It’s another side where the club’s strict / sensible wage policy helps in situations like Rusyn, imo. His wages shouldn’t be a stumbling block to other teams like we’ve seen with so many of our failed transfers in the past.
Been treat like absolute dirt here mind. 793 minutes played with 2 goals 1 assist. If we had played him consistently we could've been looking at a Simms/Latte Lath upturn in form after allowing the player to settle but instead he just gets dropped for midfielders. The only player to outscore him last season in Ukraine is sat top of the La Liga goalscorer charts and 3rd in the table, while Rusyn has barely kicked a ball. Pretty sure Tuterov was the one teaching him English as well? Hire a proper English tutor it's not hard.
There is that but it's a bad fit for me. He is always withdrawn, shy and introvert. Seems to fall over when the wind blows hard. We have signed some players just no where close to being ready for first team action. We will do well to recoup half of the money we have spent on these players who have made no impact to date. Massive turnaround needed for me. Squad is bloated with below standard, not yet ready players.
That's the point, he's been treat like ****. Within squads of 25+ you are always going to have different personalities and languages and it seems to me like we haven't been arsed to even try to absorb him into the group. Not really sure how anyone can judge him of just 793 minutes. Simms, who I still see people saying we should've signed, scored 2 goals in his first 1211 minutes for Coventry, they didn't give up on him and have reaped the rewards.
Couldn’t agree more and that’s on Speakman. Find it staggering how many I’ve seen on here and social media claiming we don’t need big changes. We do - the squad is currently lopsided, inexperienced and ultimately ****e.
You have to consider that he'd require a period of adaptation, not just to living in a different country but to playing in a different league. But part of that adaptation process requires him to be given more opportunities. He looks harder working and more interested than pretty much everyone else we've played at centre forward this season. Seems like an opportunity missed, for us and him.
Aye, it's difficult to believe he's been anything but poorly looked after. Don't the players have a liaison who looks after them? If not then it's something to think about. Like a 'fixer' who helps them get sorted with housing, English lessons etc. Most footballers are helpless creatures, as we know.
I think so but not sure they are doing a great job. Been a problem of mine for years stretching back to the PL days that nobody seems to settle here especially the foreign lads we sign.
Guess it depends what you consider big changes and also depends on who / how many leave. Big changes to recruitment strategy - yes. Revamp of entire squad - no. If we sell none of our "crown jewels" we are probably 3-4 players away from a potential promotion team. If we do sell some then we'll need more. A good Head Coach would have had this lot higher up. I mean Mowbray had us near the playoffs and that was the same squad. So I don't buy in to this idea that our players all horrendous and we need a revamp.
Seen nothing in him tbh. Works hard but zero goal threat and weak. Bad signing this one and if we can recoup our money I'd be happy
I agree, Rusyn isn't good enough and doubt he ever will be. At least the likes of hemir and.mayenda have age on their side but he's 25 and fully developed. Not.suited to English football
A top coach coming in when Beale did could have comfortably had this squad in the playoffs in my opinion. As you say, Mowbray had us up there and even in the poor run he had before his departure we were still generally dominating xG and other metrics. And, as much as I liked him, I don’t believe that Mowbray is the pinnacle of head coaches that we could attract here. Even Beale had us still in touching distance of the playoffs when he went. I think people’s views are skewed by recency bias. It’s no where near as catastrophic as our fanbase are suggesting and for me, it’s tweaks rather than a complete overhaul that’s needed. The main misstep was the head coach appointment but unfortunately, as Rohl at Wednesday, McKenna at Ipswich, Robins at Coventry and numerous other examples show, it’s by far and away the most important appointment.
I think its a slightly more complicated situation than just appointing a head coach but I agree that the situation is, and never has been, any where near as bad as some people make it out to be.
What would you class as big changes? I dont class signing 4 (minimum) players to improve our team/squad as big changes (that is a normal transfer window for almost all teams). A good manager who improves what we have will make a HUGE difference. For me big changes, are things that will take multiple windows to fix - we arent in that place. The big changes happened when KS came into the club as we had so much dead wood. I dont think we have lots of dead wood in this squad I think some need moved on permanently, some will need loan moves and potentially 1 of our star players will go But you look at most teams in the championship and theyll be exactly the same Thats why some say its not massive changes needed, its all about signing the right players and most importantly getting the right manager in
