Has Kieran Scott added any value at our club?

Reminds me of Monk’s unbalanced side..
Loads of strikers that we don’t use, an aging midfield that we refuse to change out.

Who did we bring in to replace De Roon that season?

I don’t think we’ve got value for the players we’ve brought in either. £3m might as well be £12m in the Chsmionship.

Prediction: Managerial change out at the half way point and superficial player changes in January.
 
Biggest issue for me is we are going half arzed. We are allowing managers to over rule and say no to certain players but not others. Then signing some players at the managers request rather than what the recruitment team think. For me it should be all of one, none of the other not the messy mix we have now in some kind of poorly veiled attempt to try and appease everyone. As by the time someones finally made a decision the players had gone elsewhere for the most part.
 
Priv said:
Warnock didn’t have a single transfer window under scott.

The January window we went after forwards that Wilder clearly wanted, they ended up being sh1t.

This summer who knows, could be Scott could be Bauser or Gibson could even be Wilder himself thinking he knew better or a mix of all of them to blame.
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Warnock worked under Scott as a ‘Head of football’.
 
The more I think about it Mowatt was a panic signing after we lost Tav, be interesting to know whether and who that took by surprise? Of the other signings, can’t tell yet but they all have decent pedigree for what we have paid. I don’t think it’s Scott’s job to haggle over transfer fees so don’t really judge on missed targets.
 
Priv said:
Biggest issue for me is we are going half arzed. We are allowing managers to over rule and say no to certain players but not others. Then signing some players at the managers request rather than what the recruitment team think. For me it should be all of one, none of the other not the messy mix we have now in some kind of poorly veiled attempt to try and appease everyone. As by the time someones finally made a decision the players had gone elsewhere for the most part.
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This is exactly it imo. There are conflicting approaches and we are trying a mix of the two to keep everyone happy. We need to commit to a strategy with recruitment instead of flip flopping all over the place. If the club want a certain approach then they need to enforce it and get manager to fit.
 
Alexander Supertramp said:
Mowatt and Clarke were both Wilder signings I reckon.


They’re both left footed, which immediately means they’re incredible footballers who must go straight into the team, to give us that all important “balance”
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Personally speaking, it is my belief that the manager tells those involved in recruitment what he wants in terms of attributes, recruitment scout and provide list of targets, manager, chairman and head of football sort in order and then chairman veto’s spend on certain preferred targets and Wilder gets a choice of take it or leave it. Mowatt was not so much a Wilder buy as a It’s him or nobody, Clarke too i’d guess and as he was desperate for numbers he agreed them. I have seen station platforms more mobile than Mowatt, Clarke has shown flashes of ability though.

The fact Forss and Hoppe were described as developmental players should tell you whose ’buys’ those were, similarly Roberts

Lenihan stands out as a Wilder choice as does Giles, Smith and Steffen. Luongo was known to Wilder too, time will tell if he is any good.

We desperately need:
1. A ball carrier with some pace in central midfield that can also help defend out of possession (i.e. Tav mkll),
2. A decent tall pacy support striker to play alongside Muniz
3. Someone who is a capable set piece taker around the box to play right midfield, again with pace

I think we will be mid table come May.
 
The trouble is we don't know how the management structure works and what the restraints/oportunities are. We do know that it is not working though.
 
coluka said:
Personally speaking, it is my belief that the manager tells those involved in recruitment what he wants in terms of attributes, recruitment scout and provide list of targets, manager, chairman and head of football sort in order and then chairman veto’s spend on certain preferred targets and Wilder gets a choice of take it or leave it. Mowatt was not so much a Wilder buy as a It’s him or nobody, Clarke too i’d guess and as he was desperate for numbers he agreed them. I have seen station platforms more mobile than Mowatt, Clarke has shown flashes of ability though.

The fact Forss and Hoppe were described as developmental players should tell you whose ’buys’ those were, similarly Roberts

Lenihan stands out as a Wilder choice as does Giles, Smith and Steffen. Luongo was known to Wilder too, time will tell if he is any good.

We desperately need:
1. A ball carrier with some pace in central midfield that can also help defend out of possession (i.e. Tav mkll),
2. A decent tall pacy support striker to play alongside Muniz
3. Someone who is a capable set piece taker around the box to play right midfield, again with pace

I think we will be mid table come May.
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I think if we had signed “Frank the tank” and / or Josh Onomah, we’d be saying we’d had a good transfer window.


Wilder’s refusal to play or even give a fair crack of the whip to the 2 strikers signed for him just seems incredibly stubborn though
 
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