I've said for ages you need to plan for when a manager leaves before he arrives so you know he fits with what you want the club to be long-term. The whole club needs to be built around a specific style so the scouts and community coaches are looking for the right players to bring in, the coaches are training players in the right way and new coaching staff should all have a track record with that style. Get it right and you can go from being a club struggling to stay in the professional leagues to being a mid-table premier league club, this is what Swansea should be praised for.
I will reserve praise for how we line up first week in September. We have bought in 45m in sales so far this summer and spent about 17 so far. The strides of the pitch are very good but we need to invest another 30m on the pitch fit them to have any meaningful footing as they will be in the championship if we don't.
Quote from: ozzjim on July 19, 2015, 11:49:17 PMI will reserve praise for how we line up first week in September. We have bought in 45m in sales so far this summer and spent about 17 so far. The strides of the pitch are very good but we need to invest another 30m on the pitch fit them to have any meaningful footing as they will be in the championship if we don't.I don't like seeing things like "If we don't spend another £xm we're fucked" because that's a symptom of the problem. If you're badly organised and have no vision then you need to spend big money every summer to stay still but there are enough clubs in the top leagues across Europe who's net spend since the turn of the millenium is virtually nil to show that oit's not the only way to be. If this summer we spend another £15m on 2 players but both fit exactly what we need (let's say Oubare and Praet for example) and they're part of a side that finishes 10th then we've spent enough. The key things is that will fill the gaps in the squad properly, I really don't care how much it costs to do that and I don't see that it matters. Hell if Sherwood decided that Andre Green was ready to come in and be Benteke's replacement and it proved to be correct then fucking brilliant, even if that means we didn't bother signing another striker at all.