Completely agree. I'm not keen on this attitude of Olsson's, especially when he's been relegated twice...
Can we put any of Olsson's average season down to losing his father in the summer? He missed all of pre season as a result and he's not been the same since. His attitude was good last season.
Fair point. He has improved over the season, but as Iwan Roberts pointed out, he was at fault for both Cardiff goals in part on Saturday, and has been at fault quite a bit throughout the season IMO. Partly that's been through being instructed to get further forward but given the amount of stick Whittaker has received I'm surprised Olsson has avoided as much criticism. Whittaker at least has contributed with a couple of goals despite defensive frailties.
Most games Whittaker has played, his cover at CB has been Russell Martin, who in that position hasn't exactly had a stormer of a season. Switch him to RB and hey presto, mazy runs and assists Fullbacks do tend to need a reliable CB shielding them in case they get caught out of position.
Clearly a major flaw in Adams management technique was to let a player - albeit the club captain, start dictating where he preferred to play. Tail wagging the dog. Nipped in the bud from day one by Alex Neil, it's great to see
Where do you get the idea that Martin dictated to Adams as to where he played??? Some comments on here are weird to say the least.
My bad. I just googled it and found this: In which case it's a flaw in Adams management technique of not deploying people in their most effective roles. But you're off the hook, Russ. Apologies.
Good apology Cromer. I think it's easy to get carried away about what's going on behind the scenes. We have only heard that 'Olsson wants away' from the Daily Fail, so let's not read too much into that either. All the Nationals seem to immediately assume that when a rumour emerges, the player in question wants away. They've done that with Redmond and Ruddy as well.
Naughton has apperently passed a medical and all stuff terms wise agreed with Swansea, so looks like it's a 99% done deal
As others have pointed out, Naughton may well not stop them wanting Olsson. Apparently they have bid £4.3m while we're holding out for £5m. I know prices are inflated these days, but even £4.3m sounds like a decent deal to me, given that transfermarkt say we paid £2.55m for him and his market value has gone down (unsurprisingly given his injuries and his variable form). Hooiveld also unsurprisingly on the way out. http://www.pinkun.com/norwich-city/...lsson_jos_hooiveld_in_millwall_link_1_3926574 If we sell him for, I think it would be well worth investing a lot of it in a left winger who can also play wing back. Then Garrido can be our main left-back, with cover from our left winger and Whittaker depending.
Think Naughton may have been signed as a right back. Wouldn't totally discount the Swans returning for Olsson later in the window.
I wonder if Neil might have his eye on bringing in the promising young Hamilton LB Hendrie, who's very highly thought of up there. There's also Toffolo on loan at Swindon as well.
I believe that Toffolo played central defence in the youth cup. The left back was Ben Wyatt who we released. But by the feed back from Swindon he is a very promising prospect. Whether he can reach the standards we require is another matter though.
Garrido is a solid option for our LB position now but IF we do go up this season, we'll need to look again. From memory he really wasn't too inspiring for us in the PL. Perhaps a solid run of games and increased self-confidence will help with that, otherwise Olsson was, and will likely be the pick of the two.
He had an excellent season on loan from Lazio but then started the next season badly and Olsson came in and played so well he never got another look in. In this league I too would be happyisb with Garrido but only if we are commited to playing pace on both wings. If we do sell MO we probably need a pace left footed winger.
