Awful ownersSell him and put the couple of million towards Solanke
That’s about our level now thanks to these owners
What did the romans ever do for us?Awful owners
Nothing apart from the roads and sanitation!What did the romans ever do for us?
Absolutely right. He never had a chance with his over inflated price tag when he's only worth a third at best of it. Cant blame him. Shi was conned. Time to sell him.Put the poor kid out of his misery.
But apart from promotion to the premier league, 6 consecutive PL seasons, Europa League, FA Cup Semi, Neves, Jota, Jimenez, Patricio, Boli, Cunha, Neto etc what did Fosun ever do for us?Nothing apart from the roads and sanitation!
And stinging nettlesNothing apart from the roads and sanitation!
His hair would get in his eyes.Is he any good in goal? We have a vacancy.
But apart from promotion to the premier league, 6 consecutive PL seasons, Europa League, FA Cup Semi, Neves, Jota, Jimenez, Patricio, Boli, Cunha, Neto etc what did Fosun ever do for us?
I will not repeat what has been said here. I agree totally.Coming back having just turned 21 spent half the season in the Belgian top division and the other half in the Dutch top division, playing Europa league football and finishing with 16 goals and 6 assists he'd have returned with a decent value and high in confidence. I think we have managed the situation very poorly then was the time to cash in or loan and cash in after another productive season. If we were keeping him we had to back him and say right you've got x amount of games, we're backing you go out and show us what you've got. 5 or 10 minutes here or there has been a total waste, there will be a market for him (no matter how little some on here rate him). Playing regular I don't doubt he'll go on and have a good career and score plenty of goals, it just isn't going to be here.
They gave him the number 9 shirt and gave him another chance, you could say he hasn't grasped that chance, you may not, but one way or another it hasn't worked out. The appearances against Ipswich and Sheff Utd were quite frankly bizarre, where he went from hugging everyone to trying to kill everyone, something isn't right, shame as I'm a fan and think he's a good player.Coming back having just turned 21 spent half the season in the Belgian top division and the other half in the Dutch top division, playing Europa league football and finishing with 16 goals and 6 assists he'd have returned with a decent value and high in confidence. I think we have managed the situation very poorly then was the time to cash in or loan and cash in after another productive season. If we were keeping him we had to back him and say right you've got x amount of games, we're backing you go out and show us what you've got. 5 or 10 minutes here or there has been a total waste, there will be a market for him (no matter how little some on here rate him). Playing regular I don't doubt he'll go on and have a good career and score plenty of goals, it just isn't going to be here.
He's been destined to fail at the club since he arrived by the Football Gods.Coming back having just turned 21 spent half the season in the Belgian top division and the other half in the Dutch top division, playing Europa league football and finishing with 16 goals and 6 assists he'd have returned with a decent value and high in confidence. I think we have managed the situation very poorly then was the time to cash in or loan and cash in after another productive season. If we were keeping him we had to back him and say right you've got x amount of games, we're backing you go out and show us what you've got. 5 or 10 minutes here or there has been a total waste, there will be a market for him (no matter how little some on here rate him). Playing regular I don't doubt he'll go on and have a good career and score plenty of goals, it just isn't going to be here.
Agreed but doesn't make them terrible owners, as described earlier in the thread.Got the finances of the club in such a mess they had to have a fire sale to avoid falling foul of FFP.
Which the rules for are very clear and in black and white, with them being an investment company is quite poor.
Kept lage far too long, then put the academy coaches in charge rooting us to the bottom of the table with a 4 point gap from the place above going into the World Cup because of the incompetent managing of that situation.
Managed to turn the overwhelming positives and great foundation to kick on from in two seventh place finishes, fa cup semi and Europa quarter into a rapid decline due to bad recruitment and letting people who oversaw this stay in post for so long wasting even more money on players who weren’t good enough or physically/mentally/technically strong enough for the prem.
They have done some fantastic things, but please let’s not forget the massive stinkers on the way!!
I haven’t seen a single instance of when we could use him as an ideal sub to influence/change games. I see nothing in him whatsoever. When he does come on I see the white flag being raised by our management- game over.I still think he is an option when it comes to games like Burnley and Forest. He makes the runs that midfielders love to play passes to, I just don't understand why GON hasn't used him since Sheff Utd when there have been games and phases of games where he would have been the ideal player to have coming on.
Fair enough, I don't think people are ever going to agree on Fabio. The truth, I suspect as always, is somewhere in the middle of the polarised opinions he creates.I haven’t seen a single instance of when we could use him as an ideal sub to influence/change games. I see nothing in him whatsoever. When he does come on I see the white flag being raised by our management- game over.
problem is, we'd probably drop sarabia for him to play when he is exactly the sort of player to play with sarabiaHow he hasn't got any minutes whatsoever in recent weeks, where we've created nothing in three games, is just bizarre.
One thing that always seems to happen when he's on the pitch is we get chances. He causes a bit of chaos. Much needed chaos from our perspective.
Agreed but doesn't make them terrible owners, as described earlier in the thread.
problem is, we'd probably drop sarabia for him to play when he is exactly the sort of player to play with sarabia