Except I never told you that did I. In fact I told you the reverse. My opinion of Carrol was always that he was a tidy technically proficient footballer, but he lacked the mentality to impose himself on games.
...and you called for him constantly in games where we had no control like he was the firefighter we needed to make things ok. So no BC you never said those explicit words to me but your actions/posts did exhibit such.
And making a point often does involve hyperbole and exaggeration with no disingenuousness involved. No strawman either...he's champo just like the rest of them that get the body shape right, look good on the training ground, and send the balls sideways and backwards. And if memory serves you were never behind his being let go either...there was still a chance in your mind that if given just a little bit more time...Champo.
When it comes to the disingenuous straw man bullshit, you could give sammy a run.
And that's just not true. Give credit where credit's due BC. My ratiocination is so refined I couldn't give an artist like Sammy a run for his money if I tried. I'm out here playing the notes but with Sammy it's the notes you don't hear, a true master of his craft.
I am under no illusion that it is only very few academy kids that are even worth a chance, and that even then a tiny fraction of those will prove ultimately good enough to be viable squad use, and an even smaller fraction will end up as first team regular material.
I think this is not the case and the disproportionate hue and cry from you axe-grindy fuckers pretty much backs my point. Who the fuck complains that we aren't giving chances to a kid that that they expect to be the 22nd man? No reasonable person yet we hear you guys all the time.
I never hear you complaining that we don't give Alfie Whiteman some minutes? Why? Because you have no expectation of him seeing the field. but with these others your expecting the next Harry Kane. Or should I point you to your Onomah posts?
All most of us are arguing is for a more logical and sensible approach. We are pissing away resources. We aren't a club blessed with the resources of most of our main rivals.
I didn't hear you folks complaining about the 40M 'wasted' on GLC by not getting him the year before. That's really wasted as he was available and we were dealing with PSG. That's really wasted. The other shit is potentially, possibly wasted. And ultimately it's not because they are sold down to their level.
The next test would normally be to go on loan and get regular proper football, or to be given more game time with our first team.
Yes, perhaps more should have gone on loan in retrospect but I also see it as reasonable to keep the really promising players close to home to ingrain your way and to avoid bad habits. Just like I want Aouar out of Lyon because I see his growth stunted and incipient bad habits.
all Edwards had to do was be in a bit of a teenage huff to be deemed a lost cause.
And the c*nt did it at 3 clubs BC. He's c*nt BC and it's occurred everywhere he's been. You have no standing on this one BC. He's a c*nt. Hopefully he gets better but when it was his time he was a c*nt.