He is still an Ipswich employee, so it does seem a bit strange to me for an employer (or rather someone acting on behalf of the employer) to be bad-mouthing an employee. It certainly doesn't seem to me to accord with the sort of confidentiality expected of a employer/employee relationship. Indeed, I am just glad that my previous employers never did this sort of thing. And it seems to me to be a completely different case from Woolfy who was no longer employed by us. Finally, I don't suppose they went down the gross misconduct route because that could have ended up with the club no longer having an asset. But even that would have ended up with an NDA. [Post edited 6 Feb 17:18]
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