Snowflake RoyalSCIAGSnowflake Royal Always baffled by the "must be better than" crowd. How often has that been said over the last 10 years only to be completely wrong.
Struggling to think of any frankly. Maybe Bacuna? Drinkwater? Even Puscas was at least an upgrade on Baldock and McNulty. Most of our big flops were always obvious downgrades, like Aluko, or were poor value for money but still better than the alternatives, like Mannone or Rafael.
That being said, his stats for last season were worse than both, and they weren’t good the year before either, so on reflection maybe there isn’t much reason for optimism.
Managers is probably the clearest cut. But happened with players too.
Hendrick, Loum and Fornah were definitely decried as 'must be better' than Rinomhota, Drinkwater and Laurent...
Could be wrong but don’t think it was described as “must be better”; more so “can’t be much worse”. Given Rinomhota, Swift and Laurent’s (although he did seemingly improve) struggles last season and given we accrued 3 more points last season (19 less goals conceded) I don’t think it was too unfair an initial assessment