jayonenote
Player Valuation: £8m
so how do you rate those that amount to £200m?
Keane, Snides for example?
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Keane, Snides for example?
hktoffee
Birds of a feather flock together
Isn’t that why a dol is employed? There will be continuity as long as Brands is in charge. He takes care of the transfers.
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Big Fat Sam
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Doesn't matter what I rate them.
They all proved themselves in the past to be good Premier League players (note: I absolutely am NOT saying that they are still good Premier League players). The majority of them, at least. Schneiderlin came to us with a good reputation, particularly from his Southampton time and as a squad player for United. Keane was excellent in Burnley's defence when they waltzed their way to Europe and were so strong at home. Sigurdsson was brilliant for Swansea and should have been excellent for us. We overpaid, of course, but he looked like he would be a pefect fit for us. Pickford was deemed the next big thing and all of the media was creaming themselves and saying we've just bought the next world class English keeper. Tosun probably isn't suitable for the league as he's too slow, and Walcott is finished. So two duds bought there, along with megadud Bolasie who was a complete and utter farce of a signing (crying shame we threw 75m on those three - unforgivable really), but as for the others I simply have no explanation how it all went so wrong, other than employing incompetent managers and backroom staff. But for the majority of the players I just mentioned, they should, along with the likes of Digne, Gomes, Zouma, Mina (talked about as one of the top defenders of the World Cup) be more than capable of having us strongly challenge the top six.
It's a disgrace that we've fallen to where we have with this squad.
We are, yet the last 'proven winner' we had as manager was Walter Smith.
Marius57
Player Valuation: £50m
Agreed. But he was forced into that change. It was the change back that shouldn't have happened.
ijjysmith
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He's gradually losing that to be honest.
Gilbert..
Player Valuation: £40m
Times have moved on from then. Smith wasnt proven either by the way. Winning the jock league is hardly the stuff of legends.
Bad mentality to think we have to just keep employing failures. City had to start somewhere a few years ago when the new owners took charge. They had to make a statement somewhere.
We can do better than what we have been taking on.
And yet they've done so under each of our previous three managers, with a completely new squad.
hktoffee
Birds of a feather flock together
Based on form I thought BFS would get 7th?
Kenshin
Player Valuation: £40m
Well yes. There is always the other side to the argument which is debated profusely on the forum. There is debatable factors such as the repeating loss of form, the set pieces issue, the lack of real gameplan at times etc.
It's more than a one sided arguement, so the op is simply some points that go in his favour. I'm sure there is just a strong an argument to sack him in a different thread!
Igrok
Player Valuation: £15m
This means we were consistent in picking bad managers...
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