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Player Valuation: £35m
3. Appoint a manager who plays our style of football and has been highly successful.
Like who?
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3. Appoint a manager who plays our style of football and has been highly successful.
Don’t worry, I think we’re safe on this count.
Like who?
That’s for Brands and Moshiri to decide. At the moment we don’t have any style.
Yes, I hope so too. At the moment it seems like we’re throwing stuff at the wall and hoping it sticks.
My point is, there are very few managers who have been highly successful who want to take the job.
It’s going to be a struggle to replace Silva with someone of pedigree, and we may need to settle for someone who doesn’t meet your “highly successful” criteria.
We do have a style it's a passing/possession based style, unfortunately we set up for a defensive style, our style and formation are not compatible with each other.That’s for Brands and Moshiri to decide. At the moment we don’t have any style.
....not so sure, there seems a transfer strategy with real discipline in moving players out. There has to be lessons learned from the Koeman/Walsh era. We are in a mess, though, and there’s a real sense of doom and gloom that will be difficult to arrest.
Agree, need a long term strategy and a clear vision. The strategy can’t be as inflexible and confining as the one proposed here, in my opinion. Buy, yes, we need a long term strategy.
What would be your strategy? Just interested and happy to here constructive criticism of mine.
Unlike you mate, I’m not smart enough to even have a go at presenting a plan! I won’t dare then criticise your plan as such but a couple of the recommendations you made had me thinking about the downsides. For example, getting in a successful manager on only a 2 year deal and making it clear that he’s going to be continually performance monitored is unlikely to be appealing to a successful manager who will probably have other more attractive offers. It also encourages planning for short term success - how can you work on a 5 year plan for success on a short term contract? Also, if it does work out well you risk losing a good fit manager to a club offering more security.
I don’t think a plan should be as specific as to stipulate the required formation of the team. We’ve seen football change in style and approach over the last 10 years and would want our team to adapt to the changes to stay competitive (see Wenger at Arsenal for a sobering illustration of not changing with the times).
Promoting a set quota of youth players to the first team every year...I’d rather have first teamers there on merit welcomed in by the manager and team mates than squeezed in and ousting possibly better players just to satisfy a policy.
Also think I’d like us to be flexible and responsive in our recruitment. If we have a chance to get a worldie of a player who will take us to the next level then pay what we can to get him (who wouldn’t now pay £75m for VDV for example)!
Easy to rattle off constructive criticism but that deflects from your very valid and critical central message, with which I whole heartedly agree, a clear and intelligent long term strategy is needed.