UndercoverClaret
Player Valuation: £225k
Haven’t read all the debate on it but the reason we went down were the two/three seasons leading up to relegation.View attachment 234236
He's a striker who can score goals in the Prem. He's at Nottingham Forest now, scored 3 league goals so far this season - as many as any of our lot. They're not easy to find, especially if you're Burnley with 2 weeks to go in January.
Our owner at the time (Mike Garlick) didn’t re invest into the side after qualifying for Europe and I think thought he had taken us as far as he could and looked to get out. We had minimal investment and Dyche was clearly tasked with staying in the league at all costs.
I mean we literally went into the 19/20 season signing Dale Stephens (Brighton’s then 5th/6th choice CM) to be our 4th choice CM and Will Norris to be our 3rd choice keeper - about 750K that window ish.
The season before we re-signed Jay Rodriguez, Erik Pieters and Josh Brownhill in the January. Hardly lighting it up for a team playing their 4th consecutive season in the PL at the time… One signed from a relegated side (Jay), one backup from Stoke (Pieters) and one from the Champ (Brownhill).
Anyway, covid hits, Garlick shits it even more (his personal business affected), puts no more in and managers to get a sale to ALK who tbf sign Maxwel Cornet the 2021 summer and Weghorst in January 2022 to replace Wood.
Cornet was the only signing of note within 3 years that genuinely improved the first team as a starting player. Brownhill slowly played into being a starter and JayRod was always backup or third choice striker for the main part.
The notion that Dyche took us down is nonsense. What took us down is two-three years of naff all investment into the playing team.
Give him time lads, he is miles clear of your Lampards and dare I say it VKs (anyone can win a league with a ginormous playing budget relative to the rest).
He will get the dossers out and right the culture setting you up for years.
Non of this 4 /5 year deals for half arsed players on big money. Will the footy be ‘sexy’ ? I mean, it’ll upset the footballing elite by daring to get stuck in and not roll over for losses ‘playing the right way’ but Christ it’s better than the crap that Allardyce and Pulis serve up. It’s just direct but he’s never parking a bus - always looking to win.
His tenure might only last another two or three years before you decide to go another way but I guarantee if you stick with him and back him, you’ll be happy that you did