toffeeblue9
Player Valuation: £35m
You start at the top and work your way down - under Kenwright we didn't have a pot to urinate in, but he made some fairly sound footballing decisions at times - mostly centred around his appointment of and continued support of David Moyes
Since then we've had shambolic decision after shambolic decision
Moshiri has come in and spent money, which is all we thought we ever really needed. From the perspective of his footballing decisions though, it's been highly questionable
First of all he set his sights on Koeman, knowing that he wanted a DoF as well. What he should have done was to make these appointments in the opposite order - a DoF is the most important figure at a football club, he needs to be compatible with a manager and indeed he needs to be heavily involved in (if not ultimately responsible for) the appointment of a new manager. Instead we appointed two people entirely independently of each other and hoped for the best.
Secondly the appointment of Walsh is proving to be catastrophic. He has reconstructed our scouting functions, so any decision to part company with him now would be a massive upheaval in itself. He was involved in recommending Allardyce to the club as manager, meaning we now have an old boys network in very senior positions - Walsh, Waldron, Allardyce, Shakespeare etc etc - All of whom are under-performing hugely
Thirdly you look at the output from Walsh's recruitment - we've signed a number of players who it was assumed would be able to perform immediately. If you consider the names and how many have been successful, you could easily argue that any kid with a copy of Football Manager could have done at least equally as well - Gueye, Bolasie, Williams, Schneiderlin, Pickford, Keane, Martina, Klaassen, Rooney, Sigurdsson, Walcott, Tosun
Funnily enough, I think the least of our problems is Allardyce - it was reported that we wanted to offer him a 6 month deal and he wasn't interested. He subsequently got an 18 month deal. He was brought in to save us from going down. As long as we pick up a couple of wins from our last ten games, we'll be fine. I'm fairly confident that a new manager will be here by the beginning of next season, although Walsh's presence complicates that
The biggest problem we have is the amount of change we potentially have to go through - if we want to continue with the DOF model (and I have no issues with it in theory), we need to sack Walsh and revamp a lot of the scouting structure. That needs to be done first, before a new manager is appointed as we need to ensure they're compatible. Then we have the choice of manager. Then we have the issue of working out which of our plethora of flop signings are worth persevering with, and which should be dispensed with, as well as looking at the problems in ageing areas like Jags, Williams, Baines, Rooney etc
Since then we've had shambolic decision after shambolic decision
Moshiri has come in and spent money, which is all we thought we ever really needed. From the perspective of his footballing decisions though, it's been highly questionable
First of all he set his sights on Koeman, knowing that he wanted a DoF as well. What he should have done was to make these appointments in the opposite order - a DoF is the most important figure at a football club, he needs to be compatible with a manager and indeed he needs to be heavily involved in (if not ultimately responsible for) the appointment of a new manager. Instead we appointed two people entirely independently of each other and hoped for the best.
Secondly the appointment of Walsh is proving to be catastrophic. He has reconstructed our scouting functions, so any decision to part company with him now would be a massive upheaval in itself. He was involved in recommending Allardyce to the club as manager, meaning we now have an old boys network in very senior positions - Walsh, Waldron, Allardyce, Shakespeare etc etc - All of whom are under-performing hugely
Thirdly you look at the output from Walsh's recruitment - we've signed a number of players who it was assumed would be able to perform immediately. If you consider the names and how many have been successful, you could easily argue that any kid with a copy of Football Manager could have done at least equally as well - Gueye, Bolasie, Williams, Schneiderlin, Pickford, Keane, Martina, Klaassen, Rooney, Sigurdsson, Walcott, Tosun
Funnily enough, I think the least of our problems is Allardyce - it was reported that we wanted to offer him a 6 month deal and he wasn't interested. He subsequently got an 18 month deal. He was brought in to save us from going down. As long as we pick up a couple of wins from our last ten games, we'll be fine. I'm fairly confident that a new manager will be here by the beginning of next season, although Walsh's presence complicates that
The biggest problem we have is the amount of change we potentially have to go through - if we want to continue with the DOF model (and I have no issues with it in theory), we need to sack Walsh and revamp a lot of the scouting structure. That needs to be done first, before a new manager is appointed as we need to ensure they're compatible. Then we have the choice of manager. Then we have the issue of working out which of our plethora of flop signings are worth persevering with, and which should be dispensed with, as well as looking at the problems in ageing areas like Jags, Williams, Baines, Rooney etc
