Hazzman
New Member
Might seem reactionary, 3 games in and said in retrospective but I'd like to make the following points.
A team is never built in two months, a team takes at least a year to build. I look the recent promoted teams - their squad were at least a year in the making. Southampton this season have came up with no massive overhaul and continued their lesson where they left off last year. O'Neill at City was the same, Pearson was the same too. Norwich are another example of building something bit by bit. Swansea, that took three years of building and finally got the final piece of the jigsaw in Borini.
I have never known a successful side to sign ten players plus in the Summer. Chelsea and Manchester City took a season before they finally started to achieve something. The last time we sign a massive number of permanent signings like this, it led to relegation. It's no surprise to see Ipswich in a similar situation to us.
This isn't me with a hunch, this is largely fact. I know it's retrospective (and got carried away with stockpiling players) but surely a manager of Sven could identify a team takes time? We'd have been a lot more wiser dealing with the immediate issues of a striker, a keeper, a right-back (if we were to shell out £5m on Mills, why not £4m on Naughton? - though I'd argue Peltier is more than competent) and a centre-back.
You can see Sven's tactic, sign immediate quality that we get us out of here. The problem is what I've seen of these signings is that whilst they have some sort of 'better' ability (hard to believe), not a single one is either a communicator or a intelligent footballer (someone who can identify something and pick on it) or even a freak of skill in the mould of Taarabt.
Might seem a bold prediction but we'll firmly be lodged in mid-table, regardless of whether we add another a striker. I'd like to eat my words come May.
A team is never built in two months, a team takes at least a year to build. I look the recent promoted teams - their squad were at least a year in the making. Southampton this season have came up with no massive overhaul and continued their lesson where they left off last year. O'Neill at City was the same, Pearson was the same too. Norwich are another example of building something bit by bit. Swansea, that took three years of building and finally got the final piece of the jigsaw in Borini.
I have never known a successful side to sign ten players plus in the Summer. Chelsea and Manchester City took a season before they finally started to achieve something. The last time we sign a massive number of permanent signings like this, it led to relegation. It's no surprise to see Ipswich in a similar situation to us.
This isn't me with a hunch, this is largely fact. I know it's retrospective (and got carried away with stockpiling players) but surely a manager of Sven could identify a team takes time? We'd have been a lot more wiser dealing with the immediate issues of a striker, a keeper, a right-back (if we were to shell out £5m on Mills, why not £4m on Naughton? - though I'd argue Peltier is more than competent) and a centre-back.
You can see Sven's tactic, sign immediate quality that we get us out of here. The problem is what I've seen of these signings is that whilst they have some sort of 'better' ability (hard to believe), not a single one is either a communicator or a intelligent footballer (someone who can identify something and pick on it) or even a freak of skill in the mould of Taarabt.
Might seem a bold prediction but we'll firmly be lodged in mid-table, regardless of whether we add another a striker. I'd like to eat my words come May.