YOU would think managing a team playing in the Premier League this season would be an attractive proposition.

However, it comes as no surprise this week that Chris Coleman has spurned the Tigers' advances.

After the success of his Welsh revolution at the Euros he is definitely flavour of the month in the valleys. So why on Earth would he abandon the Dragons and throw his lot in with a club that should be buoyed by promotion but is on the verge of self-destructing?

'Cookie' is now approaching demi-god status in his native land and his stock could rise yet higher when he embarks upon his World Cup bid. To throw away that legacy for the daily grind at what is fast becoming English football's laughing stock is unthinkable.

Hull, currently headed by vice-chairman Ehab Allam while his father is seriously ill, have also given the glad-eye to Roberto Martinez and Gianfranco Zola. With Martinez now in situ with Belgium that leaves Zola, but again why take that plunge with a club that almost became officially called Hull Tigers?

It has been a real summer of discontent at what is now the KCOM Stadium and all the signs point to a disastrous campaign back in the Premier League.

Losing Mohamed Diamé to Newcastle, one of the sides Hull replaced at the top table, will have been a bitter blow to their chances.

When he considers Championship football at the Toon a better bet for his career the alarm bells should be ringing loud and clear up there.

Steve Bruce left the Tigers' lair – possibly in part disillusioned at losing out to Big Sam for the England job – once he had looked at Hull's transfer policy, which seems to centre on clearing house without bothering to replace any of the departing players.

Their pre-season training camp in Austria saw just 13 senior players board the plane, led by stand-in Mike Phelan, who must feel like a rabbit in the headlights at present.

In most cases a club's supporters would be outraged if their manager walked out a couple of weeks before the season kicks off, but the fans on Humberside appear to be backing Bruce to the hilt, or at least understand his position. They do not blame him for bolting, they probably wonder why he hadn't left sooner, given the crazy circumstances under which their club is being run.

The fan protests during pre-season are unlikely to sway Allam, and there is not a snowball's chance in Hull he will reconsider his position, or his stance. His family are the ones holding the purse-strings, and so those with a modicum of common sense but without the necessary fortunes to invest have the option to like it or lump it. The phrase 'more money than sense' springs to mind and while Hull continue their fire sale with no investment being put back into the squad there is only one way they will go.

Money talks but idiocy speaks volumes.