Enfield Exile wrote:
Decent striker? What is Saha then?
Not a decent striker, anymore. He's awful, really bad right now. His movement is non existent, he doesn't challenge for a ball, he's so weak he's easily pushed off the ball. If you watched him every week like we've had too so far you'd be thinking the same. He should never be starting ahead of Yakubu.
Enfield Exile wrote:
Indeed. Moyes has great pedigree having managed Preston and…..errrrrrrr. Everton. At those clubs he won……..errrrrrr……….no trophies. A legend in the making.
You are comparing a manager who has won trophies at three clubs, including three scudettos with one of the biggest clubs in the world.
I don't think he was actually comparing the managers as such, I see it more as he's saying Moyes is all being all wonderful and with the money Mancini's spent we'd be champions, well you could have the best strikers in the world upfront for us right now but with one up front and a non existent midfield we still wouldn't be anywhere near the top of the league. I don't know if he goes the games but if he did his view I would imagine would be completely different.
Last night was another below par performance, another shoite display from the non existent midfield. We were chasing shadows for the best part of an hour and the 451 style Moyes persists with just isn't working. After 8 years of the same one man up front football it's become very very stale and very predictable, it's so easy to work out how we'll play for opposition managers. It becomes even easier when Saha plays as the lone front man because he can't be arrsed. Our approach to games has become so negative it's untrue, Sunderland scored in the 70th minute last night and what wasn't seen on TV was Moyes had Yakubu and Beckford standing on the touchline for 8 minutes, ready to come on but just standing there doing fook all. If the 451 doesn't work then for the last four games plan B has been to load the pitch with extra strikers, doesn't work. We've picked up 3 points from our last four games and we now lie 14th and only points off the bottom three, we're nearly at the Christmas period, we can't rely on a good second half of the season to get us out of the bottom half and push for Europe, it won't happen. Bolton's good form should be a big lesson to Moyes, a change in tactics and a change in style, a more positive outlook on games and you can find yourself in the top four of the league. But we'll still play 451 at home to West Brom on Saturday, it'll still be Saha upfront on his own and we'll probably scrape another result.
