Yes but his dire football his knife to a gunfight comments - UNT would not trust him with funds they are spending money like water now!
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EFC Si
Player Valuation: £25m
I swear he got around 13 goals didn't he? Never understood why we let him go, he knew where the net was.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
AVM - 2 mill. Simon Davies -5 mill. Kroldrup -5 mill, Ashton retired at 28? Hardly wasting the money there. Every manager has a few bad buys.
Add in the wages for those players? Ashton would have lasted longer than Beattie did as vaughn , and Victor were better than him - Beattie went one season scoring one PEN!
Aston went to Norwich for one Million ten times the player Beattie was, DM had his eyes shut we had played them in the FA cup and Ashton ripped us apart playing for Crew they took us to a replay Ashton was young,and Rob Hulse played upfront with him they were better than anything we had at the time and DM could not recognise this point????
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Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
So Moyes was a poor manager for picking Beattie over Dean Ashton? May as well pick any name out the air who moved in the same window. This also the same Ashton who hit the heights of Norwich and West Ham? Hardly a massive miss. He was good...for Crewe. No one could envisage how bad Beattie would be, he was good for Southampton.
That was an example, typical reverse psychology by you , you know DM was an average Manager, got us out of the Walter Smith era he had us in served his use stayed too long imo the hoof ball was woeful I stated his best football was when Alan Irvine was his no 2
I also heard Finch Farm is now a happier place , and to think our great HK only got an invite when he left says it all for me, never ever want DM back at the club in any capacity
Ihaters
Player Valuation: £35m
Ihaters
Player Valuation: £35m
Far from average imo. I think you massively underestimate how hard it was for a club like us at the time to do what he did.
Its basically Sunderland or Villa now, hitting a top 4 spot in the next couple of years then staying in and around the European places indefinitely whilst spending less than some of the relegation candidates each year. Far from average what he did tbf.
We came 17 th one season - as I stated he was useful , but not worth his ten year reign- when your Chairman stated he would not sack him if we were relegated says it all really, - his relationship with BK was far too comfortable - off subject BK was not there on Sat?
MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
We were never going to consistently compete in the top 4 and win trophies because of the 'plucky little Everton' attitude he instilled.
Or was it because the teams we were competing against could spend hundreds of millions on the best players in world football while we were scrapping around for loans.
Yeah might have been that, given that no other small budget team has come even remotely close in the last 15 years to breaking the big boys monopoly.
Or was it because the teams we were competing against could spend hundreds of millions on the best players in world football while we were scrapping around for loans.
Yeah might have been that, given that no other small budget team has come even remotely close in the last 15 years to breaking the big boys monopoly.
End of the day RM first season record prem points early days for RM - but still need for improvement, needs five years to get the balance right - DM is History like Gordon Lee trophyless!
like running a DONKEY in the DERBY
bluemangroup
Player Valuation: £70m
So bitter. So very sad.
Not bitter, just factual - I state the juries still out on RM, and DM. And Gordon Lee never won a trophy, if true facts are bitter, then you never seen the great years to compare our great club!
I fortunately have- I think you are taking my views out of context unfortunately!
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