and makes clear what a good job Austin and co. have done. Finding players we can afford with the further constraint of not paying the batshit wages others do. If you accept the idea that data people put fwd that wages paid correlates more than anything else to on-pitch results, it's really impressive.
and makes clear what a good job Austin and co. have done. Finding players we can afford with the further constraint of not paying the batshit wages others do. If you accept the idea that data people put fwd that wages paid correlates more than anything else to on-pitch results, it's really impressive.
Yeah, agreed. We have that on the playing side because we nailed the landing on basically every player that arrived in summer '23. Collins as the exception to the rule.
This is such a good point and something I've been thinking about recently.
Stability is so crucial but on top of that we've been lucky that not only have we had a generational manager, but we've followed it up with a replacement that's slotted right in and continued the upward trajectory.
There's not many clubs where that's happened, bar maybe Liverpool (bar Slots recent struggles).