(31-12-2021, 12:38 PM)Pedalo_menders Wrote: Makes you wonder how many scouts actually watched him or actually gave their honest opinion. I find it hard to believe that he just suddenly turned shit when we got him.
He is either used to playing with someone far better than Raggett along side him, plays a different system (clutching at straws with that point) or was shit all along.
Either way, isn't the point of having a recruitment team to avoid signing players who are good on paper but shit in reality. Seems like a lot of corners were cut to end up signing that duffer. And he wasn't the only one!
But he wasn't just good on paper was he ? He had been good on the pitch.
Some players just don't settle at a new club and have all sorts of mental and physical problems adjusting to a new environment. That doesn't make the recruitment team who picked them any less good - it's not like it is something you can predict. Who knows what was going on in his life that made him a flop, often it is nothing to do with football and more to do with family etc.
And what sort of corners do you claim were cut to sign him FFS ? Jackett identified him and pursued him over several months before he signed ... how can that be cutting corners ?