| Reflecting on our recruitment in the McKenna era 09:28 - Aug 1 with 2177 views | LegendofthePhoenix |
Considering how much success we enjoyed, the recruitment was pretty woeful. I can't help but think we had the success due to McKenna's coaching more than anything. Some of the recruitment was good, but way too many hopeless acquisitions both bought and loans that evan at the time seemed questionable. AAH is an obvious one, Szmodics, Akpom, Ogbene, Phillips, Muric, not to mention Camara, Godfrey, Ahadme.
Granted not all acquisitions are gonna be hits, but it does seem that we've made some really poor recruitment decisions over the past 4 years. So far the O'Neil acquisitions look better. |  |
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| Reflecting on our recruitment in the McKenna era on 13:26 - Aug 1 with 186 views | BloomBlue |
We had been out of the Prem 20 years, basically nothing but a lower league team in the eyes of the vast majority of players.
Any recruitment team would struggle to attract players, who when asked by their agent about transferring to Ipswich probably replied 'who?'
Also trying to recruit an actual recruitment team was just as difficult, 'come and recruit for us, we've been in Championship/ L1 for 18 years'
Football is no different to life when you're not a success you invariably attract some lower ability. Conversely when you are a success you'll attract some who couldn't give a f%ck and only interested in the monthly wage.
Ipswich remind me so much of companies I know who grew too quickly. The ones who go from 30 employees to 300 very quickly nearly everyone I know struggled. Because everything behind it is being built from scratch.
Look at how much building work we had to do when promoted to the PL two seasons, f%ck me we never even had a media centre that was PL standard.
Hence my point we grew too fast, somethings were always going to break. |  | | |
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