Nicks
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Your only good with the right tools to hand
Most of his tools will have had to be left in Tony's toolbox now.
Most of his tools will have had to be left in Tony's toolbox now.
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[Albion] Sam Jewell
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Not always. You can also look at any departure as an opportunity to upgrade - and when hiring that should ideally be the aim. There might be a short-term impact of departures but if the hiring of replacements is effective then that’s all it should be.
There's a real feeding frenzy going on at the moment around our staff, both on and particularly off the field. It's totally unprecedented and I suspect it will run out of steam, to our detriment, when the pace with which we can recruit is outstripped by the pace of people leaving.
Nicks
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Apparently on Gardening leave until November
Mancgull
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Wow. That puts him in a difficult position in terms of ‘maintaining relationships’. Good!
Need someone to be out and about in S America solidifying the work already done with key contacts.
Nobby Cybergoat
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- Jul 19, 2021
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I was thinking exactly this. Can I go through with it? Can I want Liverpool to win something? You know, I think I can.
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Provided his StarLizard login has been disabled this is your classic no big deal.
Eric Youngs Contact Lens
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I guess, regardless of how easy the data is to assemble or leak, the data is the property of the Club not the individual and relatively easy to track if it has been downloaded or shared elsewhere, so pretty sure there is no immediate haemorrhaging of data..
I think it's a bit simpler than that.
They are people doing a job, working on their career and in most cases trying to provide for, and support, a family.
If a job you perceive to be better and/or paying more comes along, it will be considered, in just the same way as any of us working in non-football industries will. And, if, once things have been weighed up, the new job appears to be beneficial, you'll make the move.
We poached Mike Cave from Fulham only a couple of years ago when, presumably, Cave decided we were a better long-term bet for him than Fulham were. Sam Jewell joined us from Swindon, probably for the same reasons.
As PB has always emphasised there is always contingency planning so I'm sure there will be a plan. I think we're also stacking up some good examples of zero(ish) to hero from acquisitions that equip us well for competitive situations and players / agents deciding on the best path to individual PL recognition (alongside the money of course....)
Lurchy
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Danny Hoyle who we took from Norwich last season will likely be our main South American specialist (assuming he’s not that already) given his previous signings at his prior club.
- Oct 17, 2008
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Well, the reality is that both Cucurella and Potter became overnight multimillionaires by leaving us for Chelsea, so I can absolutely see why people would move if money was a big motivator.
Both Cucurella and Potter could in theory now join a “passion project”, rebuild their reps and go again.
It’s simply a case of staff/players moving to the highest possible status jobs, on the highest possible pay when their stock is at its highest.
If our constant recruitment of brilliant staff and players wasn’t so good, nobody would want them off us. Meaning we wouldn’t get the benefit of their skills and the rewards it all translates to on the pitch and in the bank.
Sadly, this.
If you're earning £100k* a year and someone offers you £400k a year then you're going to take it, even if you only think it will last a couple of years.
*this is purely illustrative.
- Oct 17, 2008
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I hope it continues because it means they and the club are doing well.
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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Shame he got the striker algorithm stashed away before he left.
Herne Hill Seagull
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Of course. People are headhunted in every industry. But at what point do you start to think you're in the right place? I've been in the position myself where I could have gone to bigger outfits for more money, but other considerations including work/life balance, corporate culture etc, and simply being somewhere that I enjoyed working, kept me where I was. In football, of course, the imperatives may be different from the point of view of the 'corporate' objectives but the other considerations are the same.
Would you really, really see Chelsea as a better employment prospect than Brighton right now? Their main attraction seems to be 'we'll give you a shit-load more money to come here, and if it doesn't work out and we bin you in a panic clear-out in a few months, we'll give you a shit-load of money to go away.'
How can gardening leave be effective though? I get it with a Premier League manager who loses a massive payout if they take another job - can hardly sit in the dugout pretending to be someone else. But what's the comeback for someone behind the scenes and how does the club stop them passing on all their knowledge in the meantime?
Most people would find this aspect of the argument quite persuasive.
boik
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But data is very quickly out of date. No point having data if you don't update it frequently.