I am with you in the main, and wasnt thinking you werent able to spot improvements at all. I just have a real disappointment in this season and class it is a regression. I make it 2 and a half good seasons, and 1 poor (at this point) season. Folk may challenge the poor, but I stand by it at this point in time for the reasons I said. The approach / model though I am not demanding changed. I would like to see tweaks, but that is just my opinion. For example I would make a major budget available for coaching changes, and set the bar incredibly high. Imagine giving Steve Cooper a bumper contract, and bringing his whole team in. That would be a really great tweak for me.
Three years into a five year plan. Because we over achieved last year expectations for this season hightened. Yes there's been mistakes made and we may have taken a backwards step recently but as a whole we were absolutely outstanding last season best football I've ever seen us play. As previously said though this is the first time we've had players worth a decent amount of money. Next season I fully back us to be serious contenders. Rome wasn't built in a day and we are 100% on the right road.
It's amazing that the owners are being criticised for possibly selling some players for a massive profit ... ... despite being the same people who found them, took a chance and brought them into the club. Perhaps the angry brigade would be happier if they brought in players no f*cker wanted.
Thing is a dodds said the Clarke we signed isn't the Clarke we have now. Players take time personally we've got some absolutely amazing young players at the club. Academies are full of young promosing players too. Just an all round feel good factor deep down even though right now is difficult, but it requires patience. Rigg is going to be an exceptional talent.
They're basically a Premier leauge squad in the Championship that have breached according to that article to gain am unfair advantage to get promoted. Ipswich are another. The obsession to get to the Premier leauge blinds so many. absolute **** tip
I agree with this, but just a slight counter too it - are Hjelde and Styles not more in the bracket of signings you're asking for profile wise? Both first team experience at this level, both international experience (Hjelde at every youth level up to U-21).
I think it would be a failing of any organisation, or any model, not to review its processes. The club has ISO9001 certification- I wonder if that extends to the football side of things? There are obviously going to be improvements that can be made in all sorts of areas. It would definitely be brilliant if review of one of those areas resulted in them bringing Cooper in. The main thing that concerns me slightly at the moment is the Mike Dodds situation. He was supposed to be the top boy for the Head of Individual Player Development role. It's fair enough that he has ambitions for the Head Coach role but surely that player development job is crucial to how the club want to operate? It all seems to have gone a bit wafty in that area now. Have the club replaced him? Who's taking over from him if he's the best at it?
I am enjoying reading a lot of the comments on this thread but I do think a lot of fans miss the reason why our team is so young. As a club we have had to invest and re-build our academy pretty much from the ground up which has led the recruitment team to scour all clubs for promising young talent that we can develop to make our first team better. This has led us to the point we are at now, where we need some of these players to push on in terms of first team football and we are finding out who is ready and who is not. I don't know if they will all be what we hope for and would guess we will get a mixture of great success, moderate to good players and some absolute bangers but the club have stated they are not in this for sales but to build a great team and that will take time. What we do have now is a very good academy which has improved greatly in a little over 2 years which bodes well for the future and means that recruitment can maybe look at adding slightly older players in to the mix and as such maybe at the end of the season when we pick the bones out of it we will see that we are probably short of a couple of older heads for the first team and TBH the head coach situation was probably a mistake given that who I think was our first choice stayed at his current club (I do not think for 1 minute that MB was first or probably even second choice). Again as the club have said we are only half way through what was initially a 5 year plan and we have already competed in the play offs which was probably ahead of schedule.
Just as a thought how much do you think KLD has paid for his Majority shareholding in Sunderland 40-50 Million at a guess ??? What value would you put on the club now if he were to sell 100-120 million maybe even more. If he was in it to flip it for a profit (too buy Marseille) like Donald and Methven then he would be hawking the club around all over the world so I really find it hard to see your point.
Definitely a gap on individual player development without somebody in that role. I said elsewhere it is a major role in a football club, and quite specialised. It runs through late academy phases, maybe u16 through to first team. People sometimes wonder why first team, but look at our average age. All of them still learning their individual game. I remember Bobby Robson going into Newcastle and working 1-1 with Shearer because he wasnt receiving on the half turn. Imagine that, Shearer at that stage having refinements. Happens though, or it should do. It was there is a huge difference between individual coaching and team coaching, often way too much going on with 20 players to spot a tweak that can give a player an extra edge in their game. I am in the process of being retired off from my current role in an academy (doing it to me early as well I feel unloved like Beale ) but if I were to do anymore elite coaching and I dont suspect I will it will be 1-1 for players on the brink at u18 level. Very rewarding.
I don’t think it’s the model that’s gone awry I just think they’ve made misjudgments on players. They’ve gone from players in being mostly good to mostly not right. We do have strikers we just haven’t got ones that are ready to compete in this league. It’s good to sign tomorrows players but they have to follow on from todays and we are short of some of those. Similarly you have to have the right coach. Arguably we had one but didn’t manage the relationship right or provide the right quality of player. Speakman has done a lot right but not in the last 18 months at first team level.
Leicester City say they are seeking "an appropriate overall outcome" into an ongoing English Football League inquiry into a possible breach of profitability and sustainability (P&S) rules. The EFL has published a decision which found its own Club Financial Reporting Unit (CFRU) had acted outside its powers in dealings with the Foxes. The club was forecast to breach loss limits for the current three-year term. It was asked to submit a business plan on how it would comply with P&S rules. But an independent Club Financial Reporting Panel (CFRP) concluded that under the rules "as currently written", Leicester were "under no obligation to submit and agree to a business plan". The Foxes said they were "pleased" the panel found in their favour but "concerned" that it was necessary for the CFRP to "intervene in this way to prevent the CFRU from acting outside established EFL rules". "Leicester City confirms it is in discussions with the football authorities regarding its profitability and sustainability calculations," a club statement continued. "Notwithstanding the CFRP's decision, the club remains committed to seeking an appropriate overall outcome in this matter." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68496645
There's quite some contradictions in what people, with 'serious concerns', think about 'The Model'. On one hand they're claiming the owner is only in it for the money ... ... while simultaneously claiming he's content to trundle along in the Championship thereby avoiding the riches of the PL. How can both possibly be true? And if he's already achieved his goal, and doubled the value of the club, why not sell now, especially as he's currently covering losses.
This is an example of what worries me. Clubs will continue to stretch beyond the boundaries of the rules, or plain ignore, and trust to their lawyers to get them off the hook, or the regulator themselves being to weak to apply the rules. It is happening more and more and whilst we are doing things the right way I worry it will leave us sat on a high hill of moral ground, but uncompetitive in football terms.
Some people believe we're still being punished for the 1957 payments scandal when we weren't the only ones doing it. That might be paranoia but I'd rather not take that risk again
