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Yogi, what’s more is that we have fanbase that is willing to make contradictory excuses for the shite show that’s been our recruitment this season (I am including myself in this).
At first, it was we haven’t missed out on targets, we are waiting for premier league teams to decide who’s included and who not, the assumption being we are going in for the top players. After the missing out/no enquiries for players like - Molumby, Garner, Sawyers, Hernandez, Sanderson, Chong, Poveda, Marcondes, Vrancic I hardly believe that to be true.
The next excuse is, well the above never came because we don’t have any money to sign them. The question is why chase and wait for players in knowledge we didn’t have the funds to sign them? Both of these facts cannot be true. We either had no money and were caught napping, or, we had money and were caught napping. It’s Really that simple.
Being caught out like this is a communications and organisational problem, I’m all for a DOF, because despite the prince having a problem with wilders interference, (which by the way limited our ability to make good in the transfer market when we actually had money) its clear many of the jobs he was heavily involved in never got covered adequately, I know we are desperate to throw mud at the recruitment department or Van Winckel I know I have, but on reflection so many elements of the build up to this season that different stakeholders are involved in haven’t gone right.
The search for a manager, long draw out process chasing the wrong target. (similar to our transfer dealings)
The non-exsistent preseason.
The evolution not revolution comments, then going the other way.
The decline in player standards.
The current transfer predicament.
All of these problems are solved if you have a specialist that understands them, a DOF would have sorted much of this out in the absence of wilder. Off the pitch is worryingly similar to on it because we don’t have the pieces in place to succeed without doing things the wilder way.