I love his big ham face.
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toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
to be fair, it was one of the best in the league at full strength. Only baines atm is first choice out of that whole back 4 from today. We'll definitely buy a centre back, possibly two, i personally think we only need one. We definitely need a top keeper and it could be argued now we need a good right back, which is bloody annoying. We also no have no backup for baines after selling oviedo, i doubt garbutt will be trusted, but who knows, maybe with him and galloway coming back as well as mori playing there, we won't address that just yet. We definitely need to be buying more players at the top end of the pitch for my money. I know that sounds silly given the way we're smashing teams at home atm, but we would have smashed united for 4 or 5 if we had better quality up there.
Ha, i felt sorry for the lino. If he doesn't know for sure, then he's guessing, he's got to spend a bit of time make up his decision of which is more likely so felt the ref was in a better position and left him to the decision
toffeejack
Player Valuation: £100m
article on BBC just now (i've posted in the barkley thread) about him telling ross to sign the contract, interesting.
I have watched Koeman carefully this season, I have come to a decision over the past couple of weeks. I like him, I hope he stays here 2 more seasons, at least, because I think he will leave a very strong infrastructure behind him. He takes [Poor language removed] from nobody and tells it like it is. I know he has made some substitutions recently that haven't been the obvious ones, but hey, I think Ronko knows a bit more about footy than me.
Westend Blue
Player Valuation: £15m
Only 4 goals off the 13/14 season total with 6 games to play #entertainers
Westend Blue
Player Valuation: £15m
Please don't remind me I am trying to forget
Gwladysstreetlad
Player Valuation: £50m
Brilliantly refreshing to see brutal honesty. Nobody is irreplaceable and Ross needs to understand that. Makes a plesent from all the flowery BS Martinez would trot out. This is what this club and our players need, a though taskmaster not a mate in the dugout.
Never forget. It's there to remind you what utter failure feels like
Gwladysstreetlad
Player Valuation: £50m
TBH I've never been a fan of singing the managers name unless they do something special like actually win somthing. I'm as big a fan of Ronnie going but I'd rather we sing the players names while the game is on.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Roberto had a dream
To build a football team
But without defenders from Moyes it went up in flames
Just gash at the back, and blunt in attack
But Ronkoe's here now
We're on our way back
I think it's that the team needed time to adjust to Koeman's methods.
If you assess his first season at Saints, there was a honeymoon period and then they hit a bit of a roadblock before coming on strong again. That's probably due to Koeman getting used to the league and the players getting used to him. Plus the squad that Poch had had been torn to shreds that summer.
Second season - in many ways - he almost had to start again in terms of several key players (Clyne, Schneiderlin) leaving, and a glut of new signings coming in. So again it was the same scenario really. By the second half of the season they were playing really well and I remember distinctly them hammering us at Goodison last April, and Koeman was furious that they'd only got a point.
So this season, a bit of a dead-cat-bounce so to speak, but the then by December it was clear that some players just couldn't fit (and those are the ones who have left) into Koeman's squad. Still some holes to fill but this season the young players have come in and done just that with more gusto and quality than the tosh before them. Now, the side is fully used to Koeman's style and moulded to play how he wants. At home, we definitely play with more freedom, so hopefully next season we can improve our away form while maintaining our home strengths. With Europe (should we get there of course) there could be a lot of games so a big squad/clever rotation will be important - which means the youngsters that have come in will again play a key part.
That being said, it's key there isn't a huge squad turnaround this summer. Of course, the deadwood will go, but the core must stay (though it looks unlikely I'll admit) in tact for us to at least be able to have that continuity - i.e. not a load of new players who have to get used to the manager's style.
That is pretty damn good, and very enjoyable reading on a Monday. Delighted for the season ticket holders.
I've been open about not expecting anything special from RK, but this season he really has given himself a solid platform to work from in the next and has done very well to move us on from the previous malaise to the point where I can't see us slipping so badly again.
If he can give this club back it's balls and get us really firing in the big games like he did with Southampton then maybe he can win us a trophy here. Feeling more positive than meh this morning about the new boss.
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