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DaiJones

DaiJones

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Raphael Honigstein ‏@honigstein

Have been told today that Cardiff's 10m man Andreas Cornelius was offered for 600k to another PL club in the summer #dignity






Makes you think.
 
Well he scored again for Copenhagen on their first game back after the Danish Winter break - a 1-1 draw away to Aarhus.

Maybe he plays well at that level, but translating it to the Prem is another matter. As for that tweet, the lack of specific info says it all.
 
We hardly saw him play. There have certainly been players who've been given more opportunity that he was. If you think to Chopra's barren runs, they lasted an afoul lot longer that this lad was ever given.
 
Worth a £1m gamble at best.
One of the main reasons City are in the position they are now.
That and Odemwinghie.
 
^^^^This. The cash could have been better spent and we are where we are mainly as a result of that, but not entirely.

These first half dozen games under Ole starting with that West Ham no show have been a right royal **** up. He needs to get his and his squad's act together - three or four more game like those and it'll be too late.
 
ninian opinion said:
Worth a £1m gamble at best.
One of the main reasons City are in the position they are now.
That and Odemwinghie.
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How can he be blamed for the position we're in now when he never played? If you're going to spend that much on a player surely the least you should do is play him.
 
I maybe reading this all wrong, but nobody is blaming Cornelius. The guy took what he was given and the best of luck to him. The blame lies elsewhere.
 
I wont speak for Nin but I took it he meant that when he said Cornelius was "a £1M gamble at best", he meant that the money actually forked out could have been spent elsewhere to better effect.

Maybe wrong, but the alleged £8M and £45k a week for 5 years should have been enough to offer a player (or two) that could have brought us to better than 19th spot with 11 games to go.
 
Oldsparkey said:
Maybe wrong, but the alleged £8M and £45k a week for 5 years should have been enough to offer a player (or two) that could have brought us to better than 19th spot with 11 games to go.
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Nikica Jelavic and Shane Long would probably have fitted the bill :)
 
Oldsparkey said:
I wont speak for Nin but I took it he meant that when he said Cornelius was "a £1M gamble at best", he meant that the money actually forked out could have been spent elsewhere to better effect.

Maybe wrong, but the alleged £8M and £45k a week for 5 years should have been enough to offer a player (or two) that could have brought us to better than 19th spot with 11 games to go.
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As you say Spark all figures quoted are alleged but definitely Malky's biggest mistake while our manager, but you must remember he never took us into the relegation zone in his time in the Premiership, Ole however has kept us firmly in it with his squad.
 
ITI, thats due to teams that were beneath us having dramatically better form, like palace were cut adrift etc. in malky's last game we were 3 points off 19th.

and by the way, 6 players doesnt make it his squad, this is still malky's squad.

i doubt the figures in the OP are accurate but whats true is medel was touted around to anyone who would take him off sevillas hands for much less than we ended up paying....
 
I believe he's signed 7 players Swamp. The question remains, why did he not bring in more players if that was a problem, if money was available?
Do you have a link for the Medel comment?
 
Twitter talk, Facebook talk or any media site or even on these sites are just Talk, nothing is fact until the clubs announce its a fact...
 
snlk/poksnbn said:
As you say Spark all figures quoted are alleged but definitely Malky's biggest mistake while our manager, but you must remember he never took us into the relegation zone in his time in the Premiership, Ole however has kept us firmly in it with his squad.
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Can't argue with that fact Bob, but the fact that we hadn't been there doesn't mean we weren't heading there with him anyway. If his last efforts had continued, it would have been a certainty. The Man City result second game of the season put Malky on a pedestal and the legend was born

His last half dozen results below make for sorry reading especially when he'd had time and his own squad built over 2 years and £35M this season again to sort it - 5 points from that possible 18 wasn't pointing us in the right direction.

Cardiff 2-2 Sunderland (Kerslake, but still Malky in effect - lost 2 points in the second half)
Cardiff 0-3 Southampton
Liverpool 3-1 Cardiff
Cardiff 1-0 West Brom
Crystal Palace 2-0 Cardiff
Stoke 0-0 Cardiff

Ole has been brought in with a minimal (at this level) £6M to spend and he's expected to transform everything in his first 6 weeks. He's only managed to get 4 points from the last possible 18, so you could argue he's marginally worse I suppose, but we had both Man City and Man Utd away in amongst that lot.

I will agree that most think the jury is still out on Ole's credentials to do the job - only time will tell us that.

Just a pity those excellent cup wins at Newcastle and Bolton weren't Prem games - then everyone would be singing his praises rather than pining for Malky.
 
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