Joao Carvalho

[wassy04]

What a load of claptrap. Has Taylor ever thought that the club looks at Carvalho, and the fact he costs them £3m quid a season plus wages and decides he's an expensive flop? That'll be the reason he's been shipped out, not because of his girlfriend's bikini shop.

I've read every comment Taylor made yesterday. He's got an anti EM agenda and this is reflected in every sentence he writes about us.

Example, at a point in time where the club and fans are feeling good about the cat 1 academy award, Taylor adds criticism that it hasn't come sooner, and that the site is cramped etc etc. No need at all.

Sorry but I completely disagree. Yes it's clear that he feels like he has been in some way mistreated by the ownership and in particular IV. However I found most of his posts as balanced offering positives and negatives to most situations, albeit more negatives in some cases.

In fact in particular I don't think he offered any criticism directed at EM really, aside from not putting a better structure in below him which surely everyone agrees with?

I agree the academy thing made it sound worse but the criticism was also of the previous regime as he refers to a time pre EM. Also it wasn't so much of a criticism as more of a point that this is good but it just puts us level with other similar clubs, which is true. It does sound like he took that put of context though to be fair.

I get people are loyal to the club and don't like to hear criticisms of it but I honestly feel like the majority of what he says is constructive and balanced. Plus a lot of the things he criticised appear to be getting changed so clearly he's having an impact, seems like a good thing to me.

I do realise that I maybe look at things NFFC with rose tinted specs on but to be fair I am a fan of the club. Could Taylor, just for once, have given the club the credit it deserves for their cat 1 attainment and let us/them bask in the glory of it for a few days? Yes, of course he could, but instead he chose to qualify his praise with an overriding criticism. 

You say he's constructive and balanced. I disagree. Talking about the circumstances around a bikini shop affecting the club's record signing is pure conjecture. It may have been reported to him from senone within the club but to me it sounds like pure watercooler tittle tattle gossip from a source who knows 10% of really what's going on at the top of the club.

That's all I'm saying on the matter today as I don't want to come across as a sycofpant.

Fair play, ultimately I guess given the nature of what he's saying being a bit gossipy in nature, we'll likely never know how much of an impact these things have. I guess this comes back to the clubs PR around these sorts of issues. If someone says something and it doesn't get refuted you tend to believe it's true. The lack of any comment from the club does fuel these things.

Although arguably the club also shouldn't have to comment on random gossip about a players girlfriend's shop either! Somewhere in the middle would be beneficial.

Anyway apologies, back to Carv...