The biggest issue at the club.

[GeorgeDonis1889]

Just saw this graphic.

Apart from Tanganga that’s so horrific! Slight consideration to Mee and Bindon latterly.

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I'm old enough to remember when people were labelled bedwetters for pointing out how ridiculous our recruitment was

 

[CaptainMorgans]

I feel like this new committee that's been put together is to spread wilder's workload in preparation for him going again.

It was painfully obvious that Selles came in to be a team manager whereas wilder was the club manager and therefore huge lessons have been learned.

The next step is a director of football/sporting director/technical director. There's a reason the vast majority of teams have one.

I'd agree with you if they'd done anything to address their abundantly clear lack of football intelligence.

Instead, the American tech bros have just multiplied in number.
Unless any of them are planning on throwing a load of cash in (recent mortgages against club assets doesn't immediately suggest this), then I'm not sure what the value add is?

Imagine how let down I felt when I realised the SAC didn't involve any long term technical/football plan.

Like last summer was an anomaly

Precisely.

The only real asset we have is an academy that continues to outperform and Chris Wilder, who is - as a minimum - a safe pair of hands at Championship level.

As a club we're underperforming on the pitch this season relative to our revenue. The blame for that lies squarely with the owners / recruitment dept.
I don't think they've done anything of substance to address that and next season our revenue drops.

So as a club, we're back to relying on Wilder finding his mojo from 7-10 years ago and defying the odds.
My guess is, we're heading for some years in no man's land (think PNE, Stoke, WBA etc.).

 

[bornablade]

The biggest issue to me is the development of young players from our academy into the first team is not been fully utilised.

Recruitment is important but is second in importance to the academy production line.

 

[Blade In Flame]

Where do i get DMT to make me realise we're 59 time FA cup champs?

I bought a shed load online. I was building a rabbit hutch and was after MDF. Unfortunately I'm dyslexic.

 

[IdLiketoRogerMoore]

I think you’re being very generous with some of your ratings as well.

One thing that does stand out is how wildly different all those signings are. What type of player are we looking for? For what system? What markets are we shopping in? This is why some of us are crying out for more structure at the club and less responsibility in a limited number of people.

We’re about to go into our 3rd summer in a row where the squad needs an entire rebuild. How has this been allowed to happen? What is the plan?

We’re extremely lucky we have had some quality come out of our academy, even if our current manager is dead set against using some of them.

Exactly this!!

As the league/game is getting more athletic and dynamic, how many of that very long list would you say are elite athletes at their physical peak? Tanganga maybe...

Seriki has come in and shown us what having big, strong, fast athletes can do - yet we persist with buying athletically inferior players. It makes zero sense.