2019/20 Marcel Brands

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This is nonsense mate. Can't even be bothered discussing it. To have a go at brands because he can't force another team to take players they don't want is absolute nonsense.
How Brands get's away with his level of tardiness is almost beyond belief.
 

We can't judge Brands on his inability to sell white elephants. That's on the previous regimes that bought them on unsaleable contracts.

We can judge Brands on his current purchases. The summer of 2018 was good. The summer of 2019 does not appear to have been. A struggling young midfielder, a struggling young striker, two injuries, a veteran midfielder who does not appear to be justifying the wages and who does not appear to be getting along with teammates, and a roll-of-the-dice loan which, while a good decision, does not appear to have worked out as well as hoped.

It's not impossible that those deals will look better once the injuries resolve and the young players have more time to develop, but what's clear is that this past summer's signings haven't had the immediate impact that the previous lot did.
 

We can't judge Brands on his inability to sell white elephants. That's on the previous regimes that bought them on unsaleable contracts.

We can judge Brands on his current purchases. The summer of 2018 was good. The summer of 2019 does not appear to have been. A struggling young midfielder, a struggling young striker, two injuries, a veteran midfielder who does not appear to be justifying the wages and who does not appear to be getting along with teammates, and a roll-of-the-dice loan which, while a good decision, does not appear to have worked out as well as hoped.

It's not impossible that those deals will look better once the injuries resolve and the young players have more time to develop, but what's clear is that this past summer's signings haven't had the immediate impact that the previous lot did.
If 2018 was good why did we not improve from the previous shambles of a season. We ended a dismal 8th on 54 points, out of the cups early,?
 
I’ll be honest I have no idea what Brands was brought in to do, we can’t get rid of players and we haven’t brought in the numbers he promised Silva he would.
He might be mad busy behind the scenes, but I never get the impression he is.
I judge him on results not reputation, he definitely needs to be doing more.
 
If 2018 was good why did we not improve from the previous shambles of a season. We ended a dismal 8th on 54 points, out of the cups early,?

We did improve. We went up 22 on goal differential from one season to the next. The fact that this only translated into five points is probably best explained by variance. If you like, you can probably make an argument that some of that failure to translate was due to in-match mismanagement (eg: not closing out games due to poor substitutions and set-piece mishaps). But we still scored a lot more and conceded a lot less than in the previous season.
 
You can quote goal difference lol or possession or tackles. Whatever you want to make your argument.
FACT we finished a dismal 8th and out of the cups early - the same as the previous season when we had Koeman/Unsy/Fat Sam and all Walsh’s signings.
FACT - this year we are probably going to get even less points and out the cups early.

We haven’t progressed 1 iota in 3 years FACT.
FACT - a stronger lpool team than
Played us in the cup just drew with Shrewsbury.
FACT - he has bought like the previous DOF not 1 footballer with 1 ounce of leadership quality in their brittle bones.
 
You can quote goal difference lol or possession or tackles. Whatever you want to make your argument.
FACT we finished a dismal 8th and out of the cups early - the same as the previous season when we had Koeman/Unsy/Fat Sam and all Walsh’s signings.
FACT - this year we are probably going to get even less points and out the cups early.

We haven’t progressed 1 iota in 3 years FACT.
FACT - a stronger lpool team than
Played us in the cup just drew with Shrewsbury.
FACT - he has bought like the previous DOF not 1 footballer with 1 ounce of leadership quality in their brittle bones.

None of those are facts, they are just your opinion.
 

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