by From Despair To Where? » 07 Nov 2017 06:50
by Hound » 07 Nov 2017 08:23
by Vision » 07 Nov 2017 08:44
by Hound » 07 Nov 2017 08:57
by Snowflake Royal » 07 Nov 2017 12:37
From Despair To Where? It's easy to forget, Stam inherited a piss awful squad in piss awful form. That's absolutely not the circumstances to be using academy players. His dealings last summer were all about getting bodies into the squad and by and large he did ok (Weiser being the only wtf signing). I think Meite was a punt too good to pass by and IIRC, the club had been scouting him for a considerable time anyway.
This summer, despite the failure to sign striker, there has been more method to the deals. I just find it bizarre people are criticising Stam for not playing youth when actually, for the first time since the start of Brian's first spell, we're starting to get the balance right.
by Hound » 07 Nov 2017 12:45
by From Despair To Where? » 07 Nov 2017 13:00
by Snowflake Royal » 07 Nov 2017 18:04
by Hound » 07 Nov 2017 20:29
by From Despair To Where? » 07 Nov 2017 22:17
by WAZZOCK » 08 Nov 2017 07:43
by Sutekh » 08 Nov 2017 08:32
WAZZOCK Meite has all the raw attributes to be a superb player, I just think his footballing brain is holding him back currently. I see similarities with him and Kebe 08-10, but with a bit of guidance I could see him become a tidy player - hopefully that will be with us.
by Stranded » 08 Nov 2017 08:53
SutekhWAZZOCK Meite has all the raw attributes to be a superb player, I just think his footballing brain is holding him back currently. I see similarities with him and Kebe 08-10, but with a bit of guidance I could see him become a tidy player - hopefully that will be with us.
Anyone know how Meite's loan is going?
by Hound » 08 Nov 2017 09:35
SutekhWAZZOCK Meite has all the raw attributes to be a superb player, I just think his footballing brain is holding him back currently. I see similarities with him and Kebe 08-10, but with a bit of guidance I could see him become a tidy player - hopefully that will be with us.
Anyone know how Meite's loan is going?
by Sutekh » 08 Nov 2017 14:02
HoundSutekhWAZZOCK Meite has all the raw attributes to be a superb player, I just think his footballing brain is holding him back currently. I see similarities with him and Kebe 08-10, but with a bit of guidance I could see him become a tidy player - hopefully that will be with us.
Anyone know how Meite's loan is going?
this is an ok breakdown, put up yesterday
http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/footb ... s-13863963
by Hound » 08 Nov 2017 14:09
by Sutekh » 08 Nov 2017 16:46
Hound Bond's a strange one. They rated him last season as well from what I could gather. I'd have thought he'd been a good backup for Mannone tbh, but Stam doesnt seem to particularly like him at all
Obvs he didn't do brilliantly for us, but thought he had potential. Would be a little sad to see him just disappear at the end of his contract as seems likely
by SCIAG » 08 Nov 2017 16:54
From Despair To Where?SCIAG The young wingers should have been getting the minutes we've given to the likes of Hurtado, John, Harriott and Popa. Stacey could also have played wing-back when we were improvising with the likes of McCleary and Williams there. Tanner could potentially have got some of Grabban's minutes too. That's quite a sizeable amount of game time really, and would quite probably have been better for them than farming them out to play in a completely different style and a different position with a bunch of strangers and a manager who barely knows them.
Are you really arguing that players who struggled to get game time in League 2 should recalled and been selected ahead of an established international (Popa) and an established Championship striker (Grabban) in a team challenging for promotion to the Premiership?
by From Despair To Where? » 08 Nov 2017 17:51
by KC Royal » 08 Nov 2017 17:53
Hound All of those players on paper should have delivered much more than they did. Nobody would have been happy at the time if we hadn’t signed Grabban/Vydra and played a youth player instead
Basically some signings work and some don’t. Swift for example has ‘worked’ as at the moment have the likes of Bacuna and Barrow. We nearly all called Meite a fantastic signing at the time
Stam and co obvs didn’t think Stacey etc had the required quality (unlike possibly Kelly, Smith and Richards who he has given chances to) and so let them go - fair enough imo
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