Former Australian coach Graham Arnold has stuck the boot in on Sheffield United after meeting the board members about the vacant manager`s job at Bramall Lane.
The former Australian national coach recently won the Australian A league with Central Coast Mariners and he met with the United board recently but he walked away dumbfounded, saying he would have been taking three steps backwards had he taken the job.
Speaking at a press conference, Arnold said, ‘In all honesty, I didn’t have to think too long or too hard about it. It just wasn’t for me. Forget that the financial offer in itself was quite poor, but I would have been taking three steps backwards in my development as a professional coach if I had gone.
‘I walked out of that meeting with the club’s board and football director Dave Bassett, and said ‘wow’. It just blew me away. Being one of the bigger lower league clubs, I was expecting a lot more in terms of how they wanted to develop as a club on the field.
‘But they just didn’t seem interested when I was talking about playing a short passing game and taking the football another level up. It was about smashing the ball long and working on set pieces. It was prehistoric stuff. That’s not the way to develop a football team.’
It is now almost two months since United relieved Danny Wilson of his duties and has candidates continue to distance themselves from the job; the club seem no closer to naming his successor.
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