Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
He definitely was the tallest pygmy in the tribe.
That's a bit of a false equivalence isn't it. Didn't we lose more players than we brought in in total? 16 out, 9 in? re increased expectations, well, Moyes delivered. Dyche wasn't being obeyed by the players and he'd gone as far as he could and so DM got the run and produced some much improved stuff. Anyone expecting the same or similar improvements to that initial change - well, that's entirely on them. There are no guarantees in football, and the set up change re J O'B could only pay off so far. Add to that a major difference of play from the Doucoure marathon press game we had to the more football pass and move stuff we've tried to implement. Where once we relied on 3 or 4 loans to be starting for us (Mangala, Lindstrom, Harrison, Broja) and a couple of veterans (Young, Gana) we've come quite a long way in a very short time whilst trying to improve on the spectacle AND the results.
Not many sides made such wholesale changes as we have over the summer, and trying to bed all those new players in takes time, training and experience. (a couple of extra games in the LC would have helped a lot here!)
And then there's everyone else, few saw Sunderland being such straight out of the blocks league high fliers, they took a punt on some new faces and got cooking quickly. Good for them. Slowly the novelty difference wears off.
Q. Is the outlook night and day compared to the last hours of the Dyche regime?
Q. How much more improvement would have satisfied you than has been delivered so far?
He was hand picked by SAF. There are very few that have that distinguishment on their cv.
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
I wonder, could we get Sir Alex to handpick the next Manchester United manager by any chance?
Well, this is the DM thread so I'm not sure it's the place. I suspect the man utd thread would be best to ask questions about why it took them so long to get mourinho in. After all, who was the gentry that disliked him so much...
Anyway, Moyes needs another KDH, that was one can start LCM, and the other can push up and be trusted with possession and passing like Alcaraz cant.
100% the bottom 3 were trash and so it proved. We were basically 7 points off safety in that picture , think we had enough points by the end of January to be safe. Dyche would have kept us up easily
Infernus
Player Valuation: £15m
Which, in premier league terms is still absolutely nothing. It’s not a kings ransom anymore. 100 million is a very, very average mid table premier league spend. The champions, the team that won the league spent a further 500million in the summer. Based on spend we are pretty much as we should be, in the middle.
PercyPlant
Player Valuation: £15m
Efcjake
Player Valuation: £80m
It didn't even place us in the top half of premier league spending but people expect us to finish top half.
MINUS our best centre back for minimum 3/4’s of the season yeah, is that how this works?
It's about context isn't it.
Would 13th, 11th, 10th, 11th, 8th, have been handy as BMD was built, and so the new revenue streams come online for a solid mid table side to then try to advance with?
13th (25)
15th (24)
17th (23)
16th (22)
10th (21)
Then there is the silliness of the ownership run around.
The madness of the previous respective signings and the loss making inflictions they've been (and are in part still carrying).
A very badly handled psr set of punishments.
Commercial deals that have us sponsored by a firm that (ahem) jumped into bed with bonnie blue.
Desirable? Not a lot of it. It took decades of misownership (they had that leech phil green knocking around in the background ffs) to have us on the rocks as bad as we were. It'll probably take a bit of time to repair that damage, reputationally, financially, and to agents and prospective players. Clearing the clouds around the support will provide a more even keel. It's time to be honest, basket cases rarely get turned around in a jiffy.
Don’t forget he once got caught on a ‘hot mic’ threatening to give a female reporter ‘a slap’ after asking a question he didn’t like.
No wonder Guila Bould and the like go easy on him.
