It’s very easy to say the recruitments terrible when you’re losing but nobody was saying Colback or Arter or Taylor or Knockaert or Mckenna or Freeman were bad signings - I thought they were all excellent signings for this level and I still think they’re good players.
Yes we’ve signed additional dross that we didn’t need, but these players are good enough to get results and I think if this manager is as highly rated as he seems, he should be getting more out of them.
I maintain that we aren’t a bad side, but we’re going through what appears to be a shocking never ending spell of goal droughts and soft goals conceded - not good enough don’t get me wrong, but I’m relatively sure it’ll change if the manager is flexible enough to actually change things when it’s not working, ie today when he kept two holding my mids.
What is evident is that the togetherness within the ranks isn’t what it was last season. At times we were poor but dug into grab unlikely points. I don’t actually think we have bad eggs either, I just don’t think they look particularly close as a unit.
It’s very frustrating because we’ve been starved of results for months and fans are understandably at the end of their teather but I’m not sure we’re as down and out as some think. We’ll see I suppose, but the manager needs to change something, starting with dropping Figuerido next match.