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Slav just mentioned every young player in the club except Sam Field in an after match interview.
Vydra alongside him?
Happy with the age profile, happy it's a permanent. Slightly underwhelmed with the quality but it's where we're at now - I've been calling for us to rebuild the squad for years, we've left it until we were forced to and we just can't attract the same level of talent that we could have before.
I think he's comfortably better than HRK but not quite in the Gayle/JRod bracket. Fee and squad number suggest he will be our main striker so we need decent alternative options. I think we need 2 more in, someone like Vydra and then a youngster on loan from the top 6.
We also need to be scrapping the 442 rubbish. Doesn't suit the squad and almost obsolete in the modern game. Get 2 wingers in support of Zohore and Krovinovic pulling the strings.
Cannot be true - thought they had already rejected £2.5m?
I'll have to pop down for a visit some time.
Yeah I guess that can happen. To be successful we would need our two widest cms in the diamond to have great stamina and be adept at going forward and back (only Harper/Field currently being generous?) and our full backs need to be a bona fide threat going forward. Work to do for sure.
I wouldn't be so eager to let Gibbs go. It took us light years to find a decent footballing left back. I would be looking to offload others before him.
I can't remember if what round we go into for the League Cup but the first round is w/c 12th August.
Hull away first game of the season as that would mean it would definitely be a Saturday 3pm kick off and I could have a good drink as I wouldn't have to drive!
Let's look at the cheap options.
Hodgson at the time was reportedly earning "considerably more than any of his predecessors" now one needs to be careful about making comparisons with the recent past such is the nature of English football wage inflation but in relative terms he could not have been described as cheap.
Let's look at dumb and dumber aka as Pulis and Pardew. We were paying them £40k a week a piece plus we paid at least some of their contracts off when fired them, anyway you want to cut it neither were remotely cheap. To put it into context they would have probably in the top 30 best paid coaches in European football, earning more than their Premier League counterparts including Howe Dyche Wagner and Hughton among others.
In a broader context taking that salary out of the completely bonkers world of English football where too little talent attracts far too much money few if any coaches earned anywhere near that outside the other top 5 leagues and none of those that did were at clubs that didn't have European football. To really highlight the absurdity Sari in his last year at Napoli earned considerably less than £2m.
Finally do you think that any European club would hire either Pulis or Pardew as coach at even less than a quarter of what they were paid at the Albion? Most wouldn't employ them as a match day steward for free.
They were quick fixes to paper over the cracks but the one thing they weren't were cheap and in the long run they have cost us a lot more than some relatively "cheap options" might have done.
My key point being that it makes no difference who the coach is if we are just going to throw them into the same broken environment then we can expect pretty much the same outcome.
Did they lose their play off game then?
I’m becoming more convinced by the no show of a new manager yet, we were hoping for Wagner and because of his HTFC contract conditions we’re trying to hold out til the summer now.. with odds of 22/1 tempting