As I've said in my original post, I've watched all three and think all 3 are good. Wouldn't surprise me at all for them to make a strong midfield 3.
Of course it looks like hindsight but it's just poor scouting. I watched Sancho a lot as he was English and I knew he wouldn't make it here. Ole signed him because of the hype and him being English. If you watched him regularly you'd see the lack of acceleration and the sorry state of the defences he scored goals against.
Antony I didn't want either, didn't follow him bit watched his goals and assists and immediately you could tell how limited he was. 90% of his goals and assists were him cutting in and shooting / crossing, poor defences, almost never dribbled his man.
Nunez there's this Chelsea fan on here who regularly goes to Benfica games as he lives there, he said that Nunez was seriously overrated and would struggle. Pool signed him because he had one great game against them.
In the end.. it's just bad scouting. Liverpool seem to have sorted out this summer, but we're still relying on getting whomever the manager wants.. which is a terrible idea because no manager has time to properly scout players. He's largely stuck to players that have played under him already, which mostly has worked, but with Mount and Hojlund I think we'll see the limitations of that strategy.
Btw r.e. Mount we already have enough cogs in Fred and Mctominay. Someone that actually does something with the ball too would be nice.
Sorry mate, I’m just a guesser like most folk and I must’ve been swept along by the hype, but it wasn’t just Ole (a bloke who’d spent some time involved in the football malarkey) and a bunch of very expensive full-time highly experienced professional football scouts who were raving about Sancho, it was every Utd supporter I knew at the time, also the vast majority of supporters on this very forum, longstanding football pundits across the piste and indeed the England camp and football supporters in the UK and Germany in general.
If you knew that he’d be a flop in advance then you were in a very small minority and you must be involved in the game at quite a high level and if not then you really ought to be.
That lack of acceleration thing that you’d noted in your own scouting of Sancho, well the scouting team at Utd must be kicking themselves for not noticing that particular debilitating trait when they watched him dozens of times, scrutinised his performances down to the last detail and studied his statistics going right back through his development. To focus a scouting operation on a major signing and to rely on the hype rather than doing the actual scouting was very remiss of them.
Re Antony, ditto, you knew best and the world should’ve listened.
Re Nunez, well I didn’t pay much attention to him being sworn into the order of those afflicted with that awful spitty accent, and I’m glad they didn’t listen to the Chelsea fan who comes on here sometimes because I quite enjoy having a laugh at the posts on rawk where they share their deluded ramblings about how his unconventional lack of ability in senior football will suddenly flower into a new type of brilliance.
Re Mount? Funny but me in my ignorance, I see him as being a better kind of cog than the very basic cogs that Fred or McTominay attempt to be. I see him as being much more press resistant, much more cultured, much more able to read a game. I see him as an intelligent player who knows when to hold and when to release quickly. The kind of not so flashy player who operates right in the middle of the game to make everything work around him.
But, then again, I‘m only a guesser and what with you knowing the failings of Sancho and Antony before the rest of football caught on I‘m now having a bit of a downer on the guy . . Suppressing my expectations and what have you ;-)
Anyhow Mark, I apologise right here for slipping into sarcasm. I know it’s not a good look but it kind of felt right to wrap my response in a bit of absurdity, mostly for the sake of injecting humour but also so that you’d know that I‘m trying to be open and affable and that I can disagree on a topic without taking any of this too seriously.
And ok so I’m a doubter but I’m also happy to be convinced. In fact it may be the case that I’d agree with every other utterance you’ve ever made and this might be the exception. So I’ll keep an eye out for your posts and read them with interest.
I was a regular reader of this forum for many years, before recently signing up, and I read the threads in here because thinkers such as yourself were posting (you do truly write very well and, whether I agree with what you write or not, I appreciate the way you explain yourself).
And btw I’d have ‘liked‘ your post but I’m a newby and I don’t think I have the requisite permissions to ‘like’ a post . . or I just haven’t sussed it yet.
Finally; if what you said about your foreknowledge with regard to Sancho & Antony holds true, prior to other unexpected declines in previously respected players, then I guess I’ll be doffing my cap to you on a regular basis in future.
Onwards and upwards eh?