hammerdivone wrote:Chuck - if this is getting boring for me then I dread to think what others think. You know my views on our defense, you disagree because you don't believe Zola is fit for the job - we could do this forever.
As for his position, is it your opinion that he didn't want to keep Bellamy, Neill, Collins etc.? You and I both know why they all left - money (or lack of). it's obvious no English club would give us players on installments so we have have to go abroad a do whatever deals we could do there. I'm sure like you he would have wanted to add true quality to the squad but with little money and no credit in the UK that was impossible.
Injuries to Ashton, Dyer, Gabbidon, Illunga, Cole, Collison, Tomkins, Davenport, Behrami, Boa Morte, Noble, Hines and Jiminez have hampered team selection.
The only outcry when a player was sold was Bellamy so hindsight is a wonderful thing eh?
You say Duckers rolled him over, and that he should have walked. How would that have improved our lot? What benefit would our team have seen from that?
Boring for you, yet you keep em coming?
I love the way you have put Ashton in that list. That isnt positive thinking, its insanity.
Davenport, a player who Zola couldnt wait to be rid of last season, and was training with the kids has hampered team selection?
Gabbidn and Dyer have barely played for two years, who was stupid enough to include them in the suad as regulars?
As for money, I'd have preffered to take another free transfer striker, and keep Collins (a player who you know I dont really rate) rather than spunk the money on a Serie B no mark.
Plenty of players joined premiership clubs on loan this summer, without the need for expensive transfer fees, or payments in instalments. Instead we wasted our paltry budget.
How would a manager who I dont thnk is up to the job leaving the club have helped us?
Maybe a better, more repsected manager would have explained to CB Holdings in no uncertain terms that the players were not good enough, and we would be involved in a relegation battle? Instead of telling Scott we'd be top six?
Who knows? Maybe CB would have sussed that no one was stupid enough to take the job and sold the club earlier to one of the interested parties? You are so negative sometimes.