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Troy Deeney took aim at his Forest Green Rovers players in a furious rant after they lost 2-0 to Harrowgate.
The 35-year-old went on a 12-minute long tirade as his disastrous start to management continues.
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Since he was appointed on a permanent basis on December 20, he is yet to win a game in six attempts.
“The amount of nonsense you have to deal with at this place, from players by the way, is embarrassing,” Deeney told BBC Radio Gloucestershire. “I know exactly what I’m going to need to do.
“I was trying to be nice and cosy my way into it. But what is going to have to happen is the sledgehammers are going to have to come out and there are going to be a lot of people that won’t like it, but I do not really care.
“My job is to try and save this football club in the short term, but also to put it in a better place moving forward and at the moment there are too many babies and that is not just young players, there are too many babies from top to bottom.”
“First half was boring, I’d rather watch frigging Antiques Roadshow than that,” Deeney added. “No offence to anyone that likes Antiques Roadshow.”
Deeney also took aim at his players with midfielder Reece Brown left out of the squad for not turning up on time.
“He is my senior midfielder, but he can’t turn up for work on time,” Deeney continued. “If you were an employer and you had someone turn up late twice in two days, would you put them in your squad? Would you trust him to get you through a game?”
The Forest Green head coach then singled out former Coventry defender Fankaty Dabo, who played in last season’s Championship play-off final.
“Dabo was poor and awful again and I have just told him that he will not be playing on Tuesday,” he said. “He has not been good enough for eight or nine weeks, why do you think he was dropped at the start.
“I have just told him in front of everyone, six months ago that kid had a kick to go to the Premier League, now he would not get a game in the National League, so is that me or him?
“He’s faster than everybody, but he gets run every game, he never makes a tackle and every time the ball comes to him, he looks like he kicks it with his shin pads.”
