Well if anyone sees Winstano on a plane to Amsterdam it had better be as part of someone's stag weekend.
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[Albion] Recruitment Dept
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Well if anyone sees Winstano on a plane to Amsterdam it had better be as part of someone's stag weekend.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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studio150
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It shows we are in a relegation battle with an away game, where certain types of players will be preferred due to the tactical game plan.
ewe2
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15 million is bargain basement these days it seems !
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Think it's pretty safe to say that anyone who shows any kind of aptitude at kicking a ball anywhere in the world has been closely tracked from about the age of eight. Our recruitment team appear to be labouring under the misapprehension that they're uncovering hidden gems that they can later sell on at a profit while in the meantime raising the global profile of the Albion. In reality, they're gullible PL new boys being scammed by agents into paying hugely over the odds for duds that countless other clubs will have considered and rejected.
Now you're getting it
I guess the club could dip into the free transfer market.
Then the £15m only has to go in signing on fees, extra agents fees and increased wages
Our ‘unique’ insight into the Dutch league, if it ever existed, wasn’t all that.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Some dunce will be along in a minute to say 'What about Ajax then, they're quite good' thereby missing the point about that overall Poundshop embarassment of a league.
With Ajax (until now) and dutch football being at it lowest ebb in 55 years. As covered in great detail by Johan Cruyff in his last autobio.
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I don't think most of the signings have been as bad as some are making out - and I thought Hughton has the final say anyway, so some of the blame would fall with him rather than just the recruitment team.
However, it's notable how many of the best players from lower down the English league do look capable at Premier League level. Brooks at Bournemouth, Gray and Barnes at Leicester, Wood at Burnley, even Grant at Huddersfield immediately spring to mind. I'm not saying they're all better long term bets than a good overseas bargain - and admit I thought we'd done some reasonable business in the past - but those players have the advantage of immediately understanding the pace and physical nature of the English game. Maybe we underestimate their merits.
However, it's notable how many of the best players from lower down the English league do look capable at Premier League level. Brooks at Bournemouth, Gray and Barnes at Leicester, Wood at Burnley, even Grant at Huddersfield immediately spring to mind. I'm not saying they're all better long term bets than a good overseas bargain - and admit I thought we'd done some reasonable business in the past - but those players have the advantage of immediately understanding the pace and physical nature of the English game. Maybe we underestimate their merits.
macbeth
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Somewhat of a circle here, as if the recruitment wasn't bad but we are still finding ourselves overrun in midfield and unable to get forward then were does that leave us? An yet I think it's clear that chris' tactics were the right ones to use, as we were destroyed when we became more expansive in the 433, so if our player's aren't good enough to play football properly around teams and have to be put in the defensive formation, then surely it's not the tactics that are to blame but surely the quality of player's we have. It can't be that neither the recruitment or Hughton's pragmatism are to blame.
Sussex Nomad
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Don't blame recruitment for negative tactics.
Sussex Nomad
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With a team in the semi finals of the ECL.
Not Andy Naylor
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The same recruitment department that signed Knockaert, Murray and Gross are responsible for AJ, Locadia and Montoya. Sometimes you eat the bar ...
Ernest
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Ernest
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Have you seen some of the teams in the top league, defences are non existent at times so no wonder the likes of Locadia and Jahanbaksh look like world beaters. Even Van Persie is still banging them in for Feyenoord and his about 40.
The bottom half of the Eredevisie teams all average conceding over 2 goals a match which sums it up. Ajax have scored 107 goals in 31 games so far this season and PSV 90 goals
If the Dutch and Belgian leagues were that good then more would sign them. It's like when Newcastle found a couple of decent French league players and from then on they wasted loads on agents bringing them useless players thinking they could buy them up and sell them on for a fortune and instead they lost a packet on them
Sussex Nomad
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They still have a side in the last four. Italy don't, France with their bent PSG (like our Man City) don't. Say what you like fella, they are doing something right. They have beaten teams outside of Holland to get there.
Ernest
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As I said they average over 3 goals a game against the other Dutch league sides which shows how crap their league is apart from them and PSV