[javro]

From all the threads I read it seems that the majority of people think that our saviours are waiting to get fit or are on the bench ? Well apart from Pog and Gamboa, Im not really convinced that any of the others are that great a signing. I think we have signed a few duds and a lot of overpaid average players. Baird ? Has anybody seen Brown score sh.. loads of goals anywhere I've watched him in the under 21s and in the first team and he doesn't look a top striker to me. Lescot is miles off top fitness despite his USA fitness stint he's lost a lot of pace.
Davidson is bang average with no pace and was murdered at Swansea and in the under 21s against wolves even their kids ran past him. What about Blanco well average pace and watching him in Europe doesn't go past anyone or take anyone on and that what he did today. Varella where is he and why so long to get fit is he really that great and will he tear apart the left side ? Gardner still looks average to me. Wisdom is a strange loan for me as I would rather see one of our own or spend the money on a very established right back. So far hes been found out defensively( but will get better in a few years but that's no benefit to us just yet) and I don't feel he will offer anything more at centre back ? Samaras well are we going to get someone that's going to work his b.... off ask the Celtic fans they didn't get a full shift consistently.
We have to remember AI is the 'coach' not the manager. The team is picked by Downing that's why he's so essential to every new manager (coach) whos linked with the club and is invaluable to JP. Downing would never take the managers position fulltime because if it all went wrong he would lose a very powerful comfortable position. Next point is who is making all these signings and why so late and is there any craft to ensuring there is a correct balance or mix or are these wild guesses and left overs that no one else wants (apart from the two I pointed out initially ie Pog and Gamboa) My reservation about Pog in the way that he plays he will never last 90 mins ? Maybe Im wrong maybe someone else has a view here ? One thing I am certain of though is that a lot of these duds are blocking the way of younger more exciting talent ?