When I played in France 30 years ago seriously this was a trading exercise They teach this at junior levels from the age of six It’s a fundamental your opposition cannot score if they haven’t got the ball It breeds confidence and removes any confidence your opposition may have This is English Championship football ?
That is one of the most shocking passages of defensive play I have witnessed in a long time. It lacked absolutely everything. Effort, passion, desire, work rate, discipline, leadership and even an attempted tackle! It was weak and pathetic and fans DESERVE so much more for their hard earned money! We witnessed some ****e under Holloway but that eclipses anything under his reign. Disgusting. Fans, if they've not had enough already, will soon have.
And you don't sign players at all if the lender's going to dictate to you where you play him and give you no managerial discretion at all to drop the player if he doesn't perform. Unless of course Maclaren is going to claim he has no say over purchases or the contract negotiations - in which case Stevie boy, go back to being a coach with zero responsibility to get results.
