Would you mind elaborating on that? What was going on back then
First thing he was keen to stress was that Ossie was a top draw manager for Spurs but that he was having the ground dig out from under him at boardroom level.
He said the overall disconnect between the boardroom and the playing staff was too great and that too many people simply would not stand up to the behavior of Sugar and Claude Litner due to fear of losing their jobs and it created an environment that was, in his opinion, nowhere what it needed to be to be successful. The business people did not understand football and it affected the overall performance of the club on the pitch.
He told a story about how the club had non football employees who were on bonuses to cut costs and how youth team players were asked to sign disclaimers that said if they were injured it would be their fault and the club would have no liability. These disclaimers had the knock on effect of cutting down on the insurance premiums & saving money for the guys in the boardroom (= a bonus for Litner ) while completely fucking the player over.
Perryman said he challenged their attitude saying anyone who is injured playing for the club needed to be looked after by the club. He was very reasonable in how he explained this story - did a better job than me explaining this !
I always wondered why he did not get the job post Ossie and I suspect he wonders this too - giving it to the pigeon fancier from QPR rather than Perryman was a disgusting move - I understand now why he did not get that chance. He's no creep. He is a winner.
In regards to the current team he was clear that he did not watch us much. But what he had seen was positive and it was coming together. He said that Ossie is very close to Poch and the club and that everything is top draw and Poch is a great manager. He felt the team lacked a little bit of leadership in the harder games and that Toby should be the captain ( seemed to question the merits of a captain being the keeper )
In his view if Dembele had been sent off at Chelsea last year we would likely have won the game with 10 men as the half time talk would have been different and the approach of the team different in the second half. That was an interesting thing to hear. He said there is no place on the pitch for losing your head and focus at all times was important.