Nobby
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- Sep 29, 2007
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You seem very sure of your figures. Care to tell us where you get them from?
Nevertheless you’ve picked up on one aspect and ignored another. Howe was already looking at the PL when they went up from L1 and started his first PL season with mainly Championship players. When Saints and Watford needed new coaches for their projects they weren’t hammering down our door for Hughton.
But the direction we’ve gone in is the other modern form of coach. Potter had no money in Sweden or Swansea. Southgate took a miserable England and made them one of the top four teams in the world in FOUR years obviously without money. That is in the article.
Bloom’s whole premise is that you don’t need to break the bank, but then a Brighton fan would know that.
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I like your piece, and I felt your pain too.
Keep writing up your opinions, it all provides great debate!
But your last sentence on your last post here, is where you don’t seem to understand that each teams relative standing is completely related to funding.
Otherwise, Liverpool would sometimes finish bottom half and Spurs get relegated.
Phil McNulty BBC, predicted the League table pre season, and he was incredibly accurate. Most teams were placed within a couple of places of actual positions, and many were 100% accurate.
He knew that if you don’t try and break the bank, then you don’t improve League position.
Unfortunately, that is a sad FACT.
Chris Hughton’s issue was that he was trying to keep us up with a relatively poor quality squad. His misjudgement may have been that ultra defensive tactics would achieve that. And he didn’t realise that his job was on the line for not playing attractive football.
In the end, he was proved right across the season.
So your piece doesn’t really address how a manager who does “move with the times”, will achieve a better League position - say above 15th - unless significant funding, specifically on wages, will do any better than CH.
Unfortunately for Graham Potter, he has inherited a poor quality squad, and even if he “moves with the times”, I don’t think that he will be given the level of investment needed to improve it to a mid table squad as some on here seem to think we will achieve.
Stump up the cash TB, please don’t rely on the development squad, or Global Warming will be irrelevant compared to the sea level rise from the bedwetters on here.
Anyway, UTA