Its more about mentality and frame of mind than amount of money spent. Yes smaller clubs have gone up having spent very little, but their focus was on the football and their expectations were lower. Spending very little at a club that can't afford more is unlikely to breed negativity. Spending very little at a club like Leeds breeds negativity because you're always questioning why can't we compete in the transfer market for the best players, where is all the money going? Why is a big club acting like a small club ? It breeds doubt and insecurity.
You'll get people agreeing with you Marko but personally I think thats absolute ****ing nonsense The size of club has nothing to do with how much you SHOULD be spending. It can help with how much you are able to spend but at the end of the day size of club has nothing to do with that, if anything you are able to draw better players away from small clubs purely based on fanbase and facilities. Frame of mind is about what the manager is capable of instilling into people, breed confidence and frame of mind changes positively and spending money isn't the way to do that.
So with all this talk of spending money do you still the Adkins is the man for the job? It's clear he isn't going to have a big budget, at the Saints did he not have a lot of money to spend? Who is to say he can do any better than Warnock has? We need a manager who can get teams promoted on the cheap and will somehow pull out a few gems from god knows where for nothing.
Aluko who went to Hull and Danny Murphy both went on free transfers this season, both would have made a massive difference to us. Was it wages, manager or us as a non attractive club that prevents us signing these type of players.
Probably wages and non attractive club, in terms of what we are expected to achieve. Remember Blackburn had Steve Kean in charge at the time when they signed Danny Murphy, and whilst they lost players, they still had the likes of Dunn, Pedersen, Dann, etc. Leeds despite losing Gradel and Howson the previous season and being well off promotion material, transfer list one of their more promising players that season (Adam Clayton), and lose their best player Robert Snodgrass. No way would i want to join that if i had any ambition as a player.
There are 3 ways out of this league.... 1) Megga bucks buy quality throughout the squad and hope they gell. not always guarenteed!!Many teams are trying it.but only 3 places per season available. 2) Get the right manager in and built a team around your best players improve possitions steadily 1 or 2 players at a time.Takes skillful planning and patience!!! 3) Take route 2 get lucky earlie doors and do a Blackpool.
We're currently doing none of those. bates has been harping on about a slow love affair for years, but each season we've had almost an entirely new starting 11. Says one thing, does another. Why is this **** still allowed anywhere near our club?
I'm wondering why the FA and the Football League haven't come down on Watford yet... if it was Leeds the process to fix the loophole would have started immediately, and we'd probably have been required to change our entire team in January.
So by your previous comment, if all of the fans showed up in numbers and really happy it wouldn't matter who we signed because we'd get promoted entirely off of the good intentions of the fans
He is probably the best unemployed manager out there, I read the Leicester rumours as well, we shall snooze and lose. I am more concerned that Warnock is having an input into who we should appoint next, we don't need his style of play, it no longer works.
