The last paragraph rings incredibly true. Coventry and Bristol City and the models to follow. Selling a player every summer and reinvesting. Slowly building a squad and adding bits of quality in consecutive windows rather than having 60 players being signed over 3 seasons
not sure acun deserves it yet so far unless stuff comes out he's not acted maliciously has he dumb decisions it is what it is
He's ipso facto 'qualified' to make them and like it or lump it they're his decisions to make. If anything I still believe his lack of involvement over the summer has been our biggest problem this season, not decisions he made about managers. Don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily agree with those decisions, but I don't think they've damaged us anywhere near as much as our piss poor summer activity. We gave ourselves far too big a mountain to climb and then injuries just compounded it. Further recruitment in January just adds more strangers into the mix. Our team chemistry is essentially nil. We're still without a left back and are short in the striker department.
I genuinely think his signing was a reaction to some fans complaining about how we keep signing dross from foreign leagues and them asking why couldn’t we just poach someone who already knows the football league instead.
I totally agree. Longman was steady for us whenever he had an opportunity and, because he is only a year older than Joseph, still had time to grow and develop. Unfortunately, we needed to sell someone and he was one of the only players with interest.
Acun is not qualified to make footballing decisions under any means. You don’t sack a manager who is providing winning, boring IMO, but factually winning and then replace him with a coach who would need as much time with the players as possible. And THEN disappear all summer and sign 9/15 players after the season started especially after letting majority of the core of our 7th placed team leave before that also. We essentially wrote off the first 2 months of the season due to that as Walter needed time to prove he wasn’t the right man for the situation we found ourselves in. 1/2 more wins in that period sees us safe right now, yet here we are.
This. I mean we are talking about a person who thought 39 years old Dzeko, former Sevilla player Nesyri, former Everton player Tosun is better than Osimhen so decided to pass when he had chance to get him and literally explained this in TV show.
Everything is justifiable in Acun’s world. It’s why we still ended up signing Lincoln in January when we didn’t need him because he would do anything for Fenerbache