Fathi

[Bladesway]

Fathi was a class player and that was the problem,

Ooooh stop it that made me wee myself. It must have been following his stint keeping Messi out of the team at Barcelona you decided that he was class. Or perhaps when Milan picked him up slumming it in Egyptian Premier League.

Not good enough for Arsenal when he trialed there, not good enough for us when he played for us. At what point did his obvious class surface?

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Warnock never liked classy players.

Hmm. I'd have said Michael Brown, Michael Tonge, Peter Ndlovu, Pesch, CKR, Webber and Steadinho were more classy than clogger when on their game, NW seemed to like them, and get them to play well.

I do seriously think it was the intention for Fathi and Shelton to be much more central the following season. Fathi showed his ability in the African Nations a couple of years ago, so who knows what would have happened had he stayed. I thought he did well in the Liverpool and Everton games (nearly scored a cracker in the latter after a great move), which surprised me given his shocking debut off the bench vs Spurs - though this was at a point of the game when it was all a bit hectic as we held on.

 

[Revolution]

I do seriously think it was the intention for Fathi and Shelton to be much more central the following season.

Warnock actually said this, burbling on about how he'd bought "ones for the future" after one game (Newcastle?) in response to questioning from Radio Sheffield as to why he'd signed 5 players in the transfer window but hardly any of them were in the side regularly and only Stead had made any useful contribution.

Of all the daft things done since Summer 2006 which have set the club back, failing to strengthen the team in the transfer window that season was the worst offence IMHO.

 

[raul]

AS ever, Maths to the resuce.

Neil + JTW-cash= Hilarity
Neil + JTW+cash=Carnage

 

[TonyAgana]

I do seriously think it was the intention for Fathi and Shelton to be much more central the following season.

Warnock actually said this, burbling on about how he'd bought "ones for the future" after one game (Newcastle?) in response to questioning from Radio Sheffield as to why he'd signed 5 players in the transfer window but hardly any of them were in the side regularly and only Stead had made any useful contribution.

Of all the daft things done since Summer 2006 which have set the club back, failing to strengthen the team in the transfer window that season was the worst offence IMHO.

Where were we during the transfer window? I agree he should have strengthened but in true Warnock style he was too stubborn to admit that the team he put together in the summer wasn't good enough to stay up. To be fair to him, he was ever so nearly right but for one goal / West Ham cheating / Hulse's injury / etc. etc.

 

[puppet]

Where were we during the transfer window? I agree he should have strengthened but in true Warnock style he was too stubborn to admit that the team he put together in the summer wasn't good enough to stay up. To be fair to him, he was ever so nearly right but for one goal / West Ham cheating / Hulse's injury / etc. etc.

one goal scored by someone he discarded... hulses injury is the reason you spend millions on decent back up in lieu of, not buying a headless chicken like shelton. he got it badly wrong and it cost us in the end.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

one goal scored by someone he discarded... hulses injury is the reason you spend millions on decent back up in lieu of, not buying a headless chicken like shelton. he got it badly wrong and it cost us in the end.

Had he been provided with the wage budget Robbo got, mebbies he could have attempted to bring in players of higher quality?