Acun being an idiot and going all in on the least competitive season in recent times, leading to the majority of our team being loans or short term signings we had no hope of keeping and then not future proofing the squad?
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Acun being an idiot and going all in on the least competitive season in recent times, leading to the majority of our team being loans or short term signings we had no hope of keeping and then not future proofing the squad?
Yep of last seasons goals all we have left is Slater 2, Coyle 1, Jones 1.
Criminal levels of squad building. Walter and Selles have been set up to fail
It's old ground, but I still don't think that decision needed to cause us as much trouble as it ultimately has. We could've replaced the players we lost, some of whom we'd have actually been fairly comfortable letting go if we're objective and take away the emotion of this season being much worse. We didn't need to make such a mess of things in the summer as a result of going hard last season. We had money to spend but for whatever reason we didn't use it as well as we could have, and most importantly we made a horrendous managerial change. If we'd kept Rosenior or replaced him directly with Selles instead of Walter, there's no way we'd be where we are now.
And although pandur had been here 6 months he was an untried keeper
Thankfully after preseason jitters he’s done well
All the ingredients to make a **** up cake.
In a few years time I think Walter will reflect on his time here and think why didn’t I walk out
I get where you're coming from, and there's a solid point there, when we look at he players who are playing this year and last year too tho, most of them came in for their fair share of flak previously, maybe not Jones, but certainly Jacob, Giles, Macca, Coyle, Slater were called out a number of times whilst players like Simmons, Longman and Vaughan were shipped out on loan for not being up to standard....strangely the one constant who barely came in for any criticism last year was Omur who's had nothing but criticism this year, and rightly so.
I imagine Walter was sold the world before they got him to move his family here.
He was ****e during his time here but my god did they sell him short.
that doesnt make sense though
there was zero chance we kept most of our goals, the only realistic goalscorer we perhaps could have kept is tufan
we needed new signings to score
Omur has had a dramatic drop. He looked bright in last years team. I don’t know if maybe losing his mate tufan has affected him or if he’s another victim of changing systems but he’s dropped
Commentary suggested that was tactical, so that we had a left-footed left back, given Coyle nearly gave a pen away after getting wrong footed
why would tufan going have such an effect?
he never played at club level with tufan ever
There’s plenty you can blame Walter for. But there’s a whole load more at the door that isn’t his fault.
Player speaking a familiar language in a new environment. I think a lot underestimate how hard it is for some foreign players to adapt to England especially if it’s not near a major city with nice attractions.
hes just not as good as a player as we thought
fact
theres turkish in the staff and sinik anyway
I really don't understand this desire some seem to have to give him the benefit of the doubt. With the same players (except more are injured now) Selles has almost immediately achieved mid-table form. Walter had us rock bottom, losing every week and not even fighting any more. It is absolutely clear that he was the problem and Selles was the solution.
We have some problems in the squad and off the pitch, no doubt. But we never should've been bottom of the league and Selles has quickly proven that.
we wouldnt be a play off team, but any half decent manager from august, would have us 15th-16th at least
I’m not privy to anything but it’s not an unreasonable stretch to say that the connection with Tufan may have helped him acclimatise
Err so why start a right footed left back? It’s not like it wasn’t known was it