Championship season we got relegated we only had 4, very low quality at that too. Pennington, Wilks, Marcus Maddison and Herbie Kane
So the club can be in a financial **** show but everyone is supposed to love Acun because he kept tickets prices as they were for one season, ( they have increased for this season) and took some fans on a freebie to Turkey in the sponsored areoplane? I'd sooner have seen some stability with a manager and coach in place who knew this division and how to get out of it, a settled squad with maybe a couple of additions every summer and maybe some bricks and mortar improvements around the stadium and the training ground. We've seen this **** or bust approach before and we usually fininshed up covered in the stuff. Richard Chetham anyone? Talk is cheap and all we are getting is loads of it. This pre-season is looking very similar to the Phelan fiasco when Bruce walked out. Everyone blamed the Allams and started boycotting the club. So putting my tin hat on, can anyone tell me what is different this time besides the size of the debt?
Last season we had a manager and coach who didnt know this division and ultimately how to get out of it.
Norwich linked to Callum Doyle. If he’s having another season in the championship, he’s the perfect Greaves replacement imo
The club isn’t a financial ****-show and people like Acun because he brought some joy and optimism back to the club after the Allams had sucked the life out of it.
Acun's definitely a good bloke with the best of intentions. We're just crying out for a Director of Football that's got a decent track record. A lot was made of Tan's connections in Turkey but the signings from there have been the worst of the lot. You can see already at Man Utd how it's shifting since INEOS took over and started bringing in the 'best in class'. The recruitment is quicker and more sensible and they're not overpaying.
He did know this division, he had played in it, won promotion from it as a player and been an assitant manager/coach in it with Derby. He was inexperienced, but he was learning and came as close as we've ever been to reaching the Play Off's as any previous managers ( experienced ot not) who we've had before. The Delap injury had a major impact on us last season and that was not the managers fault. Having said that Rosenior was the pick of the bunch who applied for the job, inexperienced or not, and Acun appointed him. He also said we would be trying to sign Delap this summer. Personally I would have prefared a more experienced man at the helm with Rosenior maybe a number two? I would also prefare a bit more stability around the club, a plan even, because at the moment I don't see much evidence of one. Acun said at the start of last season that we had a five year plan? and a top ten finish was our aim. Then changed his mind mid season but we finished a close 7th and he sacked the manager, so what is his plan for the new season? Promotion or the sack for Walters? With a team containing up to five loan players and our two best players from last season sold? If that's the plan, I don't think much to it.
Tan Kesler: “We follow many Turkish football players. “It is very important for us to take advantage of this generation.” (TRT Sports) If we’re going the Turkish route, let’s hope they’re more Omur than Sinik
That was a ridiculous idea, everyone said so, except the owner at the time and the consultancy firm he hired to advise him. And it was never going to happen, so that's a cheap shot and you know it.
Today's the day... Like most rational people he'll probably wait and see what the squad looks like at the end of the window, not 2 weeks into pre season.
I hope you are right and we pull a lot of rabbits out of the hat, and quickly, because from where I am sitting it doesnt look good. As we stand today the squad we have would struggle to hold its own in league one. And then we are in a financial **** show.
They're close to a few, but they have had the Euros to contend with. De Ligt & Zirkzee appear to be pretty much done, they're fighting with Madrid for Yoro. Unlike before signing a player isn't a long dragged-out affair, and they are signing multiple players simultaneously instead of the weird one-at-a-time thing they've done before.
