Royle. Easy.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
Marco Silva, and just to make sure I’m not doing revisionist history on myself I went and found a couple of posts at the time saying as much. It was never that bad under him and we should have persisted longer to let the results turn around some. We had delusions of grandeur honestly and got caught thinking finishing 10th wasn’t going to be good enough.
You can defend his selection with saying it's the safe option, you can defend never giving youth players a go and not start new signings for the same reason. What you cannot defend is having no patterns of play after over a year at the club apart from long balls to a 5foot9 winger. He's a glorified PE teacher and needs binning ASAP
I can maybe understand not playing young players but not the new signings. Plenty of teams have started their new signings already, Brighton did! They’ll never be up to speed if he doesn’t give them game time and he wastes them by leaving them on the bench.
We buy them for a reason and we don’t have the money for him to piss about and not integrate them into the team.
FrenchDarrenBent
Player Valuation: £20m
That's the key difference between the two camps here.
We are Beggars.
Martinez.
NathDogg
Player Valuation: £40m
pfim
Player Valuation: £40m
Mickey, you have caused confusion and delay.
Davideeyore
Player Valuation: £30m
Surely more so.
There should be some improvement in basic stuff. Last season there were glaring issues from the start. The fact that we have chances and can't score. The fact that we then concede relatively easily, by what is often the first attack for the opposition.
I know we got through to the end of the season with ease in the end but we only had 3 home wins before April, we had no wins from mid December to April. We played some atrocious football. Clearly the master plan has changed it's gone from a hoof up to DCL to a hoof up to Harrison.
His team selections and player favourites seems to be an open book. Experience over anything else. Well guess what Dyche you were out done by a 31 year old newcomer on Saturday.
billyblue80
Player Valuation: £70m
Agreed it was recruitment that let him down. Losing Zouma and Gana
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
It was also just short term bad luck. We lost a few games we didn’t even play bad in and also the ones we did so everyone panicked. We keep him and we keep playing half decent eventually we win some games and everything is fine.
Osamabindiesel
Player Valuation: £60m
In the context of it being the first game of the season… MAYBE. And that is pushing it. It if keeps happening and he isn’t getting results, then there is absolutely no justification for it. You only get the benefit of a doubt if you get it done. Young, Doucore and Keane did not get it done. If they continue to flop, the manager will continue to get the blame.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
I thought we got rid of Silva too early. Saying that though his Fulham team which he’s had for a good few years now earned less points last season than the biggest disgrace in the history of football managed so I’m not sure we’d have moved a load further under him. A manager let down by recruitment and thrown under the bus by Keane Davies and Siggurdson
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
We wouldn’t have done the additional damage that the Ancelotti era did. I have no doubt he’d have been gone by now in some form but the short termism that happened with his sacking and the hires that followed did a lot of harm.
buededw1
Player Valuation: £15m
Spot on! I was saying to a friend, I could see a bigger change in the Brighton style and the managers only been there a few months. There was literally no progress at all made during pre season.