Muslic demands 'answers' over Plymouth's future

Miron Muslic's side have to beat Championship leaders Leeds United, hope the sides above then lose and overturn a 13-goal deficit to stay in the second tier

Plymouth Argyle head coach Miron Muslic says he "needs answers" over the future direction of the club.

Barring a freak set of results on Saturday, the Pilgrims will be relegated from the Championship despite the best efforts of the Bosnian-born Austrian.

Muslic says he still has no clarity over who a new sporting director will be at Home Park and is worried that other clubs will be ahead of the Pilgrims in preparing for next season.

Director of football Neil Dewsnip left the club in January, soon after Wayne Rooney's departure as head coach with Argyle bottom of the league.

Muslic has won nine and lost nine of his 23 games since succeeding Rooney but appears to have been unable to save Argyle from the drop.

"I'm still here without a sporting director, I'm still here without recruitment department, that makes the job for a head coach very, very difficult," Muslic said ahead of his side's final game of the season at home to title-chasing Leeds United.

"That makes success, regardless of the competition, almost impossible.

"So I would love to answer these questions and to have also clarity for my point of view, because I have to lead the staff, I have to lead this organisation, but I also need pillars.

"I believe in every strong organisation, regardless of the competition - Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two - you need a triangle of sporting director, recruitment and head coach.

"I'm alone for four months. So these sort of questions, I need answers."

Muslic had a positive meeting with chief executive Andrew Parkinson in the last few days, which he described as "honest" and spoke about "some doubts that are clearly here".

But he says out-of-contract players such as Mustapha Bundu, and the likes of Ryan Hardie and Adam Randell - who are in the final year if their deals - have all come to him asking about their futures and he is unable to give them answers.

"They tried to point out a couple of weeks ago already that we need to be fast behind them because other teams will come, so there are some questions I need answers to and then we can speak about the future," he added.

"We have to catch up, because I always respect my opponents, if it's the coach I always respect him, I always think he will try the best possible to prepare the team to win a game.

"The teams are not sleeping, the teams are preparing, if they get potentially relegated like we and Cardiff, a third team, but also the teams currently now in League One, they will all have the desire and the inspiration to get promoted next year.

"They are doing their task, so we have to find very fast another gear and to speed up the process."