Admiral Ackbar
Player Valuation: £500k
I can't stop thinking about how the 7 years might have gone if Moshiri had spent his money more wisely:
Year 1 - 'strategic football review' - whether you like it ore to Martinez had some good ideas for Finch Farm, and strategy and we could have recruited a good DOF , professional development coaches, and improved FF facilities immediately
Year 2 - back Martinez or another young manager / experienced DOF model. Ensure the coaching staff are experienced. Set expectations that we have to overhaul our recruitment, training and club culture, and it might mean we just survive in the Premier League
Year 3 - start signing 2 young stars, 2 established PL players per season.
Year 4 - Europa League qualification, advanced to a final. Stadium planning
Year 5 - Increase spending to more established stars, star manager, spend big minimum 8th place
Year 6 - start integrating youth players and ease on spending minimum 8th place
Year 7 - our homegrown talent and management style should start seeing results 6th - 7th place
Year 8 - 4th - 6th place - we have now qualified for Europe 3-4 times under Moshiri.
Year 9 - move to BMD . 4th - 6th place , can we win a cup soon?
It seems easy in hindsight, but I'm just imagining how a sensible, long-term approach might have panned out.
Sack Bill Kenwright should be at the front of that chronology.