Brought in about 16 central midfielders, 3 of our summer signings have already left the club prematurely. We had a load of players that could not be registered for the match squad. It wasn’t a carefully orchestrated transfer policy, it was a mad splash on anyone who was available and a lot of money was wasted. Whilst we have got some very good individual players, there was apparently no thought as to how they fit together to make a team, so we still have a very unbalanced squad full of good individuals. Even now we still have Doc, Slater, Woods, Simons, Seri, Tufan, Traore and Pelkas all competing for 3 spots in the starting 11 (sometimes 2 when we play 2 up front) which is not only unmanageable, I would say you can’t build a properly well rounded midfield out of any combination of them. To have committed the best part of £150k a week in wages and however many millions in transfer fees to end up with that predicament can hardly be considered great business, all those resources tied up in a bloated, unbalanced central midfield whilst we only have one full back and one winger in the entire squad that actually fully suit the system we’re playing. I think it’s fair to say our performance in the transfer market was pretty poor on the whole, and a large reason why what we’re seeing on the pitch is far from the finished article.
With all those midfield players and as it’s proving simons can’t displace them why the **** did we go in for another midfield player and make him permanent bob?
One for the future? I can see Doc, Woods, Pelkas and maybe Tufan not being here next season. A couple of injuries and suddenly we'll be saying we're short of midfielders
I'd think guys like Doc, Woods, Tufan will all be on the way out, and Seri isn't getting any younger, so he's with an eye to the future.
Could all just be a little media savvy trick by Acun - put a little doubt out there to ensure Rosie and Co stay on their toes, stay focused - a little jolt to prevent a doldrum period before next season. Just like the musical sounding delivery of a Sunday sermon preacher - the Major, the Minor, then back to the Major, then out the door for Sunday lunch.
If we could only pick ten players to remain in the team next season, Connolly and Darlow would be in that ten.
From a certain point of view, “He bought,” is the problem! We need the manager making these decisions WITH the owner & having conversations about how they’d like to play, as opposed to being told how to play, who to play! There was a rumour about Acun wanting more hands on with the Dutch team he part owned, was it a rumour, or was it truth? After last Summer’s “recruitment,” I’d be tempted to say there’s some truth in it.
Yeah, you're not wrong....23/24 midfield could be: Simons, Seri, Slater, ANO, ANO, Christie (kind of) ...I know I keep saying it, but TC can't expect to get many games at Fluffam..Would he return here if he had the chance? Not sure he would.
I suspect that 3 Premier League teams will come down whatever and whichever ones, very rarely do more than one 'bounce' back up...
Without the injuries to key players i think we would be top half this season. I know every team gets injuries, but ours have been to key players. A good pre season and a few additions and then we can properly judge rosenior.
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/acun-ilicali-liam-rosenior-hull-8321140 "For me, Liam is a very special person," Ilicali tells Hull Live as he reflects on his first full season as owner. "From our very first meeting over Zoom, I said to myself that this is my coach. "Before I met him, I had 10 interviews and nobody made me feel like that. I saw a young, passionate, and very intelligent person in that one-hour meeting, and in every movement, he has made, he's proved that. "When he explains some things to me, I'm always convinced. He gives us reports of what he's doing and informs us of his ideas behind them. "I've been in the football business for more than 20 years, working inside Fenerbahce, and when he explains things to me, he convinces me (like I haven't had before). "Business is important, and everyone's talent is important so too is someone's capacity, but for me, the most important thing is to be a good person, I always work with good people. "I never, ever, in my whole career, have worked with somebody where I don't like their character. I can fully guarantee you in our eight months together I have found that - I feel like an expert in human behaviour, a gift given to me by my father - Liam is a very nice guy and has a very clean heart, and I feel that will help him a lot in his managerial career." "From the moment he came, I would say he's had 70 percent of good games, 20 percent of OK games and 10 percent of bad games, and I would not blame him for the bad games because we are playing teams almost promoted to the Premier League, and by the way, I would say we played well against Burnley and Sheffield United - we were not worse than the opposition in those games, it was down to their scoring abilities," he said. "I'm very happy with a manager like him, and my hope is to support him and give him what he needs to support him so he can lift the team next season to challenge," he said. "With financial fair play, we have some problems of course. But I will back him and together, we will find some solutions. We will get what he wants. "We may have to sell some players to allow us to make some transfers, but I am fully behind him this summer. We will work together to get the players we need, and to get our targets which are also his targets - and we will be successful." "Liam is not running after crazy budget players," Ilicali explained. "He knows the Championship, he's not pushing us to make big-money transfers. We are on the same page. "Last summer, we did not know we would be working with him. Liam came to a team that was already done (transfer business). Now it's time for him, and to find transfers suitable for his tactics. "We will support him with players that meet his football philosophy."
Was done to death at the time. The comments he made were in relation to running of the club, not the team. He wasn't the majority shareholder so the clubs strategy, direction, key decisions, etc were not his.
