The Recruitment Question

Just dont reckon it will be the big spend many are hoping for, more of a shrewd spend.

 

My fear is it’ll be a big spend spread out over too much dross

 

People seem to hate the club using their contacts anyway mate, might be for the best

 

I believe the club is downsizing big time and we will see by the signings that come in and not got much hope for next season and if it comes true it should be the beginning of the end for this board .
Still can't believe we haven't got a head of recruitment in or DOF and we could be I fear going by a old list made up by Hammond and that will be fatal .
But I will wish all the best to the new manager as he's going to need it .

 

That's a worry for me. I'm happy to get behind Ange but he simply cannot have a great knowledge of the English/Scottish/Euro leagues. Why would he when his Euro "experience" was a low league Greek team 20+ years ago and looking at the Aussie players playing in Europe when he was manager of the national team?

Clearly - he will need to rely on others for information about players in these leagues. McKay said that they already been very active on the transfer front. So where is he getting his information from? If it's previous recommendations from Hammond and/or Lawwell/Kennedy/Strachan are involved - why would we expect things to improve?

 

I wonder if he could tempt Tim Cahill to come here as a coach.

 

I think we forget Ange has a big City Group Connection having managed 2 of their teams so he will have his contacts inside there he can call on and their list of potentials to pass on as well as the contacts he’s made during his International.

I am not to fussed with calibre or player as to quantity 10 players which is about what we need whether loaners or buys is a lot to get and integrate in this period especially if they are coming from abroad with the protocols around COVID not to mention work visas, fck Ange isn’t even here yet. So recruiting within the UK should be priority followed by Western Europe then reaching outwards to fill in gaps further down the season.

I think we will start the qualifiers with what we have hoping to sell Eduardo and Ajer latter in the summer and maybe getting Moi back as well a Jonjo Kenny and one or two more loaners that come in quickly defenders especially

then have the buys come in later in July to start in August

 

Full backs have to be the biggest priority. No * loans in them positions please. Be strange if he fancied Bolingoli. Hmmmm.

 

As someone already stated, the city group connections are still there, but that's hardly a good thing. Man City are the only real force in the group and we can't rely on them the way sevco relied on slippys Liverpool connections during his first rebuild. It was shockingly *.

@Mr Shelby is spot on.

It's extremely concerning to me too. We were being linked with transfers whilst we were in manager limbo. Who was scouting these players? Who had directed these players to be scouted in the first place etc.

It smacks of the now infamous BR rebuttal "I don't need any more wingers", someone is making moves and as last season has proven in the transfer market, we NEED to get recruitment right if we want to be challenging after Christmas.

We simply can't afford to go into the start of the season understaffed or outgunned. Despite a decent spend, we got it badly wrong in the market last season. We have enough problems trying to compete financially without hamstringing ourselves further by operating without a DoF or a recruitment head.

As for the OP's concerns about recruitment from Asia, I don't see that as a problem, more of a benefit. I lived in Japan for a year and was really impressed with how they operate, especially at grassroots level.
Their training methods are mental, high intensity and very technical, no off season, EVERY team in J1 and J2 MUST have an U12, U15 and U18 side by law. And a competitions at these levels are nationwide.
And as you would expect, they are ridiculously professional. I never once heard of a player in the J league spitting his dummy out, or storming off the pitch, or being lambasted for attitude or lack of commitment.
If we can get the level required from Japan then it's great news imo.

But again, how likely is it we can get ourselves a Nakamura and not a Mizuno? * knows.
But there are certainly players there who could not only do a job, but do very very well here.

Guess we'll just have to close our eyes and wish for a good window, because as per usual, fans are being kept in the dark about * is actually going on at our club.

 

I don't... I think he'll get about 50-60%.

If Christie plays well in Euro's we could be looking at Eddy, Ajer and Christie out for around £40-45M. If you think our board are handing the new guy about £30M to spend I've got some magic beans you might be interested in...

 

I think a lot 9f people forget our best signings have been made for peanuts

Armstrong 1mill
Dembele 500k
Ajer 200k

 

Can’t believe how good Dembele and Van Dijk are for the money we paid, if only we un-earthed them more regularly

 

Need 1 signing in this week. Need to carry on the positivity and build momentum and that's best just now by a signing. Too much talk of people leaving. That'll sort itself, but we need to get a * move on.

 

It's now under 40 days till our first champions League qualifier and no head of recruitment in or not one signing made what chance has any manager got with this situation it's a * shambles .

 

Are you serious??
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I Think you'll find now that Japanese players, especially those that are on the fringe of the national team that are still in Japan, they are alot more adaptable than they were in the early 2000. They handle the physicality alot better.
Seeing even the lower level japanese players that come to Australia, they are not put off with the physicality, the hard tackling, hard running, the fast pace.

It's definitely a market to exploit. But I really don't think it can until January at the earliest, definitely will be targeting UK based with a few continental players. It's whether he can get the key players so late, that will make it break everything.