robbiez666
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This team belongs to CWAK.
He got the best out of them and then couldn't get anymore. They seemed to be spent and playing back at levels they were when we signed them.
We're basically stuck with them until their contract runs out. They're largely worth what we paid for them (apart from the more recent ones who are nowhere near that)
I said earlier this year that we need to try and move some of them on but can't imagine that's going to be easy or possible.
The problem we have is that even if we bring 5/6 in they're still going to be in the background, possible causing trouble. I doubt this group would be happy to be side-lined and it's likely to be an unhappy changing room for a couple of years. Ultimately, we should have been moving people on over the last couple of years by replacing them with better players. We haven't really done that. There should have been a natural churn.
My worry is that we are going to be in the same boat as Wednesday. Stuck with a group of players who are past it and unable to get rid of them due to their wages/age.
This needs a lot of investment and managing very carefully. I currently don't trust our owner to do this.
p.s. Harking back to Wilder every time we have a bad result needs to stop. Because someone played well 3 to 4 years ago doesn't mean anything now. He is no longer our manager. I fear we're going to have decades of people wanting us to bring him back every time we have a bad patch.
He got the best out of them and then couldn't get anymore. They seemed to be spent and playing back at levels they were when we signed them.
We're basically stuck with them until their contract runs out. They're largely worth what we paid for them (apart from the more recent ones who are nowhere near that)
I said earlier this year that we need to try and move some of them on but can't imagine that's going to be easy or possible.
The problem we have is that even if we bring 5/6 in they're still going to be in the background, possible causing trouble. I doubt this group would be happy to be side-lined and it's likely to be an unhappy changing room for a couple of years. Ultimately, we should have been moving people on over the last couple of years by replacing them with better players. We haven't really done that. There should have been a natural churn.
My worry is that we are going to be in the same boat as Wednesday. Stuck with a group of players who are past it and unable to get rid of them due to their wages/age.
This needs a lot of investment and managing very carefully. I currently don't trust our owner to do this.
p.s. Harking back to Wilder every time we have a bad result needs to stop. Because someone played well 3 to 4 years ago doesn't mean anything now. He is no longer our manager. I fear we're going to have decades of people wanting us to bring him back every time we have a bad patch.