I don't get the timing of the announcement though. They could have left it at the end of the season. Why announce it on the day Comolli was fired?
Why not? Why over-complicate things? They are in town and making decisions and announcements about staff.
Let's face it, if they announced it at the end of the season there would be moans along the lines of '...why leave it to the end of the season?... how can we go into the transfer window without a director of sports science in place?..."
People just love a moan and a reason to believe that everything is going to shit. It's sad really. If you believe every story hides some hidden agenda and that there always 'must be more to it...' then the world ceases to have any meaning whatsoever and you lose touch with reality.
What we know is that Comolli has gone and that they are looking for a replacement.
It's understood but not formally announced that Bruckner will be leaving at the end of the season and his replacement will be Darren Burgess who is already at the club.
And err.... that's it.
Reading through some of the hundred odd pages posted in the last twenty-four hours, you'd think the club was in crisis, Kenny's on his last warning, FSG are abandoning sports science and handing medical treatment over to Kenny, who wants a 'jumpers-for-goalposts' retro style attitude with the players eating steaks before the game washed down with a couple of pints, David Dein is taking over as CEO, MD, DOF or some other set of initials, Moneyball is being abandoned (if it s ever actually used), all the players will be devastated by Comolli going and unable to play and so on, and so on ad fucking infinitum...