goalscrounger
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If (and this is an unsubstantiated if) Akpom is strutting around like he doesn't give a **** then surely it makes perfect sense not to contaminate the team spirit on an away trip?
Do you think Warnock is not a strong enough person to say "I don't want him" if he in fact didn't. Why do people praise his signings and a soon as there is a dud its down to the recruitment team. He would not let the recruitment team dictate to him. He might not have been his first choice(remember we had the guy who was overweight first) but he was his choice.I’m honestly not sure if Warnock is trying to make a point here, regarding recruitment. I’m not convinced he wanted Akpom and his signing is purely down to the recruitment team, which has been known for seasons is p@as poor.
Im probably totally wrong but it seems strange that he’d be left out of Warnock chose to buy this player.
Yes I think it was. Kids 16 now thoughWas it about Akpom that the manager said he was having interrupted sleep due to a recent baby? And that was having a negative impact on this game.
Or was that about someone else?
Very good!Yes I think it was. Kids 16 now though
I’m not saying that, I’m suggesting that Akpom is the best they have come up with and as usual the forward isn’t good enough. The club has a history of signing players managers haven’t wanted.Do you think Warnock is not a strong enough person to say "I don't want him" if he in fact didn't. Why do people praise his signings and a soon as there is a dud its down to the recruitment team. He would not let the recruitment team dictate to him. He might not have been his first choice(remember we had the guy who was overweight first) but he was his choice.
Maybe he is correct in what he gives has his reasons.
It doesn’t. What it does have is a history of managers taking credit for signings only to then attempt to distance themselves from those that don’t work out.I’m not saying that, I’m suggesting that Akpom is the best they have come up with and as usual the forward isn’t good enough. The club has a history of signing players managers haven’t wanted.
It's calearly an attempt to force Akpom to look for a move elsewhere. He has already said he wants three new strikers too, we don't need 4 if we only play 1 up top.“I didn’t want to waste his time.”
This is what Warnock said when asked why Akpom wasn’t involved. He said he was only going to bring one striker on and it would be Coburn, so Akpom travelling would be wasting his time and he’d “probably be quite happy” he could stay at home.
The club are paying Akpom’s wages. Should they be asking why they are paying for players to sit on their arses while their teammates are off playing games? Or why we are leaving fit, senior players out when we can’t fill a bench?
I don’t understand this style of management, I have to be honest. It is weird.
I agree his goal scoring record isn't great, and the assessment that he doesn't attack the ball with enough desire and aggression is true, but to just put it in proper context, he has played a lot of games on the wing in his career.Just for the record I don't rate Akpom at all, according to wiki he's scored 5 in 36 for us and when be was at Hull 3 in 36.
I reckon I could score 5 goals in 36 games if I hung around the penalty box, which is effectively what Akpom does. His movement is poor, he's not aggressive enough, no threat in the air and his first touch is just OK. I would sell him if we could...
No.It doesn’t. What it does have is a history of managers taking credit for signings only to then attempt to distance themselves from those that don’t work out.Pho.
We couldn't move on Britt / Fletcher and Rudy due to massive wages. We could have put them on sale for 1mil but why leave for another champo club who'd pay half of what we are?He may well have been happy to sign Akpom at the time, as he did say he was, but may have been as disappointed as many have with the player he signed and want to move him on now.
I wish the club had done the same with the puddings Gestede, Assombolonga and Fletcher and got rid of them three years earlier than they did.
Everyone makes a mistake with a signing, dealing with that mistake quickly is to be commended.
We couldn't move on Britt / Fletcher and Rudy due to massive wages. We could have put them on sale for 1mil but why leave for another champo club who'd pay half of what we are?
I guess with Akpom we will get some money back. The other 3 duds nothing for an outlay of 28mil
Those players, everyone mentions them but nobody mentions, say, Clayton or Ayala or Tomlin. Or Vossen. Or Nugent, or Shay Given. Do you think Karanka hand-picked those players as well? Or do you think the club run a recruitment staff who are actively scouting and recommending players to a manager or head coach who knows full well what the system is before a ball is kicked or a player is bought? I don't get why some of our supporters seem to think our men in the dugout are shrinking violets who have to suffer a dysfunctional club forcing their dysfunctional signings onto them. Do you really see Karanka, Warnock, Pulis sitting back and allowing Bausor or someone sat behind a computer to spend their budget, hamper the sessions and team team set-up when it is their jobs on the line? Or do you not think there is even a slight chance that will be some sort of collaborative element behind what the club do when looking at players and potential signings? And some of these managers who have players forced onto them, why don't any of them ever resign? Presumably they've been lied to, or misled, about the way the club works in the build-up to them being appointed? Who would want to manage/work for a club that buys players without his consent?No.
Downing
Juninho
Rhodes
Bamford
Gestede
Alves
All have been signed by the club not the manager, I’m positive there are more. We have a transfer policy that doesn’t work. We just lost over £30 odd million in transfer signings alone on forwards that were rubbish. Whilst selling forwards who could and have done a job in this division.
Managers have come and gone, the same errors are repeated. And for the record I’m not a warnock fan, I don’t see his appointment as anyway progressive. Even if we were to be promoted, I don’t see his way of doing things and the squad he builds as being prepared for top flight survival, so what’s the point? Getting another budget into the club to wasted again.
The club will not be a success until the infrastructure off the pitch is in place. Anything else is simply firefighting.
Not for the fans who can read between the lines it wasn’t. Akpom is toast and rightly soWe had two spare places on the bench. EFL teams are allowed to use 5 out of 9 subs. We had 7.
It was a bizarre explanation from NW if nothing else.
Utter rubbishThe club could have sold Gestede and didn't.
They could have sold Assombolonga after the play off season and got some money back, but sold Bamford instead.
They could have recouped some money for Fletcher.
They got nothing from them staying and have let them all go for nothing.
If we cut our losses on Akpom that is better than dropping the whole £2.75m and three years of wages.
It doesn’t. What it does have is a history of managers taking credit for signings only to then attempt to distance themselves from those that don’t work out.