Jim Tolmie's Underpants said:
Funny that the players who aren't "doing the job" are the players Hughes DIDN'T sign....
Funny that they are the very same players who also let Sven down last season and cost him his job....
Funny that the players who HAVE done a job this season are the players Hughes DID sign...
Funny old world, isn't it?
Do you know what, this is going to shock you this, but if someone gave me a job and paid me £50k a week, I would do a fucking great job for them. So no great shock that HIS players are working hard for him. However, it is not all about HIS players and should we sack all the players that aren't HIS players and replace them with players that are HIS players or should we expect the players that he came to the club knowing full fucking well what they were about, to want to work for him. Does every manager come in and sell all the players that aren't HIS players and bring in new....no. If he had no fucking money, like when he joined the club, then he would have to get the players he inherited working to their potential wouldn't he, but now we have money, you think it is reasonable to replace the likes of Elano, Richards, Petrov etc because they are not HIS players. Bollocks. The fact remains that if I asked you at the beginning of last season where we would be by Christmas if we had the same team, but with the addition of Jo, Robinho, Kompany etc, then you wouldn't have said fucking 3 points off rock bottom would you. I am sick to the back teeth of people blaming perfectly good players, who performed pretty well last season, for the failings of a manager that can't put out a sensible team or play football in a manner that suits the team. It is a complete fucking cop-out to keep blaming the players frankly and the notion that he needs to completely dismantle and rebuild a team that came 9th last season is fucking ridiculous. Yes the players need to ask themselves some questions, but the manager has to ask himself far fucking more questions. If the manager has lost the players, he has no fucking right to a few hundred million of our money to bring in players that like him. It's bollocks, it wouldn't happen at any other club and shouldn't happen here. People see the Arabs as a big blank chequebook and expect them to help a shite manager buy himself out of trouble, well that frankly fucking stinks.