I'm not sure about how much more time, certainly nothing is definite there - he is the seventh person (fourth permanent manager) to take charge of a Stoke City game between the time he joined Argyle as assistant (June 2019) and now.
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Maybe, it was not that difficult Schumacher
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He knew full well what budget restraints he would be facing and at the risk of repeating myself , at the supporters club meeting in St Blazey he appeared to have accepted that position.How wrong were we to believe anything he said that night!
But we have to find them at a price we can afford. There is no doubt that Azaz was the main catalyst for Whittaker’s excellent form. To replace him is easier said than done.
This is the narrative but it does not entirely fit the facts, Whittaker's top form continued after Azaz left. Indeed I would argue that while he could not keep scoring worldies as he did in his hot streak, his form only really dropped off in the last month or so of the season before that he may have been less prolific but was still creating problems.
Agreed. Not to repeat myself a hundred times, but Whittaker won player of the month in the Championship for Jan, after Azaz left.
Of course, easier said than done. Azaz was a "hidden gem", whom we unearthed either through luck or skilled research.
But he isn't a hidden gem now, which is why I was questioning the slight obsession. Small point but I'd prefer to hear "an Azaz" or "another Azaz".
This is one signing that I really wish we'd just made. Yes, it's easy to spend other people's money but £1m to stay in the Championship and benefit from ~£6m in TV money next season is a fair return on investment, though obviously not guaranteed. I was interested to see the post inferring that SH and AP didn't really consider relegation a possibility until recently, that's a concern if true.
He was League Two Young Player of the Season when he was on loan with Newport, as well as being in the League Two Team of the Season. It shouldn’t have taken much research to see his quality, but it does suggest we did well to get him at the time. Presumably there was plenty of competition from other teams in league one.
There's no way they didn't see it as a possibility, that in itself is an impossibility!
Likelihood is a different thing, that's a scale that has moved game by game. You wouldn't be the CEO of a business like this or have earned enough money to spend £11m on something that will likely not yield its true benefits until you aren't the chairman anymore if you couldn't see something like Argyle being relegated is at least possible.
Sometimes players have a particular understanding or chemistry with their team mates.e.g. Mariner and Rafferty . Whittaker and Azaz seemed to be on the same wavelength so when Azaz left the club it not only left a big void in midfield which we failed to fill but Whittaker suddenly found out there were less service to him.Not sure what you mean by your last sentence?
So if Argyle had offered to match what Stoke did you think he would have stayed?
Give your head a wobble.
Well we’ll never know will we. But if his family were as settled as you say they were, it would have certainly given him a decision.
Either way, I think the salary increase would have had a lot more bearing on his decision than simply a ‘nice to have’.
This may come as a shock Oldage, but I agree with you entirely here! The conversation is about a specific person and it's unlikely one of his relatives will be joining to take his place.
