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[Harry's Game]

Very few owners make money out of football clubs

Exactly... But they (Jim) said it.. Not me.

 

[Gavlar]

Everything you say there is sensible. The initial reaction is to get rid, this may prove to be the best option in the long term, however, he does have experience and that will be useful... after the clear out.

You're right about a 'warnock type' he would've been the right man after we sacked clough, had we known that the summer and january were going to be non events in terms of the clear out and rebuild. However, now, theres no need to get rid of Adkins. Keep him, let him build from scratch, no excuses, we build around Long, Beard, Reed, K.Wallace, Che and Sharp. The rest can go. i expect us to to be left with no more than 12 players come the summer.

Excellent and then we can be the next Blackpool...........

Getting rid of the entire squad bar a few isn't likely to be any more successful. It takes time for a team to gel. Really the thing we need to sort more than anything is our bloody defence and probably get a new keeper for now. Defence is still not sorted since the playoff semi last season! We actually have some good attacking talent, and of course adding a few midfielders would help but this is the 3rd div, we can get promoted with some tweaks here and there. What we lack most is team spirit and leadership. Burtons team isn't full of miles better players than ours.

 

[SwissBlade]

Excellent and then we can be the next Blackpool...........

Getting rid of the entire squad bar a few isn't likely to be any more successful. It takes time for a team to gel. Really the thing we need to sort more than anything is our bloody defence and probably get a new keeper for now. Defence is still not sorted since the playoff semi last season! We actually have some good attacking talent, and of course adding a few midfielders would help but this is the 3rd div, we can get promoted with some tweaks here and there. What we lack most is team spirit and leadership. Burtons team isn't full of miles better players than ours.

Long is a good keeper, he's looked good since coming back in. But he needs protection.

Not saying that we will start next season with 12 players, but would like us to release a lot of players on and then start next season with perhaps 16 plus some loans

 

[bladeinspaceandtime]

Adkins has a great record but I doubt he has ever been in a position like this. A board with no plan, unable to make signings, left with a team of duff players and a fan base at the end of their tether with the club. We are in a similar position now to when Warnock came in but obviously in a league lower. There is clearly no money, no ambition and no hope of ever building anything as the best players will be sold as soon as a bid comes in. This was as it was when Warnock came in and he thrived under those conditions. Adkins has never been in this situation as a manager. He has never been a fire fighter. He has never been at a club where the expectation is this high but the backing is so low. That's the worry for me.

I said exactly the same to someone a few weeks ago. I don't think many managers could perform well in these circumstances; Warnock is an obvious choice (he's had to deal with McCabe before) but he had Dooley in his corner last time.

 

[Sirius]

Very few owners make money out of football clubs[/QUOT.e


I suspect there are many reasons why foreign investors now own almost two thirds of our Premier League clubs, and one is certainly not to lose money.
Is there not a tipping point where such a number would be able to change the rules of the P..L. So as to dispencewith promotion and relegation?

 

[blade67]

42 is the answer. The bigger problem for united is to understand what the bloody question is