‘Not good enough’: ex-Manchester United midfielder Charlie Scott expects big changes at ‘deflated’ Kitchee
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Charlie Scott said Kitchee’s players could have no grounds for complaint should their bosses make wholesale changes following a desperately disappointing campaign for the deposed champions.
Last season’s treble winners will end this term with only one trophy, the Senior Shield, and Ken Ng Kin, the club’s owner, pledged to fork out “as much as it needs” to recapture Kitchee’s glory days.
Kitchee lost their league title, an FA Cup semi-final and the Sapling Cup final in a dismal seven days that ended with Lee Man beating Sham Shui Po to win the championship on Sunday.
Midfielder Scott, who joined Kitchee three summers ago, said it had been his “most difficult week” with the club, and acknowledged he had “failed” this season.
Scott said “deflated” players were left to guess why Kim Dong-jin, the interim head coach, had been relegated to a subordinate position while assistant manager Edgar Cardoso led the team.