****ing hell this place and its attitude toward mental health.
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Have to agree with this I'm afraid.
He will have learned much from his time with V. Kompany to add to his wealth of experience in the game over many years, he would definitely be an asset to any club.
I do hope he has a future in the game "proper" and not as a Lineker Shearer type who spend their time critiquing player, manager, official and fan like they are some kind of all knowing football super gurus.
Yes, he is straight talking and even though it seems to be in vogue to be the opposite these days, the game needs it.
It has become far too passive over the last decade or so, at the elite level especially, and I would like to see more players have the same desire and will to succeed as Bellamy had when he played.
I see him as a very good number two but I doubt very much he'd cut it as the main man.
Too much of a risk.
I would like to be proved wrong and maybe given a chance, just not here.
In terms of Bellamy I’d love to let him have a try. Whenever I’ve heard him on sky sports or on a podcast he talks about the style of football to play etc he comes across quite knowledgeable and progressive.
Did a good job with the youth team at Anderlecht too apparently.
I work with mental health everyday - grave schizophrenia, Bi-polar, PDSD etc etc etc. how I read it was he's missing his family because of having to work away from home. First thoughts were HGV drivers working away from home eating bad food pissing in hedges and all the rest of it. then we got folk who work 12 hour shifts and having to go to food banks on the weekend. For me it sounded like self pity and jumping on the mental health wagon ( it's in vogue these days) lots do it....Bellamy could well afford to have the family near him in Belgium.
Always seems to come back to Bellamy. The guy struggles with his demons, the job would destroy him. And why him and not Eddie Newton, David Hughes, Steve Morison, Mark Hudson- all with much more experience and all balanced characters with a fondness for this club.
I’m sire we can do even better if just for once we cast the net a bit wider too !
And yeah, I’ve read his book and all the reports of other things he’s been involved in and although I would never write him off completely I’d like to see him show that he can keep a job and control his issues for a while before giving him the most difficult job in Welsh football.
On top of all this I really don’t think the guy himself needs the grief at the moment.
Get him back as a coach, great, but 1st team manager. Not at the moment