Gary O’Neil is cutting a frustrated figure a Strasbourg manager, saying he’s ‘indignant’ together with his players and telling club owners they ‘tousled’ within the January transfer window.
O’Neil moved to France in January, replacing Liam Rosenior as Strasbourg boss as he left for Chelsea, a job he has already been dismissed from.
It was an excellent start for the previous Bournemouth and Wolves boss in France, nevertheless it has tailed off and his team have struggled for results of late.
He has not masked his feelings, telling the board that he must sign two strikers in the summertime and that they got it flawed in January by not strengthening.
Strasbourg are owned by BlueCo, the identical company that owns Chelsea, that’s fronted by Todd Boehly.
‘We actually need to work hard this summer to be higher. We’ve already had meetings about recruitment,’ O’Neil said, via L’Equipe.
‘I want two strikers. The owners want to offer me the resources to perform next season. But we also need to enhance the club culture, the standard of the players, and the squad depth.
‘We tousled in January, in the course of the transfer window. We weakened ourselves as an alternative of strengthening the team.’
O’Neil’s frustrations have been simmering and boiled over after the 1-1 draw with Angers on Sunday when he had a pop at his players.
‘We didn’t do enough to win, we didn’t have the standard for it. We got what we deserved. Monaco lost and we had the chance to shut the gap on them. We blew it,’ he said.
‘It’s form of a logo of our season. We will achieve this a lot better. I’m indignant. I hope the players are too. There are two games left they usually have to indicate me they’re adequate to play with us next yr. But with a performance like tonight, we won’t achieve anything playing like that.
‘They upset me a lot, even greater than on Thursday. They need to do higher. Football is a shark tank, they need to understand that. I told them we were playing a Cup final and we actually didn’t play the best way we must always have.’
BlueCo have a giant decision to make in London within the near future, with a everlasting Chelsea boss needing to be appointed.
The bookmakers make Xabi Alonso the favourite to be the following everlasting Blues manager, ahead of former Chelsea full-back Filipe Luis and Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola.
Calum McFarlane stays in charge until the tip of the season but is finding it tough, with Chelsea slipping to ninth within the Premier League table.
With an FA Cup final against Manchester City to return and just two more league matches, there’s the very real possibility that Chelsea couldn’t be playing in Europe next season.
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