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barneygumble
Player Valuation: £60m
Basically mate.
We saddled ourselves with an insanely high wage bill, by signing the likes of Sigurdsson, Schneiderlin, Bolasie, Sandro, Walcott, Ashley Williams, James Rodriguez (who doesn't want to play - so is included), Rooney to insanely high wages, which subsequently meant they had no ambition to ever leave and then spent millions which is now coming back to bite us on the arse, as signing mediocre players, with high wages who are exitting their peak years, usually means we get no resale value, to reinvest in the squad to the point that we're all crying until our soon to be 33-year old Right Back returns, because we have no right backs, despite years of warning.
Basically, a delightful cocktail of Steve Walsh and Koeman doing their best impression of a Bull in a china shop, Moshiri spending like a drunken sailor, and Brands being so incompetent that he couldn't even sign a receipt at the tills at the shop.
All together, means we've got a bench where Johnjoe Kenny makes an appearance at 3-0 down.
We saddled ourselves with an insanely high wage bill, by signing the likes of Sigurdsson, Schneiderlin, Bolasie, Sandro, Walcott, Ashley Williams, James Rodriguez (who doesn't want to play - so is included), Rooney to insanely high wages, which subsequently meant they had no ambition to ever leave and then spent millions which is now coming back to bite us on the arse, as signing mediocre players, with high wages who are exitting their peak years, usually means we get no resale value, to reinvest in the squad to the point that we're all crying until our soon to be 33-year old Right Back returns, because we have no right backs, despite years of warning.
Basically, a delightful cocktail of Steve Walsh and Koeman doing their best impression of a Bull in a china shop, Moshiri spending like a drunken sailor, and Brands being so incompetent that he couldn't even sign a receipt at the tills at the shop.
All together, means we've got a bench where Johnjoe Kenny makes an appearance at 3-0 down.
Lord Buckethead
Player Valuation: £35m
Why's that mate.
Thought you loved Boo-boo Benny's new "High Intensity" training?
Hardly the medical team's fault, they just pick up the pieces and help the players recover.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
You’re dead odd, we’ve been picking up long term injuries to key players for the last 10 years. Players arrive here with no previous injury history and leave a broken decrepit mess.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
I hated that period where we thought we had to sign 28 year olds because they would be able to “have an instant impact”
Lord Buckethead
Player Valuation: £35m
Surely the fix is to reduce the likelihood of big recurring injures rather than moan that Modern Medicine isn't able to fix them perfectly?
barneygumble
Player Valuation: £60m
I've never understood why he did that?
We still blended some youth in, but under the Ginger Ego, they were never getting game time, unless they were playing grossly out of place.
Bizarre era for us, and not one I enjoy remembering.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
Yeah, I guess that’s what we have physios for?
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
Koeman and Walsh were utterly thick. For a player to be “in their peak” they had to be 28, that was the way they thought. It will haunt me forever that we gave those two an open cheque book.
BlueStevie35
Player Valuation: £70m
Pickford - shoulder injury picked up in Burnley game
Richarlison - knee injury as a result of the Burnley game
Coleman - knock in training
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
Why did we let Richarlison continue for 45 minutes with a knee injury? Who was supposed to be examining him?
BlueStevie35
Player Valuation: £70m
No idea Mike, should have been brought off after Tarkowski cut through him imo
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