The Maddison update does not sound good. We can keep moaning about the salary cap but are using money on players who are crocked or not a club fit then.
A tight knit squad is possible. Just need complete unity and spirit.
Weird, Bowyer was surely part of our pursuit of Maddison over two transfer windows - odd that you would so quickly write off a player that you wanted for so long.
Annoying, cos he's a very, very talented player. But Peterborough didn't pull up any trees to keep him, I recall their chairman sounding quite pleased to see the back of him, and he did absolutely nothing at Hull.
So whilst I've been a bit concerned about Bowyer slating players in public recently, in this case he definitely gets the benefit of the doubt. Strikes me as a lower league Ravel Morrison, destined to spend his career moving from club to club because he won't put the work in to match his ability.
Lee can keep moaning about the salary cap, but he's wasted a fair chunk of it himself here by alienating Maddison
Bowyers the boss, shape up or ship out. How do you know he doesn’t like him, what’s that assumption based on? Maddison has got previous for being a disruptive influence hasn’t he? Why couldn’t he get into the Hull team 2nd half of last season? No smoke without fire.
Bowyer sees him in training (when he’s fit) and if his attitude is not right why should he be mollycoddled? The bloke is taking up a salary and no wonder LBs moaning about the cap. The fella needs to get his act together and roll his sleeves up.
Lee can keep moaning about the salary cap, but he's wasted a fair chunk of it himself here by alienating Maddison
Bowyers the boss, shape up or ship out. How do you know he doesn’t like him, what’s that assumption based on? Maddison has got previous for being a disruptive influence hasn’t he? Why couldn’t he get into the Hull team 2nd half of last season? No smoke without fire.
Bowyer sees him in training (when he’s fit) and if his attitude is not right why should he be mollycoddled? The bloke is taking up a salary and no wonder LBs moaning about the cap. The fella needs to get his act together and roll his sleeves up.
I'm concerned as to why we spent so much time and effort chasing him if he's that disruptive.
Scouts, players and other managers would have given opinions on him.
I'm concerned if we've still put in the effort to sign him and he's as bad as some are insinuating.
Maybe a coincidence but been noticeable how much more of a ‘working for each other’ team we’ve become since he’s come out the squad.
I suspect it’s not
2+2 = 5?
There's been loads of changes since he's been out, including making new signings and bedding them in.
We played him in the free role once and he was dominant. We're now playing a flat 4-4-2 I don't see him fitting that.
He doesn't fit in any of the, many, formations Bowyer plays. He can't play wide in a front 3. He can play as a 10, he is a bit of a defensive liability wide in a 442.
I don't mean this a a dig or sarcastically but Bowyer either lies about trying to sign players previously to make the signing sound more wanted or he is a poor judge of a player and person.
I think you can look at a lot of our players and say he is a "Gallen signing" and some that are a "Bowyer signing" and one who is a "Thomas (S) signing".
The same was true with Powell. Chappel got a lot of the credit but almost every player we signed that summer had either played with Powell, against Powell or against us the previous season. I don't think Bowyer had even heard of half the players we have signed in the last 3 years but they are the half that have over performed.
Annoying, cos he's a very, very talented player. But Peterborough didn't pull up any trees to keep him, I recall their chairman sounding quite pleased to see the back of him, and he did absolutely nothing at Hull.
So whilst I've been a bit concerned about Bowyer slating players in public recently, in this case he definitely gets the benefit of the doubt. Strikes me as a lower league Ravel Morrison, destined to spend his career moving from club to club because he won't put the work in to match his ability.
249 games for Posh over 6 seasons hardly suggests a Ravel Morrison type
Annoying, cos he's a very, very talented player. But Peterborough didn't pull up any trees to keep him, I recall their chairman sounding quite pleased to see the back of him, and he did absolutely nothing at Hull.
So whilst I've been a bit concerned about Bowyer slating players in public recently, in this case he definitely gets the benefit of the doubt. Strikes me as a lower league Ravel Morrison, destined to spend his career moving from club to club because he won't put the work in to match his ability.
249 games for Posh over 6 seasons hardly suggests a Ravel Morrison type
But the fact he played more games for Peterborough than Marriot, Washington, Toney, Assombalonga put together makes you wonder why no one bought him to go with one of them?
If the reason they scored goals was Maddison why not buy him as well?
Annoying, cos he's a very, very talented player. But Peterborough didn't pull up any trees to keep him, I recall their chairman sounding quite pleased to see the back of him, and he did absolutely nothing at Hull.
So whilst I've been a bit concerned about Bowyer slating players in public recently, in this case he definitely gets the benefit of the doubt. Strikes me as a lower league Ravel Morrison, destined to spend his career moving from club to club because he won't put the work in to match his ability.
249 games for Posh over 6 seasons hardly suggests a Ravel Morrison type
Such is the strength of feeling that the Peterborough owner has about Maddison, it was clear that he wouldn’t be going back to London Road. This is clear by MAcAnthony’s insistence that Peterborough wouldn’t re-sign their former start “if he offered to pay us to play.”
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A tight knit squad is possible. Just need complete unity and spirit.
christ on a bike.
He has been to see the fitness team yesterday to see when he can start training again, seems like he's keen to get back at it.
I'm starting to lose the hope I have for him, let's hope he proves me wrong.
Lee can keep moaning about the salary cap, but he's wasted a fair chunk of it himself here by alienating Maddison
Shame because he has talent but something obviously is not right
I suspect it’s not
Maybe the problem is with Maddison
A bad signing from Gallen.
There's been loads of changes since he's been out, including making new signings and bedding them in.
We played him in the free role once and he was dominant. We're now playing a flat 4-4-2 I don't see him fitting that.
If we go diamond, there's few other players I'd consider at the tip of it.
personally, I have in my head that the bloke is a bad apple. Always thought that, but who knows, I could be wrong.
So whilst I've been a bit concerned about Bowyer slating players in public recently, in this case he definitely gets the benefit of the doubt. Strikes me as a lower league Ravel Morrison, destined to spend his career moving from club to club because he won't put the work in to match his ability.
Bowyer sees him in training (when he’s fit) and if his attitude is not right why should he be mollycoddled? The bloke is taking up a salary and no wonder LBs moaning about the cap. The fella needs to get his act together and roll his sleeves up.
Is that the massive coincidence of having three horrible bosses on the spin, or could the problem actually be you?
Scouts, players and other managers would have given opinions on him.
I'm concerned if we've still put in the effort to sign him and he's as bad as some are insinuating.
I don't mean this a a dig or sarcastically but Bowyer either lies about trying to sign players previously to make the signing sound more wanted or he is a poor judge of a player and person.
I think you can look at a lot of our players and say he is a "Gallen signing" and some that are a "Bowyer signing" and one who is a "Thomas (S) signing".
The same was true with Powell. Chappel got a lot of the credit but almost every player we signed that summer had either played with Powell, against Powell or against us the previous season. I don't think Bowyer had even heard of half the players we have signed in the last 3 years but they are the half that have over performed.
If the reason they scored goals was Maddison why not buy him as well?
https://the72.co.uk/178890/peterborough-owner-macanthony-with-very-strong-words-about-marcus-maddison/
Such is the strength of feeling that the Peterborough owner has about Maddison, it was clear that he wouldn’t be going back to London Road. This is clear by MAcAnthony’s insistence that Peterborough wouldn’t re-sign their former start “if he offered to pay us to play.”
https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/sport/football/peterborough-united/moody-marcus-maddison-will-soon-be-forgotten-peterborough-united-1372186
https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/sport/football/peterborough-united/marcus-maddison-transfer-saga-laid-bare-peterborough-united-chairman-darragh-macanthony-high-maintenanace-made-my-head-go-volcano-unreasonable-demands-1383133
"High maintenance"