Cureboy
Viv Anderson
Said it before in this thread but the little cameo v Valencia away he looked class.
Nothing more than speculation on my part but I wonder if Cooper was digging his heels in here and being stubborn. He'd had to practically beg Dane Murphy to sanction the Steve Cook signing and Bade was one of those last minute deadline day signings who I imagine Cooper knew little about.I still think playing Steve Cook over Bade sums up a lot of our PL issues under Cooper.
Madness.
How can we reach any conclusion about Bade after his time here?Would we swap Murillo or Milenkovic for this guy though? Because if we'd ended up with Bade full-time, there's a good chance we wouldn't have signed either.
Sliding doors and all that.
At the end of the day we stayed up. Big Willy Boly and Felipe played a huge part in that.Nothing more than speculation on my part but I wonder if Cooper was digging his heels in here and being stubborn. He'd had to practically beg Dane Murphy to sanction the Steve Cook signing and Bade was one of those last minute deadline day signings who I imagine Cooper knew little about.
Exactly.What I do find interesting about Bade and Cooper, is how quick to use Murillo Coops was the season after. Makes you wonder if here was more to it than just inexperience, though I suspect that Murillo just looked _that_ good upon arrival that Coops couldn't ignore him. Interesting to ponder but doubt we'll ever know.
End of the road at Scouseland for Virgil Van Dyke?Supposedly off to Liverpool for 60m.
But he’s no Steve Cook.
One of the biggest mysteries of modern times. Utterly bizarre.Supposedly off to Liverpool for 60m.
But he’s no Steve Cook.
Scarpa didn't sign for us until the start of January though, unless he had arrived sooner because of the timings of the league ending and was already around the team. I think also, we didn't sign Felipe and Danilo until the same window, so we didn't actually have any Brazilians until then other than Lodi, but we did have Boly who could speak Portuguese as he played there and also Cafu who was Portuguese, this is probably the reason the initial lads settled. I think Scarpa had to go back to Brazil for a bit to sort out the crypto issues and then didn't really have a place in the side to come back to after that. So I think he had enough issues of his own to sort without looking after Danilo and Felipe.i remember bade couldn't speak english so cooper has problem with communication , unlike the brazilian lads, they had scarpa there who can speak english well and help as their translator.
I doubt it was a language thing, and for all I know maybe the lad had a bad attitude, but I suspect just that he was a young centre back that was on loan that Cooper didn't know very well so didn't trust him. Cooper was finding his feet in the Prem, and Worrall, McKenna and Cook were the players that got us promoted so despite their limitations knew they would go out and give everything and follow instructions when we were so backs to the wall (which we usually were). The rest of the team were a bunch of strangers so that was probably was a little bit of continuity.Mental that he couldn't get a game over Worrall or Steve Cook.
Would love to know the real reason behind it as that 'language' stuff is clearly nonsense considering we almost had the entire UN represented in the squad that season.