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No wonder this battered and bruised fanbase love Marti like their favorite family member. We deserve every minute of his calming and inspirational presence.
I'm pleased when they're desperate to get on. Jonathan Varane also came rushing up when they put Colback on and the coach had to say, no Jack. His face fell a bit...
Bearing in mind they'll be playing each other too it's a tall order. Derby haven't picked up a single point since Boxing Day.
We had one point more at this stage of last season in third from last place. But we had to win eight out of our following matches including against Leeds (h) as well as away at Leicester, Swansea, Bristol City and Coventry and that tricky home win against relegation rivals Birmingham. I still can't quite believe we did that!
Weird with handballs. He did get most decisions right but he did miss a couple of blatant Michael Jordans from them as well as the Alfie one. I thought the Dunne pen could've been given too as they pulled his shirt so hard you could see bare shoulder.
Also I think a couple of bookings for them might have calmed them down in the second half when they got very physical. There's light touch and there's invisible. Overall good though. Didn't make it all about him and kept the game moving.
It depends. Blacburn really upped their physicality in the second half and Lloyd is both stronger and faster which helps against those teams. Kolli reads the game better and is stronger in the box, passing and shooting.
More often than not Marti is good at choosing the best striker for the opponents.
Nourry would have some say in Morgan. But it seems those who are negatively biased against Nourry blame him for the failures and credit others for the successes. We don't know if Marti, for example, wanted Madsen.
The fact is that things are much more dynamic than under Les. He has made mistakes, e.g Santos but he's rectifying them by putting him on loan. Our emphasis is on younger players - I have much more faith that our academy will benefit the first team. I don't care if they joined us at eight or 18 really as long as they can make the transition.
Not saying he's proven himself yet but I'm surprised that you're so negative as you're usually one of the more balanced posters.
Yes but the difference is unlike last summer we've got a settled GK plus back up, we've got several striking options (I don't think we could say that before about Kolli and Lloyd). We've got a decent number of CBs but may need one more to replace Edwards. Our CM is much stronger with Varane and Morgan to add to Field and Colback. We've got Dembele instead of Willock.
Last summer it was hard to think what was more essential. This summer fullbacks are essential but apart from that it's strengthening/back up rather than complete overhaul.
Yeah. Off the top of my head these puppy farms seem to benefit the elite - your Cole Palmers - who are likely to break into the first team of these puppy farm clubs. But not much anything below that who just seem to miss out on the chance of regular men's football for one club which can really develop them e.g. Ashby.
One thing that could be positive is his nous in realising he was designated puppy farm material and his detrrmination not to just take the cash but to go to a club that has a pedigree, albeit recent, of giving young players a pathway into the first team and developing them along the way. I'm sure he's right that clubs are going to invest more effort into players that are 'theirs'.
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