Former Newcastle United player David Ginola has revealed why he left the English club. He said it was after falling out with manager Kenny Dalglish, who sought to sack him as soon as he took over from Kevin Keegan.
“The Magnifico” that he had particularly heated discussions with former Liverpool and Blackburn Rovers manager Kenny Dalglish, who he claims tried to remove him from the team as soon as he took charge.
In a book called ‘Entertainers’, which chronicles the Magpies’ exploits in the 1990s, Ginola explains why he moved to Spurs in 1997, where he won the PFA Player of the Year in 1998/99 . “ I didn’t want to leave the club, but when Kenny Dalglish took over from Kevin it was a shock and it wasn’t the same. I had a fight with Kenny and he didn’t play me much after that.”
Ginola didn’t have her tongue in her pocket
“He tried to get rid of all the foreign players that Kevin had signed. I was frustrated at the time and said something in the papers that if things didn’t change I should leave. The next day we had an argument. He told me that I couldn’t go to the newspapers and say such things. I told him, ‘You’re treating me like I’m having an affair with your wife.’
He said to me: “ How dare you talk to me like that? I replied: ‘At least I’m talking. You never look at me and you never talk to me. He was not the guy who could take us to the top, as has been proven. He didn’t know how to get the best out of the players we had.” Obviously, Gérard Houllier and Luis Fernandez are not the only coaches with whom Ginola had fallen out during his career. In England, in addition to Dalglish, he also had a dispute with the Swiss Christian Gross, who called him fat.
