DoF satisfaction rating: summer transfer window 2019/20 season

[nsno-chris]

He could always do something revolutionary...like shift his arse out onto the road and view a few Championship players or reach into the continent's 'lesser' teams and unearth a gem or two himself...always supposing he has the ability to do that.

Agreed

 

[billyblue80]

I thought that's what he was brought in to do, unearth gems he probably knows quite a few in Holland or South America, but Silva had to agree to every signing is how I believe it works.

 

[Simon Buttle]

I thought that's what he was brought in to do, unearth gems he probably knows quite a few in Holland or South America, but Silva had to agree to every signing is how I believe it works.

It's a bit pointless looking at players in South America though as we will always have work permit problems here, and he has had 3 windows so far and im not seeing and gems from Holland. Im not convinced by Brands whatsoever, from what i can see he has brought in a load of fairly average players, not bad players, but not good players. I don't see us getting europe or breaking top 6 with any of the current squad tbh. However i would give him another window or two as the squad is still full of players who need to be cleared out from previous regimes.

 

[Paul Rideout]

It's called a hierarchy of explanation, and it's based on what the evidence before us more readily backs up which determine the likelihood of that explanation.

In this instance: we know that Brands has a relationship with Raiola for one; we dont know that talk of Gueye having an understanding with EFC that he could leave last summer actually happened. There's documentary evidence for one, not the other.

So basically your bs is more believable than someone else’s bs because there is a pre-existing relationship between brands and raiola.

also well done for making a term up - ‘hierarchy of explanation.’ Sounds legit too...

 

[davek]

So basically your bs is more believable than someone else’s bs because there is a pre-existing relationship between brands and raiola.

also well done for making a term up - ‘hierarchy of explanation.’ Sounds legit too...

Put another way, there's weak causality between hearsay over an apparent 'understanding' to sell a player; there's stronger grounds for cause and effect if we know that the man who sells the player has a pre-existing relationship with the agent.

My informed guess is that Raiola did a bit of triangulation: got himself back onside with PSG, who he'd fallen out with, by getting the Kean deal to Everton sorted in exchange for Gueye being released to PSG.

 

[Paul Rideout]

Put another way, there's weak causality between hearsay over an apparent 'understanding' to sell a player; there's stronger grounds for cause and effect if we know that the man who sells the player has a pre-existing relationship with the agent.

My informed guess is that Raiola did a bit of triangulation: got himself back onside with PSG, who he'd fallen out with, by getting the Kean deal to Everton sorted in exchange for Gueye being released to PSG.

So just to re-state, you made a term up to make yourself sound legit.
I think you kind of skimmed over that salient, and pretty glaring, point.

 

[davek]

So just to re-state, you made a term up to make yourself sound legit.
I think you kind of skimmed over that salient, and pretty glaring, point.

How is using my own term an 'illegitimate' act?

 

[Paul Rideout]

How is using my own term an 'illegitimate' act?

where did I say illegitimate?

 

[davek]

where did I say illegitimate?

You said I was trying to make myself sound 'legit'...which means, in your view, that I failed and therefore am 'illegitimate'.

 

[PeregrineT]

I failed and therefore am 'illegitimate'.

Wow, surprised theres finally an admission. Good for you, making progress!

 

[Paul Rideout]

Wow, surprised theres finally an admission. Good for you, making progress!

 

[davek]

Do a new poll on Brands Dave, let's see what the majority thinks of him now.

It's not a bad idea. I think the mods would rather we offered a change of vote in this one I opened up back in the autumn.

 

[KaiserEFC]

I don’t think he’s the devil incarnate but I also don’t think he’s a god either. He’s done alright in some areas he’s also made mistakes in others and he’s certainly responsible for a portion of the failings this season. He, like absolutely every person associated with the club needs to do better if we’re going to stop being the not-quite nearly team of the league.

 

[Benedict]

I don’t think he’s the devil incarnate but I also don’t think he’s a god either. He’s done alright in some areas he’s also made mistakes in others and he’s certainly responsible for a portion of the failings this season. He, like absolutely every person associated with the club needs to do better if we’re going to stop being the not-quite nearly team of the league.

It's far worse than not quite or nearly tho mate, we are absolutely crap, even tho we won the Newcastle game they played way better football than us in every way, so will most teams now, our players are average at best.

 

[davek]

I don’t think he’s the devil incarnate but I also don’t think he’s a god either. He’s done alright in some areas he’s also made mistakes in others and he’s certainly responsible for a portion of the failings this season. He, like absolutely every person associated with the club needs to do better if we’re going to stop being the not-quite nearly team of the league.

He wasn't brought in to 'do alright' though.

Hit and mostly miss on transfers in and out of the club? Who couldn't have done that?

he;s been a complete waste of money - the salary apaid him, but more disastrously, the cash he's mis-spent on tat and bang average players...and his failure to stop bring key defensive players in and retain our best player last season.