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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.
I'm no great statistician and cannot remember fine details like some on here seem to be able to do, but I remember how I felt the time the news broke regarding Malkygate.
It was a feeling of ah feck, we are doomed now the press have got hold this... the task of survival is impossible.
At the time MM had a plan, a target of x amount of points after x amount of games and he was on course for that.
The argument that we hadn't scored enough goals playing very defensively and already doomed, I don't go along with.
The season before, the guy played the most boring football I'd ever witnessed watching the City but we pissed the league.
Of our record 11 home wins (or whatever it was) I enjoyed watching one maybe two.
We bored sides into submission and I believe we would have done so in the prem.
We shall never know how City would have finished the season had MM remained at the helm but I believe we would have survived, playing boring defensive football granted.
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.