Nick, i am sure he knows more than enough about League 1. What did he say that was so wrong? If the club buys a player, that means less money to pay player wages. Since the money pot is minuscule to start with, there is nothing wrong with saying there is no money available to buy players! The club is in a rapid decline. SISU have failed in everything they have tried to achieve apart from reducing the clubs outgoings.
They failed with their plan to gain promotion to the Premiership so they switched to trying to get the Ricoh on the cheap. That failed spectacularly and we have had a constant merry go round at the SISU boardroom. Their plan of going to Sixfields achieved lower rent but reduced the number of paying fans and caused a large number to join the NOPM campaign.
Tony Mowbray was the best manager the club could hope to have, yet SISU did not give him sufficient backing. We stand no chance of getting a known manager while SISU own the club - who would want to manage a club that is due to be homeless in a year and a half, in the process of selling their training ground, has openly stated they are not going to fund the team, and have such a disastrous record?
Sumo did not have to say anything - JFH would have found it incredibly easy to discover these details for himself when considering the position of manager, as would any other potential candidate for the job. This is why the job is still vacant so long after the departure of TM. Nobody capable of doing a half decent job would be interested in coming any where near the club while SISU own it!
Why was Mowbray the best manager the club could hope to have? We have seen the mess he made of recruitment.
If he knew that much he wouldn't be ranting about buying players, loan players etc. He would know that apart from a couple of teams that not many actually buy players, they rely on free and loan players.
He would know the top scorer in the league was a free transfer and that it's about finding bargains. The second top scorer was a free from forest green Rovers.
Every league team would love to go out and spend loads of money on buying players.
How often do we hear nobody would want the job? A manager would be onto a win win, for example they could sign about 6 strikers and 1 defender, 2 left wingers and decide they don't want to play wingers. There is no blame at the manager, if they do well they are a hero. If they do rubbish then it's not their fault.
It's the fact people keep going on about wage budget.and money, we don't have a bottom 3 budget. Mowbray openly admitted he screwed up recruitment.
The lower league is all about working with tight budgets, it's about finding gems like Chris stokes. It's about having a balance of strength, youth and experience and having a system that suits the plays you have.
