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Many of us believe that next season has to be our season but arguably to do this we would have to buy players who will give us that immediate success. Obviously no player can guarantee us success but bringing a player in with both experience and success at this level is more likely to help us get out of the division then buying young and inexperienced players.
I ask then would you prefer us to buy players who may not make it in the Premiership but will give us a great chance of getting their or would you prefer the club to invest in youth who aren't ready for a season long campaign?
Let me help you with answering this question:
Players like Andy Gray, Tommy Smith even Kevin Phillips don't have the quality to cut it at the highest level but would bring much need experience, leadership and hopefully goals which our team need. But by signing such players we would need to release them and bring in new players for a Premiership campaign.
If, however we invest in youth and build an academy and a scouting system similar to that of Wolves it might take us longer to reach the Premiership but the result would be that we could turn freebie or low cost signings into multi-million pound players and not be left with has beens or cast offs.
I'm in two minds over my own question. On the one hand I would love us to get back to the Premiership sooner rather than later but I would also love us to do it with our "own" players. The thought of going up having had to sign ex-Charlton or ex-Watford players wouldn't matter when promoted but during the season it would get mentioned everytime he plays badly. When a player is "our own" we tend to give him more time and I would even go so far as to say that we would celebrate more if they were to score then if they were/are someone elses. An example for this is that I believe that we would be happier if Balanta were to score a hat-trick knowing he is our player than if Di Carmine scored one (not that it will happen) because he isn't our player.
I can guess already that the majority will say they want success sooner but I would interested to here the debate into why.
I ask then would you prefer us to buy players who may not make it in the Premiership but will give us a great chance of getting their or would you prefer the club to invest in youth who aren't ready for a season long campaign?
Let me help you with answering this question:
Players like Andy Gray, Tommy Smith even Kevin Phillips don't have the quality to cut it at the highest level but would bring much need experience, leadership and hopefully goals which our team need. But by signing such players we would need to release them and bring in new players for a Premiership campaign.
If, however we invest in youth and build an academy and a scouting system similar to that of Wolves it might take us longer to reach the Premiership but the result would be that we could turn freebie or low cost signings into multi-million pound players and not be left with has beens or cast offs.
I'm in two minds over my own question. On the one hand I would love us to get back to the Premiership sooner rather than later but I would also love us to do it with our "own" players. The thought of going up having had to sign ex-Charlton or ex-Watford players wouldn't matter when promoted but during the season it would get mentioned everytime he plays badly. When a player is "our own" we tend to give him more time and I would even go so far as to say that we would celebrate more if they were to score then if they were/are someone elses. An example for this is that I believe that we would be happier if Balanta were to score a hat-trick knowing he is our player than if Di Carmine scored one (not that it will happen) because he isn't our player.
I can guess already that the majority will say they want success sooner but I would interested to here the debate into why.
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