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I'll always harp back to that Villa away game. We were brilliant, pretty much a 'Graeme Carr' team, and I don't think we saw it again.

 

Krul

Debuchy

Santon

Coloccini

Mbiwa

Anita

Cabaye

Sissoko

Ben Arfa

Remy

Cisse

 

Think there was a game not long after, maybe Everton away, and Pardew just ripped that up and instead we had the likes of Williamson & Gouffran starting every week.

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I'll always harp back to that Villa away game. We were brilliant, pretty much a 'Graeme Carr' team, and I don't think we saw it again.

 

Krul

Debuchy

Santon

Coloccini

Mbiwa

Anita

Cabaye

Sissoko

Ben Arfa

Remy

Cisse

 

Think there was a game not long after, maybe Everton away, and Pardew just ripped that up and instead we had the likes of Williamson & Gouffran starting every week.

 

Mbiwa had a bad game as he got caught out a couple of times. I think they were 4-1 up at half time.  We scored a couple of decent goals by individuals but the whole team was a mess by Pardew.

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I'll always harp back to that Villa away game. We were brilliant, pretty much a 'Graeme Carr' team, and I don't think we saw it again.

 

Krul

Debuchy

Santon

Coloccini

Mbiwa

Anita

Cabaye

Sissoko

Ben Arfa

Remy

Cisse

 

Think there was a game not long after, maybe Everton away, and Pardew just ripped that up and instead we had the likes of Williamson & Gouffran starting every week.

 

Wasn't that not the game we were drawing 1-1 and Pardew brought Gouffran on and he scored the winner?

 

The Everton game I think you are referring to would have been a couple of weeks later. Pretty sure it was on Monday night Football. We were 3-0 down at half time but managed to get back to 3-2 although that scoreline really flattered us.

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That's it. Even Gouffran was used how he should have been. An attacking substitute. Not a wing-back which he later was transferred into.

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"Benitez devoured information and videos of any possible target and spoke to agents about contract clauses and unhappy players who he might be able to sign. That was not Carr’s way. Benitez wanted control and he wanted the incredible level of detail that has been a symbol of the club’s revival under his leadership in every signing."

 

Move out of the way, Carr.

 

 

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"Benitez devoured information and videos of any possible target and spoke to agents about contract clauses and unhappy players who he might be able to sign. That was not Carr’s way. Benitez wanted control and he wanted the incredible level of detail that has been a symbol of the club’s revival under his leadership in every signing."

 

Move out of the way, Carr.

 

 

Where's that from?

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I didn't mind Carr as a scout, he generally went for players who would improve us technically, but the idea that an old local guy would be in charge of signings above a world class manager like Rafa was always a joke. It worked fine when we had bin men and window fitters in the manager roles, but he had to go once we made a proper appointment.

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  • 2 years later...

It seems pointless talking about stuff like this given the situation but I’m not entirely against having a proper scouting networking and someone like Carr responsible for bringing in promising players assuming there can be a balance. We used to invest in young players to develop (albeit to sell on) and left shit managers in charge of them. Then we actually get a world class coach and give him next to nothing, it’s absolute madness.

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If we’d had a good owner with Carr at the club 7 years ago then we could have been where Spurs are now. Paying the extra and what was needed to get the likes of Vertonghen, Lacazette, etc over the line. He seemed to have a march on a market 2-3 years before the rest of the league cottoned on and joined in.

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Before people pipe up with ‘well it was his idea to appoint McClaren’, a good owner wouldn’t have put Carr in a position to have a say in that sort of decision.

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