Woah, there.
Spending millions? What on? Sacked managers? Desso?
You make it sound like we signed De Bruyne, Messi, Iniesta, Bale, Ronaldo, Van Dyk, Salah and Sterling and still somehow failed to get out of Div One.
Truth is, some fucking dreadful managerial appointments kept us in the second and third tier well beyond the length of time we should have been there. In that time we flogged a fuck tonne of decent players (like Harry Maguire, for example) and failed to sign better players (Connor Coady, anyone?) whilst still managing to keep respectable gates and a decent away following.
pommpey
Some dreadful mangers since Warnock!
The first two after Warnock wasted the best chance ever to establish us as a top champ/lower prem yo-yo team, and something to build on. Blackwell secured average to shit players on daft money long term, and didn’t know how to use the few good players we did have.
Those failings led to the inevitable sales of the best talent to ever come out of the academy, and in a position so weak we couldn’t play hard ball and sold far too cheaply IMHO.
The relegation then led to more cuts, and a bigger spiral as the Adams appointment left us with even worse players like Doyle and Collins on huge salaries considering their ability. This alone impacted massively on the ability of the managers prevailing being able to bring in replacements.
Now, Clough’s arrival was interesting, as very early promise led to the arrival of several players who made and continue to make a big impact under Wilder. He was hampered by board battles and involvement which did see us lose out on players like Coady, yet overpay for Brayford. But ultimately his dour approach and demeanour meant he failed to deliver.
Adkins came in as the pick of the fans too, let’s not forget that. And he also brought in Sharp, while wasted huge sums on complete dross like Hammond, woollford, Sammon...so while we again failed it’s not all the owners fault there.
And now, here we are. McCabe picked a good un, not everyone’s favourite pick either. He jumped in to nab him just as he was going elsewhere and the rest is history.
And while he made the huge fuck ups, KM still kept funding the losses he created with his decisions. He could have walked away, like owners have other clubs (Dave Richards, the previous Bury owner) and reduced his losses, but he didn’t and as desperation came in (he simply was running out of money to keep funding) he got the prince in.
Now he’s not in quite the mess he was and fighting to keep the club.
Personally, though it was shit in L1, I’m glad we had KM when you look at the likes of this Dale chap.
