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Just watched the full 90 mins of the Blackburn game, the frustration really made me think about the state of our club right now.
It's safe to say FFP has hit us really hard. We're now a selling club until we generate enough funds to build a team that's capable of challenging. Find cheap, sell high e.g Bright, Eze, Chair etc. Loans and free transfers will fill the rest of the squad.
It's unfortunately the result of years of poor decisions from the board. They seem to have got it right now, but its going to be a long and tedious process. As fans we're just going to have to accept that the Nahki Wells situation is one that we're going to see more often. Eze & co will go when the price is right, and that money will be used to find more of the sort. Repeat until you have a squad thats capable of challenging and a profitable football club. I hate to say it, but Brentford are coming towards the end of this exact model and are now reaping the rewards. It's painful to lose your best players, but it's the way things are going to be in the near future.
Warburton IMO is the man to take us forward through this process. His style of football gives us an identity we've lacked for so many years, but also gets the best out of players (especially forwards). I have doubts that Eze, Wells and Hugill would have scored/assisted as many in other setups, it's a smart way of adding to their value. I can see the fans frustrations defensively, but I struggle to think of another manager that would do any better with the squad at hand, its a poor squad on paper. We're lucky to be in a position where a manager wants to be part of a project and everyone (including the board, FINALLY) is moving in the same direction.
I say 'lucky', realistically this situation never needed to happen. The magnitude of poor decisions made after promotion was ridiculous, we had a platform to stick around in that league for a very very long time. Our fan base has turned very toxic in recent years, but I cant help but think its justified. You cannot expect the fans to not be frustrated by our current situation, we took 2 steps forward and 10 steps back. 2 promotions and 2 relegations later, we're back to square 1. The board seem to have bucked their ideas up, but it's madness to expect fans to get on board without backlash.
Patience is running very thin due to years of poor decisions, the irony is patience is exactly what is required for the next phase of our football club to be successful.
It's safe to say FFP has hit us really hard. We're now a selling club until we generate enough funds to build a team that's capable of challenging. Find cheap, sell high e.g Bright, Eze, Chair etc. Loans and free transfers will fill the rest of the squad.
It's unfortunately the result of years of poor decisions from the board. They seem to have got it right now, but its going to be a long and tedious process. As fans we're just going to have to accept that the Nahki Wells situation is one that we're going to see more often. Eze & co will go when the price is right, and that money will be used to find more of the sort. Repeat until you have a squad thats capable of challenging and a profitable football club. I hate to say it, but Brentford are coming towards the end of this exact model and are now reaping the rewards. It's painful to lose your best players, but it's the way things are going to be in the near future.
Warburton IMO is the man to take us forward through this process. His style of football gives us an identity we've lacked for so many years, but also gets the best out of players (especially forwards). I have doubts that Eze, Wells and Hugill would have scored/assisted as many in other setups, it's a smart way of adding to their value. I can see the fans frustrations defensively, but I struggle to think of another manager that would do any better with the squad at hand, its a poor squad on paper. We're lucky to be in a position where a manager wants to be part of a project and everyone (including the board, FINALLY) is moving in the same direction.
I say 'lucky', realistically this situation never needed to happen. The magnitude of poor decisions made after promotion was ridiculous, we had a platform to stick around in that league for a very very long time. Our fan base has turned very toxic in recent years, but I cant help but think its justified. You cannot expect the fans to not be frustrated by our current situation, we took 2 steps forward and 10 steps back. 2 promotions and 2 relegations later, we're back to square 1. The board seem to have bucked their ideas up, but it's madness to expect fans to get on board without backlash.
Patience is running very thin due to years of poor decisions, the irony is patience is exactly what is required for the next phase of our football club to be successful.
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