Romain Saiss takes swipe at ex-Wolves boss Paul Lambert
Romain Saiss has taken a swipe at ex-Wolves boss Paul Lambert, saying he 'hid behind excuses' as to why the Moroccan wasn't in the team.
The 27-year-old midfielder is a mainstay in Nuno Espirito Santo's side this season, playing 21 times.
He only made 25 appearances in the whole of the last campaign under Lambert and Walter Zenga, with the Scot often leaving Saiss out of the side.
Saiss suggested he knew why he wasn't being picked, but that Lambert 'couldn't tell him'.
"The team was in difficulty towards the bottom of the table, winning matches in the FA Cup but not in the league, but I wasn’t being picked; I’ll leave it to you to work out why," Saiss said in an interview with the Guardian.
"I didn’t want to create trouble so just carried on working but at the end of the season it was important for me to ask the manager why he had left me out of the team for, strangely enough, basically the same amount of time that I had been away on international duty. I knew the truth but wanted to hear it from him.
"But he couldn’t tell me, he hid behind other excuses, which was a pity. But that’s life and I just got on with it."
Wolves are top of the Championship table going into tomorrow night's trip to Sheffield Wednesday.
Saiss, who has enjoyed a productive midfield partnership with Ruben Neves, says Wolves are expressing themselves under Nuno.
“We have a new way of playing and you can see that some players who had difficulties are able to express themselves better than last season," he said.
"The relationship between manager and players is very important and (Nuno) is very close to us. And his style of play is ideal. When he came he told us his plan and started putting it in place from his first training session.
"I realised straight away I was going to enjoy playing in his system and with his style. I like running but not just for the sake of it. I like to have the ball and play. That’s how it is now."
