Laughable that the manager is copping all the flack for that performance, people need to look at the underlying causes more closely.
We have no coherent plan regarding our transfer policy except to throw obscene amounts of money around on fees for average players most of the time. Some may complain about a 'City tax' but do we really need to be forking out amounts nearing 30 million and 50 million for an immobile striker and Aaron Lennon's long lost twin? We also pay ridiculous wages to these players which makes it rather hard to move them on when the time comes.
Now, is this recruitment policy solely down to the manager or should fingers be pointed elsewhere? Our director of football seems to get off scot free in these discussions with some vehemently defending our transfer policy after the evidence points in the other direction.
You can reel off name after name that we've bought since the summer after we won the league under Mancini in which we've over paid for average dross and this is where the problem lies. Could you imagine having to sell Bony - which we will try to do this summer - we'll have to pay his contract up and let him go for around 10 million which means we probably won't get a penny back for him. Same for Fernando, Mangala and I'd put Sterling in that bracket too.
You can talk about tactics and motivation all day with justification but the simple fact is we have bought badly ever since Mancini asked for De Rossi, Van Perise and Hazard and ended up with Rodwell, Garcia and Scott Sinclair.
It’s really turning me off the club at present, just these fucking transfer circuses every summer in which we’re fleeced and exposed.
Your ire should be directed elsewhere.
Not by you alone , many on hear including those in the MP camp or would like him to honour his current contract have been spouting a complete overhaul in our squad.
It has to be because we will never get to within a bulls roar of the sides fighting for the Chumps League with this squad and lets face it we all know that.
Its either too old , too slow , too lightweight and too poorly managed and most of the names we tout every week as must starts are either too injury prone to even contribute long enough to make a significant marker in the premiership least of all in Europe.
We probably need a real kick up the back side in the premiership to make the owners fully appreciative of the fact that the players under Leslie and RM and most of those bought in under MP need to be shipped out and that won't be that easy given the wages they are on.
Kun , Silva and possibly Kevin and Joe are the only players who could represent us with some degree of certainty on the bigger stage and unfortunately Kun is a sicknote waiting to happen and Silva is too easily marked out of games where opposition press and can keep the ball with speed something we fail to do often enough.
Our transfer policy has been average at best and it has to get much better and if that means getting better people who can identify players who will gell quickly with others and stay relatively injury free then so be it.
They don't have to be big names , we just have to get smarter and tougher in our dealings.
Of course a much better manager than MP at getting us to do the basics and a much better mental attitude to every game would help but its only part of the solution.
