Woking director says there were concerns before Jermain Defoe resigned as manager

Woking’s director of football, Jody Brown, says there were “growing concerns” about Jermain Defoe across the club before the former striker resigned as manager earlier this week. The reports describe Defoe’s departure as a shock resignation from the National League club. Brown’s comments frame the decision as the culmination of worries held internally rather than a sudden change triggered solely by external factors. The articles attribute the remarks to Brown and present them as an explanation for the resignation and the club’s decision-making leading up to it. Both sources focus on the same core points: Defoe’s resignation from his role at Woking and Brown’s assertion that concerns had been developing within the organisation prior to that outcome. No additional substantiated details about the nature of the concerns or the timing of specific events are provided in the supplied excerpts. The coverage remains centered on Brown’s characterisation of the internal situation that preceded Defoe’s resignation.