The Penalty Box Dancer
Player Valuation: £35m
Stoke City and West Brom have both been relegated with a game still left to play and these 2 sides have been knocking around mid-table most of their Premiership lives. Stoke boasting some top half finishes as well. At the start of the season I would not have said they would be relegated as their squad does have some quality to it. Given the massive loss of Arnautovic to West Ham, I still thought they'd be knocking around mid-table come May 2018.
It reminds me of how we are now. We are safe from the bottom three and are averaging out some mid-table finishes. We are a long way off the top 6 as it will take a complete squad overhaul and a slice of luck to get it right. If we try and compare ourselves to Spurs I think we are way off because they got lucky with Alli and Kane in the same generation. They do have some top class players and a club that is run correctly. We are opposite to that and the Moshiri project in my eyes has run out of steam. The plan is to build a new stadium and increase the club's brand, isn't that what West Ham done? Look at how successful they are since doing so. (Sarcasm)
I don't buy into this lack of strategy direction we are currently under as it seems we are basically peeing in the wind and hoping to buy our way out of trouble. This strategy is not working nor is it going to ever work. If we turn our attention to the change of manager scenario, who wants to come here? Is money the incentive? Kenwright or Moshiri lack football intelligence and their recent appointments explain this:
Martinez: He won the cup and went down, he gave us one great season and almost took us the same way as Wigan.
Koeman: He never got the club and achieved a 7th place finish, the football wasn't fancy and nobody knew what he wanted to achieve.
Unsworth: the board were nearly persuaded
Marco Silva: Offered him massive money and it turned out he cannot manage under pressure.
Sam Allardyce: exactly, it was a shocking appointment made in a panic by people who don't understand football.
Who is next? It all reeks to me, we are a club in desperation, throwing money around with no strategy hoping to get it right. People think we build a stadium and automatically break into the top 6.
Have we joined the manager merry go round like the teams who have bit the bullet and died? If people think a few signings here and a few players sold will fix this are wrong. It's more than what you see on the pitch, it's the leading off the pitch where the problem lies and we will sleepwalk into a deadly situation.
In the future, I don't see a rosy garden, I see a garden that is cluttered and overgrown that will get to the point were it becomes unsaveable.
I think we might even be past the point of no return.
It reminds me of how we are now. We are safe from the bottom three and are averaging out some mid-table finishes. We are a long way off the top 6 as it will take a complete squad overhaul and a slice of luck to get it right. If we try and compare ourselves to Spurs I think we are way off because they got lucky with Alli and Kane in the same generation. They do have some top class players and a club that is run correctly. We are opposite to that and the Moshiri project in my eyes has run out of steam. The plan is to build a new stadium and increase the club's brand, isn't that what West Ham done? Look at how successful they are since doing so. (Sarcasm)
I don't buy into this lack of strategy direction we are currently under as it seems we are basically peeing in the wind and hoping to buy our way out of trouble. This strategy is not working nor is it going to ever work. If we turn our attention to the change of manager scenario, who wants to come here? Is money the incentive? Kenwright or Moshiri lack football intelligence and their recent appointments explain this:
Martinez: He won the cup and went down, he gave us one great season and almost took us the same way as Wigan.
Koeman: He never got the club and achieved a 7th place finish, the football wasn't fancy and nobody knew what he wanted to achieve.
Unsworth: the board were nearly persuaded
Marco Silva: Offered him massive money and it turned out he cannot manage under pressure.
Sam Allardyce: exactly, it was a shocking appointment made in a panic by people who don't understand football.
Who is next? It all reeks to me, we are a club in desperation, throwing money around with no strategy hoping to get it right. People think we build a stadium and automatically break into the top 6.
Have we joined the manager merry go round like the teams who have bit the bullet and died? If people think a few signings here and a few players sold will fix this are wrong. It's more than what you see on the pitch, it's the leading off the pitch where the problem lies and we will sleepwalk into a deadly situation.
In the future, I don't see a rosy garden, I see a garden that is cluttered and overgrown that will get to the point were it becomes unsaveable.
I think we might even be past the point of no return.
