I wouldn't be that bothered if he left in the summer.
Yet the squad was fit. So for all Gary's protestations the squad is too small/too injured, he has to shoulder some of the blame.
He’s not even had a pre season as a coach yet
Further limited by decisions like Santi having barely been used for the first five months of the season...
We never looked good under Lage. Results were much better than the performances warranted but then his luck ran out.
Gary does love to deflect when performances are poor. It works too, it gets everyone focusing on the mess left by Lopetegui/injury crisis/small squad rather than the performance and the choice of tactics.
The perceived need to fall in line with FFP? A finite warchest? Funding has always been there, much of it squandered unfortunately.
What have I missed? Sounds like Robinson called the ref a useless **** or words to that effect. GON has done no such thing.
Brilliant lol. Who was he removed by?
We were 6th for a couple of weeks in his first season and didn't drop below 8th until the last game. I'd take that sort of ugly myself. There's so much rewriting of history about Lage.
By all accounts, he has.
We don’t know who and the context.
There's no rewriting of history. Aside from the now legendary three 1 0 defeats that we opened the season with, we were rarely a good watch.
This is whattabouttery.
West Ham second half was equally as rotten.
I'm not calling for the man's head, just being critical where I feel it'd merited. Overall, GON has performed above average.
Yes it has. We've overspent even in Nuno's time, the funds have never been finite and we've had to curb our spending to fall in line.
It was there. Nuno was at the helm when huge money was spent on Fabio and Semedo in Nuno's last season. Another big chunk spent on Cutrone and Hoever.
Money was wasted in Nuno's time too. For a while every transfer was a resounding success (Neves, Ruddy, Douglas, Boly, Costa, Cav,, Jota, Bonatini, Raul, Jonny, Mourinho, Patricio) but then came (Podence, Cutrone, Fabio, Hoever, Trincao, Guedes, Kalajdzic).
What was shared on here?
This, well said. I find it ludicrous that people are having a go at GON after the many great performances as well as a few bad ones. The top 3 have all had poor games, why should we be immune from a bad day at the office when half the office are in A and E.
Absolutely be pro active with the subs and take some risks if we are chasing a game
Yeah very true. I think expectations changed very quickly but when you think back to the start he has done a solid job and there is plenty of encouragement that we’ll improve next season under GON’s stewardship.
Bang on. I feel like we have a manager here who we can build with for the next few seasons.
I'm fairly sure Brighton fans said the same when they replaced Hughton with a relative nobody in Potter.
It’d be Edwards or Cooper probably Cooper as there’s no compo to pay.
I get what u are saying but i am excited what gon can do next season..i just dont understand the clamour to replace him when most of the season has been brill to watch and scoring more goals than we have for ages and he is still learning
I don't think anybody is clamouring for him to go.
Whichever way you view things, there's a big summer coming up, as I don't see Neto, RAN or Gomes being part of the setup come August.
The best that we have now is Doyle. He's ok but a level down on Ruben and Mouts.
Rather dangerous to assume that because a high risk approach paid off once it will again.
I think Gomes will stay..... obviously if we get what we want for the likes of Neto Rayan Semedo and Sa maybe ...I think it will be another Jorge Mendes Gestifute exodus this summer.....I think the club will try n retain the likes of Gones and Kilman as a safety net for further investment, further down the line when the Mendes carousel runs dry a bit....
Let's hope so (re Gomes), although I would be saddened to see some of those you've mentioned leave.
