Judging by past comments Roger,think you'll find a lot of fans cant/wont think long term.Success is the requirement, preferably instant and they wont care who achieves it on the pitch or how many are just 'temps'
For me, the acid test of the new regime will be whether British and Irish players who look to have Premier League potential get the opportunity to try and show it. The Sean Murrays. The Jonathan Bonds. The Marvin Sordells. It's a fact of football that talented British and Irish youngsters change clubs for more money than their continental or African equivalents, and under the Premier League's home grown rules they will continue to do so. Trying to develop Premier League players from these islands fits in with the Pozzo model, and the Watford way. It may be that the JJ O'Tooles and Liam Hendersons get fewer chances as a result of this takeover, but provided we continue to get them into professional football that shouldn't do too much harm to our academy's reputation.
Good point NNW--I am sure that a reason the Pozzo's added us to their "family" is that they wanted to be able to recruit and develop British players for the Premier League--and we fit the bill for doing that by being in the right division, in the right location and with a good infrastructure for player development. So our own Academy players will benefit from being part of the Pozzo family. But the "finishing school " role for their recruits from further afield will also be part of our role.
Food for thought. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18733738 We sold Marvin Sordell for nearly 1% of the total global spend from January-June 2012.
And he didn't get a real shot at the prem. Not the full article and would probably fit at the new watford better than the old one. It will not be so bad if we do have a core of players being sharpened but staying at least a couple of seasons with the Udinese loanees just filling the berths previously held by Man U and Arsenal players.
The Pozzo football business model does depend on there being a few clubs at the top of the player buying chain willing/able to spend mega-millions on buying the topmost talent. They drive up player prices throughout the transfer market, and make it worth while to speculate on the development of young players. If anything happened to de-stabilise these 5 or 6 clubs, then the Pozzo model would be a bit precarious.
