25-12-2019, 11:03 AM
(25-12-2019, 10:05 AM)Sabricadabra Wrote:(25-12-2019, 09:47 AM)Alf Wrote:(24-12-2019, 09:00 PM)Sabricadabra Wrote: Warburton wasn’t very good, and wasn’t the owners manager. Sticking with him for 2.5 seasons would have been a waste of time and money.
Karanka was the only disappointing loss because he would have got us up, but, he walked. So what can you do.
I don’t see any reason that they will sack Lamouchi unless something has gone off behind the scenes that we aren’t aware of.
The Warburton who wanted to sign John McGinn & Justin James for lass then 1m each? Arounf 60m worth of talent.
Pretty sure that wouldn't have been as big a waste of money as spending 16m on Carvalho & Soudani to keep a shandy manager happy. I know I'd sooner have us 58m in profit than 13m in debt.
What's happened has happened though now. We just have to crack on from here. Merry Xmas.
What are you on about? What have Carvalho and Soudani got to do with it?
Managers want to sign lots of players, most of whom never sign. How does that make a manager a better manager? You’re talking about something that never happened.
If we'd have stuck with Warbs and backed him we'd have landed McGinn & James. 60m+ worth of players. By sacking him and employing AK instead we invested 16m in players nowhere near as good. Far bigger investment in far less quality.
Neither manager took us up, neither could even get us to the playoff positions for more than a few weeks. If you're gonna stay average, you at least want the manager who has you average & is making the club money, not spending wads & bringing in shed load of players to cluter up the wage bill, and hinder further promotion pushes.
If we had McGinn & James now Mouch would stand a better chance at going up than with Carvalho. We'd also get far more for them if we had to sell.
Like I say, it's done with now anyway. Here's to 2020