What Tombsie said down there

Has the time come for us all to reappraise what we think about Knapper?

A couple of months ago I think we all thought we had more than enough evidence to conclude that he was a bit of a geek left in charge of a critical business function with a noddy excel spreadsheet to help him out. That he was continually getting his pants pulled down by grown ups in other clubs, was overpaying for what talent he had found, and was often being sold absolute lemons. And he couldn’t spot a proper manager even if they had a “I’m a proper manager” T-shirt on.

And at that time, well, that WAS what the evidence said, wasn’t it?

Since then:

- he was apparently the one that pulled the trigger on Manning
- he’s replaced him with Clement, when there were other perhaps safer candidates (albeit it sounds like MA did a BIG sales job on PC to close the deal)
- turns out a number of his signings are much better than we thought, under proper management.

Yes, people will point to Jurasek. Jury out. But even he has made some match winning contributions. Yes, you’re gonna say we massively overpaid for Crnac. Maybe, but what will PC be able to get out of him when he’s fit? Medic….made a really solid cameo under PC. Ahmed…assist and nearly a goal, and purchased for buttons. And my god he got the Manning call very very wrong.

Maybe he’s not a total muppet after all? Maybe.

Posted By: Under soil heating, Jan 18, 11:49:14