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Alan Pardew has
identified WhatsApp groups as one of the reasons why dressing rooms quickly
turn ‘toxic’ in the modern game. Pardew is available for managerial jobs after
18 months out of work following his miserable spell in charge of West Brom last
year.
The former Newcastle and Crystal Palace
manager feels bosses have it tougher these days because of how freely players
can share their dissent among each other and the negative impact that can have
on morale. He told Eamonn Holmes on the podcast ‘A Pint with Eamonn and the
Gaffers’: “Now, when players are leaving the training ground, they’re not
leaving the training ground, they’re WhatsApp-ing each other and it’s now toxic
and spreading throughout the whole group, bringing people in.
“Suddenly, you arrive at the training ground
and there’s a strange atmosphere and maybe they’ve all made a different outcome
to what you as a manager perceived the outcome. “And it’s completely out of
your control, of course. You can’t infiltrate it; you don’t want to really
because then you’re asking for even more problems I would guess. The senior
players and toxic players now have bigger control over the dressing room.”
Source: Football 365
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