When they’ve spent though, they’ve tended to buy better than we have, even at the sub £50m level.
Most of our woes are down to poor recruitment and the reluctance to pay top wages.
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Most of our woes are down to poor recruitment and the reluctance to pay top wages.
Man I wish Ange could be so aware and forthcoming about his own failings as he is about the (obvious) ones with the club and ownership. He could have been a very good manager.
Boy oh boy how it would be our lucky day if we got to experience an anomaly
Why do some of our ex-managers seem to love Woolwich and how they do things so much? There's plenty of other top clubs they could use as examples.
We’ve been saying this for years. Ange sounds like an amalgamation of every transfer thread since the dawn of time.
ENIC have zero appetite for risk. They are as timid as it gets. The stadium, as fantastic as it is, creates tangible guarantees and revenue. Players and their wages, in contrast, are volatile assets that, more often than not, become burdens. The only time we increase wages is when the player is essentially a sure thing (Kane, Son etc).
Their business model cannot bring success. Football is a sport for thieves and gamblers. Not accountants.
ENIC have zero appetite for risk. They are as timid as it gets. The stadium, as fantastic as it is, creates tangible guarantees and revenue. Players and their wages, in contrast, are volatile assets that, more often than not, become burdens. The only time we increase wages is when the player is essentially a sure thing (Kane, Son etc).
Their business model cannot bring success. Football is a sport for thieves and gamblers. Not accountants.
I'd rather see the black death return than that little runt toad.
Woolwich? Pepe, Gyokeres, Eze, Zubamendi, and Havertz are their other top signings for over £330m or so. I don't think people would use those examples. Yes, there are some look okay in a team playing well, but no ones telling me they aren't players you'd easily improve with the same money if you had to redo it.
I think with Rice it was a good example of lightning in a bottle for them. They've bought an suffered with a lot of shite over the years, but their best buys were down to Wenger's acumen on a budget tbh.
Every team has poor recruitment. Look at how much Man Utd spend on transfers and wages to end up with a 'meh' squad. It's far more about having a good eye and good coaching imo.
Boy oh boy how it would be our lucky day if we got to experience an anomaly
It's long overdue
Sorry I was mainly aiming the recruitment observation at Liverpool rather than Woolwich.
I should have been clearer.
Nah. He did some things very well, business wise. But he has our name in the gutter when it comes to footballing matters. A compulsive liar to players and managers, let alone fans
Ah fair enough, apologies.
I remember when we used to nick all of their top targets, back in their shite days under Dalglish and Hodgson.
Make those excuses for yourself if you like
Not sure who else is buying them?
I’m definitely not
I reckon a lot of the recruitment and wage issues date from getting stung on N’Dombele.
It was our first real big money transfer in a while (post stadium build) and he came in on top wages and was a massive flop.
I reckon if that transfer had worked out it might have changed things going forward, but all it effectively did was give Levy transfer PTSD!
It was our first real big money transfer in a while (post stadium build) and he came in on top wages and was a massive flop.
I reckon if that transfer had worked out it might have changed things going forward, but all it effectively did was give Levy transfer PTSD!
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Santini was far more negative.
that flip flopping predates those two, too. Ange also talks about it in that interview, essentially we have no direction and that dilutes the one thing we are still just about holding onto, our identity.
In summary, we're still fucked
Someone needs to explain to Postecoglou that ENIC's Spurs are a big club because the team has always had lots of supporters, they're not a big club because they go out and purchase any players the manager wants.
He must be delusional if he thinks that ENIC is going to get him any players he wants, when they have a reputation for signing youngsters and hope they become a Bale, Son, Modric etc...
It's as though he's taken a job at a club that he knows absolutely nothing about, then gone on to complain about it.
Home Bargains is probably a very wealthy big business but you don't take a job there and expect to be selling merchandise from Harrods.
To Dare Is To Do is motto relevant to the past. the club haven't spent on a great in the prime player since I don't know, possibly Van de Vaart in the last 30 years?
Whoever the new manager is going to be, they need to get into their head we ain't going out and signing any four players when they snap their fingers, even a passing interest in the club would tell them that.
They're not excuses for me. It's exactly how it is.
Woolwich haven't won the title in 23 years for a very specific reason, so it's bonkers for people to be slating Frank for gushing over them, whilst gushing over a manager who was sacked for our lowest finish in PL history gushing over them
The weird thing is that he wouldn't be out of a job if he had finished top 8 - no chance.
Therefore, moaning about signing 400m worth of players he listed as if that is the difference between finishing 17th and top 8 would be very odd, but he's wording it like he finished 5th again and needed that extra push.
Where is the praise for spending £50m on Johnson, who was a very effective player in his system, or Maddison, Van de Ven etc.? Who was going to get dropped for all of those players he listed? Son? The £50m Johnson?
It's piss easy to come up with fantasy solutions when you don't actually have to deliver them with all of the problems you'd have to actually deal with in reality.