Well there could be 101 explanations, I dare say 100% of them are less logical than mine given the evidence. I doubt Manning thinks he's better now.
**** me he clearly does think he's better. I gave him too much respect This is disgraceful by Knapper and Manning. If anything is going to knock those nails in its this. What a couple of mindless ****s desperate to shoot themselves in the foot. They are both just asking to be fired. If I didnt love Nunez so much I'd be all for it. They want to sell Nunez and buy players like Jurasek, Diallo and give Stacy a bloody expensive contract. Its staggeringly stupid what that utter **** Knapper is burdening us with. He's the last person we should be giving money too to spend. Its the beginning of the end for both of them if this goes through. He's putting all his chips in to cover his ineptitude.
Do you have any idea whats going on in the real world ? Nunez has 10 months left on his contract, he won't sign a new one. The club didn't want him to go and money wasn't the issue. If he doesn't want to be here he's hardly going to perform well and his attitude certainly won't help team dynamics. He wants to go and 10 million is a great price in the circumstances. The only downer is he's going to Ipswich. Do we really turn down 10 million and keep him for 10 months when he doesn't want to be here only to let him go for nothing ? Clearly Manning decision to play Wright over Nunez had nothing to do with who he thought was the better player, but if your happy deluding yourself C'est la vie.
I take it you believe what the club say. I personally wouldn't. I feel sure limiting the signings would have allowed cash for a new contract. Its very bizarre you think this enforces your argument he doesnt prefer Wright. The only good thing about this is it speeds up Knapper and Manning being sacked. Its it for them, they wont come back from this.
Would we like to keep Nunez? Yes. Does he want to stay? No, 2+ contract rejections prove that. Are we getting a decent price for him? Yes, based on injuries and final year of contract. The amount of people pant wetting across unsocial media and losing their heads because 'Ol Judas' has chosen Ipswich is pathetic. Almost as if these people haven't heard of Andy Marshall, Liam Gibbs, or LukeTowler, to name a few. That's before them trying to pin this on Manning or Knapper. Anyway this is the Manager's thread, surely any correspondence for transfers belongs in the transfer's thread: https://not606.com/threads/arrivals-departures-25-26-season.418334/page-28
I think the reason it's on this thread is because some posters irrationally think this is all because Manning thinks Wright is a better player than Nunez, hence why Nunez doesn't want to stay. Apparently it's down to poor judgement by Manning ! Personally, I would have been more than happy to keep Nunez is he'd shown commitment to the cause by signing a new contract, but if he wants to go so be it. At present I would play Nunez over Wright, but for me going forward I believe Wright has the potential to be a better player. Interestingly it seems the same posters who are so keen on playing our younger developing players, don't seem to apply that philosophy to Wright.
If i were in charge it would have been my number 1 target. Not signing however many players I'd certainly have signed 1 or 2 similar players in preparation rather than waste 11 million on silly wingers and Stacey contract. This is not a plan, its players being bought to cover all his previous mistakes. Attanasio needs to realise this. We are now a bloated incompetent team that does not work in any aspects of football other than the striker bailing us out. Its a disgraceful mismanagement of funds that will set us back years when the finances come home to roost.
But as far as I'm aware you do not have the knowledge or the experience of Manning / Knapper to be in charge. You are basing everything you say on limited information and emotion. The club clearly has a plan, it might not be a plan you agree with, but to suggest there is no plan is just nonsense. I'm not saying that I agree with everything the club says or does. Most of the time I don't have sufficient knowledge to judge their decisions. The club / Attanasio may be making mistakes in how the money is being spent, but at the end of the day it's their money. I see no evidence of funds being mismanaged, just the club chartering a course some fans are vermently against.
Its about signing players for the system that we are using, Topic, Mattsson, Wright and Mclean fit the bill for this. The midfield 2 I believe are predominantly box to box midfielders, strong at intercepting and pressing and then able to release a quick pass to the front line or wing backs, or drive forward with the ball. Nunez is of course capable of the above but so is Mattsson. Creativity is tasked more to our wing backs and 2 attacking midfielder/number 10s. You may not agree with the system but that is what the players are being used for. Topic and Mattsson would be a similar makeup to Knight and Bird who are being linked with Premier League moves
