Swansea have a tiny wage bill now. Ours is enormous. Swansea's was similar last season but now Guehi, Woodman and Ayew have gone.Originally Posted by The Hooded Claw
Warnock inherited a squad that was hard to beat and workmanlike under Slade. Trollope tried to change it but he couldn't, as for a start he isn't a very good manager. Telling Morrison, Ralls, Gunnar, Connolly etc to play Warnock football suited them down to the ground.
Before that, Mackay had made us incredibly hard to beat and disciplined, which is why OGS fell flat on his face. It is much, much harder to train a side to play football than be solid. It is a long process, especially when we've spent 6/7/8 seasons hoofing it up the line.
Also, our squad isn't good enough to do those things. Our midfielders can't play quick, passing moving football. We don't have any wingers either. Our strikers are big, powerful blokes and there is a lack of pace. We will struggle to play passing football with Moore and Collins together. If signings like Wintle come off, then we might be able to. Our best players, bar Moore, are the centre halves and as much as they like to, they can't play. There is a big summer ahead of us in 2022 and it will be very interesting what happens and we have lots of flexibility to do what MM (or whoever is in charge wants), as there are so many players out of contract.
Crucially fanbase also has zero patience, and most will tolerate bad football with results over anything else. If the football is bad and you don't get results, you've got zero positives but most of the managers we've had, have been effective.
Also, and at the risk of sounding like a broken record, we wouldn't be having this discussion if Warnock didn't piss Ł100m up the wall. Flint, Pack and Vaulks have turned it around, as have a few others but most of them have been abject failures.
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