APN_EFC
Player Valuation: £25m
I never said it was a benefit
Nothing is working for anyone, but it helps pass the time until we appoint Unsy as manager, with Rooney and Big Dunc as his assistants and Jose Baxter as club captain.
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I never said it was a benefit
Nothing is working for anyone, but it helps pass the time until we appoint Unsy as manager, with Rooney and Big Dunc as his assistants and Jose Baxter as club captain.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
I completely agree. Great post mate.
It's maddening these undulations. I can see why people feel a DoF is the way to go in ironing out these fluctuations in style and method. But I dont think it's a necessary post, tbh.
I look at Swansea for inspiration in that they had a clearly defined style they kept for years - possibly Monk's over-physical game was the beginning of the end for it. And that, as far as I'm aware, was down to clear headed thinking at boardroom level in their appointments and what they must have insisted on in interview with managers. Swansea kept their nerve and kept on a certain defined path with minimum fuss and performed well in excess of expectations because of the seamless change form manager to manager. That's what we should be aiming for.
Going back to Martinez: the answer wasn't then to throw the baby out with the bathwater; the answer was to replace Martinez with a similar manager with a similar approach but with more attention to small things in defence like set piece work. But our board went the other way and for another style...a style that goes away from what all other age groups in the organisation had adopted under the previous set up.
Madness.
I don't think there's anything "Geordie knee jerk" about it when it's November and we're in a relegation battle playing some of the most dreadful football in the league with an unbalanced mess of a squad. Koeman can't take all the blame, Steve Walsh has to be apportioned some, but Koeman has to take his massive share. As does even Martinez for wasting the potential of 4 really good young players by having us in the bottom half and them all wanting to leave, that's kind of where our decline started.
kenada_blue
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I think the proof is that he took over a Pochettino side and added.
He dismantled an everton side, spent more than any manager we've ever had, and left us fighting relegation.
The feller can't build a side. That's been labelled before by players he's managed.
We're also not Southampton. We also spent £200mill.
His aim in my eyes would be to win a trophy and finish higher than 7th based on that spending.
Never in a million years would he have done that
We have a Geordie wool problem in our fanbase.
We should get Lil Kev Keegan in to lead us to our deserved glory
Blues Harp
Player Valuation: £60m
Does anyone know if Barkley is getting near to full fitness? If he was, would Unsworth play him?
Yes and yes to both questions mate.
Frang
Player Valuation: £70m
yes and obviously yes
Not convinced Del ever had the physicality to regularly deliver in the Prem though.
Dowell needed a loan. The lad goes missing too often to be a regular starter just yet in an already struggling side. He would have been at best a bit-part player this season and I have no issues at all that he is at Forest, playing well, scoring goals and getting regular minutes in a demanding league. That will be good for him.
Ross is injured. Whether he wants out or not now remains to be seen. But he wouldn't have played anyway.
The players we did get aren't the problem as such.
Pickford and Keane are both good young players.
Doubts obviously over Sandro and Klaassen and neither have settled, while Gylfi has struggled. Rooney was still a sensible move but hasn't been used well imo (i.e. too much, shoehorned in to games etc).
The players we didn't get - another defender, a striker - which in all fairness Koeman repeatedly said he wanted and certain people failed to deliver - are the major issues.
tactically, Koeman was useless and had to go
Blues Harp
Player Valuation: £60m
As usual from you a reasoned and well thought out post instead of a bitter tirade against koeman. Think Dowell is doing rather well at Forest and the experience will benefit him...would love to see him return and become a regular with us. Mate of mine who watches Forest raves about him..
You not heard mate? he has set the club back 20 years apparently
You clearly are not up with times with these types of sensible posts.
You not heard mate? he has set the club back 20 years apparently
You clearly are not up with times with these types of sensible posts.
He definitely did a lot of damage in undoing the good work of his first season in the space of about 6 weeks, like, but still - not all the problems are because of Ronnie.
We're a very poor side at the moment. Unsworth is massively out of hid depth and now our only half-decent striker who wasn't even in any of our thoughts until September looks set to miss two more crucial games.
It's a shambles. But it's not all Koeman's doing.
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