Gary Rowett admits he does not know why he was sacked by Stoke City and suggests modern players aren’t as willing to take responsibility

Gary Rowett admits he does not know why he was sacked by Stoke City and suggests modern players aren’t as willing to take responsibility
Gary Rowett told talkSPORT he does not know why he was sacked as Stoke City boss and admits it was not an easy job to take.After Play-Off semi-final defeat to Fulham in 2018, the Derby County boss signed a three-year deal with the Potters in May to succeed Paul Lambert following the clubs relegation to the Championship.3

Rowett was sacked after winning nine of his 29 games in charge of Stoke City

However, by the start of 2019 Rowett was sacked with Stoke in the bottom half of the table and with a raft of expensive summer signings in the squad.After just nine wins in 29 games and after only managing to secure a draw with Shrewsbury Town in the FA Cup, Rowett was sacked and Nathan Jones came in to replace the former Burton Albion boss.The 44-year-old told Jim White on talkSPORT he felt the sacking harsh and that securing promotion at the first time of asking was always going to be difficult.The reality is we spent the money in the summer and the expectation, whether that was right or wrong, was to bounce straight back up very easily.3

Stoke fans turned on the former Burton Albion boss

And the problem with the Championship, as we know, I think teams relegated are average ninth position, he said on Friday morning.So its a well-known fact that teams that get relegated, get relegated for reasons! And the reasons they get relegated for are not easy to change quickly.It wasnt an easy club to then turn around but of course, as a manager, you have to stand there if you havent won enough games.We were four points off seventh I think, so again, we had been on a good run. We were nine game unbeaten away from home, we were 12 games unbeaten in all competitions before Boxing Day at Birmingham.3

The 44-tear-old’s last game in charge was a 1-1 draw against Shrewsbury Town in the FA Cup

Then within three games it all turned.After approaching former Fulham boss Slavisa Jokanovic about taking over at the bet365 Stadium, Jones was brought in from Luton Town to steady the ship.The Potters are now 18^th in the second division and face Nottingham Forest on Saturday at home.Rowett went on to suggest players aren’t as willing to take responsibility nowadays when things are going wrong. He added: If you lose quite a number of that dressing room, then theres less resilience perhaps around now to see it through themselves.Thats a big thing I always say; sometimes as players on the pitch, you have to sort it out yourselves.You can give them a structure and you can give them a way of trying to win the game.But ultimately, they have to take responsibility for that and I think that that responsibility was probably more intrinsic 10-15 years ago than perhaps it is now.

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