Yates: Juggling numbers a success story for manager

FORMER Port Vale defender Adam Yates believes manager Darren Moore deserves credit for managing such a big squad to promotion.

- Clive Youlton

The 41-year-old enjoyed a 10-year spell at Vale Park from 2009 and now summarises on BBC Radio Stoke.

Moore has received criticism this season despite taking Vale back to League One at the first attempt following relegation last term.

Yates has his view on it and said: "From the outside looking in at Darren Moore and the way he interviews sometimes you don’t think the quality is there for man-management.

"You think he might have different skills and different sets of qualities and he doesn’t come across as overly personable.

"But you can't get a side promoted with the amount of players he’s got if you don’t manage it properly. If you don’t manage personalities properly.