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It is typical that we sell one striker for another, only to find the new one is broken as well. I can only assume he bashed his knee standing up from the contract signing on ceremony?
Should we have paid £1m for Poku when it appears he arrived on a stretcher? I guess in the days of modern football finance £1m is a gamble for a player that, if he does ever regain working hamstrings, is a player.
I feel far more comfortable with Nourry than I did with Hoos. The job is a bit of a poisoned chalice anyway so I don't envy anyone doing it. It does help, as others have pointed out, that having owners with seemingly deep pockets and the ability to absorb and convert debt is quite a rarity.
We've made some good signings and some not so great signings, but overall we have made ones that will hopefully get us moving forward.
The shame this season is that it will perhaps be looked at as a missed opportunity. Leicester, Southampton and Sheffield Utd being very mediocre and the division being quite mediocre overall. But it what is it is and we still have a much smaller budget than most teams in this league. It is a missed opportunity though when you look at how well Millwall, Preston and Hull have done this season.
Comms seem to be the most trying part of his tenure so far. That has to improve but the pitch is one of those things where you do the research and put in something that should work, that then fails quite spectacularly. It can happen! It has happened. It has caused some of the injuries as well.
His work on the Women's team has been outstanding and it's an important part of this club's identity.
By the way I think the fitness thing is something the powers that be need to review. Going from a full squad, more or less, to bare bones in a matter of weeks is not a good look. I sometimes feel that certain players are over trained and others need to be trained in a different way. With the amount of hamstring injuries it feels obvious that some element of the training isn't accounting for the match day reality. Famously Ledley King didn't train in the week at Spurs. That's not to say he did nothing. He did very light training customised to his longterm injury weaknesses and only actually played full tilt on match days. You look at Poku and JCS and you wonder if an overhaul in the way their particular training is managed would allow them to play more matches without breaking down all the time?
Inevitable really. Obviously good at rescuing teams in trouble but not great at helping them push on. That said, no budget to work with, half of last year's players and the player attitude isn'r great there.
They have fantastic owners who make good decisions and have momentum. Good luck to them in regards to where they have come from and where they languished for years.
I spend quite a lo of time working in gardens, laying and looking after turf and I honestly have no idea what their fixation with watering the pitch is. I can only think that they are replacing patches and worrying that it will just come up in square chunks if it dries up. But the amount of water they put on it, if you slide at all on it, it will just churn up that turf anyway. It chucked it down all day Friday so that should have given the turf enough to at least more or less stay in place. It's a majorly historical problem. They nailed it a few years ago with turf that could survive the shade but this year we've almost gone back to the Trevor Francis mud bath era.
The kind of defeat that can seriously corrupt the confidence of the team for the season so they need to get this out their system mighty quickly. Particularly as it's Coventry next week!
First 4 goals Inter score here on their fightback just shows how to cross a ball into the area. The pass through the lines for the 5th exquisite as well but wow, those first 4 crosses are something else.
You imagine that someone like Kevin Gallen or Charlie Austin would be ideal mentors for Kone, Burrell etc. Very dissappointed they let Paul Furlong go.
We'll need to go 4-5-1 against Wrexham so we don't get over run. Absolutely can't let Field go. We probably will knowing us. I'd have field and Hayden to hold the midfield and Madsen a bit further forward.
He is our most improved player and as it stands, our only playmaker. His fitness has improved dramatically this season and he's benefited from playing week in week out. Is he as good as someone like Bannan? No, not yet, but he's certainly a player that now gets around the pitch swiftly and isn't afraid to get stuck in. He is the closest 'style' of player we've had to Faurlin but he is slightly hampered by not having that many creative players around him.
That said, one thing I have noticed with Dembele is that whenever he wonders into the middle part of the pitch, his passing awareness and reading of the game seems to be notably better than when he's on the wing.
Surely we have to keep hold of Field? He can play LB, DMF, MF etc. Offload or loan him now would be suicide surely? I don't know why but I always feel we are more stable with him on the pitch. Him and Hayden make a big difference to the middle of the park.
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