I agree with that.
Others will point out that we hadn't been great for months before that, and they would be right.
But after that Sheff Utd game, we were looking good for a big finish to our season. Adingra and Mitoma back from international competitions and plenty of noises about Pedro and...
No. He had a good record. But into his 30's it was obvious we would need cover and competition for that place last season. It's even more obvious for next season, and I think Veltman will be off, so maybe two more needed.
The clubs plan I think was that Milner would be able to fill in...
Yeh, I'm kind of in this position as well.
As it stands i'm not moaning about it, but I think we have to acknowledge it. I believe a big part of our off field failures came because we lost so many staff to Chelsea. It can't have no affect at all.
What the club needs now is stability off...
Agree with every word of this.
To rub salt in the wounds of bringing in 4 complete duds, is that they took the place of players we loaned out who could have done very well for us.
Your age profile point is good as well. I just think we've asked too much of our experienced players. Dunk and...
There’s blame to be shared around, but to me the single biggest fault is recruitment and planning
Southampton and Leicester went down, because they got their recruitment badly wrong for two or three years. We’ve got ours equally wrong in the last 12 months.
We’ve bought, I count 8 first team...