Almost every player that signs talks about the owner rather than the manager, if anything it points to Acun doing less now that he's in at Fenerbahce, rather than it having anything to do with LR. "BTA has decided he'd rather be 3rd choice at Cov than our main striker" - or he doesn't want to move house and uproot his life...
Just a basket case club with a mad foreign owner and and unproven foreign coach. Whether that's true or not it certainly seems to be the impression within the game
Personally, I’m not arsed about missing out on Assante at all. Consensus it difficult to say, but most WBA fans I read said he was ‘limited’. Damning, I obviously get the wider concerns. The planning seems to have been very poor to say the least and PR wise – it has been a disaster. But some of the drama and tears on (mainly Twitter) – have some self-respect if nothing else. Linking to other issues, such as the aftermath to the terrible stuff in the north west, is that people just seem to need to tweet/post absolute ****e 24/7 with no awareness of how this represents them (or their internet identity) or even their club. Yes, I am aware of the irony of me posting this on an internet forum but if the club is a bit of a bin fire at the minute with planning, heaping more flammable hysteria onto it won’t help. Be constructive if anything.
Coventry have made a higher bid, pulling power my arse like us in January we just paid more then others were willing to.
Sorry, I obviously don't know you or your acumen with the game, but what evidence do you have for that?
We have no idea whether he was intended to be back up to Oscar and ANO. He was certainly back up at West Brom and it appears he’s going to be back up at Coventry too
No I said the reason that those players came wasn't all down to LR but the fact we were willing to pay very decent fees for them and a high % of their wages..... BTA has decided to stay in his local region, not move his family and earn slightly more money then he would with us..... Why wouldn't he choose them over us in that situation?
Respectfully how can you spin this as if there’s a benefit. Theres 9 days left and we’ve got 1 striker who’s best season is 2 more goals than the bloke that’s just left us hanging out for dry. if you’re on acun’s payroll just admit it at this stage
Because none of them had anything to do with us paying mega bucks for the privilege. That's exactly why we're tightening the purse strings this window.
