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Author Topic: Dean Smith - Confirmed  (Read 1815703 times)

Offline brian green

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7695 on: June 21, 2020, 09:55:02 PM »
We have had some disastrous managers post Houllier but John Terry would be the worst by some distance.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7696 on: June 21, 2020, 09:55:32 PM »
On a par with Eric Black.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7697 on: June 21, 2020, 09:56:42 PM »
Or KMac.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7698 on: June 21, 2020, 09:58:37 PM »
I honestly think it's too late.  They'll give him the full season and after that who knows?  They'll at least be able to say they backed him, they spent a lot of money, gave him time, and then time to get us out of the mess, but it just didn't work out.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7699 on: June 21, 2020, 09:59:01 PM »
More like Tactics Tim.  Great in the London media, lazy and unmotivated everywhere else.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7700 on: June 21, 2020, 10:01:15 PM »
Purslow talked recently about a 200million disaster.  Yet they seem to be happy to go down? 

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7701 on: June 21, 2020, 10:11:24 PM »
Just watched the Villa View post-match thing. The chap on there (Dan?) seems to think that the summer signings are the problem, which seems reasonable. I've no idea how much he knows (it'll be more than me!), but he said Smith identified targets, which were inevitably too expensive (Phillips/Maupay, I'm guessing), and so was served Suso's cut price equivalents instead. Might be nonsense but it feels kind of true.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7702 on: June 21, 2020, 10:12:13 PM »
So why spend so much money on the only Brazilian striker that cannot play football?

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7703 on: June 21, 2020, 10:13:00 PM »
So why spend so much money on the only Brazilian striker that cannot play football?

No idea.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7704 on: June 21, 2020, 10:14:18 PM »
Brown envelopes?

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7705 on: June 21, 2020, 10:15:22 PM »
So why spend so much money on the only Brazilian striker that cannot play football?

Joelinton says hello.

Admittedly that only makes 2.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7706 on: June 21, 2020, 10:15:46 PM »
So why spend so much money on the only Brazilian striker that cannot play football?

Best ask Suso.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7707 on: June 21, 2020, 10:16:27 PM »
So why spend so much money on the only Brazilian striker that cannot play football?

Joelinton says hello.

Admittedly that only makes 2.

Not a striker, but there was that lad that Celtic signed in the 90s. Scheidt.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7708 on: June 21, 2020, 10:16:30 PM »
I wouldn’t write Wesley off yet. We’ve rushed to judgement on players far too often in the past.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7709 on: June 21, 2020, 10:17:34 PM »
I wouldn’t write Wesley off yet. We’ve rushed to judgement on players far too often in the past.

I agree.

 


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