Should Wilder Be Trusted With The Squad Rebuild?

[ChipButtyBlade]

New owners,IBIWISI.

So carry on Wilder,he's done it before on crumbs.

 

[Millhousesblade1889]

I’m in two minds. He took on a team last season that were down and out, there was a little bit of a fight back and then the Luton loss killed all momentum.

The last 10 games were embarrassing & to be honest I’ve absolutely no idea what our style of play was which makes me think he’d given up too.

A few press conferences he dug players out & players bit back on social media (Foderingham in particular).

However, I actually do think he has a good eye for rebuilding squads in the lower leagues and while we’re in the middle of a takeover & just released/ returned 14 players I don’t think sacking Wilder now would be the right decision. Realistically we’re in a massive mess & need some type of stability.

It won’t be long until they’re back in training and if we’re faffing around trying to get a manager as well as sign players it will be even more of a disaster.

Logically right now we need to give him a go.

 

[Wizard]

Last time Wilder was here he built a squad for next to nothing that took us from League One to top half of the premier league. An unbelievable achievement.

That relegation season was a mess but his premier league recruitment was mixed more than it was outright awful IMO and it was the first season where we'd had proper injuries after being a largely very settled side for 4 years so we didn't have the squad to cope with that. A victim of his own success. We'd climbed so fast that we didn't have the foundations in place to sustain that position (on & off the pitch).

After he left the core of the squad he'd built showed it was more than good enough for the championship and could maybe have even bounced straight back up if it weren't for the misstep with Slav.

He's then come back and inherited a team that is clearly not good enough for this level and seems to be getting slated for not keeping us up. It would've been a miracle to do that.

Wilder is an excellent manager with a track record of succeeding in difficult positions.

 

[Blade56]

No

 

[Weasel]

Yes, I trust CW to get it right this pre season if given a chance and a decent budget.

Clearly others have differing views and that's fair enough. I'm backing Wilder though.

 

[Snowflake]

Wouldn't trust him with half a Bounty bar.

…but would you trust him with a whole bar ? Give him proper tools and see what we get. Last time at this level he was fine, but move up to PL and there are bigger questions.

 

[DI36O]

Just want players who give a shit and will stand up and be counted. Wilder's weak at a lot of things but that sounds like his strength to me.
Probably say different if we were in the prem with money to spend.

 

[Working Class Hero]

Worth pointing out here that there are two players starting for England tonight who Wilder actively tried to sign when we went up to the Prem, and there are another two on the bench who he did manage to sign.

Many like to berate Wilder's signings once we got promoted, but would any manager have fared any better with our budget and when having to settle for 3rd or 4th choice options? We've only really got Heckingbottom to compare it with and his attempt was arguably even worse!

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

Worth pointing out here that there are two players starting for England tonight who Wilder actively tried to sign when we went up to the Prem, and there are another two on the bench who he did manage to sign.

Many like to berate Wilder's signings once we got promoted, but would any manager have fared any better with our budget and when having to settle for 3rd or 4th choice options? We've only really got Heckingbottom to compare it with and his attempt was arguably even worse!

In comparison Wilder had a substantially bigger budget to spend in the Premier League than Hecky, and he didn't lose two of his key players to fund it, arguably three players with the loss of Doyle.

 

[Working Class Hero]

In comparison Wilder had a substantially bigger budget to spend in the Premier League than Hecky, and he didn't lose two of his key players to fund it, arguably three players with the loss of Doyle.

Heckingbottom spent a lot more than Wilder after promotion didn't he?

I'm not saying Heckingbottom had it better, he clearly didn't as he had Berge and Ndiaye robbed from him, but that's irrelevant when looking at how they spent their money.