A good manager can get above average performances and results out of average players and good performances and good results out of players that are just above average. We are not world beaters, by any stretch, but an experienced premier league manager would have found a way to get the 38 + points with a squad containing a core of Heaton, Mings, McGinn, Grealish and Luiz. Even a Bruce would have found a way of getting something with those resources. He has with Newcastle, for example, and I don't think the Newcastle squad is all that much better than ours.
I’m not sure it would have ever been the plan to only have Wesley, especially given that Smith clearly didn’t rate/trust Kodjia. I imagine it was to do with availability of strikers that we wanted and the cost involved with bringing them in. Same sort of issue with a number of players where I think it’s fairly obvious that we had to settle for our 2nd/3rd choices.
Quote from: Luke8 on July 10, 2020, 01:14:19 PMI’m not sure it would have ever been the plan to only have Wesley, especially given that Smith clearly didn’t rate/trust Kodjia. I imagine it was to do with availability of strikers that we wanted and the cost involved with bringing them in. Same sort of issue with a number of players where I think it’s fairly obvious that we had to settle for our 2nd/3rd choices. That's a misguided approach right off the bat. If you're very light in the striking department you sign strikers. It's not good enough to say 'well the ones we wanted weren't available'; the management team have to find a way. If you don't you end up in the situation where you have to play several games without a striker. It's madness and for a Premier League club very embarrassing. Virtually everyone on here knew it was going to be a problem and so it was.
Maupay's got a very similar strike rate to Wesley this season as well - 9 in 32 (goal in every 3.55 games) compared with 6 in 22 (goal every 3.66 games).
I’m not arguing it wasn’t a mistake. It looked like it would be and it’s been proven to be the case, but I’m just saying there are many other factors that come into it rather than just ‘we should have gone and bought a striker’.
Quote from: SheffieldVillain on July 10, 2020, 01:39:42 PMMaupay's got a very similar strike rate to Wesley this season as well - 9 in 32 (goal in every 3.55 games) compared with 6 in 22 (goal every 3.66 games).Maupay is a nasty little sod though, opponents hate him. We’d have loved him. If we’d have signed him though he’d have gained weight and lost pace after a few months at BMH.
Quote from: Ads on July 10, 2020, 09:31:47 AMQuote from: VinnieChase84 on July 10, 2020, 09:24:31 AMQuote from: Ads on July 10, 2020, 09:13:22 AMQuote from: VinnieChase84 on July 10, 2020, 09:06:57 AMJT and Smith will go after this - regardless of what happens next four matches I think you're right.Issue is. They both know it You heard out about who might be a replacement?The thing i keep coming back to is, who are we going to get in that would do any better?Whichever way you look at it those group of players aren't good enough at this level. And if thats Suso and Purslow's recruitment then they need to be held accountable. Smith's job title is head coach. Not Manager.Dyche has been suggested but I'd still doubt that he would be able to get any better out of the squad. Thats the same Dyche that relegated Burnley in their first season back in the Premiership.We all new this season would be a struggle based on the turnaround in numbers of the playing squad. I'd stick with Deano and get rid of Suso.
Quote from: VinnieChase84 on July 10, 2020, 09:24:31 AMQuote from: Ads on July 10, 2020, 09:13:22 AMQuote from: VinnieChase84 on July 10, 2020, 09:06:57 AMJT and Smith will go after this - regardless of what happens next four matches I think you're right.Issue is. They both know it You heard out about who might be a replacement?
Quote from: Ads on July 10, 2020, 09:13:22 AMQuote from: VinnieChase84 on July 10, 2020, 09:06:57 AMJT and Smith will go after this - regardless of what happens next four matches I think you're right.Issue is. They both know it
Quote from: VinnieChase84 on July 10, 2020, 09:06:57 AMJT and Smith will go after this - regardless of what happens next four matches I think you're right.
JT and Smith will go after this - regardless of what happens next four matches