Thre are mixed messages as to how we should have approached this season. Some fans wanted the club to spend millions to try and stay up whreas I get the feeling a lot of fans were just happy to to go up and take the money without risking spending loads. What side were you on?
good question -sadly I was in the mid camp - we needed to spend some money just not on the ones we did!! I was happy to see no summer action on the basis that Aidy would see what we were looking like come January but he really should have done a LOT better in Jan to be honest and at least spent a few quid! Are they saving all this money we have for the new stand?
Personally i was half an half. Yes the club should be spending a few bob to keep us up but at the end of the day i honestly dont believe we were ready for the premiership so getting the money isnt a bad idea either We definately deserved to go up and it angers me when i hear people say we didnt (e.g talksport radio). There is a difference between deserving to go up and being ready Sorry went off track a bit there, yeh so in answer i was sitting on the fence of those sides!
i was happy to take the money and build up for the prem in 2 seasons time. if we spent money and went down people would leave and we'll be even worse of than before; but i didnt want to be buying championship players for the prem
did you actually mean to say something there or???? Also, fair points Carly - not ready for prem but deserved the promo alright - just a shame that Aidy won't play the team in the way he did to get there!
definately! Obviously there was the setback of King which (although conspiracy around it) just couldnt be helped, ive never thought of Watford as a one man team but theres an obvious difference without King. I have no idea why Smith is even still with the club! But then after today i could say that about a lot of them seeing as Smith wasnt even playin and the ball STILL was being spanked out of play ;D
I don't think it's about how much money you spend. You have to find something to spend it _on_ ...! If none of the expensive players Aidy wanted to bring in actually wanted to go to us, then save that money instead of just throwing it on some other random players. However, I'm also disappointed in the January signings. You simply can't strenghten a Premiership team with League One players, and players who haven't played a first-team game in 6 months. As for the summer signings, I thought we had done pretty well, with Shittu in the central defense, Francis in central midfield, and ... umm... not much more, really - a mountain-old left back from Charlton? Oh yeah, and Smithy. Well, you can't build a whole new team just on one summer, but in retrospect we should have bought a striker and maybe a full back and another center back. However, spending money carefully is better for all of us.
At least we can agree on that! Foster has been my player of the season...although Danny is up there aswell!
Exactly! Oh wow, wont have Foster after this season either, not got much going for us at the moment. Gotta love them though ;D
At first, I was surprised and a little disappointed that a high cost/high profile player, especially an attacking midfielder, wasn't brought in upon promotion. But once I dug into the economics of what a newly promoted championship team like Watford had to work with, considering the resources available and obligations to build the club in the long term, I have become far less critical of the lack of big time big name signings. I have a longer term definition of what I see as success for the club. Still, I had hoped to get a proven Prem attacker in January to help get a few more goals in and take the pressure of the defense, and am a little, just a little, disappointed that didn't happen. If the season results in relegation, I can be patient to wait a year or two to earn a promotion that ISN'T a surprise, and then watch our Hornets drill in to the Prem and send some other sorry club down to the Championship.
