It's a tough one between Reidy & Parker, I'll say Reidy purely because if he stayed we'd have mad the playoffs at least as his attiude is spot on. I believe we would have made Europe if we kept Parker but only if his head stayed focused and his performances stayed the same, that would not have been a given.
Andy Reid...........still rankles with me as he was & still has not been not replaced. BTW - if anyone says he is fat or lazy then look at the PFA Championship team..........and he has scored more goals than any of our forwards.
Parker - we had to as he'd thrown a strop & didn't want to play Bowyer - like Poyet just too good for the team or even the division.
Odd to me that so many people seem sad about losing Jenko, obviously he was a good player but I feel Solly replaced him just fine
Agreed. Actually there's a good case for an alternative thread around 'astute sales', where we used the money wisely (and had to sell somebody, realistically). Danny Mills would fit that category - we managed well without him, bought Dean Kiely, and pushed on...
Sadly Mark Kinsella would also fall into that category, I was gutted when he was sold, but did little at Villa and was clearly on the way down
Agreed, he's a proven Championship level striker, and a much more reliable option than the hopeless Gray, the ineffective Varney or useless (for us) McLeod.
In a similar vein, the sale of Paddy McCarthy was daft, it left us hopelessly short at CB, and while he's hardly a superstar he's a steady defender at Championship level as shown by the number of games he played for Palace.
Reckon Darren Bent... Had we kept him in the Championship we may have bounced straight back
But if we hadn't sold Bent we couldn't have afforded Luke Varney, Paddy McCarthy, Yassin Moutaouakil, Dean Sinclair, Izale McLeod, Nicky Weaver and Therry Racon.
Reckon Darren Bent... Had we kept him in the Championship we may have bounced straight back
But if we hadn't sold Bent we couldn't have afforded Luke Varney, Paddy McCarthy, Yassin Moutaouakil, Dean Sinclair, Izale McLeod, Nicky Weaver and Therry Racon.
Oh.
There's no way Bent would have stayed with us, even if we could have afforded to keep him. Remember the way he upped sticks at Sunderland and forced a move to Villa, that worked out well didn't it...
Odd to me that so many people seem sad about losing Jenko, obviously he was a good player but I feel Solly replaced him just fine
Agreed. Actually there's a good case for an alternative thread around 'astute sales', where we used the money wisely (and had to sell somebody, realistically). Danny Mills would fit that category - we managed well without him, bought Dean Kiely, and pushed on...
Sadly Mark Kinsella would also fall into that category, I was gutted when he was sold, but did little at Villa and was clearly on the way down
Agreed, he's a proven Championship level striker, and a much more reliable option than the hopeless Gray, the ineffective Varney or useless (for us) McLeod.
In a similar vein, the sale of Paddy McCarthy was daft, it left us hopelessly short at CB, and while he's hardly a superstar he's a steady defender at Championship level as shown by the number of games he played for Palace.
Not only didn't replace him, he was also only one with team spirit and only player that turned up when Luke Young organised a morale boosting day to try and lift the gloom around the club.
Reckon Darren Bent... Had we kept him in the Championship we may have bounced straight back
But if we hadn't sold Bent we couldn't have afforded Luke Varney, Paddy McCarthy, Yassin Moutaouakil, Dean Sinclair, Izale McLeod, Nicky Weaver and Therry Racon.
Oh.
There's no way Bent would have stayed with us, even if we could have afforded to keep him. Remember the way he upped sticks at Sunderland and forced a move to Villa, that worked out well didn't it...
Not sure that is true. Allegedly the Sunderland manager was slightly upset with him due to his alleged recreational activities.
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Mooney
Gotta love the Colin Pates gag on page 1, or was that serious?
Or if we are playing that game....Ralph Milne
Whatever you gotta say about Murphy, he was a really good player.
Parker - we had to as he'd thrown a strop & didn't want to play
Bowyer - like Poyet just too good for the team or even the division.
In a similar vein, the sale of Paddy McCarthy was daft, it left us hopelessly short at CB, and while he's hardly a superstar he's a steady defender at Championship level as shown by the number of games he played for Palace.
Oh.
Not only didn't replace him, he was also only one with team spirit and only player that turned up when Luke Young organised a morale boosting day to try and lift the gloom around the club.