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1.20pm
Speaking on Teletext, Kevin Twaddle admits he made the
wrong move by signing a new contract with Motherwell last summer:
"Hindsight is a funny thing. I could have gone elsewhere
last season but I wanted to stay and play for Motherwell - I made the wrong
move. I signed a three-year deal when I should have gone. Having to leave
is a huge shock, but I have faith in my own ability and need to move on this
summer.
"Clubs are all in a bad way, and the
astronomical wages just won't continue. Once you've had a knock, you appreciate
the game more and there is more incentive to come back. It's a charmed
life but hard work at times. Players don't appreciate that and this might give
them a real kick.
"I worked at the painting for five years
before football and don't want to go back. I have my health and fitness
and I'm able to carry on in the game. There are positives, especially when you
look at the young guy who passed away at Hibs. That puts football back into
perspective."
9am
Not surprisingly, Motherwell are still dominating the back pages
of most of this morning's papers. Here's a quick summary of what was
reported:
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Greg Strong has hit out at John Boyle, claiming it was left
to "two young girls" to break the news that he was being made
redundant. He said:
"It was done very unprofessionally. If they
want to do it this way then fine, but whoever the top man is he should give
us a reason. But to put us in with these young girls, who didn't have
answers to questions, was just ridiculous - especially after the work that
some of us have put in. I had been there two years and not missed many
games, and to be treated like that was a kick in the face. You'd have
thought Jackson would have come and spoken to us, but he was in an office
somewhere else. He knew there would be angry people about and maybe
didn't want to be part of it. Motherwell have been very unprofessional
and they have let us down."
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Administrator Bryan Jackson replied by saying:
"I'm pleased to see any player at any time and I
actually offered to speak to them the other day. Anyway, the girls in
question are actually chartered accountants."
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A spokesmen for the Motherwell directors said:
"Everyone at Motherwell has the deepest sympathy for
the players affected. But if some jobs were not lost then all of the
jobs at the club would have been lost. In short, the club was broke.
The employment contracts entered into with players were made in good
faith. It was only when SPL-TV failed that the full gravity of the
club's position was exposed."
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It is believed that axing the 19 players on
Monday will reduce our wage bill by £1 million.
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SPFA secretary Tony Higgins has arranged a meeting with the
SFA on Friday, and said:
"The contracts ripped up by Motherwell are a football
debt and the SPFA want the SFA to be responsible for making sure that the
money is recovered on behalf of the players. Whoever takes over
control of Motherwell has to accept these players' contracts must be paid up
in full."
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Dirk Lehmann has yet to decide if he will
accept the new contract offered to him.
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Even if a buyer is found tomorrow, the club
are likely to remain in administration for another year.
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Local butcher Ian Adams is believed to have
met with Jackson last night, while Jock Brown held talks on Monday.
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Eric Black has denied that he helped the
administrator decide which players should be axed. Black, expected to
be named as Coventry's assistant manager this week, said:
"Let me make it clear I was never involved in
the process of selecting players to leave the club. I was not
consulted and am extremely angry with the suggestion I was. One of the
main reasons I resigned as manager was because I knew what was going to
happen - and I did not want to be a part of deciding which players were to
be affected. How could I have stayed at the club as one of the best
paid employees when those lads were being told to go? It would not
have been right for me to be involved."
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