Stadjer
Full Member
I don’t think his signings have all been terrible but let’s be honest here ;
If we were rating all of his signings including loans they would look something like this ;
Antony 1/10 (Absolute Shite!)
Weghorst 5/10 ( poor finisher, great work rate!)
Sabitzer 5/10 ( Too injury Proun but had his moments!
C Eriksen 6/10 (solid first season but legs have gone)
Casemiro 7/10 (great first season but legs are going!)
T Malacia 3/10 (looked suspect in first season and he’s disappeared off the Face of the planet)
S Reguilon 4/10( Tried hard but never United quality!)
S Anrabat 3/10 (looks way short of PL quality )
L Martinez 8/10 (looks a United player but would have spent 1 season out of 2 not being available!)
R Hojlund 8/10 (looks like the real deal and bought at the right age)
Jack Butland 3/10 (loaned him what for he was never used )
Martin Dubravka - 3/10 (why ? Played a couple of EFL cup games that got him cup tied )
A Bayinder - 4/10 (used once all season even when Onana was having nightmares)
A Onana - 4/10 ( Has improved recently but he’s at fault for our dismal CL elimination and at least 3 PL defeats)
M Mount - 3/10 (we could have signed an injury proun player for free but we have him the number 7 shirt, 250k per week and Chelsea £55m.
In what dimension do you consider ETH actual signings to be a success, he’s had a maximum of 3 out of 10 so far to be successful and when you are paying £10m loan fees for Amrabat and £8m for Sabitzer you have to include them too !
That is very very harsh. I would only consider Antony a failed signing but that happens to every manager. To put in emergency loans like Weghorst, Amrabat and Butland to make ETH look worse is way too easy. 8m or 10m isnt that much for signing a squad option. The Glazers take out more in interest.
Malacia looked like a decent option. Not yet starting quality but he was cheap and had a good game against Salah for example. He picks up an injury and is now a 3/10 signing? I dont think ETH is to blame for an injury to a player that has no history of injuries anyway. Just bad luck. Butland was signed to sit on the bench incase an injury occured. No injury to DDG so Butland didnt have to play. Butland did his job of sitting on the bench, he did what was expected off him. How is that a 3/10? Same goes for Dubravka.
For Weghorst, was there a better option to sign? Just like Sabitzer. They filled in when needed. They werent good enough to be starters but what other options do you have halfway during the season? They were squad options. Sabitzer even had his moments as you claim, a squad player having his moments. Seems like a good squad player to me. Eriksen came on a free and was a starter for a season. How is that a bad or just okay deal? Reguilon came to be the back up because the first back up is injured. I actually wished he stayed, i didnt think he was too bad. All these reserve goalkeepers were signed to sit on the bench. How are they bad signings if they do exactly what they were signed to do?
Onana is improving, he was bad in the CL but claiming he is at fault for atleast 3 PL defeats is just not true. He didnt stop some attempts that a prime DDG might have stopped one or two off but he didnt make massive errors causing defeats in the PL.
Mount you can call a failure. I dont think it is fair and im willing to wait until he gets fit and actually plays games. I reserve my opinion for that moment but if you want to call an injured player a failed signing it is technically true. He didnt improve the team. That he wears the 7 shirt isnt really relevant though.