19-07-2022, 09:12 AM
(19-07-2022, 08:43 AM)Pompeyg100 Wrote:(19-07-2022, 08:35 AM)Jizbag Wrote: While we might all be keyboard warriors and have no knowledge of the process in signing a player...it seems the Eisners are clueless as well.
The Eisners aren’t signing players! The guy chose a champ club, who can blame him? I don’t see how this is the clubs fault.
I think it's the overall frustration in that the moment we hear about a player being targeted it's a question of when, not if, we get outbid. It's almost as if when a player is targeted by us, the agent texts every other L1 club to double check nobody will pay more given we're most likely trying not to pay the going rate. And every other club knows we are likely to offering less than full contract terms.
Hirst isn't the bees knees but he was settled at this club and knew most of the players. That should have been factored into the price we could pay. Instead, we've allowed championship and competitors to gradually get ahead of us. I know Blackpool are currently championship but can you honestly imagine this club walking into a l2 club and sealing a deal in such a manner? Have we ever gazumped any other club for a player?
The Preseason is supposed to be about getting your team familiar with each other and fit. Every Eisner season has always been the same - the equivalent of waiting for Tesco Cosham to reduce their chilled section and hoping to grab a bargain. The first half of our season is OUR preseason and we're always playing catch up.
I don't think we've got a terrible squad but it isn't marvellous either. It's like the Eisner's are genuinely afraid of getting a squad together that could get promoted and force them to make a meaningful dent in their bank account. Someone should ask them has a team ever been promoted on the budget set by this club.
Still, once they've made the ground look tidy, and done up Roko, they'll have a package ready to sell the club and be able to exit the club with a decent return. It's going to happen because they do not have the ambition to get promoted anywhere.