I think the Toure appointment is an exciting one. It looks to be 99% over the line, rumours are that he is attending and organizing the training session tomorrow before they go out to Turkey or wherever for warm weather training. The fact that his appointment attracts compensation yet the owners have not blinked and eyelid, shows that they will invest in the club.
I had one eye on Critchley but who is to say he doesn’t come as a first team coach.??
As people have said the new gaffer needs to re- assess the squad including those on loan and from what I saw in the u21 game yesterday, those who may be able to take the step up.
All bodes well and has got every fan chomping at the bit for the official news and the restart in December.

Agree totally with cup winners. It was obvious to see he had his 5-6 favourite players and they were getting picked no matter how they played.
The main ones being Amos, Tilt, Darakwa, Power and McLean. The form of those 5 has been awful to say the least. Amos before being injured was letting shots in from all angles, Tilt can’t mark up, he has the positional awareness of a school kid. People see the 2 or 3 things he’s done well in the game, Miss all his fuck ups and give him the motm.
Darakwa does not know how to pass the ball forward and misses tackles left right and center. McLean just hasn’t got the legs to play as a wing back and is a heart in mouth defender.
The worse one for me though is Power. He spends more time pointing at others to do stuff he doesn’t do anything himself. I watched him during the Stoke game and his first tackle and close down came on 55 mins. In the Swansea game he let players run past him into the box for both goals. We never scored from any of his long throws, but he is good at taking free kicks, that’s were his contribution ends.
I would include Keane in that lust, but its the position he plays not the player himself. He disappears down that “hole” just popping up to score goals from corners and free kicks.
The constant playing if 3 at the back to fit Tilt in the team was not working. Add to that playing 3 defensive midfielders in the same starting line up plus a man in the hole meant we were giving the opposition full control of the game both home and away.
So that’s what let Leam down, in my opinion. It was obvious he wasn’t prepared to change things and also not let other players have a decent run in the team.
A big thank you for all he’s done for our club but it was time for him to go. I wish him all the best in his next venture and he will always be seen as one of the best managers Wigan Athletic have ever had, for various reasons.

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Jack Clarke at Sunderland is coming on leaps and bounds by playing regular for them. He is also 20 years old and played 17 games for the black cats last season.
There’s only so long you can keep holding players back before they start to think they might be better going elsewhere to get games, so open talks with their agents. We cannot let this happen to Thelo, the lad looks ready.
Leam needs to start him to see how he responds to the task. If it doesn’t come off they continue to work on him in training and he goes back to the bench, but a minimum if 3 -4 games he should get. Look how long it took Magennis to start playing, 12-13 games?

Really hope he doesn’t read that post. An opinion I agree, but one made without any knowledge of his current medical condition.
The last information we got was he picked up a foot injury at Accrington that meant he missed 2-3 weeks of training. He’s now back in full training according to LR which is good news.
Don’t write the lad off just yet, I hope he will play a big part in our quest to stay in this division this season.

Cup winners went way over the top with that post but don’t think that Richardson can’t do no wrong cos of all he’s done and achieved up to now.
From last week the slate was wiped clean and a new season has started.
I’ve questioned the timing of Lean’s subs on numerous occasions, last week was a prime example.
It should have all happened after their sending off, Preston forfeited a forward and consolidated their defense.
Believe it or not, they won a corner after the sending off and all our players went back to defend it. I screamed at the bench to leave someone up and he eventually did. I’m not saying he was reacting to my shout, Kelly had a word in his ear.
There is nobody at our club above criticism including Richardson.

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