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Post by LGH87 on Feb 5, 2024 0:25:54 GMT
So if there’s been a big fall out, mmaee’s been a dick, there’s been fights and schumachers sent a few to the naughty step.
Why on earth did Mmaee turn down a move away and state he was happy here and wanted to fight for his place?
A lot of things just aren’t adding up at the moment.
The manager’s selections and team set ups being the biggest. It’s taken what, 6 weeks for us to break him and have him moving away from his principles?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2024 7:07:09 GMT
So if there’s been a big fall out, mmaee’s been a dick, there’s been fights and schumachers sent a few to the naughty step. Why on earth did Mmaee turn down a move away and state he was happy here and wanted to fight for his place? A lot of things just aren’t adding up at the moment. The manager’s selections and team set ups being the biggest. It’s taken what, 6 weeks for us to break him and have him moving away from his principles? Go onto YouTube and look at any podcast with a footballer with a slightly ropey past and they'll pretty much reveal what football clubs can be like and the things they release into the press when they want rid of players. I wouldn't trust a club to tell the truth when they want rid of a player and nor would I trust any agent. The harsh truth is that this manager has lobbed a few players, including Mmaee, under the bus in public by questioning their attitude in training and the performance on Saturday, regardless of who we were playing, was a complete two fingers back to the manager. Watch the highlights closely and check out the reactions of the players when goals went in and penalties conceded. To say most of them didn't give a toss is an understatement. The only two that seemingly did were the two centre halves and even then, their reactions were suspiciously OTT.
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Post by robrigo on Feb 5, 2024 7:15:58 GMT
So if there’s been a big fall out, mmaee’s been a dick, there’s been fights and schumachers sent a few to the naughty step. Why on earth did Mmaee turn down a move away and state he was happy here and wanted to fight for his place? A lot of things just aren’t adding up at the moment. The manager’s selections and team set ups being the biggest. It’s taken what, 6 weeks for us to break him and have him moving away from his principles? Go onto YouTube and look at any podcast with a footballer with a slightly ropey past and they'll pretty much reveal what football clubs can be like and the things they release into the press when they want rid of players. I wouldn't trust a club to tell the truth when they want rid of a player and nor would I trust any agent. The harsh truth is that this manager has lobbed a few players, including Mmaee, under the bus in public by questioning their attitude in training and the performance on Saturday, regardless of who we were playing, was a complete two fingers back to the manager. Watch the highlights closely and check out the reactions of the players when goals went in and penalties conceded. To say most of them didn't give a toss is an understatement. The only two that seemingly did were the two centre halves and even then, their reactions were suspiciously OTT. Do you reckon he’s lost the dressing room already then Onlooker? Because if he has, then we are truly fucked.
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Post by robrigo on Feb 5, 2024 7:17:01 GMT
Go onto YouTube and look at any podcast with a footballer with a slightly ropey past and they'll pretty much reveal what football clubs can be like and the things they release into the press when they want rid of players. I wouldn't trust a club to tell the truth when they want rid of a player and nor would I trust any agent. The harsh truth is that this manager has lobbed a few players, including Mmaee, under the bus in public by questioning their attitude in training and the performance on Saturday, regardless of who we were playing, was a complete two fingers back to the manager. Watch the highlights closely and check out the reactions of the players when goals went in and penalties conceded. To say most of them didn't give a toss is an understatement. The only two that seemingly did were the two centre halves and even then, their reactions were suspiciously OTT. Do you reckon he’s lost the dressing room already then Onlooker? Because if he has, then we are truly fucked. Do you reckon he’s lost the dressing room Onlooker? Because if he has, we are truly up shit creek.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2024 7:19:10 GMT
Go onto YouTube and look at any podcast with a footballer with a slightly ropey past and they'll pretty much reveal what football clubs can be like and the things they release into the press when they want rid of players. I wouldn't trust a club to tell the truth when they want rid of a player and nor would I trust any agent. The harsh truth is that this manager has lobbed a few players, including Mmaee, under the bus in public by questioning their attitude in training and the performance on Saturday, regardless of who we were playing, was a complete two fingers back to the manager. Watch the highlights closely and check out the reactions of the players when goals went in and penalties conceded. To say most of them didn't give a toss is an understatement. The only two that seemingly did were the two centre halves and even then, their reactions were suspiciously OTT. Do you reckon he’s lost the dressing room already then Onlooker? Because if he has, then we are truly fucked. I'd say he's already treating on eggshells for certain. Whether he's truly lost the dressing room or not we'll find out in the next two games. A poor performance at Blackburn and I think it's curtains for him and us. I never subscribed to the "well done for saying it like it is" road that many people went down. You just can't do it with modern footballers. You are taking one hell of a risk and that risk seems to have been compounded by the whole 80% are available on deadline day craic along with the smaller side stories of players like Campbell who are clearly off in the summer on a free.
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Post by robrigo on Feb 5, 2024 7:20:54 GMT
I'd say he's already treating on eggshells for certain. Whether he's truly lost the dressing room or not we'll find out in the next two games. A poor performance at Blackburn and I think it's curtains for him and us. I never subscribed to the "well done for saying it like it is" road that many people went down. You just can't do it with modern footballers. You are taking one hell of a risk and that risk seems to have been compounded by the whole 80% are available on deadline day craic along with the smaller side stories of players like Campbell who are clearly off in the summer on a free. Another spell in the third tier doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility at this time. A truly sobering thought.
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Post by FullerMagic on Feb 5, 2024 7:40:10 GMT
The story about Mmaee being " very happy and wanting to fight for his place" came from Fraser Fletcher, who seems to have a very cosy relationship with Mmaee's agent, judging by the tens of Mmaee transfer exclusives he's had over the last 2 years.
Possibly just spin because no attractive move has popped up, knowing Turkey, UAE, USA are still open, and he's sitting on a very nice contract here anyway. Pinch of salt needed maybe?
Nobody can say Schumacher has handled it badly, or well, without knowing exactly the scale of Mmaee's behaviour
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Post by werrington on Feb 5, 2024 7:42:32 GMT
The manager hasn’t lost the dressing room ….He’s tackling the fuckers head on
Make your minds up in regards what you all want ffs
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Post by questionable on Feb 5, 2024 7:45:22 GMT
I don’t believe this for one minute mainly down to the absurd team selections SS is coming up with.
SS got a few lucky results and alienated certain (very poor) players and when we missed a boat load of chances against Birmingham it’s obvious he blew his top with them, insanely thinking bringing in the alienated players in now such as Leris, Haks, Baker, Hoever and the very uninterested Campbell it’d turn things around.
I said it yesterday he’s totally the wrong man for SCFC in our current predicament.
If I was to have a guess Ryan was asked to leave as we had a target in mind, he refused and is now being made a scapegoat
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Post by LGH87 on Feb 5, 2024 7:53:31 GMT
The manager hasn’t lost the dressing room ….He’s tackling the fuckers head on Make your minds up in regards what you all want ffs What a sorry state of affairs considering we brought the majority of these players in 6 months ago. We’ve well and truly fucked up a great opportunity to get us back on the right track
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Post by mamathestriker on Feb 5, 2024 8:04:08 GMT
The manager hasn’t lost the dressing room ….He’s tackling the fuckers head on Make your minds up in regards what you all want ffs What a sorry state of affairs considering we brought the majority of these players in 6 months ago. We’ve well and truly fucked up a great opportunity to get us back on the right track It's a complete and utter sorry state of affairs. In the summer, we needed sensible recruitment, instead we signed a series of spreadsheet risks, average Championship players on the decline and generally, the majority of who don't look fit for purpose. We seemed to completely ignore things like character, leadership, physicality, are they ready for a potential 50 game season? The fawning over Dublin after two home wins in August, especially by a certain element on Twitter, was frankly embarrassing.
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Post by FullerMagic on Feb 5, 2024 8:13:23 GMT
What a sorry state of affairs considering we brought the majority of these players in 6 months ago. We’ve well and truly fucked up a great opportunity to get us back on the right track It's a complete and utter sorry state of affairs. In the summer, we needed sensible recruitment, instead we signed a series of spreadsheet risks, average Championship players on the decline and generally, the majority of who don't look fit for purpose. We seemed to completely ignore things like character, leadership, physicality, are they ready for a potential 50 game season? The fawning over Dublin after two home wins in August, especially by a certain element on Twitter, was frankly embarrassing. Certainly a big call whether you give the Martin/Jared combo another window - especially when planning for a window that seems like it's going to be very substantial, if not quite of the scale of last summer, would probably need to be starting soon. It has to be said, though, that what you'd assume to be the Neil-led quota (Pearson, Johnson, Rose, Stevens?, Hoever, McNally) were equally as bad as the more obvious recruitment team picks. Gooch not disastrous, but probably a considerable overpay at approaching £1m. So it was all a bit of a fiasco apart from the 3 gems we appear to have found
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Feb 5, 2024 8:35:59 GMT
It's a complete and utter sorry state of affairs. In the summer, we needed sensible recruitment, instead we signed a series of spreadsheet risks, average Championship players on the decline and generally, the majority of who don't look fit for purpose. We seemed to completely ignore things like character, leadership, physicality, are they ready for a potential 50 game season? The fawning over Dublin after two home wins in August, especially by a certain element on Twitter, was frankly embarrassing. Certainly a big call whether you give the Martin/Jared combo another window - especially when planning for a window that seems like it's going to be very substantial, if not quite of the scale of last summer, would probably need to be starting soon. It has to be said, though, that what you'd assume to be the Neil-led quota (Pearson, Johnson, Rose, Stevens?, Hoever, McNally) were equally as bad as the more obvious recruitment team picks. Gooch not disastrous, but probably a considerable overpay at approaching £1m. So it was all a bit of a fiasco apart from the 3 gems we appear to have found Two decent players in Junior and Burgur some possible potential in Juno you could get a similar success rate with a blind fold and a pin and not get paid bid knows how muc between them
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Post by mamathestriker on Feb 5, 2024 8:47:02 GMT
It's a complete and utter sorry state of affairs. In the summer, we needed sensible recruitment, instead we signed a series of spreadsheet risks, average Championship players on the decline and generally, the majority of who don't look fit for purpose. We seemed to completely ignore things like character, leadership, physicality, are they ready for a potential 50 game season? The fawning over Dublin after two home wins in August, especially by a certain element on Twitter, was frankly embarrassing. Certainly a big call whether you give the Martin/Jared combo another window - especially when planning for a window that seems like it's going to be very substantial, if not quite of the scale of last summer, would probably need to be starting soon. It has to be said, though, that what you'd assume to be the Neil-led quota (Pearson, Johnson, Rose, Stevens?, Hoever, McNally) were equally as bad as the more obvious recruitment team picks. Gooch not disastrous, but probably a considerable overpay at approaching £1m. So it was all a bit of a fiasco apart from the 3 gems we appear to have found I absolutely wouldn't give them another window. I'd be bringing in an experienced DoF to work with SS who sort the recruitment out together. A bit like what Luton did with Harford. I think if I'd been in charge of 22 transfers I'd have a better hit rate than 3 or 4 potential successes. Our recruitment since Hughes spunked £18m on Wimmer has been woeful, but somehow the 2023 summer window tops the lot in terms of how awful it was. They all messed up but only AN (rightly) got sacrificed. They all need to go. Anyone related to transfers who was responsible for Summer 2023 I'd sack.
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Post by sticky on Feb 5, 2024 8:58:08 GMT
The manager cant win can he really. Say nothing and he’ll get criticised as being “weak” and “letting the players do what they want”. He’s just saying what we’re all thinking, if the players don’t like it then they should be doing their upmost to prove him wrong, stay professional, put themselves in the shop window and fuck off in the summer.. This continual acceptance of bowing down to players is not right. They’re payed very well to perform a job so just get on with it. Of course questions need to be asked about the character of some of the footballers were signing, without even starting on whether they’re any good or not
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Post by FullerMagic on Feb 5, 2024 9:00:25 GMT
The one I keep coming back to is bringing in Leris to play in the front three.
800k is not an insubstantial fee in this Championship environment, and all these ill thought-out ones at that kind of price add up
How can you sign off on bringing in someone to play there without a goal or a trick? Just defies belief. And it wasn't a last minute rushed one.
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Post by itsmorethanagame on Feb 5, 2024 9:05:53 GMT
The one I keep coming back to is bringing in Leris to play in the front three. 800k is not an insubstantial fee in this Championship environment, and all these ill thought-out ones at that kind of price add up How can you sign off on bringing in someone to play there without a goal or a trick? Just defies belief. And it wasn't a last minute rushed one. Depends what the brief was from Neil though doesn’t it? He clearly wanted a workhorse type option in front of Hoever to balance it out and so he could utilise Hoever’s attacking credentials that he showed last year but hasn’t this. We then brought in Chiquinho as the speed merchant trickster which gave us both options and covered all bases. As it’s transpired, Hoevers attacking displays of quality have vanished and Chiquinho was banished before he got started. Dublin has got to work to the managers briefs. It’s hard to say for sure where the blame ultimately lies.
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Feb 5, 2024 9:10:51 GMT
We are hardly going to miss a striker who would struggle to score 5 goals a season.
The sooner he & other players like him at this club are fucked off the better.
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Post by mamathestriker on Feb 5, 2024 9:16:57 GMT
The one I keep coming back to is bringing in Leris to play in the front three. 800k is not an insubstantial fee in this Championship environment, and all these ill thought-out ones at that kind of price add up How can you sign off on bringing in someone to play there without a goal or a trick? Just defies belief. And it wasn't a last minute rushed one. Depends what the brief was from Neil though doesn’t it? He clearly wanted a workhorse type option in front of Hoever to balance it out and so he could utilise Hoever’s attacking credentials that he showed last year but hasn’t this. We then brought in Chiquinho as the speed merchant trickster which gave us both options and covered all bases. As it’s transpired, Hoevers attacking displays of quality have vanished and Chiquinho was banished before he got started. Dublin has got to work to the managers briefs. It’s hard to say for sure where the blame ultimately lies. We don't know that for sure though do we? I think it was when AN did that publicity pub thing ahead of the new season, he kept mentioning how getting the new players up to speed as it was their first time in England may take a while. I think it's fairly easy to split who were the AN signings and who were Dublin led. Funny how they're both equally as wank mind.
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Post by baconburger on Feb 5, 2024 9:17:18 GMT
The one I keep coming back to is bringing in Leris to play in the front three. 800k is not an insubstantial fee in this Championship environment, and all these ill thought-out ones at that kind of price add up How can you sign off on bringing in someone to play there without a goal or a trick? Just defies belief. And it wasn't a last minute rushed one. Depends what the brief was from Neil though doesn’t it? He clearly wanted a workhorse type option in front of Hoever to balance it out and so he could utilise Hoever’s attacking credentials that he showed last year but hasn’t this. We then brought in Chiquinho as the speed merchant trickster which gave us both options and covered all bases. As it’s transpired, Hoevers attacking displays of quality have vanished and Chiquinho was banished before he got started. Dublin has got to work to the managers briefs. It’s hard to say for sure where the blame ultimately lies. It was always a completely stupid idea. The output from the two positions was always going to be a net loss. If you haven’t got the bollox to play attacking FB’s don’t play them simple as, don’t try to mitigate them by neutering an alleged forward.
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Post by idle on Feb 5, 2024 9:19:42 GMT
We are hardly going to miss a striker who would struggle to score 5 goals a season. The sooner he & other players like him at this club are fucked off the better. True, but we don't have anyone else even close to 5 per season. So then we go down.
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Post by baconburger on Feb 5, 2024 9:31:03 GMT
Depends what the brief was from Neil though doesn’t it? He clearly wanted a workhorse type option in front of Hoever to balance it out and so he could utilise Hoever’s attacking credentials that he showed last year but hasn’t this. We then brought in Chiquinho as the speed merchant trickster which gave us both options and covered all bases. As it’s transpired, Hoevers attacking displays of quality have vanished and Chiquinho was banished before he got started. Dublin has got to work to the managers briefs. It’s hard to say for sure where the blame ultimately lies. We don't know that for sure though do we? I think it was when AN did that publicity pub thing ahead of the new season, he kept mentioning how getting the new players up to speed as it was their first time in England may take a while. I think it's fairly easy to split who were the AN signings and who were Dublin led. Funny how they're both equally as wank mind. They just aren’t. The majority of the players we paid for represent sound business. Looks like we were even able to recoup some/all(who knows what the offers were) for the worst of the lot (Mmaee). Probably overpayed a bit for a couple of ok squad players in Gooch and Leris. We’d easily recoup most of our outlay on Vidigal. We paid about a third of what most people were expecting for Pearson who was exactly what the manager at the time wanted, were the recruitment team meant to be psychic and know he’d get the sack? Any reasonably expected profits from the successes would knock any losses into a cocked hat.
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Feb 5, 2024 9:46:34 GMT
We are hardly going to miss a striker who would struggle to score 5 goals a season. The sooner he & other players like him at this club are fucked off the better. True, but we don't have anyone else even close to 5 per season. So then we go down. Lowe,maybe young and inexperienced,but if he played 35/46 games a season,I'm sure he would score more than Mmaae.
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Post by stiggerstackle on Feb 5, 2024 10:01:43 GMT
True, but we don't have anyone else even close to 5 per season. So then we go down. Lowe,maybe young and inexperienced,but if he played 35/46 games a season,I'm sure he would score more than Mmaae. The concern with Lowe, is that in half-dozen outings recently, he has looked absolutely nowhere near scoring - I'm not even sure he's actually touched the ball in the box. I'm not knocking the lad, he's young and learning, but if we are going to be relying on him for goals then we have problems.
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Post by nottsover60 on Feb 5, 2024 10:19:07 GMT
Do we know that they didn't flag up his discipline problems? It could be that they said this player matches best the qualities you want in a striker but he comes with a lot of baggage. As I've said elsewhere I'm pretty sure Neil is the sort of bloke who thinks he can knock any player into shape with a bit of discipline. Everyone thinks they are the one who can succeed where others have failed and seeing as Wesley seems to have been second on our list I can understand why Neil would think it worth the risk. Martin is ultimately responsible for all football related matters and signed off on his contract no escaping the accountability I’m afraid How many times do they have to say that the ultimate decision on player transfers is the manager's. Martin knows nothing more than you or me about which players would work in the manager's system. His responsibility is to help draw up the short list and make sure we are not overspending on fee or contract. Neil wanted Mmaee, it is down to him that the player is the club. The question is how much did he know about Mmaee's character when he chose him.
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Post by nottsover60 on Feb 5, 2024 10:24:25 GMT
Do we know that they didn't flag up his discipline problems? It could be that they said this player matches best the qualities you want in a striker but he comes with a lot of baggage. As I've said elsewhere I'm pretty sure Neil is the sort of bloke who thinks he can knock any player into shape with a bit of discipline. Everyone thinks they are the one who can succeed where others have failed and seeing as Wesley seems to have been second on our list I can understand why Neil would think it worth the risk. It could be that Jon Coates wants them to target players who have flaws as they are often cheap and can turn a good profit when they work out. High risk high reward signings but cheap. Our last couple of seasons in the Prem was littered with this type of signing and has been since. Maybe we are just trying to do things on the cheap too often and getting too many of this type of player through the door. Is Jon trying to look like some sort of intelligent businessman? Because if he is it ain't working. It just seems like we have been in the same cycle with players and poor attitudes and it's all been since Jon took over. Obviously the cost of players is prohibitive to a club like Stoke but to blame Jon for the last few years in the Premier is a tad harsh as he didn't become co- chairman until 2020. In the Premier he was deputy chairman and I think you can blame most of that type of signing then to Hughes who in fairness had a good record of man management. He wanted better players than Stoke could afford so went for damaged goods as did Pulis in the dogs' home era.
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Post by mamathestriker on Feb 5, 2024 10:35:14 GMT
We don't know that for sure though do we? I think it was when AN did that publicity pub thing ahead of the new season, he kept mentioning how getting the new players up to speed as it was their first time in England may take a while. I think it's fairly easy to split who were the AN signings and who were Dublin led. Funny how they're both equally as wank mind. They just aren’t. The majority of the players we paid for represent sound business. Looks like we were even able to recoup some/all(who knows what the offers were) for the worst of the lot (Mmaee). Probably overpayed a bit for a couple of ok squad players in Gooch and Leris. We’d easily recoup most of our outlay on Vidigal. We paid about a third of what most people were expecting for Pearson who was exactly what the manager at the time wanted, were the recruitment team meant to be psychic and know he’d get the sack? Any reasonably expected profits from the successes would knock any losses into a cocked hat. "The majority of the players we paid for represent sound business." Surely you can't truly believe that? Sound business requires players doing well on the pitch first and foremost. Only 3 or 4 of the 22 signed have done yet. "Were the recruitment team meant to be psychic and know AN would get the sack?" Isn't the whole purpose of the recruitment team to mitigate against any potential managerial change though. If not, you'd then absolutely question what the point of them is. At the moment it appears we have a hybrid recruitment policy, some manager picks, some Dublin picks and Tricky rubber stamping it. Even this window, Manhoef is clearly a spreadsheet signing while Ennis and Cundle are SS purchases.
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Post by nottsover60 on Feb 5, 2024 10:39:53 GMT
Certainly a big call whether you give the Martin/Jared combo another window - especially when planning for a window that seems like it's going to be very substantial, if not quite of the scale of last summer, would probably need to be starting soon. It has to be said, though, that what you'd assume to be the Neil-led quota (Pearson, Johnson, Rose, Stevens?, Hoever, McNally) were equally as bad as the more obvious recruitment team picks. Gooch not disastrous, but probably a considerable overpay at approaching £1m. So it was all a bit of a fiasco apart from the 3 gems we appear to have found I absolutely wouldn't give them another window. I'd be bringing in an experienced DoF to work with SS who sort the recruitment out together. A bit like what Luton did with Harford. I think if I'd been in charge of 22 transfers I'd have a better hit rate than 3 or 4 potential successes. Our recruitment since Hughes spunked £18m on Wimmer has been woeful, but somehow the 2023 summer window tops the lot in terms of how awful it was. They all messed up but only AN (rightly) got sacrificed. They all need to go. Anyone related to transfers who was responsible for Summer 2023 I'd sack. If you look at the three players who succeeded, Junho, Burger and Junior they are all obviously Jared recommendations as are Mmaee, Vidigal, Leris, Jojic and possibly Haks. If true about his ill discipline then Mmaee is the only one who is an out and out failure. Leris has his uses as cover, Vidigal was good when confident but can he get it back, Haks disappointing and Jojic unknown. Now look at the obvious Neil finds - Stevens, Pearson, Johnson, Mcnally, Rose, Gooch and Clark and probably Wes . Gooch a good squad player, the rest very uninspiring. Perhaps that is why SS is only first team coach.
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Post by pushon on Feb 5, 2024 10:48:38 GMT
What a sorry state of affairs considering we brought the majority of these players in 6 months ago. We’ve well and truly fucked up a great opportunity to get us back on the right track It's a complete and utter sorry state of affairs. In the summer, we needed sensible recruitment, instead we signed a series of spreadsheet risks, average Championship players on the decline and generally, the majority of who don't look fit for purpose. We seemed to completely ignore things like character, leadership, physicality, are they ready for a potential 50 game season? The fawning over Dublin after two home wins in August, especially by a certain element on Twitter, was frankly embarrassing. It seems, to me anyway, that 'due diligence' was seriously neglected.
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Post by ceejays on Feb 5, 2024 10:57:17 GMT
They just aren’t. The majority of the players we paid for represent sound business. Looks like we were even able to recoup some/all(who knows what the offers were) for the worst of the lot (Mmaee). Probably overpayed a bit for a couple of ok squad players in Gooch and Leris. We’d easily recoup most of our outlay on Vidigal. We paid about a third of what most people were expecting for Pearson who was exactly what the manager at the time wanted, were the recruitment team meant to be psychic and know he’d get the sack? Any reasonably expected profits from the successes would knock any losses into a cocked hat. "The majority of the players we paid for represent sound business." Surely you can't truly believe that? Sound business requires players doing well on the pitch first and foremost. Only 3 or 4 of the 22 signed have done yet. "Were the recruitment team meant to be psychic and know AN would get the sack?" Isn't the whole purpose of the recruitment team to mitigate against any potential managerial change though. If not, you'd then absolutely question what the point of them is. At the moment it appears we have a hybrid recruitment policy, some manager picks, some Dublin picks and Tricky rubber stamping it. Even this window, Manhoef is clearly a spreadsheet signing while Ennis and Cundle are SS purchases. Million is not a spreadsheet recruit
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