The chance of this is much slimmer though. To sign 10-15 new players, bring in the right ones, bed them in, get the manager used to the league and hit the ground running and be consistent enough to challenge is completely unrealistic. Even when you look at a Burnley, who signed a lot of players and were successful, they had a strong core of really good Championship players to rely on, plus parachutes of course.
It is and it isn't. I remember having a conversation on here about Rudoni 2 years ago when he was available for £1m. That was low risk as low wages but I think it was you saying that the club decided against it because they thought they could sign better. Well they couldn't and they didn't. But if you're going to have an approach of signing younger players, you've got to have patience with them. I don't think the owner does.
The compositor.? Our Kid,careless whispers and now your avatar..WTF? One things for sure. 'You're never gonna dance again!!!...guilty feet have got no rhythm'...
Annoys me when I think of some of the players we’ve passed up during Acun’s tenure. Rudoni’s a great example. Ndayishimiye is another. If we signed them in summer 2022 we may have had two more high-value assets right now in addition to Greaves and Philogene and we could’ve picked and chose which ones we sold to balance the books. Passed them up all so we could spend our FFP headroom on absolute dross that we’ve since sold on for a loss or have barely played. Sayyadmanesh, Sinik, Woods etc.
Possibly, but I’d argue the chances of relegation with a squad full of older players who we want to but can’t offload due to high wages are even higher. There are positives and negatives of having a lot of room for manoeuvre in a transfer window. Get it right and it might all be fine, but there is that chance it won’t. Either way, we’ve got no idea, especially at the end of June.
One detail about Tufan transfer, even if Hull announce Tufan transfer as disclosed fee, Trabzonspor have to explain it to stock exchange and will be available via this link. Tomorrow Turkish transfer window starts, so we will learn truth sooner or later.
I put earlier in the thread, that the fee were selling Tufan to Trazbonspor for is a lot closer to his market value, than the one Omur came the other way for. Yes he's gone slightly undervalue, but... Take the win and move on.
We did, we signed Slater for £50k, I'd argue we got more out of Slater than Huddersfield got out of Rudoni for the money they paid (£1m). He did alright last season, but for the money they've paid (a rumoured £4.5m), it's a huge gamble for Coventry. Even so, our recruitment department aren't going to get it right every single time, there's been many a time when we've passed up on a player that's gone on to do well. You're right, our owner doesn't really have patience, but then you can understand that given the money he's put in. It's an interesting dynamic between the fans and the owner, because I think we're more willing to wait whereas as a businessman wanting a return on his investment, he will want to see money coming back to him and an increased profile in a short time frame.
The embarrassing thing is two of the best imports from the Turkish League to the Championship haven't come to us, Haji Wright turned us down and I've no idea what we were doing to miss out on Sainz considering we were desperate for wingers. Slater was different though as we had him on loan. The problem is our recruitment team get it wrong a lot more than they get it right. I feel like Acun has tried to reinvent a wheel that didn't need reinventing and his belief that he could sign players from the Turkish League and have instant success was naive at best. It just shows a lack of understanding of football for me. The Turkish League is low intensity and tempo, which makes it a really tough adjustment and shock horror, hence why the majority have been flops. On the bright side, Germany seems to be his new fad, and they're the leagues that are probably closest to ours and the PL, albeit they are more open. He didn't need to come in and throw money around. He could've kept Grant in charge till the end of the season and relied on the KLP income without spending as much as he's allowed too.
How we weren’t even linked or competing with Norwich for Sainz, at least to my knowledge, is baffling. He was a free transfer from the Turkish league. Compare that with our free transfer winger from Turkey, Lokilo, and you can see the gaps in our recruitment model.
I'm not quite sure I understand your point, unless it's to agree with me the club clearly has a different valuation of him. How much would you think Swift and Wallace at wba are worth?
I take your point, which on the face is a concern, but It depends, I looked at Burnley who the season they got promoted with Kompany, compared the team with the season before under Dyche and it is unrecognisable. Kompany brought in players to suit his way of style, and the team was virtually completely different to the season before. He got them promoted and were the best team in the league that season. So it can be done, it is not a dissimilar situation we have with TW coming in, it is all about recruitment now, if they get it right. Yes, Burnley had parachute payments to use and got £25m for Woods, but they didn't spend heavily, their biggest signing was Twine, and had 6 loans, the best of which was Tella, so if we did sell either Greaves or Jaden, then our positions wouldn't be too far away budget wise. I, for one, are looking forward to what develops.
Didn't we bring in 9/10 last summer and another 7/8 in January, OK we missed out on the playoffs (by one win), but we did OK
So we have sold one of our best players for 2m. Only Greaves & Philogene to be sold now. No point keeping your proven best players around.
Talk about wetting the bed, how about we wait and see what players we have at the start of the season (nigh on 2 months away) before saying we're doomed.
Tbf, I don't think many are wetting the bed (yet). It's 7 weeks, Tick tock. It's going to be an interesting 7 weeks for sure. Most just seem to be recognising the huge scale of the needed rebuild. There's a fair chance that Greaves (and Philogene if he goes) won't go for a while yet, which makes the task even harder as we won't have (semi-)serious money until he does. A fair part of the rebuild could even come after the season has started before the window closes, which means we would be, once again, playing major catch up. I'm excited but concerned. I'm finding it astounding that we're now in such a poor state squad wise this far in to Acun's ownership. In fact, I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I'm part of the brain's trust; I just hope my colleagues have learnt lessons over the past year or two.
