Match Day Thread Hull City v Derby

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Drew said:
I think the interference in this scenario more comes with Acun constantly taking a different course of how he wants to play things over his ownership.

Until Summer 2023 - we were scattergun. Hiring an unknown manager and signing players based on reputation and abilities in leagues that weren't that compatible with the Championship.

I don't think its a coincidence that our best transfer window arguably came along when we had a manager that stabilised the team - and we had a bit of continuity during the off season in 2023. We signed some duds then, as we have every window - but the ones that came in that window on the whole had a positive impact on the following season.

January 2024 and we chucked money at it at the wrong time. Plenty were saying that at the time and its still a little unclear as to whether that influence was the manager or the owner/recruitment team. Regardless - it backfired.

Since then we've lurched between two managers that are unknown quantities in the league and the transfers have become fairly scattergun again - with no real coherent plan as to how we move forward other than trying to save the season in this January transfer window.

I don't think its a coincidence that the clubs without parachute payments that do well in the league are usually ones that play a long term game when it comes to how they move forward. Its something we've lacked throughout Acun's tenure and that can only come down to his interference in the club and how he wants to run it or who he's listening to. Either way - the buck stops with him and I'd rather what ever happens at the end of this season we try and salvage some form of continuity.
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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
 
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NewcastleTiger said:
Decisions he isn’t qualified to make yet did anyway because he can’t help it.
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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.
 
bradymk2 said:
For 2.5m
His league one record is not even good nevermind champ level

I really really dont understand his signing for the fee
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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.
 
tigerrev said:
We'd have been better off keeping Ryan Longman
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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.
 
Benjo said:
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.
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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.
 
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NewcastleTiger said:
Acun is not qualified to make footballing decisions under any means.
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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.
 
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oozkan said:
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.
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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
 
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