Would have been great if it was Moussi. The Moose, The Moose, The Moose is on fiire!!
About time we had some players who are on fire !
Would have been great if it was Moussi. The Moose, The Moose, The Moose is on fiire!!
Yes, it’s getting quite boring all the instant success we’ve had by constantly changing the manager and squad
You would certainly hope so but it seems every time we have a clear out we replace it with more dead wood and round we go again.The worst of it will be over in twelve months time!
We should not be leaving recruitment to managers; even if we got through managers at something like the National average of one every 15 Months it would still be too short a tenure to trust an individual with recruitment.
The average in the Championship comes in way under the National average at a pathetic 10 Months; maybe its the way we get through managers that brings the average down
There is no chance of any manager being able to build a side in that time frame unless there is some continuity around the place.
You would certainly hope so but it seems every time we have a clear out we replace it with more dead wood and round we go again.
As you say a sporting director or some such to oversee a recruitment policy would be useful.
Then again sticking with a manager would be useful too.
Just look at at Leicester. Nigel Pearson left in June 2015. In 2011/12 he signed Schmeicel, Morgan and Drinkwater. 12/13 Vardy. 13/14 Mahrez .14/15 Albrighton. They have had four managers in four years since then. No deadwood there. It's having a rubbish purchase transfer policy that leaves us with the deadwood, not changing the manager.
And therein lies part of the problem. We have genuine dead wood players such as Clough, Vellios etc and players that are deadwood in the eye of the manager.Deadwood depends on the manager
The title winning forest team was built with players a previous manager thought was Deadwood.
Sheffield Wednesday thought we were generous offering £1.5m for Antonio. We sold him a year later for £6m more than that
Pearson had marginal input into those signings; the person responsible for the signings was Steve Walsh, who was then Chief Scout
We could be 15 minutes from saying goodbye to Joe Lolley here
Because we are about to go into a lottery in this playoff.What in Gods name makes you say that?
If they go up I expect their owners to quietly pay the EFL off for overspending and go on their merry way.If they do not go up they are in huge trouble.
They recorded losses of 32m last season which was well within the permissible losses of 61m; which, on the face of it, does not appear too bad.
Not until you see that their expenditure was 96.8m against income of 64.4m which included 35m of parachute money, which just happens to falls by 20m this season.
If I am reading things correctly they must comply with the 3 year - 39m ruling this season.
If my arithmetic is correct, which it probably is not, they have somewhere in the region of 39m to find just to comply - difference between last years losses and this years allowed losses = 19m plus loss of 20m in parachute payments.
Other than that they are a mere 123m in debt.
If they go up I expect their owners to quietly pay the EFL off for overspending and go on their merry way.
If they don’t go up it won’t be anywhere near as quiet and you could expect to see Grealish and McGinn sold just for starters.
Ironically if you look at their net transfer spend they are within their limits (just) over 3 years.
The problem is they have a horrendous wage bill which is only reducing incrementally as player contracts end and the good Dr Xia gambled and lost when he spent £77m on new players.