Tony Towner
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And GuedesIf rumours are correct Nuno rejected the chance to sign Hwang when he was here. Will be interesting to see how he utilises him (should he come)
And GuedesIf rumours are correct Nuno rejected the chance to sign Hwang when he was here. Will be interesting to see how he utilises him (should he come)
Yeah was thinking I had read something about Guedes tooAnd Guedes
Sorry to be harsh, but of course he isn't the best man available.
He's already in a job, just as the likes of Amorim and Svensson are.
We just have a team incapable of selling the club to anyone who isn't a) on Jorge's contact list and b) on a downward trajectory
Let's be honest. No one sane is paying the 30 odd million it takes for Amorim. Svensson doesn't seem like he's on the market for a move either.
Isn't that the joke journalist? Made up as she's never worked anywhere and nobody can find an article she's written?
He has things about his game that look fantastic in a highlight reel, but he's not doing them across a whole 90 minutes.Guedes has always had inconsistent periods throughout his career, I'm hoping this is just one of them. I thought he looked alright at the start of the season and was holding off on judging him as Lage's system seemed almost purposely designed to give his forwards the hardest job possible (almost like a reverse POMO, position of minimum opportunity). The last few games he's looked absolutely crap though.
I said when we signed him that I hadn't seen a massive amount of him as I don't watch Spanish football but that when I had seen him for Portugal he'd always looked rubbish. STILL haven't seen him have a properly good game yet. This can't be all he is, I just can't accept it. To have the amount of money spent on him in his career already and some of the rave reviews from sources I trust... There's got to be a player in there, just got to be.
The financial element (if true) is fair enough as a pause for thought, but him and Svensson are just two examples of attainable and ambitious managers who should be a perfect match for fairly established PL clubs like us. There are others out there, do you believe we're even seriously considering any of them? It seems like we've just returned to our 2017 Mendes shortlist
Thing is though he's always had that reputation of not quite fulfilling his potential but over the last couple of seasons he had really kicked on and become a key player for Valencia. I thought when we signed him that we'd got him at the perfect time in his development, after he'd shaken off the baggage of the PSG move and early hype.He has things about his game that look fantastic in a highlight reel, but he's not doing them across a whole 90 minutes.
Eg, he's had a few games where he's picked the ball up deep and made a good run forward, shaking off opponents and then putting in a decent final pass or cross... or he'll take a really good free kick... or he'll read someone else's run perfectly and bust forward to make himself available for a one-two to cut open the opposing defence... or he'll fire in a shot that goes narrowly wide... I could go on, but the problem is he'll do like 2-3 of these per game and otherwise be completely anonymous. And this stuff also almost always happens in the first half, he still seems not to have adjusted to the intensity of the PL and his one consistent attribute, his running, drops off massively 50-60 minutes into every match.
I think the answer to your final line there is that we've got ourselves a classic example of a wonderkid who never reached the heights that a lot of people in the game thought he would, and the sunk cost fallacy means that his reputation continues to reflect what might be more than what currently is.
Better a clown show in the Prem than a clown show in the Championship.If the Nuno rumours are true, it shows what a complete clown show of a club we are. However, I bet no-one thinks we would go down with him in charge.
I was only backing up the shit rumour from last night...Isn't that the joke journalist? Made up as she's never worked anywhere and nobody can find an article she's written?
Ah right, as you were...I was only backing up the shit rumour from last night...
We'll see how Nuno responds when Hwang brings in his famous cookiesPair of marigolds and a scourer in the canteen hopefully
We'll see how Nuno responds when Hwang brings in his famous cookies