Earnie is one of the most gifted players to play for us in a very long time or indeed ever but I have to admit selling him might not be a disaster IF we got enough money and spent it on players.
I think he's prem class and if we go up we need someone of his ability. I had hoped we could keep him because if we got up then the difference between Shef Utd style good performances but no results and Wetsham style (last season) top half is a striker who can score at that level.
The trouble is I think if we're not in this division next year we won't be in the prem.
In this division he doesn't make ?3million difference to the team. He's still great and will get us 20 goals plus. The trouble is I can see Jamie Cureton getting 15 for Colchester and he was a free.
We have a squad so weak its untrue and if we spent say 3million of any earnie fee plus the 2 million we were going to blow on cotterill on 5 players at 1 million each or 10 at 500k I reckon we'd be in with a very good shout at a) staying up b) going up next season.
I'd be gutted to see him go but if he broke his leg next match and was out for the season we could end up seeing the dream team of a Dublin Thorne partnership all the way to league 1.
I think Grant could yet prove to be a great manager. I thought he was fantastic until saturday when I heard the words Doherty and holding midfielder in the smae sentence. I also saw a partially fit hughes on the left wing. At that point it was only ever a question of how many and he should have known that.
I'm just praying that it was a deliberate attempt to make the board realise how ludicrously weak the squad is. Maybe thats clutching at straws. Still as a fan I KNEW beyond doubt that we would lose to a pisspoor side like stoke as soon as I knew which players were available and if thats not a crisis in the squad which needs addressing I don't know what is.
Posted By: matgore, Oct 30, 09:03:46
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