Would you want Coyle as manager next season?
I personally would:
He would have kept a relegation candidate with hardly any money in the premier league for three years. If Megson was still our manager we would be gone, I firmly believe that.
He inherited a poor squad with ageing players and has pretty much had to go about replacing most of them (on hardly any budget)
In my opinion the players he brings in are generally good. His first four signings were: Stuart Holden, Martin Petrov, Marcos Alonso and Robbie Blake. Blake is poor but the rest are good and all four cost us around £1.5 millish.
Compared to Megsons first four.. Tamir Cohen, Grétar Steinsson, Matthew Taylor and Gary Cahill, on which we spent the best part of 15 mill from Anelka.. and in my opinion we receive one above average player: Taylor and one good player, Cahill.. who was later paired with Zat Knight.. for 4 million.. ouch.
His loan signings are some of the best in the league: Wilshere, Sturridge and Ryo.. some dodgy ones in between but one important loan every season is good work.
I thought getting 7 mill for Cahill was great business, I know a lot of you don't, but we got no higher offers in the summer and a lot of people thought he would walk for free. And Ream + Sordell are looking like good buys.
Im not totally bias to Coyle like this thread may seem though. Some of his tactics are questionable, the thing which annoys me the most is our inability to attack and defend set pieces, and this NEEDS to be addressed heavily over the summer.
However I hate clubs who don't give managers time, assuming were (hopefully) still in the PL, next year is the real one for Coyle. Hes had his chance to completely reform the squad and can get rid of deadweight, and Chungy + Holden are back. If its more of the same next year then I will say thats it, he can't do it and needs to leave.
But at the moment I don't think things are going as badly as some say considering the lack of money and the way Megson set about ruining our squad. I honestly think that next year we won't be part of this fecking relegation battle any more.
I personally would:
He would have kept a relegation candidate with hardly any money in the premier league for three years. If Megson was still our manager we would be gone, I firmly believe that.
He inherited a poor squad with ageing players and has pretty much had to go about replacing most of them (on hardly any budget)
In my opinion the players he brings in are generally good. His first four signings were: Stuart Holden, Martin Petrov, Marcos Alonso and Robbie Blake. Blake is poor but the rest are good and all four cost us around £1.5 millish.
Compared to Megsons first four.. Tamir Cohen, Grétar Steinsson, Matthew Taylor and Gary Cahill, on which we spent the best part of 15 mill from Anelka.. and in my opinion we receive one above average player: Taylor and one good player, Cahill.. who was later paired with Zat Knight.. for 4 million.. ouch.
His loan signings are some of the best in the league: Wilshere, Sturridge and Ryo.. some dodgy ones in between but one important loan every season is good work.
I thought getting 7 mill for Cahill was great business, I know a lot of you don't, but we got no higher offers in the summer and a lot of people thought he would walk for free. And Ream + Sordell are looking like good buys.
Im not totally bias to Coyle like this thread may seem though. Some of his tactics are questionable, the thing which annoys me the most is our inability to attack and defend set pieces, and this NEEDS to be addressed heavily over the summer.
However I hate clubs who don't give managers time, assuming were (hopefully) still in the PL, next year is the real one for Coyle. Hes had his chance to completely reform the squad and can get rid of deadweight, and Chungy + Holden are back. If its more of the same next year then I will say thats it, he can't do it and needs to leave.
But at the moment I don't think things are going as badly as some say considering the lack of money and the way Megson set about ruining our squad. I honestly think that next year we won't be part of this fecking relegation battle any more.