Ridiculously bad recruitment

[Toffeeslam]

The recruitment and talent scouting at this club has gone from fairly decent under Moyes to absolutely abysmal.

The fact that the world and his dog knew we needed forwards after the last transfer window and now post a World Cup and months to scout and plan we are linked with Danny Ings and his infamous knees says it all.

Where is the scouting ?
Where is the planning ?

Why are either sides with much smaller budgets able to scout and sign talents and we’re looking at broken rejects ?

Discuss

 

[ArtetaMoney]

Mediocrity is pumping through the club, delivered from the top.

 

[Bkk Andy]

The recruitment and talent scouting at this club has gone from fairly decent under Moyes to absolutely abysmal.

The fact that the world and his dog knew we needed forwards after the last transfer window and now post a World Cup and months to scout and plan we are linked with Danny Ings and his infamous knees says it all.

Where is the scouting ?
Where is the planning ?

Why are either sides with much smaller budgets able to scout and sign talents and we’re looking at broken rejects ?

Discuss

Sides with smaller budgets understand where they sit in the pecking order and try to improve strategically. They buy, inprove then sell at a profit. We still think we're a big club who should never sell and buy accordingly. Arrogance is why we are where we are.

 

[Mark Bisson]

Sides with smaller budgets understand where they sit in the pecking order and try to improve strategically. They buy, inprove then sell at a profit. We still think we're a big club who should never sell and buy accordingly. Arrogance is why we are where we are.

Exactly. Brighton as a perfect case in point.

 

[RomanReigns]

last season the focus was on how many goals we were leaking for fun

hence why we brought in Tarkowski (free) and Coady (loan)

as Carragher recently stated about Van Dijk the reason why he was so effective in the past few seasons is because of the protection he had from the midfield in front of him. It was clear last season that our Defence had very poor protection, for example in the 5-2 defeat to Watford at home we had Allan and Davies in central midfield. Even Doucoure recently has been very poor. This probably explains why we brought in 3 central midfielders in Gana, Onana and Garner.

Due to FFP and having no money to spend i guess the majority of the richarlison budget was used to try and solidify the Defence and Midfield and thinking that DCL would be fine this season that we wouldn't need to re-inforce the attack much and hence why we only signed McNeil and Maupay.

the problem is we needed to invest heavily in the playing squad, at least 200 mil + but we could not do so due to FFP and in the end we ended up going to poundland to try and find the best bargains we could from Burnley, Wolves and Brighton.

They basically gambled and hope that the sale of richarlison would not have a massive effect by banking on DCL's fitness which has horrendously backfired.

 

[MercuryBlue88]

The whole thing really does need a real review, why do we keep buying overpriced British based players? Do we have scouts in europe? South america? Do we scout lesser leagues looking for rough diamonds? If the answer is yes to any of that, are they just crap scouts or does someone higher up the chain keep ignoring them? We need to find where things are going wrong and correct it, this should have been done years ago.

 

[tommye]

Another absolute belter thread.



This place is LIT this year.
2023 is a joy already

 

[MACCA75]

It’s been awful since Moyes left tbh.

Far too much emphasis on ‘name’ players from big clubs.

 

[MikeH72]

We already have a Thelwell thread mate.

 

[Toffeeslam]

We already have a Thelwell thread mate.

It’s more than that

Thelwell, Brands or the bell end from Leicester it’s been a disaster and I’m thinking the structure and philosophy of the club is all wrong.

That comes from the top.

Point is we can sack another manager and get our pound of flesh but will actually change ?

The next guys has to get a tune out of these so called footballers and won’t so we turn on him.

I would like a clear philosophy and recruitment plan not this panicked rushed signing of busted has beens and injured rejects from other clubs

 

[billyblue80]

The recruitment is awful and short sighted we are obsessed with names over talent and EPL experience over overseas potential and the financial position our esteemed board have driven us into means we can't afford good players even if we scout them.

 

[allen]

We already have a Thelwell thread mate.

Bigger issue than Thelwell.

 

[degsy]

The recruitment and talent scouting at this club has gone from fairly decent under Moyes to absolutely abysmal.

The fact that the world and his dog knew we needed forwards after the last transfer window and now post a World Cup and months to scout and plan we are linked with Danny Ings and his infamous knees says it all.

Where is the scouting ?
Where is the planning ?

Why are either sides with much smaller budgets able to scout and sign talents and we’re looking at broken rejects ?

Discuss

Well yeah its deffo a thing - has been for years.
Q) Where do you start though
A) seems obvs to me. At The Top! - The Very Top
But the turkeys aren't going to willingly vote for Christmas.

Moshiri has left it to Bill.
Bill is just about Bill's status quo, the yes men and lady and the train set
So where do you start then

'Ked if I know.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Walsh, with a very decent pedigree with Alex Ferguson wanting him at Man Utd as DOF.

Brands, who looked the part in a suit.

They weren't right, no, no.

But the new guy. He's the one. Not sure why - Jorge Mendes ran the show at Wolves but that doesn't matter, it doesn't matter he's a kopite either - the new fella wrote a book. He'll sort it. 120 point plan, or something.

Maybe the issue is the owner does whatever he likes, or a board who make, or endorse bad decision after bad decision.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

In all seriousness I hope Thelwell can sort us but none of us have a clue really do we? More concerning, is I don't think our owner or board does either.

What I do think (and it's not hindsight stuff) is the team that started this season, was worse/less equipped than the team that started last season.