Some managers persuade their players to stay and get to the Prem with their current club. Southampton and Norwich had managers who seemed to do this pretty well.
It seemed that Poyet like promoting the Prem as a direction with or without the club. It probably rubbed off on his team.
I doubt these were he's words. More that Poyet thought he could bring in better than what was already there. The Poyet project replaced Bennett with Buckley and Murray with CMS, neither are better. Considering Southampton came 2nd to us that season but kept there main players and then went on to...
Poyet was a very good tactician but he did actually inherite a very good team from Russell Slade (Orient Manager) when he joined the Albion. We had players like Glenn Murray, Elliott Bennett, El-Abd, Crofts, Forster, Dicker etc but we were really under performing untill Poyet came in. Yes he got...