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Good episode.
One point on the pod really hit home for me — the whole “agents” issue. It barely gets discussed, yet for me it’s one of the biggest frustrations with KPFC.
The attitude from some of these players is embarrassing, and the recruitment has been a shambles. We’ve ended up with a string of duds, and somehow we’re the ones paying agents for the privilege. The likes of Wasserman are taking us for idiots
In any normal situation, if you kept buying something that turned out to be rubbish, you wouldn’t keep going back to the same shop. But in football, we seem stuck in the same cycle with the same agencies, burning through what little money we have.
21/22 was pretty bad... according to transfer market.com
Daka 30m Euros
soumare 20m Euros
vestegaard 17.5m Euros
bertrand - vaguely remember him being in 90k a week.
Surely, even if they announced something tomorrow, they'd likely only be "in the stands" for Southampton. We really need to avoid that scenario for the following game.
I'd counter that by asking what job realistically would he be hoping for? Taking my blue tinted specs off, there aren't many bigger jobs in the championship even consodering three relegated clubs next season.
If I were assessing Prob Leicester, Ipswich, Birmingham, Southampton, Sheffield united, Norwich if you take out Cov and Boro plus maybe Wolves and West Ham are the bigger teams and one of those is available now, why wouldn't you jump?
I initially thought similar - however id be more inclined to believe it is straight out of the glover playbook- Raid man city and Chelsea for their youngsters. A little lazy but tried and tested.
I could also believe we tapped up Maresca to give us a tip off about potential targets which would if true make a mockery of our scouting system.
It's not a case of being spineless. When someone’s job is to ask questions, they should reflect what people are already discussing, not their own views. If many are raising a concern, bringing it up isn’t bias — it’s simply doing the job. Their personal opinion doesn’t matter, because the question is grounded in public discourse, not individual judgement.