Stevie Cooper

[Hyperkoi]

Cooper should be judged on his results alone, marinakis should ignore all the blind loyalty to Cooper as its based on him getting us out of the championship. On premier league results alone he should be sacked

[Forest1970]

If fan support for Cooper is putting off potential candidates, I would question their self belief. Why would you not back yourself. Good results/football, winning games etc. would garner instant support.

This.

Pathetic.

If they’re too scared to take over then they won’t be able to handle it anyway.

Steve could handle it. Embraced it. Used it. 

The mad recruitment has made his position very difficult. That sits with EM

Rubbish.

Everyone involved in recruitment needs to take responsibility and none are more involved than our manager.

Besides backing his manager to the hilt what else is EM guilty of?

Having a scattergun approach to recruitment. Sacking the recruitment team every five minutes. 

He has without doubt backed coops. Very grateful for how much he’s thrown at it. But the recruitment has been patchy has hell. It has been since he took over the ownership

Why don't you name a team that hasn't had some sort of shite recruitment in the past 4/5 seasons. 

It does seem to me that everything you write is mainly anti-Owner which does suggest that you may be a closet Sheep lover. If you ain't then shouldn't you be happy with the money being spent because if it wasn't spent you'd most likely moan about that.

[Marco Polo]

??? I’m not anti owner at all - I just think it’s chaotic. And has been right up until Cooper took over.

Signing 45 players in 3 windows is crazy. Some have been great, some poor.

If coops is at the end of the line then sack him.

I’m very grateful to the owner, doesn’t mean you can’t question things

[Marco Polo]

And I assure you, I love this club more than most

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

Tell you what, if Steve is honest with himself then he will be eternally grateful for the backing he has received. When he took the job he could never have imagined it in his wildest dreams.

[Marco Polo]

Agreed. Doesn’t mean he won’t also say that some of the players he’s been given were a complete waste of money

[Derby My Arse]

Tell you what, if Steve is honest with himself then he will be eternally grateful for the backing he has received. When he took the job he could never have imagined it in his wildest dreams.

Agreed. Doesn’t mean he won’t also say that some of the players he’s been given were a complete waste of money

Happens at every club so you need to get over it.

[RedMW]

If we do not win on Friday evening Steve Cooper will have the worst win percentage in Premier League history for any manager managing 50+ games at the same club.

That is not a good statistic.

Most other managers would have been sacked with stats like that. I would say EM has stood by Cooper (numerous times last season and this) more than any other owner would, that can only be down to the supporters backing of Cooper

[Cornish forest]

Tell you what, if Steve is honest with himself then he will be eternally grateful for the backing he has received. When he took the job he could never have imagined it in his wildest dreams.

Agreed. Doesn’t mean he won’t also say that some of the players he’s been given were a complete waste of money

Happens at every club so you need to get over it.

But does it seem to happen to ours more than most? Genuine question. 

Look at how well Barkley has worked out at Luton compared to Lingard for us. 
If Freuler, an international class midfielder is too slow for the Prem, why were we even considering him?
If several of our players were injury prone/made of biscuits, why hasn’t this been taken into account when assembling the squad as a whole?
If Origi isn’t the striker he was once/can’t be arsed, again why isn’t this getting picked up. 

Maybe it’s a bit bias as I don’t closely follow other teams, but it does seem as if our recruitment could be a bit more, well professional. 
Compare Bournemouth’s business with ours over the summer.

[Marco Polo]

It’s all coopers fault. He forced EM to buying them all.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

It’s all coopers fault. He forced EM to buying them all.

No he didn't and nobody is saying that but Steve does have to take some of the responsibility and you need to admit that.

There has been a lot of money spent and most if not all the big money signings are on Steve in my view.

45m on MGW.
35M on Steves 'number 6' who he desperately wanted Sangare.
17M on Williams.
15M on Wood.

I could go on but that is almost 120M right there on just 4 signings. Then people wonder why we have to scratch around bringing last minute loans in, well it's because the budget has been spent.

Another thing is if Steve didn't insist on his number 6 (Sangare 35M) then we could have kept Johnson.

Now don't get me wrong I am not blaming Steve for everything because it's a shared responsibility but one or two need to take their blinkers off is all I am saying.

[Forest1970]

??? I’m not anti owner at all - I just think it’s chaotic. And has been right up until Cooper took over.

Signing 45 players in 3 windows is crazy. Some have been great, some poor.

If coops is at the end of the line then sack him.

I’m very grateful to the owner, doesn’t mean you can’t question things

Your right it is crazy but it was needed because we never in a million years had a team able to cope with the Premiership and to be honest it would've happened with whoever the manger was. Again your right the buck really needs to stop at the manager and I'm afraid he might've run out of ideas which is why we're in this position so we really can't blame the owner because he is only doing what the manager is asking for.