"He's had his go and failed" If you count having a go as inheriting a all but relegated team with 8 players leaving, being told he will sign 6 and then end up in a embargo signing no players you a are a very hard man to please.
I count having a go, as taking charge of a team for half of the season.
I’d consider failure to be a losing 70% of those games.
We can debate the circumstances around that, sure, but those are the statistical facts that matter. It’s irrelevant that he brought our goals against ratio down to 2 per game, from 2.7, because essentially, we were still relegated.
It’s literally the same as losing 2-0, and saying at least it wasn’t 3-0. A loss it a loss.
You say you cant look at that statistic but at the end of the day, facts dont care about your feelings, he has improved us.
You know what mate, you’re spot on. He has improved us. Under Bond & Waddock, we had a losing percentage of 78%, and under Sol we managed to bring that down to a mere 70%.
Such an improvement.
Now we only lose 7 games out of 10, instead of 8.
Im aware of his record so far with us, of course its not great. But thats the point, a manager needs time and preferably, deserves the chance to...you know...actually sign players of his own. Just an idea.
Yes absolutely. In normal circumstances. But sadly, these are not normal circumstances.
Next season we will go into a situation, which is financially very precarious for the club. We need to cut our costs immensely. We began to do so in January, but we still have a long way to go. Sol and his team are very expensive, and the “financial gymnastics” that brought them into the club, would cripple us in Lg2.
We desperately need stability. For example Charlie Kelman is only 18 years old and has already played under 3/4 different managers (Chris Powell, Kevin Bond, Garry Waddock and Sol Campbell) to suggest we need yet another 'overhaul' is just baseless, naive and serves no benefit to the players.
Ok mate, let’s agree to disagree. I’ve made my stance clear on what I know, if you don’t want to believe me, it’s no bother.
[You say you know players, well guess what, your not the only one. Callum Taylor (under 23s GK) went to my secondary school, my cousin still attends. Callum Taylor got asked to go back and do a presentation in an assembly for one of the year groups. He got asked what working under Sol was like, he literally said that everyone got a instant boost of having his presence around place.
Haha what did you expect him to say publicly? That Sol is a ****?
Why don’t you ask Callum how he and the rest feel about Campbell’s training routines & methods.
Which isnt really a surprise considering Timothee Dieng has improved recently, Mark Milligan started getting praise on here (people offered to drive Mark to the nearest train station to leave our club, he was that bad at the start) ....Its...almost...as if Sol has improved us??
Ok mate. Sol has improved us because we got relegated with a slightly reduced goals against percentage.
Oh and as for Milly, maybe you should ask him what he thinks of it all.