When there is a difference of twenty plus million between running costs and income with the club reaching its equity limit v financial fair play “best players” will have to be sold. The manager (and board) has to be aware of that obvious consequence of how he is managing the squad.
Mark Ashton seems to be quite clever in managing the affairs, along with all other interested board members. Your statement says he is managing the squad, do you also mean he dictates what players the coach is allowed to have, or not have should he sell one to balance the books?
Explained: The key men who make the decisions on Bristol City's transfers How recruitment will be conducted at Ashton Gate this summer (1) Head coach Lee Johnson The head coach has the final say on transfer targets and nobody arrives without the say of Johnson. The 37-year-old explained last summer that ultimately 'Talent ID' comes down to him: ie, he gets to identify transfer targets. Chief Executive Officer Mark Ashton In charge of recruitment across the club and also the chief negotiator in terms of assessing appropriate transfer fees for players, both buying and selling, and how those payments will be structured. Owner Steve Lansdown Johnson explained to us previously how potential transfers will be put to the majority share owner at Bristol City and that Lansdown may even offer some input, as was the case with Antoine Semenyo in January with the owner advocating for the return of the Chelsea tartget back to BS3 from Newport for Johnson and co to have a close look at him. The board will then look to sanction the move while financial negotiations are conducted by Ashton. (2) Owner, Chief Executive Officer and Head Coach with their duties and resposibilities, LJ claims 'Final Say' - 'Nobody arrives without his say' - 'Talent ID' comes down to him ' - ' He gets to identify transfer targets.' (3) All simple and sweet, plain english, his own words, no coulds, shoulds, woulds about them, crystal clear, no precursors or post interpretations, no maximums or required standards, no contexts. Are you related to jgf2? you have a very simular approach, it's uncanny.
Well said, but it will fall on deaf ears........ I also don't see where it says when this setup started, looks to me approx 3 years in to LJ's reign.....the publication wouldn't have been far off (May 2019) Hey, you're not allowed common sense in here
Sell off other squad/fringe players, which would be the answer to me, hence reducing the wage bill.....complying with ffp. I remember many times SL stating that our best players were not for sell and we weren't in a position where we would have to sell. And at the time, who would have known what offers would have been made and if any clubs would have been interested.....it wasn't a given. IMO the opportunity was there, just never had the bottle to see it through. So the only way we can progress at this club is to rely on average players because any decent ones need to be sold off or rely on the academy? With all this in mind, I can't really understand why we changed coach.......nothings changed!!
A alternative was not building up such a large squad in the first place. And again Clubs sell star players and put into place strategies - Southampton have been masters of this. I don’t understand your point about bottle. Bristol City have been taking advantage of the upper threshold of financial fair play, Mr Lansdown has redeveloped the ground, increased income massively, increased spending on the squad massively supporting Lee Johnson to the point where financial fair play regulations would have been broken till assets where sold. Mr Lansdown pushed the boat out.
Don't get me wrong, having a business man such as SL has been a blessing for this club, but he is a business man with an expensive hobby/toy. He knows exactly what to do in relation to the business side of things, I very much doubt in the end he will be out of pocket....it's not in his DNA. But I'm not convinced by his decisions regarding footballing matters. What's required to progress from where we were and where we are now. He has in the past (not sure how much now) has had input with team affairs with various managers, (Coppell being one of them) so makes me wonder what impact that has. Logic says to me, that you build your team around better players, you don't sell them off if you are looking to progress towards promotion. I agree with you regarding large squads, so long as you have backup allowing for injuries. Question is, who decides on the size of the entire squad? Can't believe it's only down to the first team coach.
Other clubs put in strategies to Manage how they sell players e.g. Southampton. Mr Johnson initially appeared to be applying a similar strategy in regards to development that would run through the club. We've debated this several times before and I provided links to Mr Johnsons comments dating back to 2016. Very quickly Mr Johnson abandoned his own ideas. The club in four years had no established system of play. Each season multiple styles of football were used leading to the need for additional players, leading to Mr Johnson creating larger and more costly squads leading to the inevitable cost cutting. Mr Johnson signed players for systems he didn't play - clubs in the bag. Mr Johnson signed ones for the future he didn't play. Mr Johnson signed players like Diony and Kent on loan. Wasted resources. Yes Mr Johnson was signing these players. I put links going back to 2017 in posts outlining Mr Johnson outlining his exhaustive process where players were meticulously researched for months so their dna met the project. Mr Johnson also promoted Jamie McCallister so he could spent more time on recruitment. Mr Johnson was responsible for the squad size and those in it - He said nobody joined without his say so l before 2019.
Well to your first point, why did he abandon his own ideas has to be a question, why did he sign players he didn't intend to use, sounds to me he didn't have the control we were led to believe. Also the article you are referring to regarding nobody joined without his say so was produced May 2019, 3 years into his tenure. so we don't know when that was setup, my guess is quite close to when the article was produced... Are we saying that we now have Holden in full control of who comes in and who goes out??
1For …. its like an old 78 with a stuck needle ….. repetition repetition … wrap him a spade for Christmas and I will go halves!....
I think he's in Love with the Southampton system, whom themselves have struggled keeping a competitive side together up until this season.. Sticking with Hasenhuttl, adjusting to the style of play that he was renowned for, keeping his best players but bringing the likes Kyle Walker & Theo Walcott in, has been the key to their recent success!!!
1For and Jg2. A match made in heaven. And Clifton, lovers, haters - Let it go, even I can't be bothered anymore. We're heading south big time, that's what should concern us all.
I just like reminding the haters that context is key!!......The haters won't see it but others might!! Did you really expect once drying your tears of joy after LJ's departure that we would be in really good hands of a top flight coach, leading us directly to the Premiership and the football being on par with Barcelona? I remember asking the question so many times to those wanting a replacement, what decent or experienced coach is out there, that's available, that would be interested to come here within our budget? Where are they, are we in a better position and progressing? Dean is in, there can not be any excuses, he and the board knew what they were getting themselves into. Dean knew of the players within the squad and must have known what players or positions that needed to be addressed and with what budget. Covid is around the Country so again no excuses Many (the haters) never tolerated the excuses from LJ from the start, so I hope Dean quickly turns things around!
Dean knew of the players within the squad and must have known what players or positions that needed to be addressed and with what budget. ![/QUOTE] And so did LJ and he singularly failed to build a midfield, capable of defending games and winning games on a consistent basis, in the end in desperation he spent half of the fee from the Brownhill sale on a striker fast approaching 30 years of age, when Stevie Wonder could have told him it was doomed to failure, we were never going to be able to supply Wells with the sort of chances he has thrived on in his career, those chances in and around the opponents penalty area, because for except for the first 5 months of 2017, since we have looked pretty up to the final 3rd of the pitch and then the ideas just evaporate, we lack quality, we lack organisation, we lack creativity and we still lack leaders. In a way LJ has probably dodged a bullet in reality, yes we have injuries but we also have poor squad, with the exception of Bentley the 24mil worth of signings from summer 2019 are not now worth anywhere close what we paid for them, so the star player sales to fund new signings + profit has dried up and we are no further forward. This of course is only my opinion.
Not 45, not 50, not 55, not even 60 but 63 signings all made by LJ, now that is context or even content. Josh Brownhill Gary O’Neil Lee Tomlin Diego De Girolamo Hordur Magnusson Jack Challis Kodi Lyons-Foster Shabazz Omofe Denis Begovic Callum O’Dowda Ivan Lucic Taylor Moore Jamie Paterson Peter Odemwingie Gustav Engvall Joel Ekstrand Adam Matthews Tammy Abraham Fabian Giefer David Cotterill Milan Djuric Jens Hegeler Bailey Wright Matty Taylor Tin Plavotic Eros Pisano Freddie Hinds Famara Diedhiou Nathan Baker Niclas Eliasson Luke Steele Tyreeq Bakinson Rory Holden Antoine Semenyo Jonathan Leko Cauley Woodrow Ryan Kent Lois Diony Liam Walsh Marley Watkins Adam Webster Hakeeb Adelakun Andreas Weimann Jack Hunt Mo Eisa Niki Maenpaa Jay Dasilva Tomas Kalas Kasey Palmer Stefan Marinovic Daniel Bentley Louis Britton Robbie Cundy Rene Gilmartin Tommy Rowe Sammie Szmodics Han-Noah Massengo Adam Nagy Ashley Williams Rodri Pedro Pereira Benik Afobe Here they are for all to see, just count them, Impressive, he started 17th and ended up 12th position after 4.5 years, now that is Key, no honours and just over 1 place a year progression. https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/every-bristol-city-signing-made-3776658
He was on loan at the club and LJ signed him on a 3 year deal July 5th 2016 https://www.espn.co.uk/football/soc...-sign-lee-tomlin-to-permanent-three-year-deal
Let's forget LJ, call it the previous regime. It left City with a poor squad. Imo only Kalas and Bentley are definite starters from the previous regime. The new set up have brought in crocks and a free transfer. City had the usual dead cat bounce and we're now going south. Anyone surprised ?
a pretty impressive list I wonder how many left ? transfer free or otherwise there was a good old mixture some were youngsters for the future that never made the grade went into academy … how many still at city? Will have to consult the oracle
