| The business model is the problem 09:12 - Oct 22 with 567 views | blueoutlook |
Buying young/youngish players has been the business model for Gamechanger to hopefully turn a profit on these acquisitions in the future. Trouble is we have bought a fair few of them without any thought of how they fit into a team. It’s all well and good buying the best talent around but if they don’t or can’t fit into how KM wants to play then you are left with a bit of a rabble like we have now. Square pegs being put into round hole. Those acquisitions then become worth no more or less than what we paid for them. In football you have to build a team as KM did when he first arrived. You can’t just buy up the best championship player from each club and expect them to fit like a jigsaw. Some of our better players like Townsend, Furlong, Burns etc were just squad players but they actually fit the system. For instance neither Sammy nor Akpom are really number 10s. We won’t get the best out of them it’s simply not their position. where as Chaplin played there and really understood the position much better. Time to build a team not a best of the championship side. How that’s achieved now I don’t know because we are stuck with what we have. [Post edited 22 Oct 9:15]
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| The business model is the problem on 09:16 - Oct 22 with 522 views | DJR |
I was going to post something along these lines by way of defence of McKenna.
Interestingly, it's difficult to think that (with the possible exception of Davies) any of the current players is worth more than we paid for them, so the model doesn't seem to be working in commercial terms. It did, however, work for Omari and Delap. [Post edited 22 Oct 9:18]
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| The business model is the problem on 09:41 - Oct 22 with 397 views | NedPlimpton |
Not sure I necessarily agree with the young/youngish thing and wouldn't call Furlong one of our better performers as of yet (1 very good game, several average ones)
Furlong 29
Kipre 28
Matusiwa 27
Cajuste 26
Nunez 25
Szmodics 30
Akpom 30
Young 40
It's genuinely quite hard to tell what our transfer business is based around at the mo. It was clearly young English talent, but it's moved on to a sort of scattergun approach and signing players just because they're available and we can. 4 right backs on the books for example! |  | | |
| The business model is the problem on 09:45 - Oct 22 with 363 views | Swansea_Blue |
| The business model is the problem on 09:41 - Oct 22 by NedPlimpton |
Not sure I necessarily agree with the young/youngish thing and wouldn't call Furlong one of our better performers as of yet (1 very good game, several average ones)
Furlong 29
Kipre 28
Matusiwa 27
Cajuste 26
Nunez 25
Szmodics 30
Akpom 30
Young 40
It's genuinely quite hard to tell what our transfer business is based around at the mo. It was clearly young English talent, but it's moved on to a sort of scattergun approach and signing players just because they're available and we can. 4 right backs on the books for example! |
It’s a blend of paying top whack for fully established players like those you mention, who in theory are supposed to provide the framework, and top whack for a few development prospects on top. The senior players just aren’t delivering. Purely from a financial perspective we need them to be better to give the youngsters a platform to shine and gain in value.
Not that the focus purely on money is a good thing. It doesn’t guarantee quality as we’re seeing, it only really helps us get deals done. But it then creates huge expectations that are a bit unfair on the individuals. |  |
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| The business model is the problem on 09:52 - Oct 22 with 301 views | jasondozzell |
I agree with this.
I do think that we got caught a little in that we knew we had to recruit players from the higher bracket but we saw capturing them as a means to itself as opposed to how they might fit the team. |  | | |
| The business model is the problem on 09:54 - Oct 22 with 288 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
Worked alright for Sunderland though..got promoted with a bunch of kids, sold the highest rated one in the summer, reinvested it and now making a much better fist of staying up. |  | | |
| The business model is the problem on 10:46 - Oct 22 with 165 views | blueoutlook |
| The business model is the problem on 09:16 - Oct 22 by DJR |
I was going to post something along these lines by way of defence of McKenna.
Interestingly, it's difficult to think that (with the possible exception of Davies) any of the current players is worth more than we paid for them, so the model doesn't seem to be working in commercial terms. It did, however, work for Omari and Delap. [Post edited 22 Oct 9:18]
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KM must have had a say in who he wanted though? He wouldn’t be expected to just put a side together because getting those players in was the Gamechangers business plan ? I can’t believe it’s not his choices, if not Im not sure why he is putting up with that. Maybe the 6million a season salary or whatever he is on is helping. One example is the 4 right backs we seem to have acquired. Looking at this team it is a bit all over the place. 2 decent left sided players that really need to both be playing and then the right side is just a bit of a mess. | | | |
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