Dwight K Schrute
Player Valuation: £30m
Again, the wrong attitude. Why does it have to jump from the Championship quality squad we currently have and the ones Dyche has had to work with to Champion's League??Do we have any of them though? Or are we likely to get any? And doesn’t everybody have to work with that type of player for the first time at some point anyway? We’re not chasing the champions league anymore, you need to get your head around that. We need to try to stay up. If we do then for the next couple of years it’s going to be baby steps to try and get back up to the right end of the table. If we don’t then we need to get promoted. Either way, an ability to work with ‘top players’ is going to be way down our list of requirements in the short/medium term.
The model should be to sign young, talented players that we can turn around for profit for a few years until such time as we can hope to keep some of them and kick on again. Signing overpaid dross means we still go down, or at best circle the drain, putting ourselves in financial difficulty by being stocked with players no one else wants.
We absolutely have to reverse this process.