Quote from: gregnash on June 11, 2011, 04:01:49 PMMilner is the only player MON signed who you can say we made a massive profit on. But then if DOL had the money we'd have probably have signed him earlier for half what we paid. Of the rest, Downing looks the only other one. Young, we'll be lucky to make 5m on him. Looking at our squad minus them 3, there's no-one bought in by MON who's a major asset.. Overall if you work out how much Cahill is worth now, then the whole MON period was a massive waste of resources, with nothing much to show a year later than old men, duds, Houllier's buys and our promising youth squadProbably the best crop of youth players to come through at any club in recent years. It was about time someone mentioned his youth player legacy, I'm surprised it was you though ;-)
Milner is the only player MON signed who you can say we made a massive profit on. But then if DOL had the money we'd have probably have signed him earlier for half what we paid. Of the rest, Downing looks the only other one. Young, we'll be lucky to make 5m on him. Looking at our squad minus them 3, there's no-one bought in by MON who's a major asset.. Overall if you work out how much Cahill is worth now, then the whole MON period was a massive waste of resources, with nothing much to show a year later than old men, duds, Houllier's buys and our promising youth squad
A calmly expressed and well-reasoned post.I do find it surprising that so many people appear to know exactly what happened when O'Neill left and are unable to imagine any circumstances that might have made his position untenable.
Quote from: Villadawg on June 11, 2011, 04:10:25 PMA calmly expressed and well-reasoned post.I do find it surprising that so many people appear to know exactly what happened when O'Neill left and are unable to imagine any circumstances that might have made his position untenable. I don't think anyone can claim to know exactly what happened, but nothing, even anything being suggested by those who still support O'Neill, has convinced me that he had any justification for leaving 5 days before the start of the season.
I would say the board got that absolutely spot on, as we already had three decent wingers on the books.
Looking at possible vacancies, im struggling to see which club he would take over. Im sure that he'd prefer a good size club, decent chairman/owner with some guarrantees of having at least a few bob to spend, and TBH cant see many of those opportunities coming up at the moment. Maybe Sunderland at a push if things dont go as planned next season but other than them; MON could be a long time on the side lines. The only other Scenario i can see fitting the criteria is to return back to VP. The pros of such a reunion? Well,... Just look at the signings he made which have now either being called up to the full national team; OR have increased in their value since arriving. On the whole it quite a good record. Add to that, the fact that he & RL may look back with a tinge of regret but both be wiser and stronger after the event. The cons of such a reunion; the reaction from the fans after the perception of being left in the lurch, and maybe having to reshape the team again for the season ahead.What do you think. Would such a reunion be totally off the cards?
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