We’re gonna get there lads. In 4 years our team has changed beyond belief. From Gayle to Isak then Woltemade. From Shelvey to Tonali. From Ritchie to Gordon/Elanga imagine in 4 more years? I genuinely believe we’re gonna be challenging the top. if someone said to me.. would you be happier with the squad in May or the squad now, I’d pick now alllll day long.
Absolutely, steady improvement, it just always feels like we could just go that bit further. With a stronger exec team in place hopefully we’ll manage future windows better.
I'm going to go against the norm here. Fair play to Jamie Reuben and to Andy Howe and Steve Nickson. With no director of football, no CEO (Eales has been away all summer) and this absolute ****efest hanging over the club all summer. With little to no experience they've managed to navigate us through this and get deals done. Time for everybody to get heads down and start the season with a bang once play ressumes. Statistically we've been at out weakest from 65 mins onwards in games for last 2 season (most goals against). I'd suggest that's down to a combination of tiring legs and lack of quality on the bench. This summer should go some ways to improving that. Just need to hope Wissa can hit the ground running and Woltemade can start banging them in too. Not a fan of winter window so would rather we just keep powder dry till summer unless something really good comes up.
I think we should ban anyone that mentions Liverpools players from now on guys. We move on and we won't want to be seen venting.... It only makes things worse and more satisfying for our assailants. We've bought some good players and will buy even more.
Net spend is a Kop out. The players sold cost money at some point in wages or fees. It's something the big clubs started peddling to pretend they didn't buy success. Take Liverpool for example... They've factored in their player sales this year, but they haven't factored in how much the sold players cost previously. Essentially annual net spend on transfers is a fallacious figure when used in the argument presented.....net spend over the entire history of football is the figure to look at. Liverpool and Manchester are two of the highest spending football clubs since it's creation and they just happen to have won the most trophies.
So it’s spreadsheet manager. I agree. Money makes it much easier to buy success but it doesn’t guarantee it.
It does if it's consistent. I genuinely don't agree with that common saying... It's too narrow in it's focus. It first started when Newcastle spent a bit and didn't win something, but they'd came from the bottom of the first division and the spending wasn't sustained. If it was we'd have won something. The already established clubs had already spent way more overall building and continued after Newcastle stopped.
The clubs at the top always attract the best players. Thats just natural. Epic fails like Manu recently and Everton show that you can throw money at it but fail. It all needs to be perfect. Liverpool ironically are probably the team with the least net spend out of the dirty half dozen over the last 10 years if you exclude this window. The commercial growth for the club is vital for the spending to continue at levels that will keep us going with them.
Whilst we have a very stripped down board structure I think Everton and Man Utds problems came from extremely bloated corporate structures that stifled any progress
Everton's board was surprisingly large and full of idiots that had no idea how a club should be ran Not to mention, infighting and factionalism. Man Utd are corporate to the max with massive departments
We don’t need much but it’s critical we give control to someone at SJP not Saudi, and critical we have someone working with the scouts and now-filled data team on agents, contacts and negotiations.
The controller will always be Saudi but if its someone permanently posted in England with the ability to green light decisions it's all good. So... What City have.
Well Ive just asked for a refit of my St James Park office, was so dated. Need to tackle the important stuff 1st.
Well last time I checked on here we were linked with Fermin Lopez and Victor Boniface.......we signed neither and kept Osula. GUTTED.
