09-01-2021, 22:06
Spot on BaggieSteve, "you reap what you sow" is the saying that comes to mind.
While we're run by a couldn't care less chairman & board who are only where they are for the money, is it any wonder that they employ a manager with the same morals & integrity.
Yes, I liked Bilic but he signed his own dismissal papers with some bizarre selections, substitutions and tactics and as you say it's easy now to slate the signings, but we were all more than happy to get Diangana, Pereira and Krovinovic to a lesser extent back for another season. Grant was what we could get for the money we had even though my early thoughts are that we paid £14 million too much for him.
In Allardyce, we now have a mercenary journeyman who will fill the team with the same kind of player as himself to try and preserve his never been relegated status. Trouble is these 30+ year old players won't come for anything less than an 18 month contract, meaning they'll still be on the books for another season when we undoubtedly get relegated this season. If Allardyce keeps us up - fair play- he'll have done what he was paid to do, but it won't make me like him anymore than I do now and I'd still want him away from the club as far as possible.
As mentioned earlier, I agree I think he'll walk citing impossible circumstances to do his job, even from his opening interview "I'm ready to come back, I've still got the desire and passion". Bollocks, he's on a massive contract to keep us up and the only reason he'd been out of the game was that nobody else had asked.
Today, he's complaining about the quality of our penalties - it should never have got to penalties. League 1 v Premier League, you're having a laugh
While we're run by a couldn't care less chairman & board who are only where they are for the money, is it any wonder that they employ a manager with the same morals & integrity.
Yes, I liked Bilic but he signed his own dismissal papers with some bizarre selections, substitutions and tactics and as you say it's easy now to slate the signings, but we were all more than happy to get Diangana, Pereira and Krovinovic to a lesser extent back for another season. Grant was what we could get for the money we had even though my early thoughts are that we paid £14 million too much for him.
In Allardyce, we now have a mercenary journeyman who will fill the team with the same kind of player as himself to try and preserve his never been relegated status. Trouble is these 30+ year old players won't come for anything less than an 18 month contract, meaning they'll still be on the books for another season when we undoubtedly get relegated this season. If Allardyce keeps us up - fair play- he'll have done what he was paid to do, but it won't make me like him anymore than I do now and I'd still want him away from the club as far as possible.
As mentioned earlier, I agree I think he'll walk citing impossible circumstances to do his job, even from his opening interview "I'm ready to come back, I've still got the desire and passion". Bollocks, he's on a massive contract to keep us up and the only reason he'd been out of the game was that nobody else had asked.
Today, he's complaining about the quality of our penalties - it should never have got to penalties. League 1 v Premier League, you're having a laugh