“I’ll give you £250m for Balotelli, lads”

by TheIrishWanderer

17 Comments

  1. Just_Isopod_1926 on

    Brendan got a lot wrong after the 13/14 season but was set up to fail a bit by the transfer committee. Balotelli who he never wanted, Gerrard not being replaced early enough when his legs had gone and high profile signings like Markovic and Lovren having terrible seasons. 

  2. Massively overhated. He was never that terrible (one season amazing, other 2 consistent with the 3 years before he joined), and if we hadn’t got an unbelievable coach immediately after, his time would be looked back on a lot more fondly. And even the ballotelli transfer, I think it is pretty defensible. Of course he was fucking shit, but getting him on the cheap when he had been really good really recently was far from stupid. It just has a real smug hindsight bias to it all I think!