Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread

[Dante Lavelli]

As stated above, a clear strategy for the club and a transfer policy which supports it is vital.  The young and hungry under Lambert was an okay plan but hijacked from within because we had no coaches, even losing ‘bibs and cones’ near the end.

[OCD]

We were probably losing to a team of bibs and cones by the end.

[mike]

As stated above, a clear strategy for the club and a transfer policy which supports it is vital.  The young and hungry under Lambert was an okay plan but hijacked from within because we had no coaches, even losing ‘bibs and cones’ near the end.

We did also buy a fair amount of dross.

[Monty]

'Young and hungry' failed because it wasn't actually a strategy for success, it was an excuse for anticipated failure.

[hilts_coolerking]

'Young and hungry' failed because it wasn't actually a strategy for success, it was an excuse for anticipated failure.

In practice it meant 'cheap', which is what it almost always means.

[Monty]

It was absolutely just a euphemism for 'cheap' from a club regime that treated the fans like idiots as a compulsion.

[Ads]

Its was graphite tipped cooling rods in a world of boron. The consequences, inevitable.

There's no substitution for quality and that seldom comes cheap. The expense isn't always in acquisition cost, but the thinking and choosing is equally as important when it comes to signing a player. We lacked the intelligence in this department, so we got Bowery and Bennett and Tonev.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

It was absolutely just a euphemism for 'cheap' from a club regime that treated the fans like idiots as a compulsion.

Not quite. There were tonnes of pearls fed to pigs. And then there was MON who refused to be held accountable for some of the crap he played and bought. Time to move on and never repeat to worship false gods. I hope that Dean Smith, however he does in the future, will never see our club drinking from the slop bucket again.

[tomd2103]

As stated above, a clear strategy for the club and a transfer policy which supports it is vital.  The young and hungry under Lambert was an okay plan but hijacked from within because we had no coaches, even losing ‘bibs and cones’ near the end.

We ended Lambert's first season pretty well and I still think had we bought well that summer, things might have been different. 

[mike]

As stated above, a clear strategy for the club and a transfer policy which supports it is vital.  The young and hungry under Lambert was an okay plan but hijacked from within because we had no coaches, even losing ‘bibs and cones’ near the end.

We ended Lambert's first season pretty well and I still think had we bought well that summer, things might have been different. 

With respect, I think Lambert's managerial career since leaving us suggests otherwise.

[jwarry]

Few links to Coventry’s Tom Bayliss this morning

[AsTallAsLions]

It was absolutely just a euphemism for 'cheap' from a club regime that treated the fans like idiots as a compulsion.

Not quite. There were tonnes of pearls fed to pigs. And then there was MON who refused to be held accountable for some of the crap he played and bought. Time to move on and never repeat to worship false gods. I hope that Dean Smith, however he does in the future, will never see our club drinking from the slop bucket again.

Not a word of a lie in this.

[ktvillan]

Half of the strategy from four years ago doesn't look too bad in hindsight.  Guye has done well for Everton and was recently the subject of a 25m bid from PSG, Veretout is supposedly the subject of interest from Napoli and Arsenal for up to 20m, Amavi has been doing well for Marseille, and Ayew has managed to remain at PL level without tearing up any trees. Might have worked if the other half of the equation had not been fuckwit tactics Tim Sherwood and his penchant for elderly/permacrocked centre halves with a shit attitude.  And Rudy Gestede.   

[Monty]

The success of those players now is not doing wonders for Sherwood's reputation.

[jwarry]

Half of the strategy from four years ago doesn't look too bad in hindsight.  Guye has done well for Everton and was recently the subject of a 25m bid from PSG, Veretout is supposedly the subject of interest from Napoli and Arsenal for up to 20m, Amavi has been doing well for Marseille, and Ayew has managed to remain at PL level without tearing up any trees. Might have worked if the other half of the equation had not been fuckwit tactics Tim Sherwood and his penchant for elderly/permacrocked centre halves with a shit attitude.  And Rudy Gestede.   

Agreed, wouldn’t mind all of those players back now as they are exactly what we need