Monk presser at Boro

O'Kane? Ayling?

Deffo okane

I'd suspect ayling as well

Monk signed on to be Manager
with us June 2nd, 2016. Therefore,
you could argue he signed or
agreed to sign (+ loan deals) these
players after that date:

Rob Green (Good Signing)
Luke Ayling (Good Signing)
Kyle Bartley (Good Signing)
Pontus Jansson (Good Signing)
Pablo Hernandez (Good Signing)
Hadi Sacko (Good Signing)
Kemar Roofe (Good Signing)

Liam Bridcutt (Ok Signing)
Eunan O'Kane (Ok Signing)
Alfonso Pedraza (Ok Signing)
Marcus Antonsson (Ok Signing)

Matt Grimes (Bad Signing)
Modou Barrow (Bad Signing)

Two bad signings. Rest
were good to ok/avg. Granted he
had Pep helping select. And you
could argue the club had a hand
also. But, not a bad record overall.

IMO

After reading Monk's comments, it feels he
didn't like the idea of a DOF. Or the particular
DOF we brought in (Orta).

I'm convinced Monk's agent was in touch with
'brough weeks before, working that angle. And I
wouldn't be surprised to hear that once we hired
Orta, they (Midds) painted a crap inside picture
of how that might go down for Monk if he stayed.
Probably helped make his mind up.

I'm now happy he's gone, despite the fact his
seat is still vacant.

I'm happy that we are ostensibly in a better position now than we were at the same point last season.

comment by Stevie Dee (U10061)
posted 2 minutes ago
I'm happy that we are ostensibly in a better position now than we were at the same point last season.
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Fair point

"He did well for us, but the side dipped alarmingly when the going got tough towards the business end of the season. There seemed to be issues behind the scenes with some players, players were frozen out from the get go. This will sound like sour grapes, i wanted him to stay (more for continuity as much as anything), but I'm not devastated he's gone either. He still had much to prove."

Agree with Sheldon on this.

It is not clear to me why others on here feel Monk was slated and the club/AR did anything wrong in this situation. Other than "we should have signed him up earlier." Who is to say he would have accepted earlier. Then if he declined and the season went knockers up they would have blamed the club for distracting him during the season.

Sorry, not convinced the club did not play this one right in the end.

I really cant stand monk after what he did to us. All the the rhetoric of loyalty and history and he leaves at the first opportunity.

He is in no position to be asking for demands. Yes he got us so far but we were frankly playing awful football just hoping every match that Hernandez and wood produce something special which they did more often than not. But he bottled it at the end of the campaign.

I always thought he was a bit of a dodgy character after his episodes with adam pope, pontus jansonn and wagner. But i never clicked on till now.

"All the the rhetoric of loyalty and history and he leaves at the first opportunity."

Only applies to players, not managers!

comment by JonnyLosAngeles (U9756)
posted 3 minutes ago
"All the the rhetoric of loyalty and history and he leaves at the first opportunity."

Only applies to players, not managers!
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lol. True