it’s more than likely. McTominay has been sensational in Italy and Maguire is still excellent when played in the proper position. Moyes had West Ham sixth and close to top four at the turn of the year at West Ham while balancing European football. It was the club itself who sabotaged the season by selling many players in the January window while not bringing people in.
Yeah, that was a weird thing to say. We've had some absolute shockers under Moshiri.
Just ignoring the entirety of the rest of my post to continue pushing a pointless hypothetical that cannot be proven or unproven? Ok.
Sam did a job. But Silva is a good coach and Koeman was highly rated. Carlo is one of the best managers ever.
Exactly - that's who we need - best equivalent I could think of today would be Amorim, but he did too poorly at United/is potentially a bit too much of a handful with the rigid system etc.
I won't include Koeman as I actually thought he was a smart choice after doing a good job at Southampton and Silva was another I thought had potential but was unlucky to lose 2 key players without replacing them adequately
The point is, we need to get our house in order and reestablish ourselves as a good upper mid table team before focusing on youth development. We’ll attract better young players when we look a more stable outfit.
May as well pack it in, because I've heard literally everything now.
You seriously can’t compare multiple European trophy winner Emery to Amorim, who lost a Euro final to Ange. Ffs!
Carlo was a vanity project and not the right fit. Allardyce was appointed as a panic job. Silva I agree is a good coach and Koeman I understood why Moshiri was swayed by his name and his excellent job at Southampton
Nobody's mentioned Lampard who was completely unqualified, so that's Allardyce, Benitez, Lampard, Dyche in the negative column and only Ancelotti definitely in the positive column. Arguments can be made for Silva and, in my opinion, Koeman was a mistake but at least an understandable mistake. Not a great roll call.
His picks are seen with hindsight. The setup with Brands etc seemed forward looking at the time. People didn’t mind when we were spending like drunken sailors - it’s all retrospective reappraisal.
Thats true Matty lad, like you say, at the end of the day we all want the same thing.
We can't do that by bankrupting ourselves for the future. As I said in the bit of the post you ignored, some of our best current players, players you have bigged up including one of them in the past few hours, are young, relatively low profile players such as Branthwaite, Garner and Ndiaye. You can get quality players from lots of different places if your scouting is right and if the manager is prepared to offer signings opportunities.
Just 100% this
