Selles

As kalman has said. There’s been no investment in the infrastructure. We have a huge uncontested catchment area that should be utilised.

If he was serious about investing into the club for the benefit of the club he could look at alternative site for the training complex and academy and start putting efforts into making the academy a higher category. Instead, again, it’s in the exact same place the Allams left it in.

The academy allowed him to splurge up to £40m into the first team when some of that should’ve been siphoned off into moving towards Cat 1 status and helping the long term future. It hasn’t. Therefore no investments have been made further to the status quo.

 

Seriously, why is this thread still going, it’s HDM saying this & that!

It’s click bait rubbish!

It’s the same thing rehashed daily! The only reason people are still talking about it being a possibility is because of the Rosie sacking last year!

 

Cant they have a top to bottom review of footballing operations during the season so they are ready as soon as the season is over?
If they leave it until the start of the close season it will have a big impact on our ability to prepare for next season.
When does the owner, sporting director, head of recruitment and the other board member have more free time? I would suggest it is during the season rather than the close season.

 

what does the academy have to do with the £40m? I can understand Greaves but you arent including Philogene are you?

 

Lewis-Potter

 

With the Rosenior sacking it was decided during the season - subject to not getting into the play-offs. It was put into effect the Monday after the last game and didnt drag on for over a week and counting.

 

Good point. KLP did leave three years ago - 6 months after Acun came in.. Now left back at Brentford.

 

What a shame to take a goalscoring wide forward with great control and turn him into a left back.

 

It's been made pretty clear that they DO make preparations during the season, before it finishes.
But logically those preparations can only be finalised, firmed up, etc once we know what division we're in and when the season has actually ended. All sorts can happen in those final few weeks.

 

It's stoked a pent up fury on twitter ready to pop, if he was going to sack him surely he'd have done it by now but hell hath no fury like a Hull City fan scorned.

 

as i been saying for 9 days
selles is not being sacked

 

You have no more idea than anybody else

Acun could wake up tomorrow and think it's a good idea

 

a tiny lump of dirt turns into mount everest with all these silly rumours

 

Because, as was posted, it's not deemed as the highest priority!
The Allams take credit for developing the academy, albeit not on our own land. The bigger argument should be why they didn't put more of the PL riches x2 toward the infrastructure.
I would still argue that the academy has continued to develop and be invested in under Acun; it isn't the status quo. The model has changed. Unfortunately it hasn't produced the gems (yet), which maybe raises questions over those running it, those scouting it, or maybe it's just that a bit of patience is needed (open question).
Another open question - given that the owner is not a Saudi billionaire (or similar), where do you want the available funds to go, where should the priority be for now? Academy? New training ground? 1st team strengthening? Sports village? Our own ground away from MKM?

 

It should be a priority. The owner has had the bandwidth to spend because of academy and he’s not giving it fair attention.

The allams should have put more of the parachute money into the club in the same way money from KLP and Greaves should have had some put into the academy again.

We’ve put too much time into the sports village idea and I suspect that there’s no major plans to look elsewhere. Happy to be proven wrong but nothing suggests it to be the case. I’ve got friends who’ve got kids in the academy and it’s not having the level of care it once did even under the Allams. It should be a priority and it not being has the potential to harm the club long term

 

what evidence do you have for that statement?
if so, why are they taking so long to "finalise" them
if Selles is staying then why dont they include him in the discussions?

 

Short term has to be team strengthening but medium term I'd love to see us open a new training ground and not a little shody one on Walton Street either, but you need PL sized funds. Modest clubs like Burnley and Bournemouth have set a high benchmark for achieving this on PL riches in recent seasons.

 

with the cost of land it's only practical to build it in the countryside

 

The fact we're still training at Cottingham after five seasons of Premier League money is a disgrace.

 

Well, all of you calling for Paulo Petzalano to replace Selles will be disappointed, he is the new Watford manager.