- Aug 2, 2011
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Pretty much every manager under ENIC ownership has had an entire second XI of equal/acceptable quality, often including 3 or 4 strikers. The fact is that Poch simply didn't build the squad with the same concept in mind. We never had a backup for anyone in the team, bar maybe GK when Vorm was half decent, and LB, and based on his own soundbites it was due to being incapable of managing that expectation of rotation etc. He bought Janssen and didn't play him, brought in Llorente and didn't play him unless it was absolutely necessary or a pointless 10 mins where we'd never play to his strengths. He didn't renew Llorente because it's apparently more fun to pretend wingers can stand in for a player like Kane who is nothing like anyone else in the squad.
Give the club/JM time and I'm sure we'll have decent squad options again.
i remember Jol having Keane, Berbatov, Defoe and Bent! Crazy to think now we only have Kane