Tony Towner
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He played on Saturday so feel a bit performative
Gonçalves too. Far too good for the reserves and not used at all in the first team.Nuno has to take a big portion of blame for Vitinha. He just didn’t use him at all
Giving the nod on Fabio at the point when he still had some clout. A long way behind Shi and Mendes, but he could have stopped it rather than shrugged his shouldersAbsolutely. I love Nuno and always will but there's no defending the indefensible, we had bloody ages post-Raul injury where we didn't create and he kept ignoring quality attacking players in Vitinha and MGW.
The only other three black marks against him for me would be:
- Weird subs vs Watford at Wembley, just neutered us for extra time, the game wasn't safe enough to do that
- Having a binary choice of Daniel Podence vs Dani Olmo and picking the wrong one
- Second string vs Southampton in the cup and then a full strength team vs Southampton in the league, come on now
Have to agree to disagree.He didn't look anything special tbf
Have to agree to disagree.
My issue with that one is why the hell was he playing in that position in the first place?Pretty sure if you look back at the threads on here from when he was let go (not really released as a free agent, we got a sell on when he went to Sporting) not one single person called it out as a huge error.
He was very very deep for our Academy teams and just looked like a tidy but unexceptional footballer, and definitely had nothing like the goal output he's gone on to have.
These things happen, a parallel I suppose would be something like Man Utd letting Beardsley and Platt go. Looks stupid years on but at the time seemed fair enough.
Edit: this is Pote, for the record. I thought Vitinha was an absolute no brainer to sign and that was clearly an error.