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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7710 on: June 21, 2020, 10:18:04 PM »
I can't imagine he opposed the signings of Mings or Heaton or Konsa so it can't be true that he got stiffed on all signings.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7711 on: June 21, 2020, 10:21:06 PM »
I can't imagine he opposed the signings of Mings or Heaton or Konsa so it can't be true that he got stiffed on all signings.

Correct if you like Dean it’s everybody else who got the players and he had no idea. I don’t believe that I think he would have had a say and if he really didn’t want them they wouldn’t have come to the club

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7712 on: June 21, 2020, 10:22:21 PM »
I can't imagine he opposed the signings of Mings or Heaton or Konsa so it can't be true that he got stiffed on all signings.

Agreed, but if you're looking to the bench to change things and all you can find is Trezeguet and Nakamba, you're not going to be able to do much.
I'm veering towards the idea that we should cut him loose sooner rather than later, by the way. I just think it's been a difficult hand for him to play after getting us up so quickly and being stymied by FFP due to the profligacy of his predecessors.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7713 on: June 21, 2020, 10:23:12 PM »
Purslow talked recently about a 200million disaster.  Yet they seem to be happy to go down? 

This is what I don't get.

I don't know about Sawiris, but I suspect he's nobody's fool. Edens is known for not fucking about with sentiment in his stewardship of the Bucks. Purslow has a small stake in the club.

Yet here we are, ploughing on towards a big fucking cliff, doing exactly the same thing we were doing prior to arriving in the shit when the season closed down.

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« Reply #7714 on: June 21, 2020, 10:24:46 PM »
Purslow talked recently about a 200million disaster.  Yet they seem to be happy to go down? 

This is what I don't get.

I don't know about Sawiris, but I suspect he's nobody's fool. Edens is known for not fucking about with sentiment in his stewardship of the Bucks. Purslow has a small stake in the club.

Yet here we are, ploughing on towards a big fucking cliff, doing exactly the same thing we were doing prior to arriving in the shit when the season closed down.

I suspect a lot hinges on Wednesday.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7715 on: June 21, 2020, 10:24:56 PM »
I can't imagine he opposed the signings of Mings or Heaton or Konsa so it can't be true that he got stiffed on all signings.
Agreed, but if you're looking to the bench to change things and all you can find is Trezeguet and Nakamba, you're not going to be able to do much.
That's true.  It's also possible of course that he isn't a good judge of a footballer.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7716 on: June 21, 2020, 10:26:08 PM »
Sometimes I wonder if fans live in another dimension. That we see things and yet through the eyes of the manager it’s entirely different. Surely though the executives at the club are sitting somewhere and underneath their masks they are wondering and muttering “what in fucks name is this shit?”

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7717 on: June 21, 2020, 10:27:03 PM »
I can't imagine he opposed the signings of Mings or Heaton or Konsa so it can't be true that he got stiffed on all signings.
Agreed, but if you're looking to the bench to change things and all you can find is Trezeguet and Nakamba, you're not going to be able to do much.
That's true.  It's also possible of course that he isn't a good judge of a footballer.

What do you imagine Pitarch's job is?

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7718 on: June 21, 2020, 10:27:36 PM »
Catering assistant?

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7719 on: June 21, 2020, 10:29:00 PM »
Catering assistant?

I know his diary is quite full with the less stimulating of the Finnegan family functions.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7720 on: June 21, 2020, 10:29:56 PM »
I can't imagine he opposed the signings of Mings or Heaton or Konsa so it can't be true that he got stiffed on all signings.
Agreed, but if you're looking to the bench to change things and all you can find is Trezeguet and Nakamba, you're not going to be able to do much.
That's true.  It's also possible of course that he isn't a good judge of a footballer.

What do you imagine Pitarch's job is?
I know what his job is, I thought we were trying to determine how involved Dean is in the recruitment process.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7721 on: June 21, 2020, 10:32:17 PM »
I can't imagine he opposed the signings of Mings or Heaton or Konsa so it can't be true that he got stiffed on all signings.
Agreed, but if you're looking to the bench to change things and all you can find is Trezeguet and Nakamba, you're not going to be able to do much.
That's true.  It's also possible of course that he isn't a good judge of a footballer.

What do you imagine Pitarch's job is?
I know what his job is, I thought we were trying to determine how involved Dean is in the recruitment process.

Well we don't, and will never, know. I'd suggest, though, that he's not the one calling the final shots on recruitment given that he has somebody working above him whose job that is.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7722 on: June 21, 2020, 10:34:04 PM »
Well we don't, and will never, know. I'd suggest, though, that he's not the one calling the final shots on recruitment given that he has somebody working above him whose job that is.
As you say, we'll never know.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7723 on: June 21, 2020, 10:36:36 PM »
Well we don't, and will never, know. I'd suggest, though, that he's not the one calling the final shots on recruitment given that he has somebody working above him whose job that is.
As you say, we'll never know.

It's not like there aren't a hundred things that we could criticise him for that absolutely are his fault!

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #7724 on: June 21, 2020, 10:38:14 PM »
Well we don't, and will never, know. I'd suggest, though, that he's not the one calling the final shots on recruitment given that he has somebody working above him whose job that is.
As you say, we'll never know.

It's not like there aren't a hundred things that we could criticise him for that absolutely are his fault!
Quite right.

 


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