Lazy claim/post. Appleton inherited a demoralised bunch of has beens and never weres. He started disastrously, but from November - as he weeded out some of the worst non-achievers and tweaked his system - we gradually improved. In Jan he brought in Roofe, MacDonald, Baldock and Skarz. All very good at that level. By the end of the season we were a team on the up.
Whereas, Pep inherited a youthful team of achievers, who just 2 or 3 months beforehand had been hammering Millwall away.
This is the 18 man squad that hammered Millwall. How many has Clotet inherited?
- Eastwood
- Ribeiro
- Nelson
- Raglan
- Skarz
- Ruffels
- Lundstram
- Maguire
- Carroll
- McAleny
- Johnson
Substitutes
- Hemmings
- Edwards
- Rothwell
- Hall
- Long
- Dunkley
- Stevens
2 were on loan (Edwards, McAleny)
2 were out of contract (Maguire, Dunkley)
1 was released before Clotet took over (Skarz)
2 were sold to teams in a higher division (Johnson, Lundstram)
So that leaves 11. Of those 11...
1 had to retire because of injuries (Ribeiro)
4 are currently injured (Nelson, Hall, Long, Rothwell)
1 is back on the bench after being injured in pre season (Raglan)
So that leaves 5 players.
Eastwood, Ruffels and Carroll played today.
Hemmings is out on loan a league below after scoring a handful of league goals here.
Stevens is out on loan and is a young keeper.
So, Clotet didn't really inherit that team, did he? 7 were never available to him, and of the 11 that he still has, 4 are injured.