20-07-2022, 04:17 PM
(20-07-2022, 02:50 PM)DeepBlue Wrote:(20-07-2022, 01:33 PM)Pedalo_menders Wrote: Yes, Hirst and Bazunu are good examples of loans being completely pointless for our needs. You have to look at where we are as a club and a squad. We're Hirst and Bazunu (and the other expensive loans) enough to tip us over the edge to promotion?
You could see before a ball was kicked that we would be nowhere near it. So why spend money on having them when the ultimate result remains the same? Why not use that season to develop your own player? Or use some of the budget to get in a player for the longer term.?
I don't have a problem with loans per se but you have to be smart about how you integrate them into your plans. My suspicion is that we just didn't have a plan lol.
The eisners talk a lot about sustainability and long term vision. How can you achieve that with half the team leaving every season? The actions weren't matching the rhetoric.
Utter nonsense.
Bazanu and Hirst made the team better ... how can that be pointless ? You can't say all loans are pointless unless they get you promotion, that is a complete nonsense. if Hirst resigned on loan for a second season would that have made his loan pointless ? No, he probably won't now but it was a possibility (and technically still is). Your view is we should not take good loan signings in case they do well !!
And with two year contracts half the team will be leaving every season - there is nothing you can do about that and you have to learn to plan around it. You can try to keep them, and sometimes like Raggett & Jacobs they will decide to stay, but if your plans are dependent on players agreeing to stay when they do not have to then your plans are worthless because they are based on quicksand.
Long term planning like you are asking for is impossible. Get used to it and adapt.
Well they are pretty useless unless they get us promotion. What did we achieve having loan players last season? Nothing and the current squad isn’t better for it.
Bass could have been coached to play how DC wants and now we wouldn’t be relying on a loan keeper who won’t be here next season.