twoblue
Player Valuation: £35m
Best away run of wins according to that site too… he’s the best manager in the werld
To honest though, the team wasn’t great but had sig, Rooney, and Walcott all about 60%.
All would have improved this team.
All would have improved this team.
twoblue
Player Valuation: £35m
With you 100%.
This is most poorly invested squad in living memory. Even in walkers time we were spending big on Amo, Ferguson and Vinny samways. They were all top tier transfer fees for the time.
It stands to reason that it was a bad run, but mainly to top half teams, including some decent draws.
I doubt there is another period in the premier league history or beyond where we have had negative net spend.
Surely it seems likely that some of worse runs will be when we have invested the least.
Spadge Vernacular
Player Valuation: £60m
Sickening isn't it
MichaelEFC96
Player Valuation: £10m
Four months without a win is diabolical, whatever way you look at it. We are lucky the sides below us are complete garbage or we would have been in trouble, maybe this won't be the case next season. Dyche did well getting the three results last week, it has probably saved him. We have a poor squad but let's not completely lower our standards..
Whatever way you look at it, we have 36 points with 3 games left to play, despite having 8 points deducted from us. That actually represents a lift in our standards from previous seasons, with the worst squad we've had for years.
Who cares about the run in the middle of the season ffs? There's plenty to explain it (hard games and the noise of points deductions & appeals a big distraction), and we did more than enough to survive despite that run.
The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
This is a completely unwarranted and unfair comparison...
For starters Dyche doesn't have a son that is trying to drag down Tottenham from the inside.
He improved the haul of points. He did not improve EFC one jot and stained our history by his presence.
4 games without a shot, not even off target. A ballbag of the first ilk, with the ugly hobbit as his assistant. I shudder at the memory.
No manager in 70 years has achieved it. Pretty linear thinking really
Lobworm
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Joint second worst. The point is, it is not a record, which was incorrectly asserted. I realise SKY fans will disagree with this.
It's weird how some of our fans will say anything to show their hatred for the manager, all in order to win internet arguments. The other shower are the total opposite. Whoever replaces Klopp will, I guarantee, within one month be 'Potentially de best ever lad. Lightyears ahead tac tick lee lad'. Then when the wheels fall off, it'll be 'dem Yanks lad.'
None of the above hides the fact that it was a crap run like, and in other eras he'd have been out on his arse. However, we're safe with a few games left, given the points deduction and the fact the club is a skip fire off the pitch. It amazes me that other blues can't appreciate this fact, especially given the context of the past 3 years,.
Great story mate. So what other club would accept this and then make a thread on the internet about the games "we should have won"?
Lobworm
Player Valuation: £2.5m
What story? Doesn't the left hand column say we have gone 13 without a win on 2 occasions? So we've gone 14 without a win, once, and 13 without a win twice? Maybe I'm reading it wrong? Not sure why you have highlighted that bit?
Lobworm
Player Valuation: £2.5m
I know you didn't post it, I wondered why you highlighted it? That's why I asked. No bother if you're not sure.
Yes, 13 games without a win, our joint second worst run ever, was really poor. However, given the backdrop, and viewing the season with 35 games gone, the manager has done a really good job in getting us safe. I think most blues will agree with that and appreciate the job he has done.
Duncan’s Pigeon Loft
Player Valuation: £6m
Slightly straying off the main topic but…
I remember a stat doing the rounds in that 98/99 season, United beat us 4-1 at Goodison in the October and it got to I think mid Feb and Utd had scored more goals at goodison in that one game than we had all season. Then out of nowhere we beat Middlesbrough 5-0 at home
. That season was grim though until the Campbell signing. Actually thought we was worse then 97/98 the year before when we stayed up on GD on the last day
