Game before villa away we beat Swansea at home.
Game after villa away we drew with man utd at home.
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Game before villa away we beat Swansea at home.
Game after villa away we drew with man utd at home.
WE FINISHED BOTTOM.Originally Posted by lardy
The leagues don't finish in November
Er yeah, that's my point.
No, your point is, we would have stayed up IF I can't spell Malky remained manager.Er yeah, that's my point.
My point is, we were already in decline and getting worse.
I actually said someone better than ole could possibly have kept us up by winning two games that were certainly winnable and another point elsewhere. Didn't mention malky as by that point his position was untenable and didn't say 'would'.
The thread has been, by in large, a discussion on Mackay. We'd got 9 points in 13 since October, and we won 3 games under OGS. God, he was an awful, awful manager. Either way, the squad wasn't good enough as our big signings were defensively minded (Medel and Caulker), or a flop (ACorn). We didn't have any PL quality attacking players, bar Mutch, who couldn't stay fit. 32 goals in 38 games tells it's own story.
Which is why I deliberately said "someone better than ole" to show that I wasn't talking about only malky.
Ole, unfortunately for us given the timing, was the worst City manager I've seen when it came to setting up and organising a team.
Spot on. We were in freefall.
Who knows what would've happened if Malky had had the January window to improve the squad?
Yes, we weren't doing very well, but OGS had the January window and managed to spend a shitload of money to make us even worse.
To be fair, OGS only (only!) spent about £10m in the Jan window, on MWE, Daehli, Berget, Fabio and Zaha's loan. It didn't help they were all flops (bar Fabio) but OGS really came into his own in the summer. Adeyemi, ALF, Dikaghoi, Macheda, Burgstaller, Guerra etc. What a manager...
After the way he wasted 35m in the summer (the highest budget by some distance for a newly promoted Premier League team at time) he shouldnt have been given any money to spend in January.
The fact we found some other mugs to give us our money back for Caulker, and after a good World Cup managed to get our money back on Medel, as some Malky apostles are keen to point out is of no real comfort after getting relegated.
The 35m he was given to improve the squad is like a newly promoted club getting 70-100m in the current transfer market, and should have given us a far better chance of staying up that what it did.
We were not a side that were free scoring in the Championship and the fact he didnt address this out of the 35m he was given was shameful.
Hull and Palace spent a fraction of what we did that season, but spent it wisely and stayed up comfortably.
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