Tony Towner
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This is a further one. The Italy thing I must have read elsewhere and if he was there today, then it's not true
This is a further one. The Italy thing I must have read elsewhere and if he was there today, then it's not true
I'm not even necessarily disagreeing but this perpetual improvement never happens.
Look at City this window. Lose a key centre half and club icon, don't replace him, leave yourself with three options at LB who are all rubbish, spend nearly all the money on a midfielder who is good but not what you really needed...would you sack Txiki on that basis?
This is a further one. The Italy thing I must have read elsewhere and if he was there today, then it's not true
They did improve their midfield and did bring in another LB. The midfielder clearly improved their first XI, the left back hasn't. And City had the hardest job of all.
It isn't just the last window it is the last 3 windows IMO, without Mendes and Nuno pushing through their players we certainly wouldn't have th players we do now as Thelwell simply hasn't bought any in.
I'm not sure why people think we need him.
BravoApparently he was there today. I don't care about whether that is true, just putting it out there in the same way as "huffed off to Italy" has been.
Our recruitment this summer has failed to improve the starting XI in any position, it was abject failure.
Without Mendes/ Nuno our recruitment has been fucking wank. Thelwell is a fucking charlatan operating at least s division too high and hasn't bought in a single player to improve the first team in at least a calendar year.
Fuck him and his recruitment team off and get competent individuals in.
Because it's that fucking easy to improve on our starting XI?
We bid for Soumare but got knocked back, if the players are being identified but we aren't going in with enough cash you can hardly blame Thelwell.
How do you know what Thelwell does or doesn't do?
Interesting that you seem to know so much. I'm interested how you think we improved our XI in the summer and how you think our recruitment has been good.
As for improving our XI and squad in general, it is what Thelwell gets paid for along with his recruitment team. He hasn't done that to any great effect given the players you can quite easily identify as Mendes or Nuno's links, unless you think Thelwell's job is to facilitate that relationship?
I didn't say we'd improved our starting XI, I said it's incredibly hard to do for many reasons which I'm sure you're aware of.
It's been reported we bid for Soumare, could be bullshit of course but it would seem strange. We were interested in Dias too but didn't stump up the readies.
If it works as you say, then I'd be incredibly surprised for the club, knowing how things work and how little Thelwell actually contributes, to promote him to the board.
No one outside the club, not you or I know how things really work. It annoys me when people make judgements about how effective individuals are based on big assumptions
I can’t imagine Fosun would have promoted him to the board and are keeping him there if he doesn’t add anything, they don’t seem the overly charitable type.
Maybe they know more than grumpy muppets on internet boards?
No getting rid of Thelwell now he's a Director, a bit of a worrying conflict of interests for me this.Our recruitment this summer has failed to improve the starting XI in any position, it was abject failure.
Without Mendes/ Nuno our recruitment has been fucking wank. Thelwell is a fucking charlatan operating at least s division too high and hasn't bought in a single player to improve the first team in at least a calendar year.
Fuck him and his recruitment team off and get competent individuals in.
No, Morgan was a poor and naive owner with no plan, and Saunders was a prick from day one.
Fosun are not Morgan. They’ve done amazing things with us, and have had a clear plan all the way through. Anyone bitching about them at this stage after two and a half years of dizzying success is a moron.
No getting rid of Thelwell now he's a Director, a bit of a worrying conflict of interests for me this.
I don't think I've heard or read anybody bitching about Fosun, have you?
To be fair there are now plenty of people demanding that they "back the manager".
Which in some ways is fair as Nuno is easily our best manager in 40 years. Possibly 60 years. And he does need players, we know that.
But in other ways is totally unfair given the money they've spent and endemic of the constant thing with football fans - we're always two players short, apparently. 20 years ago it was "spend £5m more". Then 10 years ago "£10m more". Probably £40m more now with the way the market is.
Sometimes you have to accept it didn't go your way. It'd be great now if Vallejo was nailed on at RCH and Cutrone had 7-8 PL goals. We did sign them from Real Madrid and AC Milan. It hasn't happened.