14 Jan 2018 08:13:45
There's a lot being said about how Sam has stabilised the team, made us hard to beat, and solid in defence?
But the "football" is dire. We are the worst team in the league to watch. At kick off we lay the ball back to the centre half, who punts it up the pitch and then we get eleven men behind the ball for the rest of the game. Feel sorry for season ticket holders personally.
{Ed025's Note - we were,nt hard to beat yesterday woburn, in fact we bent over and dropped our kecks..
14 Jan 2018 08:42:43
This is not quite accurate in my view. The first 10 ish games under Koeman we were terrible to watch and lost many points. Then Sam came in and made ushard to beat and we were still terrible to watch. But then we had a run of games that we bent over as Ed says. but those games were mainly against top 6. Sam cannot turn us into a top 6 side after what he was left with. Do people honestly think we would be doing better with Koeman or Martinez? Lukaku covered over so many deficiencies of our squad and now he has gone you can see it. Add in Barkley going, Coleman and Baines out injured as well as Mori. Then the bad signings of replacements. Martinez, Lennon, Scneid, Klaasen. etc. This squad is terrible and top half finish will be an achievement. Since Moyes we have made one astute signing. maybe two if you add in Barry. The rest are bang average to poor.
14 Jan 2018 09:19:26
Reluctantly because I love this Club, I have to agree with degsyp. I simply do not have a clue what has gone wrong. With a new majority shareholder coming in and a revamp of Staff you would think things would change but from the outside looking in, nothing has changed at all. I am not going to play the blame game because the people that run and are hired by the Club obviously know a lot more about the workings than me. let's see if against West Brom we can begin to put a run together.
14 Jan 2018 11:11:12
The blame in my view is post Moyes. I said it at the time and too many times since. Martinez signed some terrible players and then one absolute gem. The gem hid some of the terrible signings but now he has gone you can see how poor we are offensively. If you go through our squad and look up the goals of our players throughout their careers, there are not many goals. Wikipedia lists them. Tosun is a good signing. Barry was a good signing (but not for goals) and Lukaku was a fantastic signing. The rest are bang average and you can see that by Jags, Baines, Coleman still first choices after how many years? and they are on their last legs. Then look at players who have left us and how they are doing. Stones at Man City. Fellaini at Utd. Lukaku at Utd. then past players. Graveson at Real Madrid, Arteta at Arsenal. all Moyes good quality signings. compare with Cleverly, Lennon, Niasse, Schneids, Klaasen, Gueye etc. Since Moyes our transfer policy has been crap. or worst!
14 Jan 2018 13:04:18
Stones at City? Hardly gets a game. Fellaini at Utd? Hardly gets a game. Lukaku? Supporters already turning on the guy. Wouldn't say any of them have been a huge success. Just happen to be at better clubs.