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12 minutes ago, relámpago blanco said:

It hink we need another striker.  What do we do if Isak and Wilson get injured..

 

I could hunt my old Umbro boots out of the loft, however I can only play the Tuesday Champions League games and I golf on a Sunday so that days out, but I'm sure Eddie could plan around my schedule.

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4 minutes ago, PauloGeordio said:

 

Puts it into perspective very nicely..don't think we know how good he will be with us yet... Esp with what Foxedup said about Rogers for all those years. Think he will go to another level. 

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4 minutes ago, Lish007 said:

Puts it into perspective very nicely..don't think we know how good he will be with us yet... Esp with what Foxedup said about Rogers for all those years. Think he will go to another level. 

So do I, very excited for him and us. Bet Eddie is thrilled too! :indi:

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1 hour ago, Foxedup said:

He inherited a wonderful young team full of talent and a 20 goal a season striker. It worked wonderfully to start with, but sadly the club allowed him to get rid of our physios and replace them with his own. Along with then head of recruitment being his choice.

 

That's when the injuries started, he's ruined numerous players through injury and we were missing most of our team for huge chunks of seasons. His signings in the main have been utterly woeful, buying and then casting aside players. So he can moan about money all he wants, he wasted about £220m on utter shit that never troubled those already starting.

 

So things started to go stale within the squad, players started to get unhappy as he was forever throwing them under the bus, or not giving players a chance. We basically entered last season with about 11 players running down contracts and wanting out of the club.

 

Then you have the football, he's inherently negative and is more worried about the opposition than he is focusing on what we are good at. We were absolutely flying to start with, we lost one game and he just bottled it, going negative constantly. The football just got more an more negative as he went along, he couldn't fix any problems... see our set piece issue which went on for several years, until he accepted he couldn't sort it and brought in an outside specialist. 

 

He basically just slowing chipped away at the fabric of the club bit by bit, of course that's on the head of those at the club allowing him to do so. But things started well and they thought he was god. 

 

There is no way we should have been relegated in a million years, ludicrous we were. That's down to his man management, in the summer all he did was slag the club off and set a negative mindset from the off. He could have gone down the route of siege mentality, but just chose to try and save himself and his reputation at every opportunity. How the club didn't sack him last summer I don't know.

 

Anyway, it's so hard to get across without writing a book. Safe to say even before relegation the man was despised by most, which says a lot. 

A lot of stuff here that's relatable with our previous managers definitely. Infuriating when opposition fans and even some of your own fans don't see it :lol:

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3 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

A lot of stuff here that's relatable with our previous managers definitely. Infuriating when opposition fans and even some of your own fans don't see it :lol:

I was thinking of Pardew all the way through that.

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Thanks to Foxedup for interesting reads.

 

Harvey Barnes is two-footed, shoots strongly off his weaker foot, and can get to the byline or go outside and shoot toward the near post, so very different to Miggy.

 

If Maxi is leaving and creating FFP wiggle room, the focus then turns to what Howe wants for our left side. It's not "broken", we're coming off a what was a great season, but the big differences between ourselves and Man City, Arsenal, and Liverpool are goals scored and possession. The next step up may be getting our left back more involved in attacking play, to create more of those goals scored.

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