Or maybe its the fact that Bloom hasn't given Burke or Hyypie the budget to sign the quality needed after a fire sale of our best players, maybe we hit the ceiling financially!!!
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Or maybe its the fact that Bloom hasn't given Burke or Hyypie the budget to sign the quality needed after a fire sale of our best players, maybe we hit the ceiling financially!!!
Thunder Bolt
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It cost us so dear, that Oscar got us to the playoffs twelve months later?
Having lost only Bridcutt and Barnes, a far cry from the loss Hyppia has suffered!
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Only, missed the injuries he had to deal with then (which granted Hyypia has had as well)? And most of the players that have come in since Hyypia came in have top flight experience in their respective leagues, he just seems incapable of getting anything out of them.
Somewhat fortuitously, we made it in the last minutes of the last game, thanks to a class striker in Ulloa!
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Results, nothing else.
Tooting Gull
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I certainly wouldn't disagree with that. But even within those constraints, when you look around the Championship and who paid what for who over the summer, we still could have done better. In another thread I gave the example of Lee Gregory (Millwall, £250k from Halifax, four goals as an occasional starter) and O'Grady (Brighton, £500k from Barnsley, no goals and never likely to score). And that's just one example.
The argument is not about whether these players are better than what we had before, I think we can all agree that many of them are not. However, most are certainly good enough to get this team to a comfortable mid table position.
Sami has overseen 14 player signings and has said he is happy with the way our transfers work. If he has then failed to secure the type of player he wants, then he is culpable as much as Burke.
Did he come in to the club and think we need a midfield enforcer? Well it appears not as he chooses not to play one.
Did he ask for a big centre forward to hold the ball up? Again no, as given the chance he signed Bent, a classic last shoulder striker. After signing Baldock who is the same and already having CMS who is also the same.
Did he ask for attacking full backs? Yes, clearly and he has been provided with that. Bennett has a good pedigree at this level, as do Bruno and Calderon.
New Goalkeeper? Ok, Stockdale has been poor, but he has Premier League experience.
I could go on, but to me it appears that Sami does not know what he wants or more pertinently, needs, to create a winning side. He has signed off on these players, if Burke came to you and said we are going to sign Baldock 5'7" and Colunga 5'8" would you say no thanks to one? I think we all would, Sami either chose not to, or is not a strong enough character to say no to Burke, whichever of these is true, marks Sami out to be a poor football manager, imo.
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This is just so wrong in that it ignores all of Sami's many tactical and motivational faults. Why do you think players who have played well previously are playing so badly now?
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Again, whilst I agree the standard of the squad has declined. It is mid-table at worst. Sami has managed to turn it into a relegation certainty.
If he's trying his best it only goes to prove what a truly awful manager he is.
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Nothing. I can't see him doing anything that will get my backing.
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He was sacked for gross misconduct. Just saying. Other than that, you are spot on.
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If you cannot see Sami's tactical and motivational faults, then your opinion is worthless. Nobody has denied the squad's quality has declined, but it is not bottom 3; that is Sami's doing.
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Spot on. That's EXACTLY what's happened. P45 for BOTH.
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Have you heard of FFP or just plain good old financial prudence?
B.W.
It is just a matter of opinion, no-one's view is 'worthless'!
This squad is a bottom 3 squad imho, shorn of all quality, I can't see where the goals will come from looking ahead, and once Bent's loan is up...?
Has Hypia been brought in as a 'Fall Guy' to cover the Board's ass is the question (his record was awful in Germany)?
Thunder Bolt
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If you believe that, then you must believe that Tony Bloom is lying when he says this squad is as expensive as any previously.
If it is, then the club is in a DIRE situation?
To me it looks like they embarked on a major cost cutting exercise, but seriously overdone it at the expense of the team.
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Seriously, look at our squad. There is still plenty of quality to get us to mid-table. I just wish Tony would pull the trigger, appoint someone with experience like BMcD, and let's see where we end up. It wouldn't be bottom 3, I assure you.