Who put this squad together?

[LBLOCK]

Last night we effectively had this line up:

A young on loan keeper

4 centre backs

6 midfielders - two of which have proved time and time again CANNOT play centre mid together.

We made changes to this by bringing on a bloke we bought at left back who we actually thought was Dan Fox; yet another midfielder on loan from Spurs who is total class but a tad overweight.
We then threw on another midfielder to effectively win us the game against a side just above being semi-pro.

Left on the bench was our only senior keeper who is "ours" and a couple of strikers who may trouble the trade description act if labelling themselves as an attacking forward in their job title.

All this being managed by a somewhat rookie manager who failed at one of our rivals and abley assisted by a jock who has a somewhat mixed career path to date.

Whoever sanctioned all this and the circa £5 million a year it must cost to finance needs to explain all to The Springbok after we draw against Peterborough and then take to the stocks to have their backside soundly kicked by 400 fans!

:devil:

[ollyhoops]

Well I think he was experimenting with a different system and squad, it didn't work out, so we won't see that line up again soon...

I still think he is on borrowed time.

[qpruleok]

keeper was man of the match and looks quality

[sirpiechucker]

That as I've just said on another thread is the problem because nobody since day one of the takeover has been given 100% responsibility and authority to bring in the players. We've had Briatore players (Ledesma, Parejo etc), Sousa players (Routledge, Lopez), Magiltion players (Faurlin, Pellicori) and Paladini players (Buzsaky, Agyemang etc).

Instead of employing managers and saying to them that they have no input into who we sign we give them some sort of half responsibility. You can sign X as long as I can sign Y.

Under these current owners Paladini will be at the club a lot longer than Magilton and therefore rightly or wrongly he should be given the opportunity to build a squad. If "his" squad fails then he should be fired. Instead what happens is he escapes the firing line because the manager wants responsibility for something that he has no authority over and when he fails he is accountable.