Re: Current squad
Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 5:20 pm
The_Rock » Sun May 06, 2012 5:12 pm wrote:Boxscarf » Sun May 06, 2012 9:23 pm wrote:
Kenny played it safe and went with Premier league proven footballers, who were performing well for their respective clubs. The players he went for were big fish in small ponds and suddenly they are moved to a larger pond and they aren't comfortable in the pond. Adam, Downing and Henderson have just been poor and I expected better from them this season. Henderson has perhaps been the worst of the signings purely for the small fact he looks as though he'd rather be somewhere else. His effort level is nonexistent. Henderson has quality, he's shown that at Sunderland, he was one of their best footballers, but he needs to sort himself and offer more. Downing was never good enough, the lad does everything well, but his end product is just abysmal. Adam again has done nothing of note as of yet, he seems quite immobile, he seems slow and he's one-footed. He's a good back up player, but he's good enough to be a regular first team starter.
If Kenny is still our manager in the summer, then he needs to sign genuine quality from abroad. He played it safe in the last transfer window and it backfired on him, this summer (if he is given one more roll of the dice) then he needs to be less cautious and go and sign some genuine quality, not big fish in small ponds.
Well our scouts should have also looked at their players mentality too.
An example...scott parker. West Ham was going down but scott parker gave 110% every game. So if we are gonna buy premiership players we should have bought players like him. So on top of skill we should also look at a player mental strength (easy...just look at past videos on how he plays when his team is down a goal).
We just can't afford another summer of buying players without balls.
we put a bid in for parker 2 years ago, Rafa would not pay the asking price and got a player that was unfit and is now out on load instead.
we cut ties with clubs like southend under Rafa and started to only look overseas. happy to say that we have now taken going to see clubs like southend again under Kenny.