Hugo Viana to be new Director of Football (Official Announcement p17)

[Damanino]

He can start tomorrow. 1-2 signings need to be made early January he needs t be part of the conversation.

 

[argyle]

Txiki has left him a bit in the shit with an ageing squad and some players that aren't good enough.

 

[bonespost]

Not sure how people have managed it but this thread has descended into another depressed the end is nigh. You would think we are nailed on for relegation not comfortably in second place, sadly a lot of our fans are morphing into the self entitled fans like the Rags we have always detested

After what we have witnessed today ,Think some may be right .

 

[Manchester_lalala]

I hope he’s good at spending lots of cash because this team needs it after a couple years of neglect.

 

[Gorbachev]

He has got one monumental decisive summer coming up.

Could be the difference between retaining a title and CL challenge and battling top 4 for the next few years.

 

[Dawsenna]

I hope he’s good at spending lots of cash because this team needs it after a couple years of neglect.

Hopefully we might sign a couple of full backs for once

 

[M23 Citizen]

I think our period of dominance has come to a natural end. I feel we've had our time. Not a wind up, just my feeling.

It was always going to happen at some point becsuse we were so good. To remain at that level is just too hard to do. Nobody in English football history was as good as we were over 2017-18 to 2022-23. To ever think we could remain at that level was fanciful and there’s no disgrace in not being that good anymore.

We had a fanastic run of signings. For a number of years, we mostly signed excellent players and with only the odd dudd.
In the last three years, we’ve only signed the odd good player and it’s mostly just ‘okay’ players, 5th-8th in the Prem level players, for the rest of our signings, kids or promoted youth players.

With that happening year-on-year, it gradually sees the squad drop in quality each window. And we are now not the team we used to be.

2017-18 and 2018-19 City would hammer this 2024-25 City. We wouldn’t be able to live with this sort of football, even with Rodri fit:



If Sporting beat this current City team 4-1, imagine what that City team would do to this current City team.

The age thing I mentioned pages back is a big thing for me. We have nowhere near enough players in the 24-29 age bracket. A few injuries here and there and we are relying on too many injury prone 30+ years olds or those who look like time is ticking on for them, and kids.

The squad feels like it did in Pellegrini’s last and Pep’s first season. There needs to be a good few really good signings of some players who we aren’t hoping will be good in four years’ time or were good a few years ago. It feels like we need to sign players who are at the height of their fitness+strength and quality+abiltiy with some 24-29 year olds being signed.

Either that, or let’s build a young team and improve over a few years as they all come into their prime together.

It won’t take that much to create a top side again. Look at how bad we looked at times in 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons and then how good we looked by 2017-18. And we are still in with a shout for trophies this season because look how average Arsenal look, look how average Madrid look… top teams aren’t as top as they used to be like some previous Barça teams, previous Madrid teams, previous City and Liverpool teams. Everything is still up for grabs. But we are also just part of the rest of those teams who aren’t truly top quality anymore.

 

[Delphinho]

Could be a busy man in the summer

 

[Blu1]

Did tixi shaft us this summer ?

Let’s hope we are sorting new players now

 

[AlexGrimaldo]

Never liked this guy
He is a c*nt well known here in Portugal. He is from my location. Hope he does well. But honestly i dont see nothing special on him. Ruben was the guy that changed Sporting. Period.