winchester_royalLightwaterRoyal LOL @ some of you, it was a punt on a player with a fantastic background. Also its only been 4 months, I'm sure by next season he will be up and running taking team apart.
Some of you who are laughing at how we have signed an injured player and what a waste of money its been were also moaning about our lack of ambition when we pulled out of signing Bradley Wright-Phillips for the same reason. Or have you all conveniently forgotten?
Valid points, but I think the issue is more that we were right in the mix to avoid relegation around January, and rather than spend money on players who would make an immediate and positive impact we bought in a standard RB, a guy who wasn't going to be fit for 3 months, and 2 lower league punts.
Don't get me wrong I think Akpan, Carrico and (to a lesser extent) Blackman will all prove to be good buys eventually...but I get the feeling McD was a little bruised by the whole Guthrie affair and only wanted to really go after big money players who he knew and trusted.
So I don't think anyone is particularly irritated with the decision to bring Carrico in, more about the characterisation by McD of the transfer being one of 4 that made us the second most active club in the window...which is a slightly misleading stat.
I think it's unlikely, but I wonder whether McDermott starting him a few weeks into his time here when he was clearly no way fit enough and seemed to still have the remnants of his knee injury maybe set back his recovery and fitness development?
