All hail Steve Bruce - the best manager we've ever had
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Maybe Ehab didn't want Bruce wasting any more money on mediocre players to what he has already done.
Bruce likes to blow/waste money, he has wherever he has been.
Proschwitz? and for the better part, Hernandez? (yeah he has scored a few in the championship, he should, lets once again see what he can manage this season)
Personally, I'm less upset about Bruce leaving and is getting a fresh start with a new manager than the matter in which it happened. I think to have your most successful manager choose to leave not because he got a better gig or because he's won everything is shocking and extremely worrying.
Wastes of money:
Proschwitz
Sagbo
Diomande
Maloney
Gems:
Maguire
Robertson
Odubajo
Hernandez
Long
Jelavic
Davies
Elmo
Livermore
Odubajo seems a good signing but Robertson is too inconsistent for me.
It always makes me wonder why offers haven't flooded in for players such as these if they are so good and we'll thought of.
Who's to say there haven't been offers?
We got 8m for Brady, another Bruce signing.
Good call but I thought he may have gone well before now if he was going to... To me he didn't do enough at PL level to warrant a move to Italy as such. If that was the case it thought he may have gone when we were relegated?
Bruce signed Brady on loan and then on a permanent.
Brady was poor when he was here under Pearson.
Bruce said there'd been no offers for any of our players last week.
Yes but Brady wad already here, he also played under Barmby, hardly a Bruce find.
I meant in general not just this window. I suspect there would have been interest if not a formal offer for Robertson when we went down.
Brady was not already here when Bruce became manager. Bruce brought him here.
We're talking about players signed by Bruce. Pearson/Barmby did not sign Brady, who, again, was poor when he played here under them.
I thought he was here 11 to 13 on loan and 13 to 15 perm?
Pearson first brought him here on loan.
Pearson first brought him here on loan.
How many times do I have to say the same thing before it sinks in?Pearson had him here on loan. He was very average.
Bruce then signed him on loan and he was good, leading to Bruce signing him on a permanent.
You made the case Bruce wastes a lot of money, but Bruce made a large profit on Brady and Long, and we will likely make profits on several other players he signed as well.
You really can't credit Bruce with finding a player who was already playing for us before he took over. Obviously he signed him permanently, but he wasn't responsible for bringing him to the club.
There's plenty of other good signings that he did bring in, as you've already detailed.