Kettering Town FC’s owner Imraan Ladak has indicated that he may be prepared to sell the cash strapped Conference club. Ladak blames the players for the club’s plight. He says that they do not train hard enough, eat the wrong foods and ‘go out at night’ (presumably this is not an implication that they are the undead).
The entire squad has been transfer listed. As many as ten could leave by the loan deadline today, making it difficult to field a team on Saturday.
Kettering Town FC’s owner Imraan Ladak has indicated that he may be prepared to sell the cash strapped Conference club. Ladak blames the players for the club’s plight. He says that they do not train hard enough, eat the wrong foods and ‘go out at night’ (presumably this is not an implication that they are the undead).
The entire squad has been transfer listed. As many as ten could leave by the loan deadline today, making it difficult to field a team on Saturday.
It’s one thing to put the club on the market and another thing to find a buyer with the necessary funds. The move to Rushden’s Nene Park stadium does not seem to have done much for attendances with less than 1,200 at Saturday’s game. That is not suprising when one considers the drive from Kettering.
Players have been paid only 75 per cent of the wages owed to them. Mr Ladak has never been short of opinions on football and how a club shoud be run but whether he has the appropriate management skills is another question.
We have been here before and we will be here again: someone who has been successful in business, has a high opinion of themselves, and seek prestige by owning a club. Unfortunately, running a football club is not that easy and success is often hard to secure. They then become frustrated and outspoken, in the worst case scenario blaming the players which hardly encourages them to do better.