02 Mar 2024 19:38:48
Maybe I'm naive, fancy word for clueless, but with our problems at left back why not just recall Brandon Williams from loan. He's got to be better than those we have tried to play there out of position.
02 Mar 2024 19:50:16
Brandon william is not good enough.
02 Mar 2024 20:16:00
You can't just recall a player that has a contract.
02 Mar 2024 22:16:27
Perhaps someone like the manager should have figured we needed cover at left back (an injury prone left back at that), when the cover was already injured, a long way before March. Who is making those decisions? (And that we didn’t need another striker? )
03 Mar 2024 00:58:58
Is he not still in the midst of his own injury crisis that has prevented him from playing a single minute in 2024?
03 Mar 2024 04:54:00
brandon williams has been injured for a while and back at united going through rehab.
03 Mar 2024 14:12:13
I’m not sure we can blame the manager for this one. He wanted a lb in the summer and got a loan signing that didn’t work out. The club activated the break clause for some reason and didn’t sign a replacement despite knowing Malacia is out for the rest of the season. That can’t be the manager’s decision.
My view is that the new people in charge don’t want ETH to bring in any new signings. They’ve left him with one striker and one lb at the end of January. There’s no manager on the planet that would want that situation. So we have to look to the club, and speculate that they would rather the manager not succeed and be replaced in the summer with extra money for the new manager, than risk giving ETH more money and still failing this season.
My suspicion, backed by ed002s info, is that the club have already decided that they want a new manager and the team will have to make do until the summer when the big changes will happen.
03 Mar 2024 15:03:44
100% Danny, decision already made, he is gone and he knows it too. Only have to listen to SJR interview to read between the lines to that outcome, probably footballs worst kept secret atm…
TBF would you let him have anymore money going by previous buys/ loans
He let Fernandez go out on loan when he knew Malacia was out for season and Shaw is made of Glass, so would have thought a bit of joined up thinking from him may have been good…. But clearly not.
03 Mar 2024 18:18:43
I can’t fault their decision. If you aren’t committed to the manager, you can’t give them money to spend. Just leaves the squad in a bad way for the rest of the season. As evident today, there’s nobody on the bench that can influence the game, and too many on the pitch who influence it in the wrong way.
Going to be difficult for the next manager sorting through the mess in the summer.
03 Mar 2024 18:42:01
Everyone says ETH was handed a mish mash of squad well the next manager handed even worse, because ETH additions in my view are worse then what they replaced and they were bought for his style whatever that maybe.
Everyone knows what I think of ETH since day 1, but anyone who says Antony is unplayable is beyond all help!
03 Mar 2024 19:25:21
Alvaro Fernandez and his agent approached the club to ask for a loan move as he wanted to play regularly again this season as he did last season while on loan at Preston.
He knows he needs to play most weeks if he is to continue to develop. The club. Couldn't guarantee him that at United. At the time Shaw was fully fit and Malacia was supposedly due back around Christmas time.
So the club agreed that Fernandez should head out on loan. While they sought Reguilon as a loan singing to cover. EtH reportedly wanted Cucurella but the club couldn't afford his loan fee. Further evidence that EtH has not had the backing that some people believe.
03 Mar 2024 22:16:17
Brandon Williams is on 65k a week. Absolute madness.
04 Mar 2024 09:17:33
Brandon Williams has a lot of things going on in his personal life to sort.