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I think I`ll leave this conversation now. You don`t seem to to understand a general point about choices re young/old players, but have a bee in your bonnet about a particular player.
Yes I do. The fact is. He’d be neither use nor ornament for us.
If identifying Lingard as a quality player WASN'T a scouting masterclass, after the rubbishing of him by some on this forum, we should close down 'Rumour Mill' immediately
Just examples but this last couple of month aside Rammers wasn't taking many plaudits and Brewster has no goals from 22 appearances. Deeney would have bettered that.
One of the problem you have is whether the players are still listening to what he wants them to do. After so long, after hearing the same message over a few years, do the players just switch off? Not intentionally but they know what is going to be said but it is the same mundane message.
And do they still wanna be at the club? Lunny is the obvious one because of his refusal to sign a contract, but doesnt mean he's not the only one. You can't tell me someone like McB is enjoying playing this type of football as a 'target man' in our system. Wouldn't be surprised if someone like him and others have asked their agents to orchestrate moves away
I have been quite critical of some aspects of Wilder's management over the last 12 months, and no doubt looking at the recruits over that period it is possibly Wilder's worst period of signings for some years. However, as a club it is hard to sign the established players as well as compete for the up and coming players like Watkins and Cash without paying comparable wages. If they they are good players then the fee and/or the wages will be pushed up beyond your means very quickly meaning you are having to go after your second, third or perhaps even fourth choices. Take Callum Wilson as one example, there were 3 or 4 clubs looking to sign him which inflates his demands and prices you out of the market. The better players will be in higher demand and very quickly price the Blades out of contention. Obviously what follows is you end up with the less desirable signings or 'prospects' that you hope come good.
Leonard.
Absolutely right.
Examples? You’ve quoted these same two players on more than one occasion! They’re simply not good enough. Now if you’d have said Iversen at £6/8m, you’d have had a point. Or some 20 year old Croatian ripping it up, with a £15m price tag, fair enough. The fact that we live in a world where we can get a burger and coffee within minutes and everything is now,now,now, has took away the fact that young players need time to bloom, as we’re seeing now with Ramsdale? I’d rather take one step back with England U21 internationals finding their feet than signing mercenaries on a last pay day with no sell on, not giving a flying you know what.
Don't you think it might have been a good idea to, say, mix things up and get in some young players and other players with PL experience? I am convinced that one problem this season is that every single one of our new recruits was too raw.
Yes, I agree that Wilder does need more help and support (I stated as much a few months ago when he looked beaten). Having followed Wilder since his Halifax days (and Knill tbh) I always found even from his Halifax days that Wilder often gets more out of the defensive players than the creative players. Of course this makes sense given he was a defender along with Knill. I think he certainly needs a couple of coaches who can get the best out of the forward players and as you say perhaps a DoF. If I were you I would be going all out for someone like Rafa Benitez for the DoF role; a wealth of experience, contacts throughout the world and a proven track record of finding gems. You would also imagine that he will be winding down his career over the next few years and still lives locally in the Merseyside area. On top of that he is tactically astute.
They are just examples. You could take say King of Bournemouth and Romero of Man U on loan, Danny Ward of Leicester. We could sit here all day and give examples of more experienced players but what is clear is we decided to lavish very large fees and have just gone for youth alone. The hope was the current XI that finished the season would hold their own with little help.
We chose the right transfer strategy because that’s all our budget would allow?
Are you free for the chelsea gameI am what we used to call in our childhood footy games in the park, a shitliner. I hover and tap away the chances
Didzy v Man U
Is that true though?
They might at which point they’ll have made a great decision for this season. However that loan strategy isn’t sustainable long term and fairly soon they’ll have to start dishing out large fees aswell as wages.
Logically you'd think so. But maybe it's gradual. With an additional 130m, you add a couple of perms and take a couple less loans. Same again the following year.
This is however on a "net" spend basis ....... given that we've not had any expensive players to sell, this is of questionable value to the debate
I agree they could manage it well however there’s a fluidity to it as an approach which means you have a high variance in outcomes. So this year it’s worked great but next year you’re back a square one needing to have an equally good summer recruitment which isn’t likely given virtually no club has a continually good success rate with recruitment.
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