What Is The Clubs Transfer Strategy

[Reds73]

It is a mess. A mess where many need to take some blame.

You are right Sniff - of course you are.

But the prime issue must lie at the top!

They appoint the coaching staff.

They are responsible for recruitment.

100% TPL.

There are some very strange things happening regarding recruitment. I can’t believe we are so naive regarding this.

We are now 3.5 years into the 5 yr plan EM and Vrentzos set out.

In that plan by the end of 2021/22 season we should be qualifying for Europe. The plan was that we would already be promoted (end of year 3).

As it stands we might be in Tier 3 at the 5th anniversary.

If Warburton, MON, Lamouchi have all been kicked out for poor performance, why hasn’t Vrentzos and Modesto been kicked out for shambolic recruitment.

If I was scoring them, they are 2/10.

To get promoted your recruitment needs to be 8 or 9 / 10

Was it a plan?

I think it was just a comment where they would ideally like to be not a plan as such.

Yeh that was the original 5 yr business plan - Antonis confirmed that.

Year 3 Prem
Year 5 Europe.

How can you progress when you change managers like your socks, and trade players at an obscene rate.

69 players in 3.5 yrs. 

We are now looking to move players on that we bought in 4 months ago - how can that be correct ?

Where is the planning ? The whole point of a director of football is that when you change managers it doesn’t affect the overall strategy.

How can you go from Iaonnou being bought in as 1st choice left back, with Ribeiro dumped to the bomb squad, then fast forward 4 months, and Yuri is now first choice and they are trying to move Iaonnou.

Can anybody offer any explanation what sort of long term recruitment Modesto & Vrentzos are undertaking ?

Or are we making agents rich by the number of transactions, and selling young players to line the pockets ?