The American defender has been hugely critical of Derby County chairman Mel Morris
After Derby County sacked manager Steve McClaren for a second time in a year, following a “significant, unexpected and persistent decline in results, team unity and morale”, former Rams defender Zac Whitbread has been hugely critical of the club’s owner and chairman, Mel Morris.
Whitbread, currently without a club having been released by Shrewsbury Town last year, played 13 Championship games for Derby between 2013 and 2015 – during a career that included spells at Liverpool, Millwall, Norwich City and Leicester City – took to social media platform Twitter to express his thoughts on McClaren’s departure.
In the first of a series of tweets, American-born Whitbread introduced his despair at the current predicament at Pride Park – before progressing to a more specific critique of Morris, whilst simultaneously questioning if fans can tolerate Morris’ running of the club for much longer.
Whitbread continued to offload on Morris – by slamming his decisions, choice of managers and seemingly questioning the owner’s judgement – ending with a presumably tongue-in-cheek quip about the likelihood of Morris naming himself as the successor to McClaren.
The Texas native’s emphatic condemnation of Morris’ running of the club may well stem from the fact that it was McClaren who signed Whitbread for Derby, during the former England boss’ first spell at Pride Park – with McClaren once describing Whitbread as a potential ‘big player‘ for Derby.
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