In preseason, Fonseca made errors during the evaluation of our squad.
Fonseca decided that Adli was our worst midfielder, and we refused to sell Musah to Napoli for 20mil, as the American was untouchable for him. This is a clear mistake, Adli would be our 3rd best midfielder currently, and a quality rotation option behind Fofana and Reijnders.
Fonseca decided to not trust Kalulu. Didn't even give him much chance in preseason. We gifted him to Juve, and now he is one of their most important player. He is a much better player than Emerson, that is for sure.
Management deserve the blame as well. Signing Tammy, who can't score to save his life. Signing Pavlovic... Man, I really thought he can be a tank in defense. He doesn't have the brain for a CB. He is a headless chicken, too proactive. And being too proactive is bad when you play as a defender. You don't have to always look to get involved, to be in a defensive action, sometimes you just need to relax, and sit back. Pavlovic doesn't know how to do that. Also his atrocious first touch, and passing makes Paletta look like prime Nesta...
After the derby win, I was pro Fonseca, wanted to give him more time. Now we have seen him in 12 games, and we are not good enough. Benching Leao against Napoli was a shockingly bad decision, if we factor in that we didn't have Theo, Reijnders, and Pulisic. You start with Musah, RLC, Chuk, Okafor, but you bench Leao? You idiot...
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This is a sack worthy record btw... We have a much better squad compared to the banter era ones, yet we have as bad results.