Kev when he’s been knocked back by Willy Gnonto again in another year
Kev when he’s been knocked back by Willy Gnonto again in another year
Actually missed that mate and i listened to the press conference on one of the podcasts.
It was a decent interview, and I always give credit when a DOF does an interview because they don't have to.
My couple of takeaways from it would be
I'm not really sure what conservatively strategic means. We need a lot of players, so not sure how a conservative strategy plays into that.
If the summer window turns out to be a success then I will ultimately accept the reasoning given for such a quiet January.
I was a little disappointed that the large number of out of contract players and loan signings was not discussed. I don't expect individual contracts or players to be discussed but I would have liked to hear a wider discussion on what our strategy is to deal with having so few players currently under contract next season.
My couple of takeaways from it would be
I'm not really sure what conservatively strategic means. We need a lot of players, so not sure how a conservative strategy plays into that.
If the summer window turns out to be a success then I will ultimately accept the reasoning given for such a quiet January.
I was a little disappointed that the large number of out of contract players and loan signings was not discussed. I don't expect individual contracts or players to be discussed but I would have liked to hear a wider discussion on what our strategy is to deal with having so few players currently under contract next season.
The term conservative scares me.
I am not having another year goes by where we get to Feb and want the summer to come.
We are all wishing our lives away.
Thought he spoke well. I suspect what he was getting at is that we’ll sign players this summer but they will probably be young and for reasonable fees. Which is the conservatively strategic bit. So I wouldn’t be expecting us to spend big dough on players this summer.
Seems like he’s hinting that the taps will be turned on once there are increased revenues from the stadium and PSR is changed. Although maybe a naming rights deal will free up more wiggle room.
Personally I’d rather someone manage my expectations than say “watch this space” but I get what you mean.
If we’d spent what we spent under early Moshiri in a more conservative / strategic fashion these past years wouldn’t have happened in the first place.
It’s the right strategy, it doesn’t imply money won’t be spent it just says it’ll be spent sensibly and with an eye on a long term return. As it should be.
JLW
Player Valuation: £60m
I guess its we need a lot of players but we wont be buying for the sake of if it, if the player/contract/fee is not suitable.
We wont be splashing the cash for the sake of it, because thats what got us in this mess in the first place.
JLW
Player Valuation: £60m
Just typed my reply and then read yours hahaha
Personally i think it means what we were talking about with Broja above.
Instead of buying him for £30 mill, go back to Chelsea and get him on loan again for the year if he's fit and negotiate a better option.
That's one of likely 3 striker spots that likely need replacing sorted.
JohnJq
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Think he means no overpaying for donkeys like in our Ashley Williams/Bolasie/Allan/Gbamin/Schneiderlin/Klaasan/Tosun/Wallcot days. Now if we pay out these chunks we expect a young Salah, Palmer or Foden for our dosh, with a decent resale profiles.
Is that relevant in any way ?
Yeah fair point but the player turnover is ridiculous this summer.
Who would you be offering a new deal?
For me Gana Gueye gets one for an extra year.
Young and Coleman no although for actual numbers if it had to be one it would have to be Young albeit we all wish it was Coleman
brieverton
Player Valuation: £50m
Would certainly expect him to be staying after that. Watts and others at TFG would have been in on it.
I have mixed feelings but that said it's not an area that is screaming for change. Will be interesting to see how he does with the shackles removed a little.
They need to be sure on who they are going after and have a reasonably flexible approach - there should be several options per position.
That's the important thing - go all out for them but be firm on value - that's fine but saying we couldn't get X for position Y shouldn't be acceptable.
I have mixed feelings but that said it's not an area that is screaming for change. Will be interesting to see how he does with the shackles removed a little.
They need to be sure on who they are going after and have a reasonably flexible approach - there should be several options per position.
That's the important thing - go all out for them but be firm on value - that's fine but saying we couldn't get X for position Y shouldn't be acceptable.
Gana is a no brainer for sure. The only two I’d be talking to are Doucoure and Young and it would probably come down to terms- ideally you wouldn’t want either to be first choices next season but they still offer good availability and enough performance level to justify a squad place.
Both debatable shouts but arguably it’s better to use the budget to improve the first team rather than to also have to dip into it more than necessary to pad the squad.
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