{"id":81618,"date":"2023-05-20T06:41:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T05:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=81618"},"modified":"2023-05-20T06:41:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T05:41:10","slug":"the-silverstein-rant-continued-more-harm-than-good-being-done-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2023\/05\/20\/the-silverstein-rant-continued-more-harm-than-good-being-done-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silverstein rant continued &#8211; more harm than good being done again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Silverstein was back on Twitter yesterday evening to add to his earlier missive that Martin would want the owners blamed for his (soon to be) departure and says that from his side it&#8217;s pretty clear that nobody knows what is going on.<\/p>\n<p>Messaging a Swans fan, the owner said that there was much dishonesty about what was going on behind the scenes and that there is lots of money to spend in the summer and that the lack of signings in the January window was down to no deals worth doing being bought to the table.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='rMZO-p8MT5NdvqhmAdSXBw' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1244120870' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'rMZO-p8MT5NdvqhmAdSXBw',sig:'FptcVP1Xi9zLfjF--qptLonqZEAsNqtezjrWTxlFM8Q=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1244120870',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Put to one side the detail of these conversations for one minute it is absolutely incredible to actually see this kind of conversation playing out in the way that it is particularly as the departure of Martin is not yet official.\u00a0 \u00a0What was that statement again mumbled by Andy Coleman about speculation in the public domain?<\/p>\n<p>Unprofessional probably does not even come close to describing this kind of release of information or a conversation with any Swans fan and that is said with no disrespect to the fan who has had these conversations who should be applauded for bringing it to the public domain.<\/p>\n<p>There are many ways of showing dignity in a professional world and the way that Silverstein has gone about this is as far from that as you can probably get.\u00a0 \u00a0Add to that the disdain shown in another social media post yesterday evening by a minority shareholder in the ownership group and pretty much any credit the owners had within the fanbase has been spent and placed into deficit over the last 24 hours alone.\u00a0 \u00a0Something that can be placed firmly at the feet of Jake Silverstein.<\/p>\n<p>He went on in his messages &#8220;He (Russ) wasn&#8217;t lied to.\u00a0 \u00a0And he wasn&#8217;t not backed.\u00a0 \u00a0There has been a lot of dishonesty about how things actually happened behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='MfxbZClUTIBxOrHZnyi7Zg' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1234682074' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'MfxbZClUTIBxOrHZnyi7Zg',sig:'cREiCFntlaZ6A0uKMJhlP30UeXlcnfTU5JHM9RcDEOg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1234682074',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We were willing to spend money in January.\u00a0 \u00a0They didn&#8217;t bring us any deals worth doing.\u00a0 \u00a0There&#8217;s plenty of money to spend this summer, that&#8217;s why we&#8217;re making major changes to the football department &#8211; to make sure it&#8217;s done better than it&#8217;s been done in the past.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s also pretty surreal to have fans (who have no idea what&#8217;s actually gone on or what the conversations have been or what&#8217;s said or done) talking to me like they know first hand what&#8217;s happened in my actual life and work.\u00a0 It&#8217;s really bizarre.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whether there is more to come or not remains to be seen but Silverstein needs to step out of his DMs and focus on the job in hand which will be seemingly the search for a new manager to spend the &#8220;plenty&#8221; of money available in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>To spend time sending these messages justifying whatever decisions were taken (and this is where he is right there will be plenty of information we do not know about or what was or wasn&#8217;t said) in this manner is not the way to approach it and, rightly so, he has been criticised widely for it.\u00a0 \u00a0I wonder what Andy Coleman is thinking considering his own stance on the recent speculation on Winter and Marsh.<\/p>\n<p>The full context of the conversation is in the Tweet below.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/scfcJenkins\/status\/1659685766539378689<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Silverstein was back on Twitter yesterday evening to add to his earlier missive that Martin would want the owners blamed for his (soon to be) departure and says that from his side it&#8217;s pretty clear that nobody knows what is going on. 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