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I'm still undecided on JFH. The bungs scandal was embarrassing and I felt the guy probably took way to long to make pretty obvious changes. But clearly he did have a patient style and with hindsight, was probably smart enough to see deficiencies in the squad that most of us fans didn't think were there.
But a well run club it certainly wasn't. A manager without the ability to sign the players he would like to, a DOF with no experience in that type of role, who also (if you believe what you hear), wasn't able to sign the players that he wanted.
Compare that to 4 years back where we were throwing money at any player with a decent story who was put under our noses.
What we actually needed was the same investment that has been made over the last 5 years but used sensibly. Think where we could have been with 50m a year over 5 seasons used sensibly to improve our squad with decent young players who had been properly scouted by capable staff?!!
Instead with spunked a fortune on poorly scouted players pushed hard to us by greedy agents. Most of which ended up leaving for nothing having received a nice chunk from us in salary and sign-on fees.
Now we are left in a situation where the board have had their fingers burnt and want to rely on cheap players from the lower leagues. Really not my idea of a well run club mate!
What did for JFH was the Brentford game totally outplayed and outclassed by a club that cost a fraction of what we've played out over the last 2 years was it his fault ? not imo
He was a scapegoat for the inability of our D O F ,
A man that was a top striker ! Yet he saw fit to spend on 3 inadequate forwards should he have been able to recognise their inability ?
Well if that's not the case then
This ex top striker saw fit to spend money on a mid field that can't spot his strikers making a run or hit a ball for his strikers to run on to or just plain can't service their forwards either way our buying policy is just not up to scratch ie too many young players or lower league players in too short a time
We do seem incapable of making any right decision or at least since Warnock left (the first time). The only period of genuine success in recent time has been when the Mittals ran the club after Briatore had gone for four managers per season. They hired Warnock, ran the club calmly and quietly and let him make sensible buying decisions. Since then its just been a madhouse and veered now from spending hundreds of millions on rubbish to spending nothing on rubbish. You have to look to the top. The club has just been appallingly run every since Tony appeared. He's what Mark Goldberg was to Palace, a guy with a lot of money (at the start!), his heart in the right place, but ultimately a total disaster for the club.
Don't think we'll buy anyone, (Don't think there's money available) think Ollie has been told to make do with what he's got? there may be a couple of loans
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