Summer transfer thread

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I wouldn’t write Coventry off because of their league position last season. We were 5th in league one but there were all sorts of mitigating circumstances and we ended it “better than 5th”.

Coventry are similar. Towards the end of last season they were one of the best teams in the championship. Their improvements have been subtle, but as have ours.

Again, not saying they’re world beaters, nor likely to be promoted, I just think they have a good chance of it. And a very good manager.
 
rowley said:
Moyes was little short of disgusting, If he was short at all.

He was lazy, ( no work done in sussing out potential targets despite being nearly a year out of the game) and just accepting two hopeless players because he had no better ideas. He lazily brought in ancient players who he knew from way back. He was arrogant and indifferent, even abusing a woman reporter for daring to question his infallibility. Typical bully.

He was archaic. Dispensing with much of the medical expertise brought on by BSA.

He gave in immediately on a team which had gathered around 27 points in the second half of the previous season. He spent the rest of his season making excuses, distancing himself from the players and bigging himself up. No wonder the players hated him.

A far superior manager did far better than him only months prior to his coming.

There will never be a day I live when I do not loathe that man. No re-writing of his time here should ever be considered. He was shameful, and almost the equal of Mackemenemy as being the worst we have ever had.

He deserves to look like a troglodyte.
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Hear hear!
 
Arlyman said:
Heard on the radio the other day that xG only works between top and middle and bottom teams. They said that there no correlation between xG and real goals when comparable teams play each other. That makes sense as if you put a good ball into the box against a bad team you might score, but against a good team they might have a defender there.

That might all sound a bit [insert what ever word for stupid here], but the point is we are going to learn an awful lot about how good we are going to be on Sunday.
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Personally I’m yet to be THAT convinced, I think it states the obvious most of the time - the teams with the highest xG are normally at the top end of the table unless they have a massive deficit in their xGA. There is the occasional oddity, i’d say someone like Oxford probably always have a high xG in L1 because of how they control games and have loads of shots but they’ve been underwhelming every season we were down there. Coventry xG when they won L1 was awful, but it was really high last season. Sunderland probably have a really high xG and win loads of corners which bumps it up, but we all know that when we get a corner it means nout because we never score from them :emoticon-0102-bigsm

I think it goes out of the window when you actually watch the football rather than just stat peddle, and some teams also just tend to suit playing certain teams. Last season Coventry beat Fulham twice convincingly but lost twice to both QPR and Luton. Neither of those are better than Fulham (highest xG in champ) but the way they play is obviously an issue for Coventry. Leicester and Newcastle both had awful xG pts last season but scored a lot of counter/set piece goals and finished a lot higher than they would have it it was decided by the Expected Goals system.
 
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Southern A said:
I wouldn’t write Coventry off because of their league position last season. We were 5th in league one but there were all sorts of mitigating circumstances and we ended it “better than 5th”.

Coventry are similar. Towards the end of last season they were one of the best teams in the championship. Their improvements have been subtle, but as have ours.

Again, not saying they’re world beaters, nor likely to be promoted, I just think they have a good chance of it. And a very good manager.
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They weren’t better at the end of the season, they got more points in the first half of the season than the second. They only won 2 of their last 10. I’m not saying they can’t by the way, just saying I don’t see where their fans arrogance is coming from! Robins is definitely a good manager though and they’ve got progressively better every season that he’s been in charge.
 
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WorkyTicketFTM said:
They weren’t better at the end of the season, they got more points in the first half of the season than the second. They only won 2 of their last 10. I’m not saying they can’t by the way, just saying I don’t see where their fans arrogance is coming from! Robins is definitely a good manager though and they’ve got progressively better every season that he’s been in charge.
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We’ll crush the buggers
 
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WorkyTicketFTM said:
Because I’m a sad bas**rd I done some digging on those who the cov lads were claiming to have strengthened them enough to push promotion. Been reading some back and forth between the fans just there and to be fair there seems to be a lot more, realistic/humble whatever you want to call it, Coventry fans speaking up today.

Anyway since it’s a transfer thread, see below - I know what our fans would be saying if these were our signings.. makes me actually appreciate the quality we’ve brought in so far and what we’ll have come the end of the window.

Panzo - 90 minutes for Monaco once, 3-0 loss. 17 games for the Cercle Brugge, 12 losses. 3rd bottom but only 1 team gets relegated, survived by 2 points. 21 games at Dijon, 15 losses - relegated. Signed by Forest and sent straight out on loan.

Doyle - no digging required. Not sure he’ll play ahead of Panzo.

Tayo Adaramola - future prospect, however only played 20 games of u23s football, 2 goal involvements from LWB. Cirkin managed 2 in 14 games at a similar age so probably a fair comparison - Cirkin now has a full season of proper football under his belt which will be massive going into this season.

Kasey Palmer - hasn’t managed more than 2 league goals since 2016. Not sure he’ll be a first team player.

Again, they finished 12th in the league albeit as mentioned above had a decent xG (if you’re into all that) so could’ve finished higher but still were only 4 points ahead of Blackpool in the table. 10 points were between 7th and 16th with Coventry slap bang in the middle, meaning they weren’t a million miles away but there’s also 3 teams who failed in the play offs plus the 5 who finished above them.
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Good research that fella. Cracking post.
 
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