In other words, Fernandes and Danns?
To be honest I haven't seen much of them yet this season - but I think that they (and others) are OK players - but we already had other OK midfield players and Sven just sort of collected more of the same. I've long thought that Sven is an ineffectual manager who has made a career since he was England coach from getting a lot of money for being ineffective and wasteful.
Yes, I've thought that myself about the signings too. People got excited just because of the sheer number of players we brought in, but that in itself does not mean the team has improved.
Danns is certainly no better than King, Wellens, or Abe so in a way, why was he brought here?
Whatever the intent - and the impression that he tried to give was that he was going to bring in 'big' names - the outcome is that we have too many players to keep happy; too many central mid fielders etc.Depth. Sven was trying to build a squad, not a first team. I doubt Danns was guarenteed first team football when he moved here.
His first signing will be a young 18-21 year old winger from a premier league academy, who nobody will know anything about and will turn out to be one of the best players we've had in a while
P | Pld | Pts | |
1 | Liverpool | 11 | 28 |
2 | Manchester C | 11 | 23 |
3 | Chelsea | 11 | 19 |
4 | Arsenal | 11 | 19 |
5 | Nottm F | 11 | 19 |
6 | Brighton | 11 | 19 |
7 | Fulham | 11 | 18 |
8 | Newcastle | 11 | 18 |
9 | Aston Villa | 11 | 18 |
10 | Tottenham | 11 | 16 |
11 | Brentford | 11 | 16 |
12 | Bournemouth | 11 | 15 |
13 | Manchester U | 11 | 15 |
14 | West Ham | 11 | 12 |
15 | Leicester | 11 | 10 |
16 | Everton | 11 | 10 |
17 | Ipswich | 11 | 8 |
18 | Palace | 11 | 7 |
19 | Wolves | 11 | 6 |
20 | Southampton | 11 | 4 |