29-01-2024, 07:09 PM
(29-01-2024, 06:16 PM)Theyak2 Wrote: Dave.
Is it true you wouldn't have got promoted last season without him?
Apparently he played that well and was in the team of the year for league 2.
As you know, there isn't that much difference between league 1 and 2 apart from the top 8 sides in league 1 who are usually better teams with bigger budgets and larger fan bases.
At thd end of last season he was due to get a move to Blackpool which for some reason or other fell through. He has not signed a new contract and that leaves an bad taste in the fans of those clubs so affected with these type issues.
He has been distracted and badly mentored by his agent I have no doubt. The pressure on him to perform will not have been lost. Sometimes a 'single' player cannot carry the burden of his clubs aspirations.
OM may just need a new start somewhere away from his present surroundings.
With all due respect, our head of recruitment is doing a grand job and we are picking up players that have elevated us. Mousinho concentrates on tge football and our side is top of the league presently.
If he comes here and plays with the 'better' players we have, he will gain and deliver on the pitch for us.
I think I will trust the team at fratton that has delivered time and again over the last couple of transfer windows.
I hope carlisle can move on and have a good season but wherever OM ends up may well be an improvement.
Regards
Undoubtedly he played a major part in our promotion last season and was a massive surprise as he’d been playing at primary school level with Annan for a few seasons leading up to joining us. Tbh League 2 is garbage so I wouldn’t read too much into that as Sam Hoskins won player of the season but never seems to be linked with anyone.
Blackpool supposedly made an offer just before the end of the summer transfer window which apparently was laughable so that was never going to go anywhere. Maybe his head was turned but to put in the performances he has this season, to fire indirect free kicks straight into the crowd, to constantly turn into opposition midfielders and loose the ball, to run like you’ve got tonne weights strapped around your ankles, I’m just not having it that it’s down to being unhappy with his home city club that gave him the chance at league footbal and who have offered him the biggest contract in our history. Tbh the vast majority of supporters would see that contract now as a massive waste of money and with our new owners, that money can be put to much better use.
He’s 26 now, not a teenager so he can’t be seen as a ‘project’. Maybe he’ll look better in a better team, but you would think that he’d be a shining light in a sea of dross in our team but that really hasn’t been the case.
Again, hopefully he’ll do alright for you lot but don’t be surprised when he’s on loan at Burton next season.