Chrysalis

It always feels like new rules are a pretence doesnt it, always some back door to keep things as they are. I dont think its naivety, it must be deliberate, you dont need much intelligence to realise a sponsorship ban is just that, no sponsorship, but then it somehow gets written as on front of shirts only.

For me I accepted it as supporting our manager, wasnt thrilled about the 3 years. Then when Enzo left soon after this contract was done, it then hit home how ridiculous it was.

We have forgotten how to build players, just keep going for finished articles and veterans.

This is where good DoF's earn their wage, good ones can get rid of mould, bad one's can only get rid of cream.

Its so predictable isnt it. Just keep doing the same thing again and again.

I think you already know the answer. I expect all those players to be gone within 2 years and we do more dads army signings.

Wow wtf. Normally a relegation to league one of a club our size is a option to use all young players. Instead its selling all our young players.

We need to stop with patch work signings, and do stuff with more long term sense. Its a huge part of our current issues.

As long as he doesnt question the transfer policy or hurt our image in another way he will be safe, thats likely more important to our owners than performance for LCFC women at this point. The squad management is enough evidence to show we dont care about the women's team. Only Kirk had reasonable backing.

Yep this is a whole new level of worse. Mahrez still played for us for a number of years. This is like we groom someone up, and then as soon as they ready, they gone, doesnt feel right at all. The sport needs changing that requires academy players to stay at parent club for X years unless the club forfeits the right. I just cant really become attached to any youth player, because with our current policy, the ones who are any good will be sold quickly to fund an inflated wage bill.

So you think league one is like the EPL then? Feels like I am talking to Rudkin. We get a 33 year old not hungry, high risk, high salary ex EPL player to play in league one, by the small chance we get a double promotion we then have a 35 year old as our main striker. Or we do what we used to do and what most clubs at this level do, buy or promote a young hungry striker, let him gain experience in league one, then the championship, and hopefully later the EPL, when at that point he has had at least 2 seasons with the team, hungry for more, and bedded into the club. All whilst being cheaper to pay, and having resale value.

You at least have the argument of EPL experience for the EPL, in League one there is no need for such experience.

Yep, this strategy of signing ageing ex EPL players, I think some blamed on Cooper, but it has been carried on.

Perfect player for the manager, 3 year extension?

Ings signing is closing in, only 33 years of age,

So you would sell an asset which will have 4x value in a couple of years then? I never said they should pay more now, I just said they have robbed us. The clubs strategy is a joke right now, and still too many people cant see it. Ings the first dads army signing funded by it.

The clear out is our most sellable players and youth players.

As predicted an old EX EPL player to continue the same strategy.

A very strange transfer. The problems continue.

The squad mess was more Rudkin than Whelan in my opinion. The whole structure is just messed up at the club. Having the DoF able to bypass the CEO, and basically run squad management between himself and the owner (who is an idiot man child), is effectively having no safety boundaries in place. Whelan should have resigned much earlier as the working environment would have made any competent CEO leave quickly. In regards to Rodgers, if we are to believe him (the club have chosen to not challenge what he said), he was led to believe a squad over haul was happening in the summer, as the current squad was losing motivation and becoming stale, figured out by opposing teams etc ,he was showing a player around, and then told that late in the process he wouldnt be signing that player or any other player at all, we couldnt even do the cheap Lookman deal. It was then failed to be identified that the combination of a demotivated Rodgers and demotivated team wasnt working, and no action was taken until far too late in the season, its not usually CEOs that fire managers, its typically DoF or chairman. The reason was apparently we couldnt afford to do it, which comes back to what I keep saying on here, you cant run so close to spending limits, as then there is no margin to do things like sacking managers.

These are big 6 clubs in the EPL, who can actually buy hungry players in their prime. Ourselves should be filling the first team with academy graduates, and instead getting rid of all our ex EPL high salary players. What we witnessing now is gross mismanagement of squad resources. Its also clear football as a whole has a problem if academies are just being used as factories for profit on player trading. As I said last month, we not going to see a squad overhaul, most of the squad who arent out of contract will stay, and we will sell players like fatawa and our best academy players to fund the wage bill and new bad incoming signings. I even see another league one club has taken on one of our academy players, we in the same league. Get rid of winks instead.

Man city have robbed us, and that so many think this is a good deal, have got used to the club being run so badly. Monga will either become a successful player with them, or they will sell him for 40 million within a few years.

Indeed bc.game doesnt solve the spending problem. Neither does owner investment. Instead of getting rid of the dads army, and replacing them with young hungry low wage players from the academy, we selling academy players as soon as they leave the factory to fund the dads army wages.

She will get injured playing for them and be out for next season knowing our luck.

Probably why barely any appearances, why would a manager want to bed a player in who is gone next summer.