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His recruitment seems good but the manager selection has been awful
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His recruitment seems good but the manager selection has been awful
Seems like what we heard about Juventus situation is true.His recruitment seems good but the manager selection has been awful
I don't know how you can say he didn't significantly improve the squad. It's too early to judge one way or another, but if I had to decide now, I'd say Romero, Emerson, and Gil are a big improvement. Romero and Emerson are much better than their alternatives, and Gil is a good rotation player on top of being a young talent with obvious potential.He persuaded Levy to appoint Nuno. He pulled the plug on fonseca because he was 'too attacking'
He finished the window leaving us incredibly light on attack while not improving the squad greatly
He seriously has to be questionned. So far a dissapointment!
I don't know how you can say he didn't significantly improve the squad. It's too early to judge one way or another, but if I had to decide now, I'd say Romero, Emerson, and Gil are a big improvement. Romero and Emerson are much better than their alternatives, and Gil is a good rotation player on top of being a young talent with obvious potential.
Yeah, I said it was too early to judge, but if I had to say, Emerson definitely looks better than any RB we had for a long time. Saying he had one poor match, without mentioning it was after he was with the squad for two days, with the team down to ten men, and with Davies at CB, is a borderline misleading.We upgraded CB & RB whilst adding a player who is one for the future, but also lost Bale from last season who was by a distance our 3rd top scorer, and lost CF depth in Vinicius who was providing cover for Europe. Sissoko and Lamela were pretty useless, but again .. depth which wasn't replaced.
So 'significantly' improving the squad from last season is certainly debatable. As is saying Emerson is 'much better' than the alternatives when so far for my money he's had one solid game and one poor/meh one. I fully expect him to be better, but the jury is still very much out.