SanFranWolf
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If you had to say what the club 's worst mistakes have been over the last couple of years - what would you say?
Selling Jota and replacing him with a kid who is nowhere near ready,and paying £10m for a useless defender upfront as part of the deal.If you had to say what the club 's worst mistakes have been over the last couple of years - what would you say?
Squad succession planning, leaving us having to do a large amount of squad change all at once
Silva & Semedo, easily.
£70m should’ve given us the chance to buy 3/4 good players to improve the first-team. We managed to make ourselves undoubtedly weaker.
I actually like Silva and think he’ll come good but he’s just gone a season without scoring. For the price quoted I still believe something iffy went on.
Semedo is a good player but he’s not good enough going forward to be a wing-back and I believe right-back is the easiest position to find a good player in world football.
Matty Cash has outperformed him easily for half the price. Livramento, Lamptey, Coufal all cost about £5m.
Again, Semedo is a good player, but if the choice is one of them and £25m to spend elsewhere, it’s a pretty easy call.
Signing a teenager for £35m and a full-back for £30m are the sort of moves you make when everything else is sorted. Not a club that desperately needed players down the spine to come in & also one that knew funds were tight!
Appointing bruno aver(l)age. Wrong guy. Wrong time. We are going nowhere under this completely uninspiring, uncharismatic, tactically inept clown.
I’m not really sure that is fair.Squad succession planning, leaving us having to do a large amount of squad change all at once
Personally think you’re wrong on Semedo if you’re just measuring output.Selling Jota and replacing him with a kid who is nowhere near ready,and paying £10m for a useless defender upfront as part of the deal.
Selling Doherty and replacing him with somebody who cost twice as much, but who has less than 1% of his output in respect of goals scored or supplied.
Tell me I'm wrong!
They’ve made plenty of mistakes.
They’ve also taken us higher than we’ve been in decades, so why are we focusing on the negatives again?
They’ve made some bad signings. It happens.Because the decisions that were made that got us where we are were made in a previous cycle.
It's been 4 years since this squad was assembled and we've made mistake after mistake since, with very little "success", we've entering a period of uncertainty, it's hard to ignore the many mistakes the club have made since they last got it right.
They’ve made some bad signings. It happens.
Adama was loaned not sold iirc, no obligation to buy either.Worst mistakes (in no particular order):
Not strengthening the squad going into the Europa League season.
Deciding to back Nuno on a rebuild, but then splash all the cash on 2 players and not actually rebuild.
Deciding to fire Nuno and embark on a second successive rebuild, but then not backing the new manager in the transfer market.
The small squad strategy
January 22
Sending Adama to Barcelona
Scott replacing Thelwell, when we needed experience.
I don't think that is completely fair. Replacing RP with Sa. Bringing in Ait-Nouri.Because the decisions that were made that got us where we are were made in a previous cycle.
It's been 4 years since this squad was assembled and we've made mistake after mistake since, with very little "success", we've entering a period of uncertainty, it's hard to ignore the many mistakes the club have made since they last got it right.
Neto, RAN, Sa."Look I know the past 4 years we've got everything wrong but this year's our year I can feel it"
Adama was loaned not sold iirc, no obligation to buy either.