We might be bottom but a win puts us 14th. No need to panic yet but Im sure Hughes is going to go if we dont win by Arsenal. I would hope he would do the decent thing and resign rather than cling on Kean style.
He said we will never be in this position again, if we are then he should do the proper thing and offer his resignation. I dont think weve taken to Hughes, I didnt really want him but realised he did well at previous clubs, I dont like most of his signings being over 30 and leaving us stumbling from 1 year to the next. There seems to be no long term goal.
The league table is a bit of a paradox imo. We are far from the worst performing team. We have been playing well of late ( Of course I would swap playing well for 3 points everytime. ) But our performances against Spurs and Chelsea were fantastic, this will hold us in good stead and project us to where we want to be. Which Prem squad would you swap ours with? Outside of City, Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs and Everton I would say none. Newcastle, Fulham and Sunderland maybe but I think we are more or less on a par with them. I would say we have the potential to be a top of the bottom half team. The injuries are a bit of a worry but I still think we have the quality to do well. 15th would be my worse case scenario. We have the players, Cesar, Granero, Cisse, Taarabt, Faurlin, Zamora, M'Bia, Hoilett, Nelsen and that's without the quality injuries who are yet to return. We have an amazing squad, have we got the manager and coaches to bind them together to make a team? The Welsh Tafia must start producing, sooner than later. I believe they will.
If a new manager were to come in I'd be over the moon if it were Martin O'Neill, but I can't see him leaving Sunderland.
The only option is Redknapp who is dodgier than a £3 note or a foreign manager. Id be putting the feelers out for any top class managers right now to see if they are interested.
Newcastle have a policy of not signing anyone over 26yo. They have a future, we dont.Half our 25 squad wont be here in 2 years time. Green Derry Hill Johnson Cisse Park SWP Nelsen Dyer Boswinga Cerny Zamora Murphy plus a few more surprise departures. How the **** are we supposed to gel and get some team spirit with a turnover like that?
I dont think he even bothers with tactics, hes a PL version of Warnock. Im sure Ive heard players have said he doesnt do tactics at all, he just tells them to get on with it. From the man himself. "YOU can argue about formations, tactics and systems forever, but to me football is fundamentally about the players. Whether it is 4-4-2, 4-2-3-1, 4-3-3, the numbers game is not the beautiful game in my opinion. It's 10 per cent about the formation and 90 per cent about the players. If you have the best ones and they do their jobs, then they can pretty much play any way you want them to. England boss Fabio Capello experimented with a new way of playing last night, at least in the first half. Was it 4-5-1? Or 4-3-3? Does it really matter?"
Huh? So do you assume signing players over 30 naturally means no long term goal. Five of the starting side v reading were aged 26 and under. What long term goal do you envisage exactly?
Not having 10 players leaving and arriving every summer which leads to starts like we are having now.
Is it at all possible, as far fetched as it sounds, that the board did not give MH the funds to buy a whole team of good quality 26 and under prospects available on the market? They cost money don't they?
No, hes rather get 30+ players on massive wages who have no resale value. We needed more signings like Hoilett who cost £3m and less like Johnson and Green who were free but on big wages.
Maybe, just maybe, TF said to him 'you've only got £10m to spend because we're committed to improving the infrastructure first but you do have a considerable wage budget because we lost 15+ players over the summer'? Let's keep the criticism of MH to on field performances, without the assumptions.
As we all know from experience,its how the table reads in may not now.This season wasnt going to be alot different to last season,new players gelling etc etc.Keep the faith.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Five games into the season. FIVE out of 38. Us lot of all sets of fans should know that sacking managers on a whim is not the way forward. Would Redknapp even want the job? What he's doing at Bournemouth suggests he's semi-retired to me. All this complaining over signings being made not being for the long term and people want an OAP to be the most important signing of all.
Another thing to remember is not all the players MH has brought in are going to be a success.When starting at the bottom as he is there has to be a little bit of trial and error.I agree Watford we need stability,something we havent had for five years.
