Reckon he'd do ok somewhere like Germany perhaps, he seems to have no issue moving countries pretty regularly. Maybe even back to Turkey with one of the bigger teams.
To be fair you will of course get hits and misses regardless of how much scouting you can do.
Badlan you can argue found us Hamer but also found us Dacosta, The German winger, and Waghorn.
Even Gyok is a funny one, since it sounds like not everyone of the coaching wanted him and Robins drove that one himself.
Think the players we’ve signed are decent mostly and some really good. But think the lack of experience is hurting a few of them in there development.
If I’m Doug, I talk to my recruitment team about allowing a spine of older players with leadership capabilities to come in to help develop the younger lads, even offer a pathway to coaching if that’s what they want.
For example if we carry on with a back three we’ll need an experienced CB who can read the game and pick a pass. Wouldn’t mind Santos from Bolton if we would want to keep wages down. But there must be some premiership players on there way down we could start to target.
…though persuading the owner you need another centre back after the one you spent £4m on a year ago to be your leader can’t get in the team might be easier said than done.
We had a set up that seemed to be able to develop players turning some of them into world beaters. Still relatively early days, but some players seem to be going backwards in their development.