Warnock getting the band back together?

[jon1959]

Good few stories today not only suggesting that Sol Bamba may get a one year contract at the Riverside, but also that Warnock is trying to bring in Junior Hoilett and Kadeem Harris (now a free agent). Added to that Mendez-Laing is in discussions with Boro after his cameo last season, and I saw one claim that Warnock is also looking at Calum Paterson.

If I was a Boro fan I think I would be worried not excited.

[dembethewarrior]

Re: Warnock getting the band back together?

Bloody hell


Feel for them

[surge]

Re: Warnock getting the band back together?

Warnock screwed us over with long, expensive contracts for players too similar to each other thus creating a large but unbalanced and limited squad.

One year contracts for old favourites is Chapter One and Two in the Warnock story where the next Chapter is Championship success and the final Chapter is long, expensive...you get the idea.

Boro should be looking for their next manager now.

[LeningradCowboy]

Re: Warnock getting the band back together?

Good few stories today not only suggesting that Sol Bamba may get a one year contract at the Riverside, but also that Warnock is trying to bring in Junior Hoilett and Kadeem Harris (now a free agent). Added to that Mendez-Laing is in discussions with Boro after his cameo last season, and I saw one claim that Warnock is also looking at Calum Paterson.

If I was a Boro fan I think I would be worried not excited.

Perhaps Warnock is doing a favour for some of his old players and trying to drum up interest in them from other clubs? I'll be surprised if Middlesbrough sign any of that lot apart from Hoilett.

[2b2bdoo]

Re: Warnock getting the band back together?

Good few stories today not only suggesting that Sol Bamba may get a one year contract at the Riverside, but also that Warnock is trying to bring in Junior Hoilett and Kadeem Harris (now a free agent). Added to that Mendez-Laing is in discussions with Boro after his cameo last season, and I saw one claim that Warnock is also looking at Calum Paterson.

If I was a Boro fan I think I would be worried not excited.

Tbh this is what Warnock did well, picking up a few frees and getting the most out of them. I thinkBamba is pushing it but the others all have something to offer. It's his big money signings that we're the issue.

[Sunnysideup]

Re: Warnock getting the band back together?

Jobs for the boys 🤨

[dml1954]

Re: Warnock getting the band back together?

Warnock screwed us over with long, expensive contracts for players too similar to each other thus creating a large but unbalanced and limited squad.

One year contracts for old favourites is Chapter One and Two in the Warnock story where the next Chapter is Championship success and the final Chapter is long, expensive...you get the idea.

Boro should be looking for their next manager now.

Yeah right, he really screwed us over - got a relegation threatened championship team into the Premier League within 18 months by spending around £10m and brought in about £120m of extra revenue in the process. Honest to god I really do despair with the attitude of some people on here. Boro fans should be rubbing their hands in glee.if they have any sense.

[dembethewarrior]

Re: Warnock getting the band back together?

Yeah right, he really screwed us over - got a relegation threatened championship team into the Premier League within 18 months by spending around £10m and brought in about £120m of extra revenue in the process. Honest to god I really do despair with the attitude of some people on here. Boro fans should be rubbing their hands in glee.if they have any sense.

#tryhard

[RonnieBird]

Re: Warnock getting the band back together?

Yeah right, he really screwed us over - got a relegation threatened championship team into the Premier League within 18 months by spending around £10m and brought in about £120m of extra revenue in the process. Honest to god I really do despair with the attitude of some people on here. Boro fans should be rubbing their hands in glee.if they have any sense.

+ 1

[The Hooded Claw]

Re: Warnock getting the band back together?

Yeah right, he really screwed us over - got a relegation threatened championship team into the Premier League within 18 months by spending around £10m and brought in about £120m of extra revenue in the process. Honest to god I really do despair with the attitude of some people on here. Boro fans should be rubbing their hands in glee.if they have any sense.

Is that you again, Blackie? 🤣

I’d be surprised if he went for Kadeem / didn’t he release him?

[Rjk]

Re: Warnock getting the band back together?

Yeah right, he really screwed us over - got a relegation threatened championship team into the Premier League within 18 months by spending around £10m and brought in about £120m of extra revenue in the process. Honest to god I really do despair with the attitude of some people on here. Boro fans should be rubbing their hands in glee.if they have any sense.

he did fantastically to get us promoted, and that's about it really.
since relegation we've had an unfair advantage over many other teams in this league in terms of parachute payments. we have completely squandered it on inflated wages and fees for average players. we should have been left amongst the strongest teams in the league, but I don't think anyone would say that now.
he left us with an ageing, completely unbalanced squad, and some players who weren't performing with years to run on huge wages and little chance to move them on. Several transfer windows later we are still trying to clean up the mess.

Brentford's plan for promotion assumes that they may get relegated twice over the next 5 years but they will take the opportunity to invest and to come back stronger. we've been relegated twice and now are weaker than in years.
we didn't bring ANY youth players through under his watch, now under different managers they get some game time and surprise surprise they are good enough.
he gave a 34 year old Sol Bamba another year contract when he was in the middle of recovering from a cruciate ligament injury.

he definitely has some real strengths, but unchecked he did a lot of damage to the club as well as the good stuff

[Cleve van Leef]

Re: Warnock getting the band back together?

Yeah right, he really screwed us over - got a relegation threatened championship team into the Premier League within 18 months by spending around £10m and brought in about £120m of extra revenue in the process. Honest to god I really do despair with the attitude of some people on here. Boro fans should be rubbing their hands in glee.if they have any sense.

[WJ99mobile]

Re: Warnock getting the band back together?

Warnock screwed us over with long, expensive contracts for players too similar to each other thus creating a large but unbalanced and limited squad.

One year contracts for old favourites is Chapter One and Two in the Warnock story where the next Chapter is Championship success and the final Chapter is long, expensive...you get the idea.

Boro should be looking for their next manager now.

Personally I think 'balance' is overrated. If you can be a fit, fast, physical team a few years ago you could bulldoze teams - Look at the Stoke era. On the flip side I would say the Man City pep team is a team again lacking in substantial 'difference' but unbelievably balanced.

I think the problem is physicality has been ebbed out of the game over the last few years with rules and changes to the way the game is played and just doesn't have the same impact it used to.

On the subject of Warnock specifically he just keeps buying crap players

[dml1954]

Re: Warnock getting the band back together?

he did fantastically to get us promoted, and that's about it really.
since relegation we've had an unfair advantage over many other teams in this league in terms of parachute payments. we have completely squandered it on inflated wages and fees for average players. we should have been left amongst the strongest teams in the league, but I don't think anyone would say that now.
he left us with an ageing, completely unbalanced squad, and some players who weren't performing with years to run on huge wages and little chance to move them on. Several transfer windows later we are still trying to clean up the mess.

Brentford's plan for promotion assumes that they may get relegated twice over the next 5 years but they will take the opportunity to invest and to come back stronger. we've been relegated twice and now are weaker than in years.
we didn't bring ANY youth players through under his watch, now under different managers they get some game time and surprise surprise they are good enough.
he gave a 34 year old Sol Bamba another year contract when he was in the middle of recovering from a cruciate ligament injury.

he definitely has some real strengths, but unchecked he did a lot of damage to the club as well as the good stuff

To be fair, I think that an extra year for Bamba was the least the club could do after what was achieved with him here. It was worth it just to see if he could fully recover and we have no idea what the terms agreed for the extra year were anyway. Plus it would have seemed even more unfair if we had chucked him on the scrap heap bearing in mind he shortly after fell ill with cancer.

Why cant we all just remember what was achieved by Warnock anyway, instead of continually carping on about the last 6 months of his tenure. He came pretty damn close to keeping us in the Premier League as well, which would have been another miracle as everybody has us down as relegation certs, including quite a few of the people on here