Re: Where do Hudson and Lamouchi stand in the canon of City managers?
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Originally Posted by
LA Bluebird
Hudson I genuinely had no clue what the plan was other than to run about a bit and pass the ball around. It’s a low bar but to me Lamouchi cleared it. For whatever that is worth.
Yes, that's it in a nutshell. Lamouchi wasn't quite as shit as Hudson so some are of the opinion he's worth keeping on as we could end up with worse.
Similar scenario. Man goes to a pub for some food. It tastes like shit. The following week he goes to another pub for some food. It's not great by any means, but a little better than the first pub. A week later he returns to the second pub instead of looking for somewhere better again because it wasn't quite as bad as the first pub.
Re: Where do Hudson and Lamouchi stand in the canon of City managers?
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Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
Chopra was sold for £5m, we bought him back for £4m and sold him again for £1.5m.
McCormack went for a low 6 figure sum.
Loovens went for just over £2m
Ramsey was a steal at £5m
Johnson was sold for £5m
Jerome went for around £4m
Alexander's contract expired and he wasn't played at the end of his last season to avoid activating an appearance bonus.
Hasselbaink retired.
Heaton went on a free to Bristol City.
In addition, Chris Gunter went to Spurs for anything between £2-4m.
6 players left during Jones's time with us for £2m and more. Our seventh best transfer fee was £750k, miraculously paid to us for Steve McLean.
In all bar Jones's last season did we sell at least one player for millions, though in 2009/10 we used funds from the sale of Roger Johnson to spend millions on Chopra.
It is widely known that Jones and Ridsdale had a general policy of paying little or nothing in transfer fees and using that money to pay decent wages instead.
It might be interesting to note that 3 of the 6 million pound transfer fee players were bought during the time Jones was with us - Johnson, Loovens and Chopra, so it was hardly a case that Jones was regularly turning his transfers into million pound players.
In both 2009/10 and 2010/11 we spent more on transfers than we recouped.
:thumbup: Great stats
Good Manager in my book one of our best :thumbup:
