Caporegime
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QPR should stay up, they've both beaten good teams and been turned around by Hughes.
I did laugh, at first in Feb/March people were laughing at Hughes and praising the hell out of O'neill, the thing is Sunderland have a more than midtable capable squad, QPR didn't. Hughes is KNOWN to be a bit of a long term project, long term turnaround manager as all but Fulham this is what he did. O'neill is a man manager(though generally angers everyone but his first team) and gets very quick results.
Sunderland have gotten 11 points in their last 11 games, QPR have improved dramatically. I think QPR based on, how long their manager and players have had, and another window to improve would do significantly better than any of the current bottom three. Coyle has had a decent amount of time and can't make Bolton better, they've been woeful, Kean has had plenty of time and doesn't seem up to the job. Got a great deal in Yakubu(for now, if he does a "Kanu" and is **** for another 2 years on a huge wage then maybe not) and with a top goal scorer still hasn't done anything with Blackburn, there are 2-3 top notch players, the squad is/was MORE than capable of staying up. They just aren't playing well and haven't for a long time.
Wigan have a weak team but actually try and play football, are doing so on a tiny budget and are doing very well considering, on top of that they've been excellent in the past month, absolutely excellent. QPR, hughes is a very very very good manager, if they stay up I can see him doing very well with them, building a real team but QPR had one of the weakest teams in Jan and Hughes had to rather panic buy last minute rather than have a couple months to find fantastic value targets. Bolton won't improve under Coyle if they stay up, Blackburn won't improve under Kean(and it looks like the owners will continue to back him), Wolves have thankfully gone down, diabolical. Villa.... really don't know how good they might be with an actual manager in charge, Bent/Gabby, couple good youth players, couple good CB's and a world class keeper.
I did laugh, at first in Feb/March people were laughing at Hughes and praising the hell out of O'neill, the thing is Sunderland have a more than midtable capable squad, QPR didn't. Hughes is KNOWN to be a bit of a long term project, long term turnaround manager as all but Fulham this is what he did. O'neill is a man manager(though generally angers everyone but his first team) and gets very quick results.
Sunderland have gotten 11 points in their last 11 games, QPR have improved dramatically. I think QPR based on, how long their manager and players have had, and another window to improve would do significantly better than any of the current bottom three. Coyle has had a decent amount of time and can't make Bolton better, they've been woeful, Kean has had plenty of time and doesn't seem up to the job. Got a great deal in Yakubu(for now, if he does a "Kanu" and is **** for another 2 years on a huge wage then maybe not) and with a top goal scorer still hasn't done anything with Blackburn, there are 2-3 top notch players, the squad is/was MORE than capable of staying up. They just aren't playing well and haven't for a long time.
Wigan have a weak team but actually try and play football, are doing so on a tiny budget and are doing very well considering, on top of that they've been excellent in the past month, absolutely excellent. QPR, hughes is a very very very good manager, if they stay up I can see him doing very well with them, building a real team but QPR had one of the weakest teams in Jan and Hughes had to rather panic buy last minute rather than have a couple months to find fantastic value targets. Bolton won't improve under Coyle if they stay up, Blackburn won't improve under Kean(and it looks like the owners will continue to back him), Wolves have thankfully gone down, diabolical. Villa.... really don't know how good they might be with an actual manager in charge, Bent/Gabby, couple good youth players, couple good CB's and a world class keeper.
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