30-09-2020, 08:44 PM
(30-09-2020, 04:27 PM)Uwantlee Wrote:(30-09-2020, 04:03 PM)wassy04 Wrote: I think you could find a myriad of posts in this forum, criticising the amount of foreign signings, a lack of backing in the market, a lack of squad depth, a lack of quality and a willingness to sack managers too soon.
Literally have done the opposite to all of those things in this window and have been criticised for all of them. You just can't win can you?
Time and place tho.... this is the first time in years we had a squad challenging for promotion....the response over the summer... to sign a whole new team.
We all wanted stability with karanka and o'Neil... could definitely see the improvement under karanka... the response is to back a manager under a terrible terrible run of form who had given us out worst start in half a century.
Just feels a little backwards and maybe done because it's what fans have wanted in the past.
I appreciate we have got some good championship players in this summer. I still say and will stand by the fact we didnt need 12 plus signings. On top of that we have some 30plus year olds on big contracts and are looking at a 32 year old winger. Our midfield is aging now and our strikers are already isolated.
I appreciate sabri got us to 7th... he should have been sacked after stoke but we were all willing to see if he had learnt and changed his approach.
God this club is frustrating sometimes.
I'm sorry maybe you've been saying all last season we had a great team with loads of depth, maybe you were happy with Da Costa and Tyler as backup strikers? Bong as backup LB? Yates as backup Dm, he's never been criticised. Diakhaby backup winger? Dawson/benalouane backup CB, assume you were happy with that? Sabri overachieved with that bang average team we had. How many of last season's squad gets in the promoted teams aside from Cash? A fit Sow/Lolley maybe (although not seen those for a while) that's about it I'd say.
I get you don't like Sabri, fine whatever. Although your version of stability is essentially a manager that continues to be successful without every going through a bad patch.