After watching football for many years, you must know that not all signings work out. Often what you get is not what you expected to end up with. We aren’t the only club to make mistakes, an example recently which is quite high profile, Drinkwater went to Chelsea for £40m didn’t work out, now taken on loan to Burnley and still not getting a game. He was a key player in Leicester’s title year, now in a different environment can’t perform.

And Burnley have ditched him as well he is now at the Villa.

One more point

Managers don't get involved in transfers though do they ?

They identify positions that they want players for and then it's over to the Director of Football ( in our case Freedman ) to recruit the players.

But go ahead and have another ill informed pop at Hodgson

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Typical Hodgson. Will never play a creative attacking midfielder. If I was Meyer I'd be thinking hard about my future. Absolute disgrace. Nor do I beleive this 'bad attitude' business - Warnock seemed to think he was OK.

Simply not the case. Historically, he's had issues at pretty much every club he's been at. Including Cardiff under Warnock. Great quote from him here sums him up for me...

"I think it's down to the player really. If you saw Sol Bamba's scan on his thigh then he wouldn't have played the last six weeks and he's probably been our best player, and he told me 'I'm alright gaffer.' And I think that that's the makeup of players, (some are) stronger than others."

Essentially, talented guy, knows it, doesn't work hard enough and head easily turned. I do agree that this should have been looked at more before signing but maybe they just took a gamble on him.

Mercenary. Doesn't fit well into a hard working, dedicated tight knit squad.

Simple as.

PS. On Meyer – he's a creative player but he is tiny, not physical enough and will only ever make a difference in certain games where he has space and isn't going to be bullied on the pitch. That's why he is so effective as a second half sub – can come on when players are more tired and less likely to track and hassle him. I can therefore understand why he doesn't play enough, although he has also been injured for a while and was just getting a run in the team before Auba nailed him.

Edited by SW19 CPFC (14 Jan 2020 12.54pm)

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

You're absolutely right !

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