The interview didn't bother me, but one nagging thing in my mind is that he mentioned more than once that we have strengthened the number 10 role significantly in buying Rooney, Siggi and Klassen. So the question remains whose decision was it to buy three players for one position!
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Jayhow15
Player Valuation: £35m
He'll likely use Rooney as the striker more often than not.
In a way, and even if the mix of players in attack does seem a bit off, I would prefer that he isn't picking them all. As I'm not much of a fan of his, I was quite happy we went down the director of football route as it should mean a short-term coach, as Koeman is seen to be, couldn't mess up a squad long term just to achieve his own self-serving short term goals.
However that goes out the window if the DOF ain't all that. Very early days to be judging squad recruitment overall for a new DOF though. If in a couple seasons time, regardless of the manager, some of these signings are first names on the team sheet and others were sold but only for good money then the system is working.
Titus Bramble
Best centre half to grace the Premier League
I can see Spurs and Arsenal struggling compared to last season - Arsenal are in a bit of turmoil and will have sulking players and Spurs have their Wembley voodoo.
Maybe not enough to finish ahead of them, but I can see us being closer
There's no way we buy in January. We're £45m in the red - Barkley and Niasse clearly had to go to balance the books.
He will do now, he's got no choice!
Dirty Dutch
Player Valuation: £1m
Because he was told we had enough money to buy another cb and striker. And he was told that Ross would go.
ijjysmith
Calm
I'm fairly sure we will buy a striker in January.
How that's funded is anyone's guess.
And by anyone's guess, I clearly mean depends on who is sold.
Yeah, I can see it too.....but not enough to pip them. They key is in looking at the attacking options of the three teams.
If he gets us above then it will be by defensive tactics and keeping it very tight and squeezing out wins.
Will be watching those two with interest though. Hope it gets worse at Arsenal and Spurs continue to struggle at 'home'
Anyways enough of discussing things reasonably
Koeman Out!
Koeman Out!
Titus Bramble
Best centre half to grace the Premier League
Yeah the big difference is that 'main' striker. We have 2 players in Rooney and Thor who I'm confident can get at least 10 league goals each this season hopefully with klaassen and Sandro chipping in as they settle.
Can see a few narrow 1-0 wins this season
There's plenty of excuses if you want to find them. He was hanging out for Giroud and didn't seem to have another plan. He could have signed Llortente several weeks ago. He was the one who told us that Barkley would go. He could have signed a centre half as well, there was money there if he wanted to spend it there, rather than another midfielder. Not great team building in my opinion.
Yeah it's absolutely clear we are still in the Kenwright buy to sell situation.
Dirty Dutch
Player Valuation: £1m
Koeman brought in some verry good playerswho are better then what we had. He was told that we would get another striker and cb. Some people really don't realise how bad our team was and on top of that we lost our best player(lukaku). How much did we actually spend if you consider we sold lukaku and stones for 140 mil??? we've been told that we could spend 150mil plus the lukaku and stones money but i guess it was all a lie.
To compete with top 6 we need at least another 5-6 new players. It will take years te be on that level because we can't attract worldclass players. All the teams above us can. The only way to do it is developing young players between 19-23 with some experienced players like rooney to help them. The only thing they need is time because playing with 3 or 4 guys around 19 is gonna cost you points. I don't think there's any team in the last 10 years that finished in the top 6 with so many young players.
To compete with top 6 we need at least another 5-6 new players. It will take years te be on that level because we can't attract worldclass players. All the teams above us can. The only way to do it is developing young players between 19-23 with some experienced players like rooney to help them. The only thing they need is time because playing with 3 or 4 guys around 19 is gonna cost you points. I don't think there's any team in the last 10 years that finished in the top 6 with so many young players.
Anna
Player Valuation: £8m
I'm all for Koeman's no nonsense approach, but surely he has to tread carefully, we now have 3 unhappy players in the squad who are either already frozen out (Niasse) or are definitely going to be frozen out this season (Barkley and Mirallas) In any working situation unhappy employees can really cause problems for the rest of the team.
Also, can't wait for his next press conference when the first question he gets asked is 'so Ronald, you wanted a defender and a striker, what happened?'
Also, can't wait for his next press conference when the first question he gets asked is 'so Ronald, you wanted a defender and a striker, what happened?'
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