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DoF satisfaction rating: summer transfer window 2019/20 season

Are you satisfied with the DoFs performance this past summer?

  • Yes

    Votes: 197 56.3%
  • No

    Votes: 164 46.9%

  • Total voters
    350
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Im absolutely disgusted with Marcel Brands for not sorting our zonal marking issues out in training and for not having an alternative system and game plan in place to put Premier Leavue power houses like Palace, Villa, Bournemouth and Sheffield Utd to the sword. Absolutely disgusted.

I’m absolutely delighted with the attitude, commitment and workrate of all of the players. They’ve done everything the manager has asked of them and more. A credit to their profession. Clearly only one man to blame
 
For what it's worth, I think he's done a pretty good job. Not amazing, but quite good. His signings have been decent value for money in the main, but we are lacking balance in attack. We're severely lacking in players who are good at the basics of football: receiving the ball and passing the ball. I'm not sure I'd trust any of our players to receive the ball under pressure and keep hold of it. That has a big effect on how we play - it's why we cross the ball so much - and Brands has to shoulder some of the responsibility for the lack of variety.
 


Adjusting for year on year inflation, that's not much real value added on to the fees...even with the generous one's you'd hand them.

Time will tell when we come to sell with one or more of them, but I think my valuations are, in general, on the conservative side, but yea, you're right to a certain extent that, all other things being equal, a players value will increase just because of time and transfer fee inflation.

But, even taking that into account, we'll still be at least 30 million up on the players we bought last summer. Compare that to our non-TV revenue, and you can see the business model being played out.

You might argue that makes us a selling club and/or that the board should be doing more to raise cash outside player trading, but, as this thread is about Brands, and a large part of his remit must be related to increase the value of the playing assets, then that argument should really appear elsewhere, otherwise the thrust of the argument behind your well considered thread would risk being lost.

Anyway, it's late

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