26-08-2023, 10:46 PM
(26-08-2023, 07:58 PM)Hammie Wrote: Pretty much yes. Might have sold some of Cook's team too?
I think Cowley was the one who went back and asked for more cash to finance the loans.
(26-08-2023, 09:33 PM)Pompeyg100 Wrote:(26-08-2023, 07:23 PM)D'Alessandro dreaming Wrote:(26-08-2023, 07:05 PM)Pompeyg100 Wrote:(26-08-2023, 05:46 PM)D'Alessandro dreaming Wrote: I like DC. It didn't work here but I still believe he is responsible for opening the eyes of the owners to adopting a more modern structure off the pitch. His problem was he had plan A on the pitch but little else.
Ipads is about the only modern thing he bought to the club.
I think he recognised and pointed out the need to have proper recruitment structure at the club rather than the milwall mafia and Gagliardi. He gets compared unfavourably to Jackett but Jackett got far more heavily backed financially and had a much weaker league one to try and get out of (Fleetwood made the playoffs one year ffs). Just very limited in his on pitch approach and struggled to adapt.
Not sure wasting your budget on loan players is a proper recruitment structure.
Panic loans and going on preseason with no players is not modern or proper.
That's just nonsense I'm afraid, it obviously didn't happeen overnight. In the period you are referencing the structure wasn't in place by any stretch of the imagination. Rich Hughes arrived too late last season to make any impact in the summer window. It was very telling that when Gagliardi nafed off, Cowley's "tribute" to him was very lukewarm. It was a basket case of a club recruitment wise for a few years.