He was bang on the money but he shouldn't have said it in public. Saying it in public is a massive humiliation for those boys particularly as footballers have big egos. He should have pulled the fellas he was talking about to the side and given them a rocket.
He will go into training on Monday and all of the players will be wondering "Was he talking about me?". If the players are left in the dark, then they'll all assume the worst or at least worry that it's a possibility. If he singles out the players he was talking about individually in front of the group, then they aren't going to play for him. If those players are, say, Vertonghen and Walker for example then they are players, whatever we think about them as people, that we need to have playing well because they are two of our better players.
It was a stupid thing for him to do. A real rookie error. Levy is going to take a dim view of it. Have no doubt. He'll wonder is Tim up to the job because, by Tim's own admission, he can't get the best of of the players and when it goes wrong he has a rant in public. That's not how you do things if you're employed by a man like Levy.
