SkyBlue_Bear83
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I'm sceptical that it is a top 6 budget as claimed, I have no doubt though it is a much higher budget than our current position shows.
I simply don't believe him when it comes to the budget, SISU have made a big habit of lying and bullshitting everyone for 3 years now, I'd want to see evidence of our wage spend on players, also Waggot ought to take a look at his own involvement in team affairs........Dog eat Dog !!
I'm sceptical that it is a top 6 budget as claimed, I have no doubt though it is a much higher budget than our current position shows.
Really?
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Reading that statement it says to me that Pressley didn't sign the players we have. If that's the case, a question that needs asking is, who did make the decision of these players?
It reads like Pressley did make the signings, hence why Waggot has sacked him after giving him a competitive budget to bring in the players he wanted, who have ultimately failed him.
It says the players in were to Pressley requirements. It doesn't say he actually signed them. It's like a politician wording paragraph. Worded very clever
Originally Posted by skybluebeduff
It reads like Pressley did make the signings, hence why Waggot has sacked him after giving him a competitive budget to bring in the players he wanted, who have ultimately failed him.
LB87ccfc says - Do not be tricked by the wording.
When we returned to the Ricoh Pressley went on record as saying it was a shame we was not back during the summer as we could of had a very different recruitment method, as the plan was layed out as if we was going to be in Northampton, which resulted in certain players rejecting the move to the club - Pressley missed out on several FIRST choice targets he had complied through being at Northampton and the budget being cut.
The summer recruitment was led by Waggott who's remit was to cut the playing budget by 50% across the board, whilst maintaining a competitive squad of seasoned and young talented individuals in order to push for the play offs.
Pressley identified certain criteria which he felt was needed after we lost circa 60 goals from the squad and complied a list stating the areas of the squad he wished to strengthen.
Waggot then went away and used his connections within football ringing / inviting agents who's sole purpose was to find their client a football club, to contact them with a view of going through their CV's , medical records etc etc, with a view to getting round the negotiation table.
Waggott would then advise Pressley this player was available and suited the new budget in which they was signed but with Pressley doing all the media in relation to the signing, ultimately, their has been some of these signings who were not approved but Budget and needs must came into play.
One of the main issues is still at the club, do not lose light of this.
It also doesn't say he didn't sign them. A lot of managers don't sign the players, that's don't by someone else. That was one of the reasons suggested for Moyes struggling to sign players last season, as not only had fergie gone, but also the main negotiator Gill.
From what we have been told at forums by waggott and Pressley, is that recruitment is very much done in committee betwern Pressley, Macfarlane, waggott and the chief scout.
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Does it say Pressley made the signings? No! It stated it met his requirements. Two completely different meanings. Waggott is covering his own back here with that statement
It reads like Pressley did make the signings, hence why Waggot has sacked him after giving him a competitive budget to bring in the players he wanted, who have ultimately failed him.
Thank you LB, fans get taken in. As I stated further up the thread waggott is good at PR and wording hence why he made the statement and not fisher. Many are gullible and make assumptions and read between the lines rather then take note of certain words and meanings
You are also reading between the lines.
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sorry there were 6 permanent signings for last season - only webster remains. 13 permanent signings this season. 20 loanees over the past 2 seasons. over 40 players have left the club.
1. the turnover of players seems to indicate a very disorganised approach to squad building and poor selection of players.
2. there must have been opportunities to build a decent side from 39 players coming in.
You really believe Pressley bought all these players in? Look the loans from b'mouth. Did he want them? No. Last year Pressley made it clear he wasn't a fan of loans yet we have the highest turnover of loans in this season from league 1. I'm dealing with facts.
if pressley was forced by sisu we would have manset playing upfront with akpom
it was all him.
The one thing that always made me think that SP didn't choose the players was the amount he never chose to play unless he had to. Why bring them to our club if he wasn't going to play them if he chose them? But a few of them were better than who he kept playing.
tbh hes wasted alot of money!
good job we have owners to keep us going....
You on drugs? owners who have cut the budget by a minimum of 50% season after season you mean?
I'd accept the argument as a possibility, but at the same time there's the nagging doubt he seemed to sign O'Brien, Swanson and co. all of who could fit into last season's system... then he changed the system!
Which points even more to him not having a clue if signing players for a system he wasn't going to use.
It does. Even if he hadn't signed the players, a good manager picks the system to suit the players, rather than square pegs in round holes.
Bet Swanson and Johnson for two, are delightred today...
He was doing ok til he got Webster in
Which is what some of us have been saying all season. We can disagree on who chose the squad. But only the deluded would argue on who chose the team and the tactics we played.
He was doing ok til he got Webster in then went 352 and was too stubborn to change, plus his bomb squad, deluded post match interviews, tactically inept, etc etc apart from all that he was a good manager????
Half the job is done we won't go anywhere whilst Sisu remain
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