Thuram; Nego;Williams; Johnson; Sarr; Vaz Te; Ceballos; Le Point; Bergdich; Tucudean; Peter Parsley. Manager- Fraeye. Personally I'd pay money to watch this hilarious team. I wonder how much it actually cost Roland (he who doesn't do failure)?
Roland Duchatelet's All Star 11 [2014-2016 vintage] Etheridge Koc Nego Sarr Johnson Petrucci Le Point Ceballos Vaz Te Makienok Polish Pete Formation 1-0-10, as favoured by Karel "Shakin Stevens" Fraeye Subs: Thuram Williams Fanny Franck "Lucan" Moussa Fatakole Tucadean McAleney
Interesting thought that. Tucudean probably was the better performer which has bummed me out. Thanks.
I thought this was some sort of cry for help when I saw the title. Polish Pete for example! How much did we pay for him, and he recently moved on for free.Thuram, the goalkeeper CP described as being possibly conference standard. Our Everton loan figure, McAleny, who was on the' cusp of the first XI' up there. One I don't get is Ceballos. He was injured, which really gives no idea of his abilities, but there was a rumour in january he was going the same way as Polish Pete, which suggests someone looked and saw another transfer faliure. For me though, the real excitement lies in the coming summer. Imagine what this thread will look like in a years time! I imagime Dartford and Welling are already lookig at the players they want to offload to see if any of them have foreign passports, as a faliure in the Conference South will have RD and his network drooling, especially if they can tell everyone they beat Benfica to sign Ebbsfleet reserve goalkeeper Peeter Van Wjinterdjck. Traget 20k might be a bit optimistic for the whole season!!
Ceballos was never going to make it. Spurs - who are pretty decent at giving youth a chance - never seemed him good enough for a Europa league or carling cup game. I was perplexed at the time why so many fans were excited by his signing. Then we had that corner Vaz Te mentioned after he left that he and Ceballos were sent to train with the kids when Riga took over. So that's him released in the summer. With a pay off to boot.
For all the dozens of players signed under Roland's regime there is not one who I would say is an unqualified success. JBG is the nearest, but this year's JBG is not a patch on last season's. Others who have looked good at first like Igor, Kashi and Bauer have joined the ever-increasing injury list, although Igor seems to be perpetually 50/50 for the next game. Surely it must be breaking Roland's Scrooge-like heart to be shelling out for so many injured players? If he wants to know why that is he'll have to ask the advice of someone who is knowledgable about Championship football, not someone from the lower reaches of Belgian football. I don't think he's capable of making that switch, so contrary to what he says, he won't be learning from his mistakes.
