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Player Valuation: £20m
Odds on now first to be sacked. But he said ‘“we were unlucky”. No idea about how to set up a team. We need to find a replacement who can get the team performing or we really are in big trouble this time
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This is the crux of it for me. We're in the bottom three after one of the easiest openings to a season that we've had in a long, long time. Tchau Marco!And there we have it. Relegation zone after a very favourable starting set of fixtures.
Unforgivable and has got to be gone by tomorrow the absolute nobody.
This is the rub of it. More and more each season depends on momentum and on paper at least our opening games this season seemed to offer up more realistic points than most, we've got the hardest part to come in December. If we haven't dragged ourself firmly into the top half by then, we'll drop.
It's 6th October and the season is written off already.
And the players get a free pass. There was an interview with Roy Keane recently and he said even under Ferguson, the United dressing room pretty much ran itself because of the great characters in it. Our dressing room seems to 'down tools' for every manager, yet the blame is always pinged on the coach.
Moshiri: he wasn't big enough to admit that you hire a top CEO to oversee a football club in the PL. He's been a backseat driver and he's cost us.Not to mention the person who hires these managers, gives them lengthy contracts, and then sacks them in a blink of an eye gets off Scott free. In most lines of work if you kept sacking the people 'you' hired and results hadn't improved throughout your numerous hirings, you might question your approach, but apparently we're happy to be a joke of a club who burn through money like it's going out of fashion without going anywhere at all.
Don't forget that fizzy drink cup game against Watford.
We will probably get shafted in front of a gate of 7,859.
Don't forget that fizzy drink cup game against Watford.
We will probably get shafted in front of a gate of 7,859.
Eight games in.
I see the concern and recognise it. However, it's early. Any decision is not being made unless we lose both the next two. I feel sure of that.
Uppermost in the latitude they'll give Silva is what he had to contend with this summer: late arrivals, sales of his players, left him short at CB.
WHU and BHA games will sort this out one way or the other. 4 from the 6 and he's sticking around. If we get less than that I believe he's on thin ice. I would not hold him responsible for the whole situation though. The DoF has made these changes since last season when we were flying, and he carries the can also. I'd punt him too. He;s wasted £200M since he came in.
We have to stick by some manager some day, it may as well be Silva, who we KNW can get some great results.It's not happening on the pitch. Silva is making zero attempts to improve or change tactically to show anyone he's the "right man".
Christ even Koeman threw the kitchen sink in when things were getting choppy with Niasse who he absolutely despised.
Moshiri: he wasn't big enough to admit that you hire a top CEO to oversee a football club in the PL. He's been a backseat driver and he's cost us.
We were linked for so long with Brian Gilvary from BP, but nothing came of it. Probably knew what a meddlesome tool Moshiri is.
We need a top CEO + strong manager in charge of transfer dealings as well as coaching.
We have to stick by some manager some day, it may as well be Silva, who we KNW can get some great results.
Anyway, he will be given a bit more time, so why not back him?
As I said earlier, we have achieved practically the same results from every manager back to David Moyes (~40% win ratio), and yet we still cling to this belief that a change of manager is what we need. We've tried that four times since Moyes and it's not made any difference, but hey ho, lets try it again, blow even more money in compensation. I'm sure the 5th time will be different. We can always rinse and repeat in 18 months time like we always do.