Frostie
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Frostie, I don't doubt that the club have been given some praise. I guess very important details like what has been said and by whom, matters and based on your post is unknown. Given you have invoked a "the people in the know think he is great vs silly me from the stands knows nothing" type argument. Please recall and preferablely link to some of the numerous eulogies people have given Badlan and the CCFC set up in podcasts so we can at least review the substance and validity to your claims.
Your link to the agent of Rose praising Badlan!! Have a think and see if you can come up with any reasons a football Agent might have a vested interest in his praising the abilities of a recruitment manager like Badlan!! Who lets not forget has already put money directly in his pocket by signing one if his players!!
Like you, I have heard Robins praise Badlan a few times and thank you for linking to a supporting story where he has. I would hope sure your smart enough to appriciate the possibility of sub texts being used, and that Robins words of praise could be for more than one reason.
Granted it could be the one dimentional comment you clearly believe it to be, and that Robins just thinks Badlan is just an phenomenally impressive lead scout. But perhaps the is another factor at play and Robins like all managers wants be able to sign players and is trying to give Joy etc confidence in the recruitment team so she has confidence and sanctions more spending?
Your conspiracy theories are just odd...
Has Michael Rose's agent praised every head of recruitment that's signed one of his players then I assume? Your turn for links please...
If you're so convinced Robins is praising Badlan in order to get more money, the opposite argument is just as likely to be true. As he's saying we're doing phenomenally well already on a shoestring, why would we need more?
I've literally told you where to look & a podcast to listen to? The MRKT Insights team frequently name drop us & Jay Socik who is part of the recruitment team at Luton & previously Swansea & various others has often praised us on his personal Twitter too.
I sense you're not actually interested though & are just trying to backup some strange agenda.
Why not read the article in The Athletic about Badlan's role in the Sam McCallum signing too & why he joined us rather than anyone else whilst you're at it?
Also, why have you deleted your reply to @chiefdave 's post saying that you're not convinced about his record of his signings impacting the first team? I'm guessing it's because you subsequently realised just how ridiculous it is?