BN41Albion
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Brilliant post an my thoughts entirely
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[Albion] Why has RDZ not signed a new contract yet?
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rebel51
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I've woke up this morning being rather philosophical abt rdz, this is a marathon not a sprint with the albion. It's just another occurance along the way of our great club bhafc, we stand no matter what manager is at our helm. Good riddance, nah only joking.
Man U, Chelsea and Spurs have all taken recent punts on managers with little in the bank.
rebel51
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It's what it's all about.
Hometownglory
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Just give him what he wants to stay (within reason)...
Tbh, I thought those comments were reasonably positive, against the backdrop of bed-wetting that we've all (mostly) been indulging in over the past 24 hours or so
Uh_huh_him
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Too late
Agreed. Nothing dramatic there at all.Tbh, I thought those comments were reasonably positive, against the backdrop of bed-wetting that we've all (mostly) been indulging in over the past 24 hours or so
rebel51
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That sounds familiar.
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Agree. I think you can be frustrated and disappointed with the transfer window, but then Weir, Bloom & Co. might all be feeling the same - it was a window of very little movement.Tbh, I thought those comments were reasonably positive, against the backdrop of bed-wetting that we've all (mostly) been indulging in over the past 24 hours or so
Love RDZ because he speaks his mind, but I don’t hang on his every utterance as a slight against the club, more the operational side of football generally. He’s a little bit like one of us being interviewed in that we’d all love some quality signings coming in - but very few of us would ever hold TB and the club at fault for that, we know they would be trying their best to do so.
He’s been working minor miracles on the pitch he really has. His development of what would be fringe and youth players in a season without our huge injury list has been exceptionally - his and his team’s talent is massively underrated if people are posting top clubs aren’t looking at him.
IMHO we are witness to genuine genius at work here, but as with any genius whether creative or in sport it comes with intensity, passion, and a certain amount of volatility. I think that bubbles over from RDZ because Luton happens and some of our draws and he knows he’s only 1 or 2 extra quality bodies in the squad from them not happening - but that will always be the case, if we were 5th and drew or lost, he’d be desperately pushing that we could be top 4 with extra bodies, and so on.
RDZ has to take some blame. Dahoud was his man, presumably on big wages - experienced MacAllister replacement who he wanted at Sassoulo and has been cast out already. Coupled with a transfer window where not much happened was never going to be 2 or 3 first team ‘ready’ players coming in
Dahoud was a free transfer who hadn’t been able to get good game time at Dortmund for several seasons. RDZ may have said he’d like to work with him but he was hardly a break the bank signing or big risk when we’d just made over £150m profit. No way would he have been on big wages. I’m sure RDZ also wanted some midfield players that you’d have to pay for but they didn’t materialise either.
You reckon a player from Dortmund was on decent money and being a free transfer didn’t command a decent sign on fee ? Very expensive signing for 9 PL appearances or whatever
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Reading that article, de Zerbi expands on saying that he would have liked new players, but it's not his call, it's the clubs. It is stating the obvious, and he has continually praised the quality that our recruitment model has given him. He even let his own recruitment expert go to another club back in Italy after a few months because he thought the model was so good.
I can't see that article being anything other than 'nothing to see here'
Milano
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Dahoud WANTED to leave, he has not been ‘cast out’. Im not sure he was Mac’s replacement, Encisco’s and March’s injuries have really affected us.
I’m frustrated with this window but exactly who were we supposed to sign? KDH could have been decent but not at £40m, but I was actually more frustrated with losing Caicedo on virtually the last day of the window, I genuinely don’t think the club thought any club would be stupid enough to pay that. In terms replacement we weren’t ready because of it.
I can't imagine the recruitment team haven't spoken to RDZ about it, he might not like it, but in the bigger picture it's the best way to go.
Why did he WANT to leave ? The manager pretty much froze him out after that red card. So the squad is further weakened because seemingly the player has been badly managed.
But I agree the DM / Caicedo thing is incompetence from the club - Paul Barber himself says they knew Caicedo would be pushing for a move again shortly after his new contract so they had plenty of time - it does make the ‘shortlist of 3 players for every position’ thing a bit of a myth.
But I’ve said for a while our recruitment has been slowly declining since Ashworth & Winstanley left
I get confused (I haven't read the Athletic piece)... there's an embargoed section of the press conference, but then Andy Naylor can publish it? How does that work then, do they pay the club
