I don't like the lack of red on the badge and of course it's sullied by the betting sponsor, but the design with the yoke is fine.
WO reporting Sarr and Dennis are due to be integrated into the squad if a good deal doesn’t come through, good to at least read that. I feel for Sarr and part of me wants him to get his move as his career is going nowhere here. When he signed we had just reached the Cup Final and had been pushing to qualify for Europe through the league (mad in hindsight). Relegation was not part of his career plans, yet he stayed, kept his head down and got us promoted. Next season, he started reasonably well then got injured. When he came back we were a different team and he could not get any form or confidence going. I don't really think his attitude was off to be honest, he just couldn't do anything to help such an abysmal team. Remember, our dreadful form started when Sarr got injured. Coincidence? IF Dennis is willing to be professional if we don't get a good enough deal, he will absolutely lay waste to the Champo. As would Sarr again. Hoping we keep them, could be a lot of fun.
I think the chances of either being totally motivated would be limited. If we sell neither this summer, and don't get promoted, I can't see how we repay the £50m loan and avoid administration in the medium term.
Sorry, but this is categorically untrue and a reimagining of what happened last season. We were dreadful well before that, and outside of the odd total freak result against major basket cases at their lowest ebb themselves, we were basically the same with or without him. In terms of attitude, it's true that the tactics seemed to get progressively worse, but that, as has been gone over many times before, doesn't explain why he blootered half his touches to no one, ran about mindlessly into the centre constantly when he was playing on the wing, or singularly refused to take on and run at/past his full back, even in situations when he already had the positional advantage/beating of him. That's not to say he wouldn't be better in the Championship than the Prem, but that's a pretty terrible yardstick, and his motivation would be through the floor unless we're going to do something hilarious like agree to let him walk for next to nothing next summer. Even then, it's not in our favour.
It really would be a Hail Mary of epic proportions if we kept both Dennis and Saar, if we got promoted we might just get away with it but if we didn’t it doesn’t bare thinking about.
Before Sarr’s injury we were 16th, 4 points clear of the relegation zone and had already accrued more than half of the entire season’s points from those 12 games. After his injury we lost the next 6 in a row and didn’t win another game until 3 months later. These are the facts, whether Sarr’s injury is a coincidence is up to you.
If we keep them and they are hungry to put in performances to either get us up or get a transfer then HMSPTL is cruising at full speed.
We rattled off 10 victories in a row including a memorable 6-0 win over Man City that saw us finish 11th. Oh wait I’m rewriting history.
But those 'facts' don't tell anything like the whole story when utterly devoid of context like this - nor does the irrelevance that we were 'clear of the drop zone'. We might remind ourselves that a whole three of those incredibly meagre points were earned only when Sarr was hooked because he was playing so badly, at which point we were losing to Everton, of all teams. When he was replaced, we came to life and took them apart. Afterwards, many of us (myself readily included) called for him to be dropped to the bench to send the message that he couldn't keep putting in 4/10 performances and retain his guaranteed starting place. Except, of course, he could, because we're us.
It is a coincidence. For it not to be, it would have needed the rest of the team to have been playing well and to have taken his injury to heart and collapsed. We weren’t playing well.
That’s a very fair shout regarding the Everton game, but Sarr was still one of biggest threats until his injury, that game aside.
In the Utd game itself, in a historic nadir for them that finally saw a club hero get the boot all associated with the club had stubbornly resisted for so long; yes - in the season in general; no, not at all.
It was that Dutch assassin Van De Beek, wasn't it? Got away with it looking all angelic in a Utd shirt, rather like the previous incidence with the lovable hero Van Dijk.
That’s being better than we ended up. Not ‘doing okay’. We had already sacked a manager and had our new one on a horrific losing run by that game. Short memory.
That was one game. You’re really ignoring everything before that game (and after) and using that game in isolation to say we were doing okay?! You’re better than this!
