KZNSeagull
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It seems to me that Oscar only gets the players that feature in David Burke's shopping list. I would be interested to hear how many players Oscar has personally nominated to Burke and whether we have seriously pursued them.
I wonder what if any knowledge or input Oscar had regarding Ward, Andrews, Kemy, Conway, Lita and Obika before they were brought in? Ok he probably knew of Lopez but was he actually Oscar's signing?
On the other hand it is refreshing that Oscar is willing to give youngsters like Ince, March and Chicksen a go.
Burke does all the legwork beforehand - there is no point is having a list of players if we cannot sign any of them because they are too expensive/not available/don't want to come here. That list includes Oscar's choices.
Oscar turned up at this interview with a dossier on the current squad, researched himself. That, itself, speaks volumes for the man. TB has also stated that we must not underestimate Oscar's knowledge of English based players.
There seems to be lots of stirring going on today with no evidence to back it up.