FWIW at the presser Hoff mentioned we have...

Been offloading a lot of players on higher wages so I don't think we are paying anyone top money currently.

I'm OK with not being successful if we had no money but we have spent vastly more than a lot of teams in the champs to finish in a much lower position.

We have always done well as a club in selling players for absolute top dollar but have frankly been poor when we spend big money.
Some of the big buys don't look well researched or a bit chancy.

We apparently spent around 16M on two players who have not been difference makers at this level.

I feel in the past we have brought in at least 4-6 players for that kind of money making the squad much deeper.

I don't think people understand how the 5 sub rule makes having deep squads so much more effective.

You literally have the ability to change 50% of your outfield team.

We have tremendous amounts of data in various professional sports of playing off short rest and travel. (HINT: Professional gamblers used this first!)

This again plays into squad depth and managing the quality of minutes in a 46 game season where a lot of games are played off short recovery.

All the facts can be narrowed down to the fact I'm worried we have inexperienced people pissing away the money.
Hopefully we do catch lightening in a bottle, signing a few good players at the same time a number of youth players break through to the first team squad.
Realistically that is our only hope of success.

Posted By: usacanary on April 19th 2025 at 18:32:36

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The Balance..... revisited part 42....Haterz dont read..... its long. (NCFC) - usacanary, Apr 19, 02:02:36
- Agree with a great deal of that (NCFC) - Under soil heating, Apr 19, 09:26:35
  - Hard to disagree but massive caveat… (NCFC) - loz, Apr 19, 10:03:00
    - 👍 fair points loz. There are mitigating circumstances. (NCFC) - Under soil heating, Apr 19, 10:08:53
- Agree on the owners point (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, Apr 19, 07:25:01
  - FWIW I'm not saying we should sack anyone... (NCFC) - usacanary, Apr 19, 14:39:42
    - I think the player market is very hard to judge (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, Apr 19, 18:01:31
      - FWIW at the presser Hoff mentioned we have... (NCFC) - usacanary, Apr 19, 18:32:36
  - Why are the owners getting heat ?… (NCFC) - loz, Apr 19, 07:34:06
    - Delighted to see certain posters (NCFC) - Chair_of_the_Bored, Apr 19, 08:43:52
      - What exactly did you expect Delia and MWJ to do? (NCFC) - usacanary, Apr 19, 15:36:22
        
        New ownership.....Fooking phone... (n/m) (NCFC) - usacanary, Apr 19, 15:37:02
      - Eh? (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, Apr 19, 13:28:31
- Hopefully there will be some learnings in the summer (NCFC) - viennacanary, Apr 19, 07:09:11
  - Their first goal yesterday (NCFC) - paulg, Apr 19, 09:10:23
- its not a stretch to say that its unlikely any manager in the world (NCFC) - fal5taff, Apr 19, 03:25:15
  - it feels like it was 25 years ago (n/m) (NCFC) - earthleakage, Apr 19, 04:35:47
    - Slight whiff of the ( early part ) Roeder years. Slow steady decline (NCFC) - Rombald, Apr 19, 05:42:18
      - Knapper has to go. I’d sooner see him leave than the Hoff. (NCFC) - Bertie Biggins, Apr 19, 06:02:07
      - there is nothing positive to take from this season (NCFC) - earthleakage, Apr 19, 05:53:44
        
        Surely we won't know whether lessons have been learned from this season until next year (n/m) (NCFC) - mr carra, Apr 19, 08:09:36

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