12-05-2022, 08:31 AM
(11-05-2022, 10:11 PM)Pedalo_menders Wrote: I think you have to take the news at face value.
I know I seem to be the boards resident miserable coont at the moment but riddle me this...
Your strategy hinges on having a superior recruitment team to snap up young talent. But you aren't willing to pay more than forest Green rovers for the most important role to execute the strategy. How does that translate into success? Or demonstrate ambition?
It doesn't look good when you're heading in to the biggest rebuild in 6 years without the recruitment team in place and multiple players mouthing off in the press about lack of communication.
Or is the actual strategy to keep costs down as much as possible and just hope the punters keep showing up?
It doesn't always hinge on money though does it?
Consider the FGR guy and his current workplace - every morning he gets to drive through the Cotswolds to their training ground - would he really want to swap that for Copnor Road? And say what you like about Dale Vince, he might be a hippy, vegan, wind farm lover, but he's given Forest Green a direction and it's debatable right now what direction Pompey are taking, plus there's a strong management team in place over there and their new training ground is due to open in the not too distant future.
Their manager moving to Watford yesterday might change the dynamics, especially when the new guy arrives, but I wasn't surprised to see Hughes decide to stay.