Was told Phillips wanted to come after weighing all his options, the deal was £6 mill for the year, between our share of the wages City wanted to pay and loan fee - when it came to it we didn't have access to the cash on the deadlines wanted.
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Was told Phillips wanted to come after weighing all his options, the deal was £6 mill for the year, between our share of the wages City wanted to pay and loan fee - when it came to it we didn't have access to the cash on the deadlines wanted.
Someone like Graham Potter is 1.28 ppg at Brighton and 1.48ppg at Chelsea.
When you add in Dyche came in midseason and we were relegation zone, without a striker worthy of the name and a following full season of witch hunting and he spent nothing but on a limited pool of high structured deals, loans and fees and had nothing like the vaunted structures and players available at clubs like Brighton or Chelsea - its hard to make a compelling case for the flip.
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Well if the money isn’t there,
What’s he supposed to do. We got Broja for
No loan fee and the same with Harrison. I’d imagine he’d have got us a few more decent younger players if dyche wasn’t the manager
Because we won four on the bounce in Dec - beating Newcastle and Chelsea in there if my memory is right.
Blast_of_Cannock
Player Valuation: £10m
I know it's easy to say, but keep the faith. When we get back to somewhere near where we belong, these dark days make the highs so much better. As Churchill once said, "if you're going through hell, keep going". I truly believe we will have more good days than bad in the future. Probably makes me look like an idiot, but it's the reason I keep supporting this club in these depressing times.
Marius57
Player Valuation: £60m
Ok so add in that purple patch. And ultimately, we have had two purple patches of 4 games across 30 games. It’s very poor.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Amen
There’s a reality to the situation caused by the ownership. Which decent manager is going to take any job when they know a new owner could come in and remove them immediately?
Then there’s the financial reality of us sacking the existing manager before the end of his contract, paying him off, then hiring the new manager which would probably involve compensation to whatever club he was at if he was any good (I’ve heard any sort of unemployment, even voluntary, is unacceptable). Only to potentially repeat that process if a new owner wanted a different manager. It’s all money we don’t have.
We’ve got an interim board with no leadership whatsoever just waiting for the ownership paralysis to end.
Whether people like it or not, as long as we don’t look likely to go go down, we’re probably not changing manager until the ownership situation is resolved. At the end of the season we can exit the current manager for free and be far more attractive to any new manager with the new owner signing it off (if we’ve been sold)
It will be two and a half seasons of a job well done for Dyche, keeping the club up in his first few months, increasing the points tally the season after, and hopefully delivering us into the new stadium as a PL team with a better squad than he started. All whilst making trading profits ever summer window. There can then be a magnanimous parting of the ways.
We can go back further if people insist on using a wider spread of data, to the start of that season and include losses to Wolves, Fulham and Luton.
Marius57
Player Valuation: £60m
Won 10 of the last 30 league games. Which have been two purple patches.
Which included: Brentford X2, Burnley X2, Forest X2, Sheffield United.
We should be expecting to beat these teams as they are all recently promoted or relegated teams.
It did include wins vs Liverpool, Chelsea and Newcastle so fair play to him. Pickford was our motm in 2 of those games mind.
Ufotone
Player Valuation: £8m
Yes I fear for the next manager, I even said as much in one of my last posts on Dyche.
For me though, it's not about the 3 games we have lost, it's the manner we lost against B/mouth, even I could see the players were running on empty, so why on Gods green Earth didn't he make the subs that most could see needed making? Dyche is supposed to a defensive coach and not making those changes and giving up what could be a vital 3 points is enough for me.
He needs outing ASAP, I know, we got no money ETC, but his decision making at times is going to cost us more points than we are capable of earning with his style of football.
I have no confidence Mr Dyche can save us this year, obviously hope I'm wrong.
EFC
We won13 and failed to win 25, which ever order you post that in, it's not going to look very good. Someone posted recently that Dyche's record looks like a Welsh place name , I disagree, there would be far more W's in a 38 letter Welsh place name.
Delargeinho
Player Valuation: £15m
I rather thought of the period between February and December 2023, this was overall solid. We went a few games winless, but nothing to big worry about. The real downfall came 2024.
Davideeyore
Player Valuation: £30m
We were saved by 2-3 good spells last season and I think that's sometimes the way when you're a poor, but not catastrophically poor, side. Bournemouth under Howe regularly had 7-8 game spells where they looked unbeatable. Saved them a number of times. Their luck ran out eventually, mind...
