Look this is not a doom and gloom thread but anyone else feel a little underwhelmed by our signings last window ? Don't get me wrong some good players there and they may gel into a great team. But anyone feel the wow factor is missing ?
I have yet to see anything that gets you up off your feet take this marcovic guy I can see he has talent but how come against west ham he can't get in the side ? The money we paid he should be right in the first team. Maybe he is being weaned into the premiership but why? Not concentrating on him but it seems odd. Llanna as well not bad but should we not be expecting far more than not bad ? Balotelli potentially he could be a star but again we have bought a car on the cheap because it's been in an accident potentially a bargain potentially you find out there is a crack in the chasis.
For over a hundred million does it not seem a mite flat to you ?
Like I say not having a pop just wondered if others felt the same way or I am missing something ?
Yours faithfully
Stanley park
There's only three simple things that need fixing imo, and they in order of preference are:
1. Quality
2. Quality
3. Quality
That's what we lost and that's what we didn't replace. Why? Because the club has a very definite recruitment policy in place, based on the Moneyball concept, something that was tried with varying degrees of success and failure in Baseball and we're the quinea pigs in an experiment to transfer it to football. This concept calls for buying cheap and selling dear and you get a snowball effect, similar to when a snowball rolls down a mountain side, it grows and grows, as per the nursery story. Well it looks like we're on our way down the mountainside all right, but nothing is growing as per the plan, except our concerns and frustration! In the meantime we have an ass load of prospects and no quality, so there you have the nursery story, or fairy tale or whatever you'd like to call it!
