Would You Trust Recruitment With Summer 2020?

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Think you make some excellent points in this thread Widdow

I didn't go yesterday due to some health issues, but again it appears to be another game gone where not one of the January signings contributed anything positive to win us the game.

When I look at the 20m we've spent on Carvalho, Jenks, Da Costa & Soudani, I really hope that this Summer see's our recruitment division given a good overhaul.

I'd have hoped we've had learned our lessons since the Carvalho days, but Bong's 2.5 year deal says we haven't learned a single thing.

Simply put the club has no idea what's needed to build a Prem side. All it does is sign players who tick boxes of having certain attributes (like Diadalek has pace). It has no clue about how suited they are for what we require, and seems to just throw players willy nilly at Sab expecting him to work miracles with them.

Alf with respect that is a load of rubbish. First of all we are in The Championship and have not been in The Prem under our current owners and set up so how does your first sentence in the text highlighted above apply? Secondly Lamouchi is part of the transfer team, it is ludicrous to suggest that the recruitment team are throwing players at him willy nilly.

Can we stick to the facts please and stop with all the fiction.

Because we should be looking at players who have Prem potential now. Players like Cash & Worrall. Players who Prem clubs would want, but aren't on their radar yet.

How many signings has the club made since EM took over? And how many of those signings would Prem clubs be sniffing round? 

Folk cuss Fazza, but at least we signed Antonio, Geddy & Lansbury under him - all who moved to Prem clubs. Folk praise Sow, Ribero, Silva etc. - are any of those gonna be nicked from us by a Prem club any time soon like Antonio? Or are they average players who Lamouch is squeezing the most from with a very solid system? 

Regards Lamouchi as part of the team, Anigo himself said........

“Each person has their job, nobody interferes in the work of someone else, so on that point, when you say to the President, or the Director General, or the Sporting Director, they do not ask how or why. “You assume your responsibilities. The flip side, is that if you are wrong, you will be fired.”

That doesn't sound to me like Lamouchi is involved much. It sounds like he's the coach, he coaches the players, and does what he can with the players which Anigo supplies/burdens him with.

Alf let me explain to you how it works.

Modesto and Anigo scout players then they report back to the recruitement team of Modesto, Anigo, Lamouchi, Dourekas and Vrentzos. Then they discuss the players and reach a conclusion between them, shall we make a bid and try to sign them or not. No one is being burdened with players, that is just your imagination. Once again can we stick to facts instead of fiction/fantasy.

Lamouchi will just be saying yes to any players in the hope that one may actually turn out to be decent. 

In reality mate, it's generally all done via a bunch of agents & contacts anyway, and I'd be amazed if Lamouchi does much more than say what attributes etc. he's after.

However they do it, i'd very much question whether our supposed recruitment team actually watch these players. Mir, Muric, Bonatini, Bong and numerous others all looked woeful from the off.

Something needs a shake up. As The Jock says, the Jan window actually left us weaker with Chema departing.

Modesto, Anigo, Lamouchi, Dourekas and Vrentzos all sat down together after hours of analysis & discussions, and decided signing Bong on a 2.5 year deal was sensible? Righto lol. More like Lamouchi was busy trying to get the team ready for the congestive fixtures coming thick & fats, and the rest of them were doing anything but researching a clearly unfit & out of sorts player.

Whatever the crack, it needs addressing before we invest some real money IMO.

I have no opinion yet on Da Costa but of Bong and Diakhaby I think Bong will turn out to be the best acquisition medium term purely because hes done it before in the Championship. Re Diakhaby, Ive seen enough of him now to have come to an opinion that he's extremely limited. His performance yesterday was average at best which is an improvement from poor in his cameo sub appearances to that point, but not up to a standard we should expect. Hes just got no composure on the ball.