Quote from: CT on February 22, 2020, 09:12:49 PMQuite honestly, I'm really pleased that Dean has made these comments. That was beyond pathetic today. A group of players with no passion, effort - desire, yes. A desire not to get hurt so they can play in their previous fucking final next week. That was as bad as anything I've seen and I'm glad he's called them out for it. We don't do anything by halves do we? We right up diarrhoea drive without a saddle once again.As unhappy as i am with smith i support his comments today. Im sick of him defending them when they play shit and they were proper shit today. They didnt need the manager to throw them under the bus they did that themselves with that gutless performance.Out of the back four only targett and mings showed any credit today. It says something when reina is your motm. Overall smiths been a failure at this level. The only reason we are where we are and not in RZ is because so many poor teams this ywar. We would be second bottok had the quality of the league been like last year
Quite honestly, I'm really pleased that Dean has made these comments. That was beyond pathetic today. A group of players with no passion, effort - desire, yes. A desire not to get hurt so they can play in their previous fucking final next week. That was as bad as anything I've seen and I'm glad he's called them out for it. We don't do anything by halves do we? We right up diarrhoea drive without a saddle once again.
So poor players & a poor manager? I would be interested to hear what the players think of Dean. Just saying.
Nearly £40m on Nakamba, Wesley and Trezeguet. Whoever made that call needs sacking just for that. They look/looked worth about a quarter of the price.
Quote from: aj2k77 on February 22, 2020, 10:01:15 PMNearly £40m on Nakamba, Wesley and Trezeguet. Whoever made that call needs sacking just for that. They look/looked worth about a quarter of the price.You realize though that’s the price of one decent player at this level. We simply couldn’t spend as much as we really needed to buy the required quality given how many players we needed
Quote from: Toronto Villa on February 22, 2020, 10:24:57 PMQuote from: aj2k77 on February 22, 2020, 10:01:15 PMNearly £40m on Nakamba, Wesley and Trezeguet. Whoever made that call needs sacking just for that. They look/looked worth about a quarter of the price.You realize though that’s the price of one decent player at this level. We simply couldn’t spend as much as we really needed to buy the required quality given how many players we neededHow many £40m players have Burnley got. Or Southampton? Most teams outside of the top 6 don’t spend anything like that.
Quote from: Risso on February 22, 2020, 11:07:32 PMQuote from: Toronto Villa on February 22, 2020, 10:24:57 PMQuote from: aj2k77 on February 22, 2020, 10:01:15 PMNearly £40m on Nakamba, Wesley and Trezeguet. Whoever made that call needs sacking just for that. They look/looked worth about a quarter of the price.You realize though that’s the price of one decent player at this level. We simply couldn’t spend as much as we really needed to buy the required quality given how many players we neededHow many £40m players have Burnley got. Or Southampton? Most teams outside of the top 6 don’t spend anything like that.Or Sheffield United.
For me, it’s not that all these other sides have £40 million (or whatever arbitrary figure people wan to use) players, it’s that none of them had to rebuild pretty much their entire squad from a position of being the worst promoted team the previous season.
At least Steve Bruce had a Plan A.
Quote from: Luke8 on February 22, 2020, 11:34:33 PMFor me, it’s not that all these other sides have £40 million (or whatever arbitrary figure people wan to use) players, it’s that none of them had to rebuild pretty much their entire squad from a position of being the worst promoted team the previous season.It's not really about the spend or about the rebuilding, it's that we took the wrong approach to it. Rather than mixing it up with some experienced older heads and some promising youngsters we bought a load of players with almost no experience of the Premier League, or in some cases English football at any level. That was a colossal mistake. Plus expecting one of those untested players to be the focal point of our attack, with only a has been and a perma-crocked kid as back up. Add to that a manager as inexperienced at this level as his players and it's easy to see why things have gone badly all season. When we eventually did sign someone with experience we chose Drinkwater.The problem isn't that we had to rebuild but that we did it really badly.