the one obtainable end result was that he would go away the membership.’
Longwell’s report noticed him give his sincere evaluation of the present squad the place he slammed the gamers and likewise appeared to query a few of Kompany’s signings. Former four-time Premier League winner Kompany has since left the membership to affix Bayern Munich, with Scott Parker changing him within the dugout at Turf Moor.
Longwell wrote: ‘This isn’t straightforward to quantity as so many subjective elements re – what they price, present damage, age, and so forth.
‘There are such a lot of gamers in addition to Vinny signed quite a bit within the Champ then extra when promoted to the Prem after which as struggling extra once more in January after which extra once more in the summertime.
‘Massive situation they will’t get gamers out for the finance they spent and it’s been left a large number with that many gamers and Vinny who signed them left.’
Longwell then went into particular particulars on every participant, describing one as ‘lazy/not good perspective, insisting one other was a ‘huge waste of cash’, and including that one star was ‘miles off it within the Premier League and too weak for England’.
Scott Parker is Burnley’s new supervisor, however Longwell is now not the academy boss
Three different gamers have been singled out for his or her ‘unusual athletic form’, being a ‘catastrophe – mad man’, and being ‘garbage’.
Burnley’s director of soccer growth, Paul Jenkins, wrote to the dad and mom of the academy gamers on Monday to tell them that Longwell’s resignation had been accepted.
Burnley lasted only one season again within the Premier League earlier than being relegated beneath Kompany earlier this 12 months.
Again within the Championship, they’ve taken six factors from their opening three matches.
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