JVW v Wilder

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The main issues were training ground and academy investment. Both promised for several seasons and never started. Part of the reason we agreed on a chronically low budget was that infrastructure would happen in line with us stopping in the PL. Two projects should have started now, alas.

Transfers: Instead of the one vote, one man (the majority Prince's men) they wanted to take all the votes away from the management and coaching staff. Most of the players brought in by these people have been expensive and shit, hence CW's reluctance. Also unhappiness with Coulibaly as he was parachuted in with club funds without consultation with SUFC staff and committee. The next manager will be a puppet if he accedes to this system. We now have a bunch of unqualified people playing real life fantasy football with SUFC. People need to realise that all signings were voted on by the transfer committee since the Prince got sole ownership, and that the Prince set the transfer agenda: young players who wouldn't be big drains if relegated, so we could develop them and bounce back. All signings were the fault of the committee, not CW/AK specifically - contrary to Phipps' propaganda. We simply do not have the infrastructure for Brentfordesque recruitment or a foreign based scouting system.

Sales policy: Despite the overarching policy being to come back with this young squad, the Prince changed the plan and demanded big sales of key players.

I won’t push you on your sources, nopigfansintown But bits of that make worrying reading, regards how things might play out in the medium term.

As everyone keeps saying, we can’t afford to get the next appointment wrong. If the regime is indeed now “a bunch of unqualified people playing real life fantasy football with SUFC”, it will take a pretty robust personality and skill-set to navigate it.
 

So according to Yorkshire Live, the club arent changing the manager model and there will be no DOF employed by the club. The manager when selected will be in charge of all transfers etc, exactly as Wilder was.
So that rules out any Wilder v JVW arguement.
 
The main issues were training ground and academy investment. Both promised for several seasons and never started. Part of the reason we agreed on a chronically low budget was that infrastructure would happen in line with us stopping in the PL. Two projects should have started now, alas.

Transfers: Instead of the one vote, one man (the majority Prince's men) they wanted to take all the votes away from the management and coaching staff. Most of the players brought in by these people have been expensive and shit, hence CW's reluctance. Also unhappiness with Coulibaly as he was parachuted in with club funds without consultation with SUFC staff and committee. The next manager will be a puppet if he accedes to this system. We now have a bunch of unqualified people playing real life fantasy football with SUFC. People need to realise that all signings were voted on by the transfer committee since the Prince got sole ownership, and that the Prince set the transfer agenda: young players who wouldn't be big drains if relegated, so we could develop them and bounce back. All signings were the fault of the committee, not CW/AK specifically - contrary to Phipps' propaganda. We simply do not have the infrastructure for Brentfordesque recruitment or a foreign based scouting system.

Sales policy: Despite the overarching policy being to come back with this young squad, the Prince changed the plan and demanded big sales of key players.
So if investment in the academy / training facilities has been ongoing for several seasons, can hardly lay that one solely at PA's door.
Plus PA has had to buy the facilities / ground from McCabe...no idea if the value was way more than expected, but that might have put some things on the back burner.
Not sure i believe that the manager / coaching staff didn't get the final say on transfers, possibly aside from the Coulibaly one.
 
Chris Wilder has based a very successful managerial career on having a close knit 'tight' dressing room and a squad who are well bonded together.

He puts a great deal of time into making sure new signings have the right character. He won't sign anyone who he doesn't fit in.

It took us from League One mediocrity to the cusp of Europe in 4 straight seasons. Who else would achieved that. His approach works.

If he had allowed van Winkel to make signings for him. Players he has not checked up on, who might be more of an unknown. Players who he might have found it tougher to integrate into the dressing room. Would we achieved the same success?
I think thats a perfectly reasonable solution in the football league, but not going to get you very far in the Premier.
 
So if investment in the academy / training facilities has been ongoing for several seasons, can hardly lay that one solely at PA's door.
Plus PA has had to buy the facilities / ground from McCabe...no idea if the value was way more than expected, but that might have put some things on the back burner.
Not sure i believe that the manager / coaching staff didn't get the final say on transfers, possibly aside from the Coulibaly one.

PA is on the record that he was very happy with the valuation of the real estate. That was shortly after he became sole owner; he said words to effect of: I can't disclose the valuation but I'm very happy. He also said that he, not the club, was the guarantor for the deal so SUFC wouldn't get in trouble if the money couldn't be found for the real estate via club funds. I think that was before the revelation about the Kop sites which might have changed things if he intends to purchase them, but don't quote me on that. 43.5 million on the face of it seems a bargain for Bramall Lane and the associated real estate: https://theathletic.co.uk/1906079/2020/07/03/sheffield-united-bramall-lane-kop-wilder-europe/

If you watch one of Chris's interviews re Brewster and saw the online fans forum re the Bogle signing, you don't have to take my word re transfer structure - It was all there.
The announcement on the new training ground building was pretty unequivocal. Announced at the height of Covid, to be lifted into Shirecliffe, for a January completion date. Any doubts are more relevant, I would suggest, for the other infrastructure projects: https://www.sufc.co.uk/news/2020/july/shirecliffe-addition/
This is the reason given by the Athletic for the non completion of the training ground building:
"United moving first-team operations from their former base in what was an old working men’s club at the top of the site into the main academy building last year meant the matter had become less pressing".

CW's comment prior to the Villa win on the 3rd March:
“There's no reason now for that not to kick on.
“The players are not prima donnas, but there are certain standards and requirements needed for them to produce their best performances.”


Well worth a read: https://theathletic.com/news/sheffield-united-finances-training-ground/PD8fDANkXVQx?amp=1
 
Retsos, Zivkvic and Verrips weren't/aren't good enough. Coulibaly will either join us next season or be snapped up by someone with more buying power in europe.

Retsos could have been decent for us I reckon. That said he wasn't going to walk in and replace Basham.
 

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