Would only train with us two days a week
That he was allowed to get away with that, and refusing to front up to the media while supposedly being a senior pro and a role model is symptomatic of the shit show the club had become under Levein. However a true senior pro and role model would have realised what the club needed might have been its “big players” to front up and taken it upon himself to be around the place full time.
I get he might ask why he should do that if his contract allowed him to only be here two days a week, but Stendel’s job is to undo the mess Levein created with bonkers decisions like that. Whelan by proxy is part of that mess. As others have said, quick enough to run to the media now when he shirked it for five months previously.