Your Thoughts On The Current Nottingham Forest Manager

[wassy04]

It's funny how perceptions change. Last October I kept reading that it was the best transfer window we'd ever had & the strongest squad we'd had in years .

That was not my opinion, I felt the transfers were necessary and was hopeful about the signings of Taylor and Mckenna. However was painfully aware of the loss of our two best players and the fact that we overacheived the season before.

We needed an overhaul last summer to improve however it failed. So now we're in the same boat again, at least we have Johnson and mighten to add to the mix

I'm pretty sure it was.

I don't think we needed an overhaul. 4/5 decent signings in a few positions, whilst adding a bit of depth up front would've sufficed. Instead we decided to rip it up & start again during the shortest post/pre-season ever.

I've been pretty consistent with my opinions on the transfer situation as I'm sure SM can testify to that  :D

So, based on your logic, we could only sign 4 players. Lets pick a mixture of the good and bad ones as you can't assume we'd have got them all right given our low hit rate on signings, so McKenna, Arter, Soh and Taylor.

Grabban, Worrall, Sow are out injured.

So this leaves us with Jenkinson RB, no backup aside from academy. Midfield we'd have Yates (when fit) in CM and that's it as far as I can tell. We'd have Lolley and Ameobi on wing, oh wait both got injured during the season, and that was with less games. 

So we have a shit RB, no backups at all, no central midfielders, only two wingers plus Mighten and only two strikers (which is pretty much what we had anyway).

I know this is all hypothetical, the point is we needed bodies to fill the gaps of injuries and players leaving which in most case we had no choice. So at that point the list of signings looked hopeful although as I've said for a while we were pretty lucky under Sabri to finish as high as we did so losing. Lots of tight wins and in xG terms we were midtable. Therefore losing our best two players plus the next best few all to injury did not leave us in a strong position.

How about we rank our team under Sabri:

1. Cash (sold)
2. Watson (unwilling to sign new deal)
3. Worrall (long term injury)
4. Grabban (long term injury and out of form)
5. Lolley (carrying injury from previous year)
6. Silva (sold)

Not sure how people expected us to do well this year based on this.