Steve Bruce has hit back at recent comments made by former Newcastle United striker Dwight Gayle.
While appearing on the Open Goal Podcast, the 35-year-old criticised the now-Blackpool boss’ approach to training and matches.
When asked what it was like to work with the ex-Manchester United captain, Gayle said: “He was okay, I felt that he didn’t spend enough time working on a lot of things with us. Perhaps he was trying to go game-by-game rather than developing us as a team. I think we could’ve improved a lot of things.
“I remember some of the boys got chucked into the Man City shift. We had a free game week, and the gaffer chucked some of the boys under the boss in terms of who had to play Man City away.
“Me and Matt Ritchie were asking for tactical improvements for weeks and months. We came in at half time and we were two or three down, and he was like ‘boys, you keep asking for tactics, I don’t do tactics, just put your boots on and work hard.’
“We were like, it’s Man City, it’s not good enough to just run around. That’s one I’m in shock by.”
While appearing on the Open Goal Podcast, the 35-year-old criticised the now-Blackpool boss’ approach to training and matches.
When asked what it was like to work with the ex-Manchester United captain, Gayle said: “He was okay, I felt that he didn’t spend enough time working on a lot of things with us. Perhaps he was trying to go game-by-game rather than developing us as a team. I think we could’ve improved a lot of things.
“I remember some of the boys got chucked into the Man City shift. We had a free game week, and the gaffer chucked some of the boys under the boss in terms of who had to play Man City away.
“Me and Matt Ritchie were asking for tactical improvements for weeks and months. We came in at half time and we were two or three down, and he was like ‘boys, you keep asking for tactics, I don’t do tactics, just put your boots on and work hard.’
“We were like, it’s Man City, it’s not good enough to just run around. That’s one I’m in shock by.”
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00:00Dwight Gale made some comments about your coaching at Newcastle on the training field and tactical stuff, have you heard of it?
00:05Some led to believe, yeah. Is that the legendary Dwight Gale, who missed the chance in the quarter-final against Manchester City?
00:11Is that the same Dwight Gale? OK, interesting.
00:14Been around the block a long, long time. I've only managed 1,050 games, but according to Dwight, I don't know what I'm doing.
00:20So I like other people making their mind up in a bit more established than what Dwight ever was.