Who was better in your opinion.

wanderlust wrote:Megson spent a fortune on average signings thereby accelerating our financial decline so that Coyle and now Freedman had to rebuild an unsustainable and failing team with no budget. If Coyle had half the nett spend that Megson had he would have kept us up, but he was forced into letting decent players go in order to spend anything.
Didn't help himself by adopting a long-term strategy based on survival whilst the youth players came through as the stopgap players he brought in were crap and we didn't survive albeit narrowly.
Megson kept us up by throwing money at the problem. Coyle took us down by releasing expensive players and not replacing them. Both seemed to work at ideological extremes, but of the two I'd say Coyle was marginally better as with a bit of good luck and a lot less bad luck (especially with injuries to key players) we would have survived long enough to get back on an even keel.

Michael Bolton wrote:

wanderlust wrote:Megson spent a fortune on average signings thereby accelerating our financial decline so that Coyle and now Freedman had to rebuild an unsustainable and failing team with no budget. If Coyle had half the nett spend that Megson had he would have kept us up, but he was forced into letting decent players go in order to spend anything.
Didn't help himself by adopting a long-term strategy based on survival whilst the youth players came through as the stopgap players he brought in were crap and we didn't survive albeit narrowly.
Megson kept us up by throwing money at the problem. Coyle took us down by releasing expensive players and not replacing them. Both seemed to work at ideological extremes, but of the two I'd say Coyle was marginally better as with a bit of good luck and a lot less bad luck (especially with injuries to key players) we would have survived long enough to get back on an even keel.

Wanderlust, this idea that Mugson kept us up by throwing money at the problem is slightly flawed. Mugson spent £36m in his time at the club but he did sell Anelka for £15m, Diouf £3m, Nolan £4m, Faye £2m, Michalik £500k, Speed £250k and Meite £2m. Total net spend approx £9.5m over 2 and a bit seasons. Is that really throwing money at it?

bwfc71 wrote:people didn't believe me!

Bernard Dennis Park wrote:

bwfc71 wrote:people didn't believe me!

I wonder why

waynagain wrote:Freedman has already proved that he is more interested in money than loyalty to a club, so when he leaves us for more money somewhere else, don't be surprised.

bwfc1874 wrote:
Exactly. As I said on the other thread, people have decided that just because he was negative he knew what he was doing tactically. Quite the opposite was true.

bwfc1874 wrote:

waynagain wrote:Freedman has already proved that he is more interested in money than loyalty to a club, so when he leaves us for more money somewhere else, don't be surprised.

I think it's ambition not money that drives him, surely you can see how we're a far more attractive proposition than Palace?

Not that I think he'll be loyal to us if an offer comes in from a bigger team, just that I don't buy into this Palace theory he joined us purely for the money.

waynagain wrote:

Ambition? He left a team who were looking at automatic promotion (and are now a Prem team) to come to a team who were close to the bottom of the division. He got MORE MONEY from Bolton and he'll be off again when somebody else offers him more money.

waynagain wrote:

bwfc1874 wrote:

waynagain wrote:Freedman has already proved that he is more interested in money than loyalty to a club, so when he leaves us for more money somewhere else, don't be surprised.

I think it's ambition not money that drives him, surely you can see how we're a far more attractive proposition than Palace?

Not that I think he'll be loyal to us if an offer comes in from a bigger team, just that I don't buy into this Palace theory he joined us purely for the money.

Ambition? He left a team who were looking at automatic promotion (and are now a Prem team) to come to a team who were close to the bottom of the division. He got MORE MONEY from Bolton and he'll be off again when somebody else offers him more money.