Music manager Grace Borg yesterday congratulated Thea Garrett for giving a "good interpretation" of My Dream during the Eurovision semi-final, but said the song had nothing "exciting" about it.
Thea, 18, did not make it to the Eurovision final, which was held last night in Oslo, leaving her with a bitter taste since her participation also resulted in a legal battle with Ms Borg over an alleged breach of a contract.
Speaking to The Sunday Times yesterday, Ms Borg criticised the new production of the song, Thea's "overdone" image, and a lack of professionalism by the team involved.
"Thea was surrounded by people who did not have her interests at heart but their own personal agendas," she claimed, adding that to get results, the delegation chair must be tough and have marketing skills.
"The past five years are proof that being timid gets you nowhere," she said, adding that Thea's image should have been "fresh and young" so that her mature voice would emerge as a surprise.
"I was the one who should have been consulted on all this but PBS ignored the exclusive management agreement I had with Thea."
Meanwhile, she pointed out that the person who was chosen as Eurosong coordinator, Peter Busuttil, was "oddly" not sent to Oslo with the rest of the team.
When contacted, Mr Busuttil said it was PBS's decision to exclude him from the Oslo delegation and he was still waiting to find out why.
Mr Busuttil added: "We can't continue being amateurs when it comes to Eurovision. We need to look at it from a professional point of view and work only with people who know what they're doing."
PBS chairman Joseph Mizzi refused to say why Mr Busuttil was absent from Oslo, but said that despite the result, "life goes on" and, as things stood, Malta would continue to take part in Eurovision.
However, he said, people should focus less on winning the competition and more on using the platform to establish good contacts.
"If we manage to secure a contract for our artists we would have done a lot. Winning should not be the be all and end all," he said.
He added that a post-mortem would now be held and PBS would "go back to the drawing board" to see how to improve on Malta's participation in the festival. Meanwhile, head of delegation Joe Dimech said the result would be better analysed when Malta's actual placing in the semi-finals was known today.