Alf-engelos Mindminackers
The Artiste formally known as "Wanksy"
Like I said, Coops did well with what he had, but Davis showed exactly what the right type of player for him did.Neither was Surridge. Or Grabban for that matter.
Where I feel recruitment did fail was bringing in another option in similar mould to Taiwo - two strikers is at least one too few. Money though, and I guess that the club felt if they could only bring in one, and that one came with a decent record as Wood did, the manager would be able to set us up to get a tune from him. It's not hard - get crosses in and a midfielder or two closer to him.
I'm not having Wood as poor recruitment though - he's proven himself not be when used effectively this year, by Cooper as well as Nuno (Luton) though the end spell (and most notably v Everton) he definitely did not.
And sadly for Cooper, who I wanted to succeed as much as anyone, his use of Wood, last season and at times this, was off.
I mean, you're just keeping the debate circular by not understanding the very basic point I made in post one, that you recruit for the manager if you want to get the most for your money, and we didn't do that with Coops. So I'll leave that there.
However, you say Wood was good recruitment in isolation, but he's not taken us any further forward than where we were under Coops, we're actually lower in the league now. Wood's also out of contract in the summer and he's 32, so we're very unlikely to recoup much on him never mind make money on him. So, again, I disagree, 15m + 90k/wk to be lower down the league and out of pocket than when we signed him is good recruitment. Really doesn't seem great recruitment to me at all tbh.
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