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Spending those amounts is wishful thinking sadly. Especially with little income making it’s way in. We’ve probably just about balanced the shortfall for this year but it’ll start all over again this summer if we don’t go up. Spending money in January will be mean selling Sarr/Hughes/JP beforehand.
I'm also not sure T-E is any better than Cathcart and Kabasele, but think that if we hadn't signed him we'd have needed to start our last match with Wilmot and Sierralta at CB (gulp!!), so in that sense his signing has strengthened us. If we didn't have Garner we might have had to give some starts to Phillips as well...
Looking at what we actually have on the pitch, the results are ok. We aren’t conceding goals like last season, the problem is we aren’t firing up front. Watching any game in any division this season have you actually been ‘entertained’, I doubt you could count no more then 4-5 games, most of the time the game is just on in the background, there’s no atmosphere without the crowd, how many players thrive of this, you’ll always play better with a crowd behind you. For me the problem with Ivic is he doesn’t wear his heart on his sleeve, but he is doing what he’s expected to do, grind out results.
I would’ve thought it was a pre-requisite for any serious professional football club, but is it possible that we don’t do any analysis on the teams we are going to play? I say this as a means to explain how we play away, we’ve played some awful teams that we are definitely below us in quality yet set up defensively, often with 5 at the back. To me, it seems inexplicable if we’ve actually done any homework in these teams, what with home advantage being more or less redundant at the moment. Or maybe it is just as simple as Ivic being a particularly negative and cautious coach.
And? So what? We should all ignore the deficiencies in his game and the poor performances he puts in offering almost no goalscoring threat or movement as our starting centre forward (when he puts in those performances)? 'Adapting his game' is an incredibly generous way of viewing what he has done, which is get slower than he ever was and move and offer an option even less than he used to whilst still receiving a seemingly guaranteed starting spot. I do not blame Deeney for all our problems, and his position is a failure of recruitment as much as anything else, but his own personal failings on the pitch and as a professional footballer are extremely well-documented on here, and I certainly won't ignore them for some misguided automatic deference to him because he's been here a long time.
Most of us just aren't as fascistically intolerant of any view of the club and players that is divergent/not overwhelmingly positive regardless of context.
Personally I will readily admit that it's the right thing to do to credit a player who is good at scoring penalties as being good at penalties, and including that in a list of their assets as a striker. But it's equally madness to pretend that it carries the same weight as most other traditional striker/goalscoring attributes, or that it has the same worth when determining the overall quality of a striker as scoring regularly from open play. Here's a question that isn't even really a question: if we were in the market for a new striker and were choosing between two, one of who had scored 20 goals from open play in the league the previous season, and one who had scored 20 penalties (no goals from open play) in the same period, which one would you want the club to buy?
Troy got a goal and assist in midweek and a goal yesterday so you could argue that he does offer a goalscoring threat.
That, very sadly, is true. Garner must just get them by default simply because he’s a Utd player. I can’t believe anyone in our team could actually be worse than him at them, though.
Not my cup of tea to be fair with constant battering of his own team even if it's in jest but just ignore it
All I can say is over time we will much more grateful for the contribution of a guy who cost 500k has made to the club than any other striker I can think of in the last 10 years. Most of us anyway but I accept we probably ought to move on if we had anyone useful to come in which maybe will Perica. Wonder if Gray organised a poker party on the way home for the lads?
You're probably right, but if we could find it we could realistically gain a lot more from going up. Guess this is the argument for selling Sarr and buying three or four above average Championship players.
I’m sure there must be more to it and he’s probably the best at them when they do drills in the week. But sadly, drills are not the same as a live match environment and he’s failed too often in that setting. I think he now just gets them by default as no one else steps up apart from the odd time Cleverley takes over and does just as bad. But it’s time to share them around and see what else they can do. They also do that short routine to Sema when they have corners on the left but it’s been worked out now yet we still do it - yesterday we inexplicably turned a corner into a throw just by trying it again. Sema is obviously deemed good enough at crossing the ball but is allergic at hitting a dead ball.
Personally I don’t find it any more intolerable than the few on here (not yourself) who steadfastly refuse to accept any criticism of things. Plus I think some just take it too literally. Moog says all these things and I firmly believe he’s furious at the way the team is set up and the way the club is currently run. But he clearly cares and wants us to win - because he’s a fan. Any comment to the contrary he makes are obviously tongue-in-cheek and more fool anyone who takes it seriously quite honestly!
Furthermore, not sure I trust these owners or this manager with that kind of money at this level. Get Cucho back, try and loan a creative midfielder who is capable of breaking the lines, keep Hughes and get Masina fit. If we have money, keep it - providing the above happens. Outgoings should be Gray, Murray for definite IMO.
This is the absolute most desperate thing, even more so if Hughes continues his insanely spotty appearance/availability record. Either an intelligent player who can break the lines, or a direct one who can actually carry the ball and drive the attack through the centre. Or indeed both, in an ideal, moon-man kind of world.
Always nice to see a victory but would you be happy if we hadn't got the lucky pen and had just meandered to the 0-0 draw with just 4 shots in the whole game again such poor quality oppo while Muff hit 5 and Norwich won away at a far better Blackburn ?
I agree and can see Murray going back but Gray will not being going as who will take him on the obscene wages and general lack of ability?
Yes, in all seriousness I don’t think we could actually give Gray away for free. With his wages I think we’d have to at least partially pay his contract up so he could maybe negotiate a longer deal at a lower wage elsewhere. Maybe we could tempt Sheffield Utd into a loan and we pay some of his wages?
I'm happy if we play badly and win; less happy if we play badly and lose; and if we play badly and draw I'm somewhere in between. Other teams' results don't affect my mood until towards the end of the season. I hope that answers your question
Of course not. But there would be a huge steaming pile of 'a point isn't to be sniffed at' rolled out had that happened.
Sema did take the corner which led to the goal midweek, I don't know if that was exactly what was intended, but it did go in
Lol. You are really quite childish, like a hysterical tweener having a hyperbolic tantrum over the smallest insignificant thing.
The irony will be lost on you, but for anyone with an iota of self awareness it would be quite stark.
