Jason Euell on man management after early change for new Preston North End signings
A big thing for new players to process.
Jason Euell says he is helping Preston North End’s new signings adjust to the change in manager this week.
Paul Heckingbottom left the club on Sunday after a poor start to the season which has seen PNE lose six of their seven league games.
Euell, who joined the club last summer as first-team coach, has been placed in temporary charge of the team while a new manager is appointed.
North End signed 10 players this summer from clubs across the UK and Europe, with seven arriving during the final month of the transfer window.
For those new arrivals, who were all Heckingbottom’s signings and would’ve had detailed conversations with him about their role at the club, having to adapt to a change in manager so soon after joining could be difficult to process.
As a result, Euell said in his pre-QPR press conference on Thursday that he has been speaking to the new signings about adjusting to the change in the coaching team.
“I'm sort of about halfway through, maybe three quarters through, the new players in terms of having conversations with them,” said Euell.
“I’m just asking them if it’s something that they’ve experienced, a change of manager, but also the short time that they’ve been in the building before the manager who signed them to the club no longer being here.
“So I've had a conversation with the majority of those players just to check in, obviously to see how they are. Some of them have come from different parts of the country, some have come from different parts of Europe. So just checking on them, not just only on a professional level, but also on a personal level as well.“
He added: “Every individual is different and you have to talk to every individual differently. Not everybody learns the same, not everybody talks the same as we all know, and everyone's got different backgrounds, cultures and upbringings.
“At times you have to be able to tap into that individual to not only get the best out of them as a player, but just to understand them as people. If you can understand them as people, it can help a long way in terms of how you can help them as footballers as well.”