Claudius wrote:
Qwiss! wrote:
They even paid massive money for Carrick who was never a truly great player but he was the piece they needed at time and they were willing to pay for him. Thats what we need, get the right pieces for the system even if its expensive.
If you look at the Pepe transfer we should never have been spending £70m plus on a player for a manager who didn't really want him. To spend that money he should be a player the manager and board all agree is the right piece for the side. You should also be pretty confident in your manager at that point too as the next manager may not also want him which clearly wasn't the case with Emery.
All of these things. An expensive lesson
But it's an expensive lesson we haven't learned from years of repeating the same errors.
Unlike the Carrick example we have looked to compromise more often than not because of our shit cash flow from our frakking financial model, and because we always leave ourselves 'short' in terms of team/squad building.
Just like we haven't learned about allowing players to eventually leave as free agents = AW first spoke about not doing so after Flamini went to Milan in the summer of '08 ffs.
These current errors are going to cost us on and off the pitch for the next 3 seasons regardless of COVID because it will take our financial model that long to recover based upon our cash flow.
As a final point re not learning lessons and stubbornness/ostrich behaviour, the potential issues re cash flow were highlighted by DD prior to starting the stadium construction in '04, & COVID has stripped away the false security of our revenues.
