A lot of the players we brought in last season were internationals. Feghouli, Nordveith, Ayew, Zaza ... some take time to click, some might simply not take to the PL. And some might be internationals in a weak team but internationals they all are.
Now IF Payet said that he left because we didn't match his intent then either that is not true, as at the time he claims he made up his mind there was no way to know it wouldn't work out or he is disrespecting a lot of countries by claiming their internationals are useless since buying them doesn't show any intent.
That's why I said IF. I believe I read about an interview regarding this subject recently but I am neither sure where it was nor if I am misquoting what I think I read. All I am trying to do is show up some of the arguments being used to beat SB and the Daves as being rather one-sided and since the subject of Payet came up i am using this as an example.
There are millions of people every weekend who think they could do a better job than their team's manager. But the truth is that in a league of 20 teams there needs to be someone at the top and there need to be three teams at the bottom. And while nobody wants their team to be one of these three teams it is not our jobs who are on the line. I think it isn't fair to complain about owners not pumping more of their hard earned cash into the club. Finances are a lot more complicated than just "net spend of X in half a year". PSG will be calculating the cost of signing Neymar over the time of his contract. If that was 5 years (I can't quite remember atm) then that would mean that in 2017/18 they spent some 45m Euros on him. Doesn't sound half as dramatic as 222m, doesn't it? And don't forget that this sum usually includes flexible bonuses. So in fact it might be only 30m.
As we all know, the best managers invariably seek out advice from those more experienced...
You gotta speed it up And then you gotta slow it down 'Cause if you believe that our love can hit the top You gotta play around But soon you will find that there comes a time For making your mind up
Oh and its also good tactics for Eurovision entry ;whistle
An interesting article in the Observer on Sunday, primarily about Man City and how they are 1st in the Prem for goals, 1st for shots on target and 2nd for total number of shots. They provided little graphs to illustrate this and surprisingly West Ham are 11th for goals scored, 9th for shots on target and 11th for total shots.
Its seems we're not as bad going forward as some seem to think
For me during Bilic's reign as manager we have always been very good at scoring goals but concede way too much. Many games are high scoring games for both teams. Previously with Allardyce it was the opposite; we score few but concede few.
Since we've changed formation we've managed to get a bit of steel about us at the back and conceding is no longer a problem. We've changed to a more Allardyce style. In the short term I don't mind this. We can't expect to win games conceding 2-3 a match.
They should be so lucky, talk now about Moyes !!!!
Moyes has now turned into the Ravel Morrison of management everyone knows he has ut as they have seen the replays on you tube but he can't reproduce it for toffee now.
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He simply came to us at the wrong time in his life. He has admitted that the issue was with hm and not the club.
Now IF Payet said that he left because we didn't match his intent then either that is not true, as at the time he claims he made up his mind there was no way to know it wouldn't work out or he is disrespecting a lot of countries by claiming their internationals are useless since buying them doesn't show any intent.
There are millions of people every weekend who think they could do a better job than their team's manager. But the truth is that in a league of 20 teams there needs to be someone at the top and there need to be three teams at the bottom. And while nobody wants their team to be one of these three teams it is not our jobs who are on the line.
I think it isn't fair to complain about owners not pumping more of their hard earned cash into the club. Finances are a lot more complicated than just "net spend of X in half a year". PSG will be calculating the cost of signing Neymar over the time of his contract. If that was 5 years (I can't quite remember atm) then that would mean that in 2017/18 they spent some 45m Euros on him. Doesn't sound half as dramatic as 222m, doesn't it? And don't forget that this sum usually includes flexible bonuses. So in fact it might be only 30m.
You gotta speed it up
And then you gotta slow it down
'Cause if you believe that our love can hit the top
You gotta play around
But soon you will find that there comes a time
For making your mind up
Oh and its also good tactics for Eurovision entry ;whistle
#Ghostly voices whisper will you come and play
(I dont know anymore Bucks Fizz songs so, unless I do some research, you're all safe ;wink )
Congratulations to Kevin Nolan, September's @SkyBetLeagueTwo Manager of the Month!
Good luck to him though, think he can be a decent mamager
Its seems we're not as bad going forward as some seem to think
The thing is, there might be an argument that we aren't even so bad at the back. 3 clean sheets in our last 4 league games since switching formation.
Since going 3-4-3:
Pl: 4
W: 2
L: 1
GF: 5
GA: 3
Since we've changed formation we've managed to get a bit of steel about us at the back and conceding is no longer a problem. We've changed to a more Allardyce style. In the short term I don't mind this. We can't expect to win games conceding 2-3 a match.
Moyes has now turned into the Ravel Morrison of management everyone knows he has ut as they have seen the replays on you tube but he can't reproduce it for toffee now.
Don't want him after what happened
Justsaying
1. We play dire football until the end of the season
2. We go down