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That would be superb. Maybe Enzo’s been told with the last year of ffp dropping off that there’s room to build and likes the idea of doing it with someone he knew from man city. We can hope!

Have you ever heard of that happening before? If anything that feels disrespectful to the person who got the job. imagine if Russel Martin showed up to martis first game. Just to show off that we wanted him first 😂 and bringing the back room team and sitting with the new technical director? It’s all very odd

I did not realise the new technical director was with them…. Now that is something. What’s going on here?

It’s always hard to tell mate but I think with the signings point, I think we do have a blended approach. Some are club signings but I don’t think we’re the type of club that say to a manager you get what you’re given. With Enzo there’s evidence that Casadei and Doyle were both players he requested. Which i mean, tbf to you were both not that good for us. With cooper, there’s no way he asked for okoli and I doubt he’s even heard of bilal. But the media did clearly say that cooper told the club we needed premiership proven players with good experience. So it’s pretty obvious he was driving the club towards players like ayew and bdcr. Even skipp had youth ties to him… so I would bet a lot that cooper said go get him he’s worth it. Brendan is interesting because there was talk that he got more involved in transfers towards the end of his tenure. But again, some are more obvious, Bertrand for example was with his son’s agency. with Enzo, he was happy to be given players with a skill set he requested. I agree he wouldn’t have hand picked either of the 2 I mentioned but the point I was making was more that he wasn’t necessarily selfishly aiming at one season…. The same maybe can’t be said for cooper. Most managers would tell you, get to the prem however you can and you build when you get there. Forest replaced a full squad. It’s much easier to bring in players and I guess with Enzo we simply don’t know how he would have shaped us. But he’s a smart guy and he knows what he wants and I’m fairly certain we would had very technically gifted players arrive at the club. Probably wouldn’t have worked for us but we would have been well placed for a return to the prem. always happy to have a debate here and I certainly wasnt someone that loved Enzo. But he did a good job and I appreciate that. He made the right choice to leave and we have to accept we will be a stepping stone, the problem is when we don’t look like a project that will take someone to that next opportunity… which is where we are rn

This thread should be closed. We need to back him because he’s the last hope at the club.

In the kindest possible sense, that’s a ludicrous post. Who did he misspend on? Because coady and winks were already in their way here before Enzo got involved. and with winks, you can’t say he misspent because he utilized him very well and he was a pivotal part of the side. It’s so easy to say it was an easy job, yet so many of those players are still here and are shadows of what they were for Enzo. Yes he struggled towards the end but when he tried to refresh us in January something all teams do, he got nothing. We signed young starts like mads and fatawu, how is that not planning for the future? it’s just a case that people will never be happy. No job is easy in football, you can spend 200m and still look awful. He did an excellent job, whether you liked the football or not. We had a chance to push on that summer and had he stayed, we would have been completely different team and the position we would be in now would be light years ahead of what we’ve got. we’ve had many wobbles over the years and typically we bottle it, Enzo didn’t. That should be commended not used against him

It’s an extremely odd one. Maybe Enzo is keeping his options open in case things don’t work out for him in the summer. I don’t think the performance would have done anything to sway him

Oxford got the best fixtures in the run in by far looking at it. They play everyone at the bottom except us

1-0 Oxford

randomly saw this… guess it’s not going so well for him then

I’ve not really much coverage off this. The apathy is unreal

I’ve not been able to watch, how has this happened?!? Does anyone at the club care

anyone got a river to share?

Hope Lascelles gets a go up front

You had me at left back

There were many city fans saying that’s his best position

It’s a fair point, but even Billy sharp got 8 goal contributions in his last prem campaign. I just think the games changed a lot in the last 5 years.

Never mind that, I could quote a lot of posters that thought ayew would score for fun this season. Genuinely don’t think the gap as a striker is as much as people think. If you’re shite in the prem, you’re more than likely shite in the champ as well. There’s not many players that I can think of that can get around 2 goals in a season in the prem but move to the champ and get 20. In my opinion, in the modern game, striker (ignoring keeper) is the one that is the easiest to transfer divisions and there’s lots of recent cases to back that up (mitrovic, Toney, Watkins, even all the Luton strikers put up good numbers). I think it’s because as a lone forward you typically get to play in the box more and a chance is a chance at the end of the day. I don’t think teams defend the way they used to (with arsenal an exception this year), the last few years teams are happy to leave themselves open at the back due to an emphasis on overloading in attacking areas. Even man city, the best possession team struggled to keep clean sheets over the last few years

Insane that he has those numbers and someone up the chain didn’t take a punt on him. Although I just admit I have no idea what level worthing is. Shame he’s too old for a big move

He could have been lethal in league 1. Goodbye sweet prince

44 goals and he’s got a 5.8 rating… we always needed a new Yakubu 😂

You have to consider who was responsible for the dirge we had available though. That’s fully on cooper.

Cooper is far more responsible for our relegation than Ruud, that’s not even a debate.

He does have something about him. I think the goals dried up for him and I think that might have been a confidence issue. If I had to guess, I think his unsuccessful loan in league 2 probably gave the lad some self-doubt. I think there’s enough promise in what he’s doing for us to want to see if we can monitor him for a little longer. The club needs to be smart, because if we want players going out on loan sooner, we have to accept that the will likely struggle. You can’t use that loan to assess if they’re good enough. Evan’s for example, shouldn’t suddenly be seen as a dud, the lad is simply a kid in a relegation fight, it was always unlikely he’d be used much

To be fair to rowett, when he was at Oxford, it wasnt long into his tenure (possibly before he arrived) that Ben Nelson had a bad injury. As soon as Nelson was fit enough to play rowett threw him straight in. Given their situation at the time, it would have been easier to stick with the more experienced cb but he was brave enough to play Ben because of his quality. I don’t want a manager who plays youth for the sake of it, so hopefully he’s the type that simply will play his best options no matter their age.