While it’s clear that Will Still won’t be the subsequent Sunderland supervisor, with all fingers pointing to Michael Beale at this second in time, there must be some clarification about what occurred with regards to the Black Cats and the Stade de Reims supervisor.
Various articles within the French media on Wednesday made it appear as if the 31-year-old was the one who had began the entire course of, wanting to fulfill with the Championship facet and allegedly doing so.
Still dismissed that himself on Thursday in a press convention, and now Emmanuel Petit, who is aware of each the supervisor and his agent, Alex Hayes, reveals on Friday that he had a protracted dialog with each to make clear what occurred, and defined all of it on RMC Sport for Rothen S’Enflamme.
He additionally spoke with another person at Stade de Reims and defined all three events have been ‘extremely surprised about this story that isn’t actually one’.
Petit then defined: “Everyone knows that Will Still is very much in demand. A lot of clubs have made approaches, not directly with Reims but have done so with his agent. That’s what agents are for, to filter. If anyone did the wrong thing, it’s the clubs. It’s not Will Still or his agent who picked up the phone and asked around.”
Petit added: “He has never met with the Sunderland directors, but he knows that the directors of Sunderland have contacted Alex Hayes. That Alex Hayes then spoke with Sunderland, that’s his job.”
So, that’s Will Still’s facet of the story, and one any Sunderland fan could need to settle for, or not. After all, we’ll most likely by no means know precisely what occurred.
🚨 INFO MANU PETIT 🚨
🗣💬 “J’ai appelé Will Still. On lui reproche son ingratitude et sa trahison. Tout le monde sait que le coach de Reims est convoité. Il n’a jamais rencontré les dirigeants de Sunderland mais ils ont contacté son agent.” pic.twitter.com/EVqhDEzxJJ
— Rothen s’enflamme (@Rothensenflamme) December 15, 2023