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Just now, Scoreboard82 said:

We were in a bad way when Eddie took over but in absolutely dire straights when KK came in. 

Yep, that’s what keeps him there for me.  Eddie won a trophy for the club Keegan built.  Howe is comfortably no.2 for me - Robson is a fair way behind in 3rd IMO

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Just now, TheBrownBottle said:

Yep, that’s what keeps him there for me.  Eddie won a trophy for the club Keegan built.  Howe is comfortably no.2 for me - Robson is a fair way behind in 3rd IMO

 

I'm going to get some pelters my way but bobby gets too much credit imo.  He inherited a decent team just with a shite manager.

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3 minutes ago, El Prontonise said:

 

I'm going to get some pelters my way but bobby gets too much credit imo.  He inherited a decent team just with a shite manager.

I do too mate - but I’m struggling to think of someone who I’d comfortably put 3rd otherwise.  It’s somehow forgotten that he also inherited one of the five richest clubs in Europe.  It took years and a LOT of money to get results - and even then, the most consistent players when he left were already there when he arrived.   

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2 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

I do too mate - but I’m struggling to think of someone who I’d comfortably put 3rd otherwise.  It’s somehow forgotten that he also inherited one of the five richest clubs in Europe.  It took years and a LOT of money to get results - and even then, the most consistent players when he left were already there when he arrived.   

 

Bellamy and Robert transformed a decent but inconsistent team but apart from that I think everything else he did was pretty average.

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11 minutes ago, El Prontonise said:

 

Bellamy and Robert transformed a decent but inconsistent team but apart from that I think everything else he did was pretty average.

 

Pretty average? 

 

He completely rebuilt the team after both Gullit and Dalglish turned a squad that should have been regularly challenging for the title into relegation fodder and was stitched up in his last window with Lee fucking Bowyer. 

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It is certainly a misconception that Robson inherited a decent team, only three players survived from Keegan’s reign: Barton, Lee and Shearer and all three were physically diminished.

 

He was never particularly well backed in the transfer market either in my view, he worked miracles.

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19 minutes ago, James said:

It is certainly a misconception that Robson inherited a decent team, only three players survived from Keegan’s reign: Barton, Lee and Shearer and all three were physically diminished.

 

He was never particularly well backed in the transfer market either in my view, he worked miracles.

Given, Speed, Solano, Dyer, Shearer, Lee, Barton, Dabizas, Hughes were all inherited.

 

He was very, VERY well backed in the transfer market - we spent ten times more on Titus Bramble than Arsenal did on Kolo Toure that same summer.  He spent c.£150m on transfers - that wasn’t buttons at the turn of the century.  He wasn’t backed in the summer of ‘03, which was daft.  

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35 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Given, Speed, Solano, Dyer, Shearer, Lee, Barton, Dabizas, Hughes were all inherited.

 

He was very, VERY well backed in the transfer market - we spent ten times more on Titus Bramble than Arsenal did on Kolo Toure that same summer.  He spent c.£150m on transfers - that wasn’t buttons at the turn of the century.  He wasn’t backed in the summer of ‘03, which was daft.  

 

I'm glad someone posted this, I was going to say much of that 01/02 was the gullit team.  Bobby with Mick Wordsworth wasted millions in 00/01.

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