What Is The Clubs Transfer Strategy

[Jean_claude_killy]

So if that is the case then the recruitment team will not be replaced.

This 'Prince' is close friends with Modesto and Anigo.

It was never going to happen though Sniff was it? If EM wants blood they will be feeding back to him that Sabri had the tools but failed, knowing that they  f****d up in the winter window.

No. These are EM's trusted generals along with Vrentzos and Dourekas.

Modesto and Anigo only scout the players; Vrentzos decides how much we will pay for the players and how much wages we offer.

When Clubs refuse to sell to us or players refuse to come, usually for money related issues, how can that be the fault of the scouts?

Maybe they didn’t come up with realistic targets?

Gayle, Freeman and Grosicki were the main January targets if you believe The Athletic. ambitious, but how likely were they to come here? Nothing wrong with trying, but where were the back up targets.

I agree with your general point, it isn’t the scouts job to negotiate finances. 

Also, some fans make it sound like we have money to burn when in reality we have mid-table income to play with.

Grosicki refused to come after a fee was agreed with Hull, so he must have been a reasonable target.

Freeman refused to come on loan because he wanted to stay and fight for his place.

There was a French player who refused to come after a fee was agreed and there was another French player were the Club would not sell.

January is a very difficult window to deal in with fees and wages being inflated to ridiculous levels; more and more Clubs are refusing to do business in that window.

It goes deeper than the cost element too; The Athletic published a detailed report showing the impact that players have who moved during the January window; the impact was so bad it made you wonder why Clubs bother.

We will be well off financially compared to most Clubs in our division; Vrentzos has done an amazing job getting the Accounts into such an healthy state considering the car crash he inherited.

Wages in particular are coming down to a sustainable level which will leave us in a good position for the introduction of the wage cap; that is no excuse to go back to the days when we over spent on both transfer fees and wages.

If players will not come for what is on offer, move on to the next one.