Why cant people understand football is a short term game

[Eggs]

...the lower leagues are littered with clubs who thought it was a short-term game, blew lots of money and went down.

You have to have a strategy and it usually takes time to implement it. Key, though, is having people in place who don’t just buy players, but buy the right players.

It’s certainly not a short-term game.

 

[Blue Roo]

Who you calling short term?!

 

[FtheWhat]

It's true that if we have a poor season then players such as Richarlison may get their heads turned, that's just life...whether we signed Zaha or not the same obviously still applies. And we may well lose him even if we won the league.
I'm sure Brands et al. are also gutted we didn't sign Zaha, but £80m CP can jog right on. Iwobi is a much better deal for me.
Although we may not have strengthened the first 11, we have apart from CD much more strength in depth, and a better balanced squad that the like of Leicester, i think.
The idea that the glimmer of hope has disappeared for the OP, is just serious bedwetting of the highest order, glass half empty bullshit.

Building a team that challenges in this league takes patience, money and belief we eventually have the money, but some of us don't have the patience or belief.

 

[TimHowardsBeardJuice]

...the lower leagues are littered with clubs who thought it was a short-term game, blew lots of money and went down.

You have to have a strategy and it usually takes time to implement it. Key, though, is having people in place who don’t just buy players, but buy the right players.

It’s certainly not a short-term game.

This.

I didn't want Zaha on that kind of money. If he'd be anything less than Aguero, Salah, Kane level good then he'd be impossible to move for a profit, or at all. If he was a failure he'd be an albatross and would cripple the team. In a vacuum there's no way you'd take Iwobi over Zaha, but Iwobi on 40M is healthier for the team long-term than whatever ridiculous number Zaha got up to.

I can't excuse the failure to bring in another CB. As I said in another thread, decent low- or mid-table CB would have been fine - Schar, Dunk, Mee etc. But CB is an easier position to fill than some others, so that can be addressed in January. And JPG may well be a decent CB if necessary.

I'm happy with everyone we brought in. The fact that we missed a key piece does not change that we brought in several guys who look like good long-term fits at good prices.

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

This.

I didn't want Zaha on that kind of money. If he'd be anything less than Aguero, Salah, Kane level good then he'd be impossible to move for a profit, or at all. If he was a failure he'd be an albatross and would cripple the team. In a vacuum there's no way you'd take Iwobi over Zaha, but Iwobi on 40M is healthier for the team long-term than whatever ridiculous number Zaha got up to.

I can't excuse the failure to bring in another CB. As I said in another thread, decent low- or mid-table CB would have been fine - Schar, Dunk, Mee etc. But CB is an easier position to fill than some others, so that can be addressed in January. And JPG may well be a decent CB if necessary.

I'm happy with everyone we brought in. The fact that we missed a key piece does not change that we brought in several guys who look like good long-term fits at good prices.

I am surprised we didnt think to raid a CB from a team relegated last season.....

 

[Mancuso]

99.9% of posters don't know how good or bad a player is going to be. Does that mean they shouldn't post their opinions on players until after 10 games?

That would be a dream, but I’d settle for 1.

 

[matty1878]

Be honest

Were you drunk or high yesterday ?

Both