Morpheus Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 No your right. no goalkeeper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Regardless of the goalkeeper that team is weaker than ours in every single position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted November 20, 2013 Author Share Posted November 20, 2013 I agree with most of what's already been suggested I'd add in John Carew as a great piece of business - swapping him for Milan Baros was a masterstroke Way too many awful buys (esp in recent years) Beye, Agathe (I know he was a free), Shorey, Sidwell, Davies, Ireland, Hutton, Heskey, Warnock, Harewood - that's almost a full team! Hutton, Beye, Davies, Warnock Agathe.Sidwell.Ireland.Shorey ........Heskey.Harewood That team could give our present team a run for it's money. Working from memory that shower cost us over £40million plus more in wages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shillzz Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 In fairness to Sidwell, he's gone to have a very average and middling career at Fulham And would probably get in our side now. And was a permanent fixture in the side during our best run of form in a decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwan Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 I don't think he'd get in the side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw95 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 He was wank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 dont think he was that bad, wasnt as good as Barry, Petrov or MIlner but we never rotated squad enough to give him a chance and not his fault he got a stupid salary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 2 words: Djemba-Djemba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 .....during the last 10 years prior to Lambert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 2 words: Djemba-Djemba And yet the same manager signed Martin Laursen. I hope people bear this in mind before judging the current manager's signings based on his less successful ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joetipton86 Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 (edited) . Edited November 21, 2013 by joetipton86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 2 words: Djemba-Djemba And yet the same manager signed Martin Laursen. I hope people bear this in mind before judging the current manager's signings based on his less successful ones. DOL bought Bouma too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 DOL by all accounts wasn't too bad in the market. Sorensen and McCann for all their faults was great business at £4.5m for the pair. Laursen was £3m if I remember correctly. Solano £1.5m. Okay he had a few blips like Djemba-Djemba but given his budgets he did pretty well in my opinion. MON was the complete bloody opposite. We can talk all we want about Milner, Downing and Young but for every one of them there was a Harewood, Davies or Reo-Coker. I'm still furious about the money he wasted. And it really boils my piss when another fan says "MON was great for you. You guys were so much better under him." They know nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Lol having said that, Mathieu Berson. That was a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 DOL by all accounts wasn't too bad in the market. Sorensen and McCann for all their faults was great business at £4.5m for the pair. Laursen was £3m if I remember correctly. Solano £1.5m. Okay he had a few blips like Djemba-Djemba but given his budgets he did pretty well in my opinion. MON was the complete bloody opposite. We can talk all we want about Milner, Downing and Young but for every one of them there was a Harewood, Davies or Reo-Coker. I'm still furious about the money he wasted. And it really boils my piss when another fan says "MON was great for you. You guys were so much better under him." They know nothing. But we actually were better and that's all they see. Unfortunately some lacklustre signings and stubbornness prevented us from pushing on, but I can't deny they were good times while they lasted. Obviously it's clear now that another year or two of that and we would have gone totally bust but fans of other clubs won't see that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 DOL by all accounts wasn't too bad in the market. Sorensen and McCann for all their faults was great business at £4.5m for the pair. Laursen was £3m if I remember correctly. Solano £1.5m. Okay he had a few blips like Djemba-Djemba but given his budgets he did pretty well in my opinion. MON was the complete bloody opposite. We can talk all we want about Milner, Downing and Young but for every one of them there was a Harewood, Davies or Reo-Coker. I'm still furious about the money he wasted. And it really boils my piss when another fan says "MON was great for you. You guys were so much better under him." They know nothing. But we actually were better and that's all they see. Unfortunately some lacklustre signings and stubbornness prevented us from pushing on, but I can't deny they were good times while they lasted. Obviously it's clear now that another year or two of that and we would have gone totally bust but fans of other clubs won't see that. I agree we were better, but other fans are VERY naive about how we achieved that 'success' and what the repercussions were. I wish we had Lambert sooner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Yep, exactly what I meant. I've had to explain the "MON was great for you" argument away many times to opposition fans. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 I guess all people see is where we were then and we we've been since without taking into account anything else. It is annoying though that the general consensus among a lot of football fans seems to be that O'Neill did a magnificent job and that we were lucky to have him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 (edited) It is annoying though that the general consensus among a lot of football fans seems to be that O'Neill did a magnificent job and that we were lucky to have him. Lucky to have him. Really? I've never got that impression. I know plenty of supporters of others clubs and if they'd been stupid enough to suggest that I'd simply point out that it was the opposite and that he was lucky to have managed us. In fact O'Neill himself stated many times what an honor it was to manage such a great club right from when he joined, whist he was here and since he left. Edited November 21, 2013 by markavfc40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 It is annoying though that the general consensus among a lot of football fans seems to be that O'Neill did a magnificent job and that we were lucky to have him. Lucky to have him. Really? I've never got that impression. I know plenty of supporters of others clubs and if they'd been stupid enough to suggest that I'd simply point out that it was the opposite and that he was lucky to have managed us. In fact O'Neill himself stated many times what an honor it was to manage such a great club right from when he joined, whist he was here and since he left. That's the impression I got from some of the people I've spoken to. I never said O'Neill said that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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