Would You Trust Recruitment With Summer 2020?

[Strawberry Avenger]

Given we have two potentially competent right backs, Cash does seem the obvious one to sell of offered big money again. Imagine we'll try and get away without though. Hope we get some offers for one of the kids

The pure passion is something money can't buy but i think like Alf suggested, having Stuart Pearce involved maybe in recruitment would be a good thing, i really think we should embrace our heritage while we can because legends are very few and far between the last 20 years.

Aye. I don't get why we don't at least give it a go.

Folk say "you get some players right, others you don't". Well let's put it into rough figures.

The current recruitment team has signed around 20 players. We all have our own opinions of them, but out of those 20 who's fetching interest from other clubs? Who's gonna net us 5-15m? 

None of them. It's OK saying "you get some players right, others you don't" but what you DO need to do is make sure the ones which you do get right cover the costs of the ones you don't to a large degree.

Pearce may have signed some duds, but did any of them make even a dent in the 15m profit we made from Antonio & Britt? No. If you took Pearce's signings overall we invested, got a shed load of goals for that investment, and then coined it in at a big profit. The man's got contacts all over, who work with some of the hottest British talent each day.

Compare that to the 20 signings this past year, where we'll be lucky to break even.

Add the feel good factor Psycho brings with him, and to me it's an absolute no brainer. Add him to the team.

Not going to happen.  The 'feel good' factor didn't last 'that long' with Pearce.  Half the fans forgot quite quickly forgot what a legend he was when the results didn't go 'their' way.

It didn't save MoN either (who to me, now, was a clear temporary appointment whilst another man was lined up...ergo the short contract...) who, like Pearce, is abrasively old school enough not to be a 'yes' man.  Neither fit the current culture of the culture of 'now.'

The current recruitment have £20 million of business done in the last year which eclipse the business Pearce did.  They're clearly flipping players to some degree.  That suggests they do know what they are doing.  Clubs nor Pearce are going to have £15 million from two players 'all' the time.  Take away those couple and as Jean noted, Pearce's recruitment was unremarkable.  (It must have been unremarkable because Forest sank like a stone after a 'good' start (a start they were always 'wobbly' and not all that convincing in.)

Forest fans have to separate the romance of the past from the reality of the present.  At least when it comes to ex players.  If they fit the culture, fine.  eg.  Cohen.  But note, he's ever the diplomat.  MON and Pearce certainly weren't.  Nor stubborn characters like Warburton.  Or 'dramatic' characters like Aitor.

Continental culture.  From the boss, to recruitment to the Coach.  That's were it's at right now.

Forest 'gave it a go' with Pearce.  It didn't work out because 'half' the fans started moaning as Forest plummeted to mid-table...just as 'half the fans' moaned that MoN had Forest slightly 'above' mid-table (despite no pre-season or Summer transfer window...) using players that weren't his for the most part.

The fans would be moaning if Forest would be mid-table under 'The Coach.'  There are melt downs because of an away draw with Boro.  And to be frank, I don't think the football is that dissimilar between Pearce, MoN or The Coach.  Perhaps the latter is nominally better in some ways but not in others but then he had a pre-season and a Summer transfer window.  Not coming in half way through a season to pick up the pieces of a another man's drama.

It's culture.  And Pearce doesn't fit it.  Nobody is going to tell Marinakis 'how it is.'  MoN tried that and ended up out of a job.

SA.