bristolhammerfc wrote:So we have sold a premiership first choice defender to a serious rival, sold a player our expert Nani chose as a top prospect for the premier league, touted our England centre half to just about anyone, replaced an international proven right back with a player that can't tackle, bought a left back that doesn't play even when our first choice left back is injured, let a young player with some premiership experience go on loan, whilst playing Hines with no experience in the same role.
That's all your opinion, which of course you are entitled to. However in my opinion Faubert is more than capable of replacing Neill (if we don't get Neill that is, he is still available).
Savio has been sold back to an Italian club, a good Italian club that was after him when we bought him, because he had failed to settle. I don't think even Nani or Zola ould tell if a player will settle or not. Savio is clearly a good player if a Champions League team are willing to spend their limited budget on him.
Did we tout our England Centre Half to everyone? I thought it was his agent trying to stir up interest. I guess you can read it how you want it. You have decided to state somehting which is opinion as fact. Daprela probably isn't match fit, so wouldn't you think its a good idea to get him up to tht level before throwing him in at the deep end?
bristolhammerfc wrote:
Jiminez we have yet to see, we even let Kovac go before re signing him out of desperation.
We released Kovac because his club were asking for too much, the club got him for less than was asked for. Bad business? I guess you will find a way of being negative about that deal anyway.
bristolhammerfc wrote:
The premier league is a simple league really. If you don't have strength in depth you fail. If you don't score goals you fail. If you rely on inexperience you fail. We tick all three boxes.
We have scored 3 goals in 3 games (more than quite a few teams in the premier league...), we have strength in depth in all areas of the squad bar one, where we rely on youth instead (or a bosman signing) and finally we have nearly always relied on our young players to come through. No one was complaining about relying on inexperience when Mark Noble started in the first team during our "Great Escape".
bristolhammerfc wrote:
I will continue to support the club I love, but fear another last day nail biter, avoiding relegation.
There are much, much worse clubs in the premier league than us. Off the top of my head: Blackburn, Bolton, Hull, Burnley, Wolves, Birmingham, Pompey and Stoke have much weaker squads than we do.
bristolhammerfc wrote:
Our CEO a self confessed Man Utd fan will walk away with a big pay off, whilst we will be left thinking on what could have been.
The man has lied so many times I don't think he even knows the truth anymore.
As I have show, it is easy to spin things one way or the other. Just depends on how you want to spin them. You have decided to take an overly negative view on the entire situation. I would be willing to bet that we won't be facing relegation by the end of the season and will be more likely to be sitting mid table again.