*when* Ade decides to take a few extra weeks coming back.Jeez! I actually agree with Sherwood. We'll be very thin on the ground during the ACN, especially if Ade decides to take a few extra weeks coming back.
Yes, because we all know that Soldado does exist. He pops up every 70 minutes and misses from 4 yards.Presumably he's talking from the same perspective he took at the end of last season, that Soldado doesn't exist.
well a) he hadn't had the chance to assess the squad then; give Poch six months and he will be demanding a new striker; and b) there was no ANC last season.This would be the same guy (asswipe) who said "no thank you Daniel", to any January transfer money saying he could get top 4 with what he had.
Wait a minutewell a) he hadn't had the chance to assess the squad then; give Poch six months and he will be demanding a new striker; and b) there was no ANC last season.
Yes, the pressure - and lack of support from Levy - got to him. And he tinkered too much, to the point of confuisng everyone, including, I suspect, himself.Sherwood has always spoken sensibly about football and seems to have an eye for a player.
But he went mad when given the top job and had to go.
Yes, the pressure - and lack of support from Levy - got to him. And he tinkered too much, to the point of confuisng everyone, including, I suspect, himself.
But I felt he might settled down given time, and I was concerned both that in losing him would be a waste of the six months he had to assess the squad, and that his passion for youth development - which is our only realsistic strategy for breaking into the top four - would not be shared by his successor. But Poch has taken most, if not all, the decisions I would have expected Tim to take - such as ditching Sandro and Holtby and persisting with Bentaleb - and crucially seems to have more buy-in from the players, to him personally and to what he is asking of them. He has actually succeeded in getting them to do some pressing, something both AVB and Tim talked about a lot, but which never seemed to happen. The club seems happier - of course, that might be tested by a few more results like the Liverpool one, but hopefully not. The real concern is that whereas Tim groped around to find tactical solutions in individual games, with admittedly mixed results, Poch seems rather too wedded to Plan A. Plan A, is a good plan, I like it, but it does make us a bit easy to suss out.
Based more on his time at Soton, where this was a criticism fans made of him. But yes, hopefully he will show he can be adaptable.Bit early to say Poch is 'rather too wedded to Plan A'. If Liverpool had played like they did v Man City we would have been able to have a pop at them. Fact is, they bounced back and gave us a bit of a seeing to. Apart from that game we've looked OK given that we can only play what's in front of us. 3 games isn't enough time to make such sweeping statements IMO.