Yeah I only included him cos they’d gone down, but yeah he was from a champ rival. But not one kicking around the top 6-10 etc
Yeah I only included him cos they’d gone down, but yeah he was from a champ rival. But not one kicking around the top 6-10 etcWe signed Rudoni TBF. While technically a L1 team He has one of Hudds best players in the Champ.
forgive me if this has already been said, but I’m pretty confident that Collins and Dasilva (as Kasey Palmer and all previous Chelsea loans would have been) were Viveash players that he had/trusted/wanted from his Chelsea days, albeit would presumably been given the OK by Austin and Robins, so not all on him. Probably explains why Collins didn’t get a look in after AV left.
one of my issues with the recruitment is that whilst we are trying to find players either from abroad/untapped markets and/or the standout players from L1 teams (EMC, Rudoni), we haven’t signed anyone who is say a rival teams best player or seasoned player from this division - like other teams (well Sheffield Utd) did to us.
The playoff final surely should have been a great opportunity to do that especially with the funds available (which granted needed to be spent mostly on ‘guaranteed’ goals, which although it took a while to get going, did happen), or to get someone like Callum Doyle permanently or at least on loan again.
Yeah I only included him cos they’d gone down, but yeah technically he was from a champ rival. But not one kicking around the top 6-10 etc
And I guess this will always be the issue - we have to go and get players like Sakamoto and van ewijk and wright and hope they pay off and develop like Hamer and Viktor did.We’ve got a bottom six wage bill iirc. I don’t think we can poach anyone from the top half.
Mmm, does make you wonder why they’d have let him go as he was their top scorer - his replacement in Maja has been great to be fair so an educated gamble perhaps?We signed a play-off rivals top scorer tbf. He's just not been great (and in fairness to him, 10/20 mins out of position each game isnt enough to get him into a rhtythm)
Surely the whole point of a recruitment chief is to make outstanding signings? In Badlan’s case, those two outstanding signings* completely transformed the club’s fortunes in a way that no other head of recruitment seems capable of matching.
*(I would argue he made more than two but yeah)
Except Sisu also took us to L2, unlike Robins and Badlan.
We did. Signed for free sold for undisclosed.
It’s because the switch from Badlan was so stark. Everything else (other than the owner) stayed the same and we went from signing hidden gems and rock solid personalities to throwing money at L1 clubs and hoping for the best.
I’d struggle to call Westbrooke a bad signing - joined on a free, played 25 times for a team that won the league, sold on for a profit. Would love a bad signing like that tbh.
Come on, mate. You're coming out with some really ropey stuff atm. None of Haji, Simms, MVE, Saka, Binks, Dovin, Torp, Assante or Raphael (or Rudoni really) were L1 players. That's not the strategy and you know it's not.
Last season, recruitment was accepted as good. We're missing players that take responsibility and confidence is shot. Some might turn out to be misses but Badlan good, Austin bad is a massive oversimplification of things.
Badlan didn't. He was only here for one promotion and this talk of him being sat practically in the dug out is weird. He has had no success at a higher level and there's zero evidence he would be a good person to spend the transfer kitty that Austin had (and also could have certainly done better with). He would be at a much better club by now otherwise.
Come on. Adding Zain Westbrooke into your list of reasons Badlan is a good scout is some serious straw clutching. He went for about five pounds after being an overall shite signing. Who next, Bright Enobakhare?
Badlan has left Aberdeen after less than a year there.He left for a promotion!
Badlan has left Aberdeen after less than a year there.
Nuno de Almeida is promoted to Aberdeen head of recruitment role
Nuno de Almeida is promoted to Aberdeen head of recruitment rolewww.bbc.co.uk
The other problem we have is the length of contracts given to people like Dasilva his contract should never have been more two years maybe with a club option of one more I know this pre dates Austin but we really are stuck with him
At best we’ve paid what people are worth. I couldn’t find a single Austin signing who ids say we got a bargain.
We signed Rudoni TBF. While technically a L1 team He has one of Hudds best players in the Champ.
OK, but that wasn't the point you made. If we're tackling the issue of value for money, atm you're probably about right.
In August, you'd have probably agreed Simms, Wright, MVE and Saka were worth a lot more than we paid for them.
I'm not convinced (yet!) that because we've had a sh*t first half of the season, none of his signings could turn a profit.
Still don't know why people don't like Rudoni. Is it an O'Hare thing? For me he's of the few who looks decent.I think he will become a very good player for us. At the halfway stage of the season he's got the 3rd most assists in the Championship.
Yes he signed after play off game, so we were planning a great prem future with a four year contract for a bloke who would struggle at league one level. Plus i know wiki isn’t that reliable but he looks a small 5ft 7 to me.No Dasilva is post Austin. Everyone brought in under Doug is. Though not likely to be a recommendation from him TBF. But the question has to be why we’re going after coach recommendations when we’ve got a scouting team. Could they not find anyone better? (TBF LB was a problem position for years post mcCallum)
Still don't know why people don't like Rudoni. Is it an O'Hare thing? For me he's of the few who looks decent.
He isn’t O’HareStill don't know why people don't like Rudoni. Is it an O'Hare thing? For me he's of the few who looks decent.
I haven’t added him. I just confirmed to cvd he was right. You’re going off the deep end again. No one has said he was sat int he dugout.
He’s a decent player for sure but he apparently cost a lot of money. I expected more for the price tag.Still don't know why people don't like Rudoni. Is it an O'Hare thing? For me he's of the few who looks decent.
It's a whole team thing though, i think he's been let down by his team mates personally.He’s a decent player for sure but he apparently cost a lot of money. I expected more for the price tag.
I agree, but if the £5-6 million transfer fee is accurate then personally I’d be expecting a player of that value to be making his own weather so to speak.It's a whole team thing though, i think he's been let down by his team mates personally.
If it’s true we paid £5m for him then it’s likely yet another signings we’ve overpaid on.It's a whole team thing though, i think he's been let down by his team mates personally.
He’d had one good season at Ipswich in his career. His record at Derby in 3 seasons was 9, 12, and 5.
It was a throw away comment and he likely relied on a recruitment team there. But people really are saying silly stuff to make sure no one even jokingly criticises him. No Derby fan thinks Waghorn was vfm
Exactly. Rose tinted. You don't care about his career trajectory, shit signings, gross misconduct etc - because all you can see is Hamer and Gyokeres. It doesn't work like that from an overall perspective, and the management team massively overachieved with a lot of shit they had to work with. If anything, they are the ones responsible for Badlan's elevated view, along with the two mentioned players.
Feel free to lobby for his return, but we really need to be looking at someone better if we are spending the kind of money we have been recently.
Who was it at recommeded/appointed Austin in the first place? His CV at the time was hardly a great fit.
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