HundredRoom
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See my reply to you on the 'Grief thread'
Voting with your feet
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coluka
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It was not Karanka that was out of his depth. He was a Head Coach. The clubs recruitment failed him, he told us all very openly, it is just that supporters failed to notice or believe him, they put their faith in the wrong man. Tony Pulis has rightly criticised Boro’s recruitment policy in the last few days. He has rightly said a Manager (Head Coach) loses their job whilst others that bring players in keep their jobs behind the scenes. A Head Coach has to make a team perform from the gifts he is given by the recruitment team and the paymaster (Gibson). How Gill, as one example, is still there, is beyond me. On recruitment Pulis is right. Karanka made it clear in January 2017. Downing confirmed Karanka did not want him on BBC Tees. Head Coaches, the title tells you their role. Smoke and Mirrors of recruitment was Pulis’s phrase in his interview. One person gets the blame for the mistakes of others. If you don’t have the right tools to start with, you wont do as good a job as you might otherwise.
Pulis On Boro’s Recruitment
ThatFragranceGuy
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No one was holding a gun to karankas head when we were losing 1-0 to get him to swap a defensive midfielder for a defensive midfielder in the 85th min at home. No one made him leave one the championships most prolific goal scorers on the bench to make a point. Recruitment team didn’t make him play stuani out of position.
Boro definitely had and have recruitment problems but karanka wasn’t some mega manager that was let down by a few bad buys.
coluka
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I understand that. However, I doubt there is a manager or head coach anywhere of any team, where in certain games fans have not criticised them for making choices they felt were wrong. Karankas players were drilled to play a certain way. As for leaving a player on the bench to make a point, a bit like Woodgate did with Spence or Neal did with Cochrane or Maddren did with Sugrue, All managers/head coach’s do that at some point for varying reasons. He wasn’t a mega manager, but he was a very good coach, the best at our club in the last 14 years arguably.
He was let down by poor recruitment in 2016 we bought several players recovering or recently recovered from serious injury, like Negredo, Fischer, Espinosa, Valdes, players from a relegated Villa.
The real issues with Karanka’s premier league season was the lack of pace and creativity in the side, as I had been saying during our promotion season. The PL team camp was allegedly split with pettiness from a few players. Ramirez being tapped up and the board providing him with 2 championship standard centre forwards (his own words) when he wanted proven pace and creativity. The board failed him and themselves, they were far too naive, hence his anger at the WBA?? press conference. That winters signings were planning for relegation rather than staying up. Those in recruitment forced Karanka’s hand into trying to grind out points imho as the squad was one dimensional and slow.
I do agree that his use of Stuani in the role he often played for Uruguay was unwise as was his failure with getting the best out of Traore. He was hot headed and theSpanish temperament often spilled out, but he was honest with the fans and wore his heart on his sleeve. However, the squad was without enough of the attributes needed in the PL, he was failing.....More due to things he could not control rather than things he could. I think a lot of fans regret his sacking now in hindsight and, would have had him back in a heartbeat. Yes he is no Klopp or Pep, but at our level and with the squad he had he did reasonably well for me. All about opinions though and I do understand your point of view on him.