Fergusons_Beard
Well-Known Member
It's basically down to a cycle of player sales, loanies and contracts running out (players leaving on a free).
Now you can blame that either on the owners and a ever decreasing player budget and a strategy based on selling a key player every year to balance the books.
Or managers/club recruitment who's transfer strategy has failed.
Or players asking for more money than they're worth.
Or a mixture of all of the above.
We get a yearly cycle of players leaving, who are either replaced by players of not the same quality or by loans who have no affinity with the club.
This cycle gradually leaves a squad with little depth or quality, a sequence that leads to poor club form and one that leads eventually to manager changes.
Which further complicates things as the inherited (even depleted) playing squad doesn't fit the philosophy of the new manager and further disruption happens.
Unfortunately for us the time when our transfer policy was buying the best young players in league 1 (Westwood, Fox, Dan etc) coincided with one of crappest managers (Coleman) and the policy of selling our best young players, coincided with one of our better managers (Mowbray ).
To be successful we need a mixture of decent transfer policy and a decent manager to take advantage of it!
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Now you can blame that either on the owners and a ever decreasing player budget and a strategy based on selling a key player every year to balance the books.
Or managers/club recruitment who's transfer strategy has failed.
Or players asking for more money than they're worth.
Or a mixture of all of the above.
We get a yearly cycle of players leaving, who are either replaced by players of not the same quality or by loans who have no affinity with the club.
This cycle gradually leaves a squad with little depth or quality, a sequence that leads to poor club form and one that leads eventually to manager changes.
Which further complicates things as the inherited (even depleted) playing squad doesn't fit the philosophy of the new manager and further disruption happens.
Unfortunately for us the time when our transfer policy was buying the best young players in league 1 (Westwood, Fox, Dan etc) coincided with one of crappest managers (Coleman) and the policy of selling our best young players, coincided with one of our better managers (Mowbray ).
To be successful we need a mixture of decent transfer policy and a decent manager to take advantage of it!
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