MattTheMuppet, you are a joke. How do you expect people to take you seriously when you cannot tell the truth! Tell me where in the above do you state 'around' 10 assists? You consistently stated 10 as fact and even now won't accept 7 as correct. If you go around bragging of your detailed research when it is made up fiction don't be surprised if you are exposed and please don't take the rest of us for fools.ALTIDORE WAS NOT A BAD PLAYER! He alone contributed to ten goals. More than every other player (bar stephen hunt). Had he been able to finish then he'd've been a lot better but he was strong, quick and quite skillful. For his age he was also quite intelligent and was able to pick out a pass (as his assist contribution suggests). Can we please stop labeling him as a bad signing? He's nowhere near as bad as sonko, zaki or bloody stelios giannokopolous!
I meant how does it compare to what was spent when Phil Brown managed us in the Championship. You must have misread my post, I'll put it down to an honest mistake on your part.
And finishing higher, seems worth it.Apologies for my oversight, but my view was perhaps clouded by Brownie going on to make some of the worst signings in Premier League history.
As for our Championship signings under Brownie, overall they were good, other than Folan we paid very little in fee's though we did run up £9m in debt with the wages we paid to the likes of Okocha, Pedersen, Folan etc. In fact, we were offering double the wages that we're offering now.
If Pearson wasn't lumbered with having to spend half his wage budget on five of Brownies **** ups, then we'd probably be signing far better players than we are currently.
MattTheMuppet, you are a joke. How do you expect people to take you seriously when you cannot tell the truth! Tell me where in the above do you state 'around' 10 assists? You consistently stated 10 as fact and even now won't accept 7 as correct. If you go around bragging of your detailed research when it is made up fiction don't be surprised if you are exposed and please don't take the rest of us for fools.
I'm not sure how this is relevant, as I haven't mentioned Phil Brown at all, but...
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He also signed Hope Akpan on loan who's just gone to the esteemed Crawley Town.
The best thing you could say about Nigel's signings is that they were cheaper. Other than that they've been hit and miss.
I fail to see how Phil Brown is relevant to this thread though, yes he was the greatest manager in our history, yes we'd all have him back given the chance, yes Adam Pearson should be fired for making such an egotistical boneheaded decision but that's not what this thread is about.
Is really only A year since we saw the back of Altidore but I see his myth continues. Where do I begin. His lavk of goal scoring record speaks for itself but for the rest....he ws neither strong, quick or particularly skilful. he was not a big man 5'10 ish and the weakest forward I have ever seen. His career has been built on falling over at the slightest touch to win free kicks...and this is where you get the mythical 10 gol assists from. He didn't get the better of any premier defender in a physical challenge. He never won an header; I saw him head the ball twice in the whole time he was with us and they were defensive ones. He was not quick in the sense he could beat or get away from defenders...hence the falling over. Well is that enough?..Oh...as well...it was Brown's perseverance of Altidore that was the single main reason we were relegated.