Blobbynator wrote:
Until you get new owners you haven't got a dime to spend. Moaning about it, won't do the manager any good, he needs to get on with it. Hodgson is ideal in that respect, he's good at signing unknown players who turn good and he's also good at getting the best out of average / decent player. Sure he's no Mourinho, but he should do a solid job with limited resources. He's got a pretty good playing staff to work with, especially if he can keep the likes of Reina, Carragher, Johnson, Agger, Gerrard, Mascherano and Torres.
Is he though? He's had a few good buys at Fulham, but what of players like Nevland? Riise? Kallio? Andreasen? Andy Johnson? Eddie Johnson? Andranik?
He has made many poor signings at Fulham, some of those players being average players in their native Scandinavia. Whilst getting the best from Zamora, Hangeland, Murphy and so on is all good, there are plenty of players who have done little in his reign. Also, it's one thing being able to get workman-like players to work hard and defend, but what of getting players like Gerrard and Torres to unlock the tightest defences? These are players who thrive off pressure management: managers who push them to higher levels, managers who are always demanding and managers who look to improve on their every weakness. No offence to Roy, but I don't know an English manager capable of that sort of detail. Even when he went out of Europe to other nations, he never went there and adopted their philosophies theories, he went there and played the British stuff, the stuff his Fulham side play every week; the stuff I'd be embarrassed of my club doing.
I don't think this appointment is as straightforward as some like to think, I think he's a good guy, but we as a club, I feel, are so much higher than Hodgson.
