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Management If you could fix either the money or the strategy what would you choose?

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What do you want to fix?

  • Money - Chelsea Level (keep Levy)

    Votes: 3 4.3%

  • Strategy - Brighton Level (keep Joe Lewis)

    Votes: 45 65.2%

  • Fine with it as it is

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • John Thomas - Burn it all to the ground and start again

    Votes: 21 30.4%
  • Total voters
    69
bk_spur said:
We should at least be able to run the Dortmund model. Levy appears to have no idea how to find a decent progressive coach though. I feel genuinely sad we didn't hire Ten Hag or Potter instead of Conte. Hopefully it's just me not knowing the coaching pool right now, but it feels like it's a total wasteland bereft of obvious choices.
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Not sexy enough for Levy. Ever since Pochettino dragged this club up to being CL regulars and to a CL final, Levy has fancied himself as the chairman of an elite club. Conte & Jose are coups, big names he can feel smug about.

Plus they'd want/need structure in place, not just mega bucks.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
Strategy but I'd assume we would still spend a shit load more than Brighton as the 9th richest club in the world ... but having a coherent football vision is more important to me than sticking with this structure but throwing money around.

Our resources + Brighton's competency and we'd be in with a good shot of winning trophies, we'd enjoy watching us play, and would feel optimistic about the future..
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Yeh basically our current post stadium spending power (80 - 100m per season net ish) against crazy Chelsea style spending power.
 
Strategy all day long. We haven't spent enough for my liking but when we do spend big (by our standards) we have a huge failure rate. In fact I'd say out of our 10 biggest purchases 6 haven't worked out at all, 1 was a cult hero who divided opinion (Lamela), 1 had a single semi decent season (Sissoko), 2 are yet to be judged (Romero, Richarlison)

All transfers are risks, but when we do push the boat out we get it wrong more often than not. Coupled with managers who wildly vary in style it adds up to a bin fire.

Say we operated like Brighton but with our budget and we got a 70% success rate instead of a 60% failure rate who knows where we would be now?
 
bk_spur said:
We should at least be able to run the Dortmund model. Levy appears to have no idea how to find a decent progressive coach though. I feel genuinely sad we didn't hire Ten Hag or Potter instead of Conte. Hopefully it's just me not knowing the coaching pool right now, but it feels like it's a total wasteland bereft of obvious choices.
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I suspect it's like scouting players.... We may just need to dig a little deeper.
 
I think we have the money to compete - we won't be a City level of sustained success unless we get someone in with equal wealth - but there's no reason to think, financially that we couldn't replicate Liverpool under Klopp or what Woolwich look to be doing currently, that would keep most people hsppy I'd have thought and we almost had that under Poch. But that takes a medium to long term plan and having the right people in place on the football side to execute it well enough to see the results - if Conte walks out because he's not getting the players he wants (finished articles v players who need to develop and grow) then it's another example of us not having joined up thinking at the top across transfer strategy & management decisions which has been a recurring theme now since Leaving WHL.
 
Both. Problem with Levy is he is a fantastic businessman when it comes to infrastructure but has no footballing brain. He either flip flops on strategy or gets tunnel vision and becomes dogmatic to the extreme.

For instance when Redknapp wanted Scott Parker and had to beg because he was on the older side and had no resell value. And the guy was instrumental to the side.

Or when we bought young players and then over the seasons they developed into a strong unit under Poch but Levy doesnt understand that constantly you need to strengrhen and refresh and competition and that extra millions spent on some top quality in order to push for titles.

Keep your core players BUT constantly improve. Holding Kane to ransom and then doing fuck all in the transfer market? Pointless. Might as well have sold him at top price and reinvested the money.

All about timing and key decisions. Levy talks about the long term constantly but yet all he seems to do is focus on the short term. Todays profit margins. Doesnt see the bigger picture.
 
Has to be strategy.

We condemn them for how they bought up clubs to get into the game. But if I was Daniel I would look to recruit people from within the Red Bull group to come in and retool the entire football operation.

We have the money to be at the very least competitive. We just need to be smarter with how it is used.
 
Gym&Chill said:
Or when we bought young players and then over the seasons they developed into a strong unit under Poch but Levy doesnt understand that constantly you need to strengrhen and refresh and competition and that extra millions spent on some top quality in order to push for titles.
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Had the Poch team peaked when we were moving in to the new stadium rather than a couple of years before then i think we would have seen that type of investment - as it was the squad/team was already in decline. If we ever get through this protracted rebuild and put together a decent team again then the money we have available should allow us to add 1 or 2 players of quality each year rather than having to do extensive squad surgery each window
 
Tomo said:
That’s too easy though, obviously you want lots of money and great strategy, it’s about being forced to choose one fix.
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City have money plus strategy
Liverpool at their peak invested heavily with strategy
Woolwich have invested heavily in key players with strategy, they just happen to have benefitted from good timing in youth maturing to an excellent level in addition
Chelsea at their peak had money plus strategy

Outside of England even teams like athletic Madrid have surprisingly achieved sucess by consistently spending large sums on key players (transfer fees plus wages)

That's the aspiration

Without money, brighton remain brighton and will not be winning the league
 
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