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Transfermarkt’s injury record states he missed 6 games, a hammy for a month and a very short knee issue. I don’t know if that’s accurate, but I don’t recall him being injury prone either.
It never hurts to have empathy for anyone, not that there’s any reason why KM would need more of it now. It must be an incredibly difficult job. We know he works his balls off and is pretty much living the job and only wants the best for us. We can’t ask for any more than that. He’s also happens to be very good at the job. We’ve had enough rubbish over the last few decades to be able to see that.
I don’t think KM is getting much stick, but as a general point we live in a society increasingly lacking empathy/understanding in some spheres (notably online). People have little patience and have easy channels to express their displeasure. And for some bizarre reason some people also think that managers and players should be targets for abuse because they earn shedloads. Football’s obscenely rich and corrupt, but the individuals in it are still human beings. They have good days and bad days, get ill and aren’t always on it, exactly the same as anyone else.
He can stand the heat because he is in the kitchen and isn’t showing any intention of leaving it. I don’t think having more of a salary makes the job easier either.
There’s certainly an element of that. We do need more numbers in CM and cover at LB though (or at RB, as Young can cover LB. Unless we thing Humphreys can serve as LB cover.
Yes, I can’t imagine us exactly replicating the hardcore Christian nationalism either. The money is already flowing this way though, which is a worry. I can easily imagine a future where a continuing spineless Starmer government or a Farage government is prepared to undermine women’s rights (they seem to be the main victims in the US) in exchange for cash/support. Even if they don’t go as far.
The thing that’s annoying me isn’t so much the reactionary negativity (although that’s tedious in itself). It’s that there a loads of threads already criticising the club, KM, the recruitment process, the system, the players, etc., and people still start bloody new ones. Just add to a relevant existing thread ffs! Lol, rant over.
It’ll never change of course, as we’ve never had any thread discipline on here (which is also part of this place’s charm).
The Democracy for Sale team have recently released an interview discussing the Christian Nationalist influence from the US. It’s only a part of what you’re talking about here, but might be of interest to some. Disclaimer: I’ve not found time to watch it yet, but they normally do a decent investigative job on stuff.
I’m not that interested in a running commentary from Ashton and certainly not from Gamechanger. Programme notes, a couple of reflections and updates on plans per year, plus an occasional fans forum are plenty for me. Last thing we need is people sticking their beaks in about match performances.
I think that’s fair, but your opening post is a bit premature. Maybe he won’t be able to fix this, but he has pulled us out of slumps before. Granted, not by buying his way out. My fear is that the more players we get the more confused and muddled we get. I think that’s why he’s sticking with the likes of Clarke to see if we can start developing partnerships.
When we start making wholesale changes is probably when we need to worry that he’s losing it. Clarke, Philogene and Sammie downplay a lot of football last year. And with Azor and Taylor behind them that’s almost a new midfield/forward line that needs to get used to each other. I think we need time (I hope that’s all it is and I’m not sure how much time).
Me too. A bit too much sentimentality. Given they were paying millions on wages I’m sure they could have bunged as a million or so for a fee. It’s nothing in the grand scheme of things, but would feel a bit less like we’d gift wrapped them a present.
I don’t buy that. He transformed a team that looked very poor under Cook, so deserves credit for both of the promotions imo. Ultimately his time will be up, but he’s already made idiots out of impatient fans twice when we had blips. The hard part is knowing when it’s a blip or the start of something more worrying. I think we’re in blip still (probably).
He was very important. Azor’s a good player but not the leader Morsy was. We’ve lost Burgess too who was also a leader. Of course Morsy is replaceable (we’ve had much better in the past), but he’s a loss nonetheless. It’s a shame we didn’t try a bit harder to keep him for another year.
We’ve retained more than I expected, so that part has been good/lucky. Azor and Akpom look pretty strong to me. Clarke and Billy Jean were already here and they were the physical weak links. It’s not clicking with those 2 at the moment. They’re not working well with their fullbacks, whoever’s at 10 or Hirst. Ironically given the stick he’s getting Clarke seems to be linking up the better of the two.
I’m more worried than excited tbh. We seem to think buying more players is the answer when we’ve got no identity with a team of largely Championship ‘stars’ of the last few seasons. Hopefully it’ll come together at some point.
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Lol, rant over.