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I absolutely loathe to say this mind and I’m sure I’m going to get stick for this but maybe, just maybe Howe isn’t the right manager for a DOF led recruitment strategy. Not advocating for him to go or anything like that but to me it’s crystal clear they have a lot to figure out because what has transpired this window is absolutely unacceptable.

As I ponder this more it’s actually quite telling that everything positive that’s occured = MG/AS Anything negative. = anyone else Ashworth Mitchell, Eales etc.

I mean I see a bucket load of contradictions tbh, I’m not overly keen on Eales and I think you’ve summed up his achievements perfectly but we are seeing some revisions to history. AS didn’t want the job as CEO YAR told her she could do it and she declined, she appointed eales. I’m not speaking negatively of AS because she’s been an absolute force of nature for the club but at the same time the PSR issues we’ve run in to happened under her watch. I think you’ve summed it up perfectly mind it’s an absolute shambles from top to bottom and these noises are sadly predictable.

He certainly is, that being said they hired him to do the ceo job, and you can’t have too many chefs. Also I doubt mad Daz has an allies in the press pack.

To be very frank I think I’ll piece this together myself, most reporting on us are client journalists pushing certain agendas. Caulkin in particular.

Discuss away like, for me having. DOF is absolutely essential mind but of course it has to be done properly. The problem we have is Eddie had a lot of say (which isn’t a problem in itself) but now we’ve had to revert to the original plan and it’s obviously causing issues. The mad sums offered for Guehi imo were definitely an olive branch to show him they back him, I don’t for one moment believe Mitchell picks Guehi and says right then 70m let’s go. If he has then we need a competent DOF yesterday.

Aye it’s not a great look but at the same time it’s Mitchell is Howes superior and was hired to be a member of the board of directors, in business terms the manager wouldn’t be privy to such things either. Now obviously our football club isn’t a normal business case and Eddie has been absolutely fundamental in our growth and has definitely been involved to a point previously which is above his actual job title. it does feel to me as we are stuck between models and we are struggling as a result of that, let Eddie call all the shots or stick with our model and fully embrace it.

I read it and in not going to lie, I kinda hold all 3 of them responsible mind, not going to divvy up the blame but I think they’ve all agreed to go and chase Guehi to the ends of the earth mind.

Ps this forum would be a lot better if we could cut out the personal insults and keep our replies to the content of other posters mind.

We have a bit of a fundamental issue mind. If Eddie needs specific players for his side to function and all which seem to come at extremely high prices we are in a bind. Eddie leaves for whatever reason and the club has to pick up the pieces. To me it’s kinda clear we have some form of breakdown and a lack of strategy mind and of course Eddie is the one who will get the brunt of it. it’s also really interesting this briefing is telling another story compared to hopes. We now enter the briefing war period.

I have a question for everyone mind. 1, do we believe the club has a preference to sign players with PL experience? 2, if yes, do we believe this preference is the manager or the clubs? 3, do we believe we can juggle psr with this preference?

My friend the argument doesn’t wash, we had 70m to spend yet we are starting Krafth Murphy Miggy or longstaff. It’s obvious our failings this window can not be blamed solely on psr or having the right players available.

If you look and have a look at the links since Tonalis ban 90% of them are British based, we are absolutely petrified of making another mistake and have essentially locked our self into the most stupidly inflated market in the world in a league which has more financial controls than a multi national bank.

According to the gaffa that time scale is more like 10 years now.

We’ve added two additional pieces of deadwood to our squad in ruddy and vlad.

I love your positivity mate, I truly do. I’m not sure I agree with what your saying because Liverpool are a much more successful club than us, I’m not sure a siege mentality will be enough to see us through either. I need to see a plan which works towards our aims mind, wooly words (not from you btw) just don’t do anything for me I loathe being bullshitted.

They sign the cheques yes. Decision making is next to the management and explained to pif.

This will be the plan mind, although I expect the price to be our last offer.

I think the blame/ responsibility for them in more technical in nature but I’m sure from where they are sitting they are paying people considerable sums to sort all of this. But to be very frank, we should be multi club, we should be building a new training ground and SJP question should have been one of the first on the agenda.

Yeah I see what you’re saying but I don’t see it the same sadly. Yes we need Eddie to perform Miracles but even if he does will it be enough? I think an overdue realisation is starting to occur throughout the club to be frank, we are banging our heads on the glass ceiling now our wings clipped. I ask you and everyone else,I think we can safely assume the club would have deemed this window a success if they just got Guehi in; would that have been enough to push into the CL? Because I don’t think it would be personally. It’s a big ask I know but if you aren’t back challenging for that this season we are in stagnation territory and that is an extremely difficult place to be in this league with the rules we have, you can ask West ham if you don’t believe me.

Real life more important any of this, please accept my apology.

Agree but even this doesn’t have any form of consensus and it probably meets overall resistance if we can’t stay within 10 mins of our current location.

Your a much better poster than giving patently terrible transfer windows 7’s.

I think we’ve all been sold a goal a lofty one at that, since PSR has shown its teeth we have no strategy to pivot to. It’s obviously really soffit with a lot of moving plates and stakeholders line ultimately we need absolutely visionary executives to pull of what needs to be done.

Why? The critique of PIF would be what they’ve appointed bad executives?