[Albion] Is it the manager, or is it recruitment?

[Eeyore]

The difference between £15 and £30m is minor if you look at the league.

There is an assumption that £30m gets you a better player. Time and time again it proves otherwise. (Joelinton, anyone ?)

Werner is an example at Chelsea. £50m+ and he has a worse overall record than Maupay.

I'm not convinced that transfer records are the best option. And anyway, Albion may not have the money at present. So be it. Folk need to stop seeing Bloom like he's Father Christmas and be thankful for what they already have.

The irrationality of mature football fans is something I just can't get my head round.

If Albion do go down we have the reassurance that they won't become a basket case.

 

[vagabond]

The difference between £15 and £30m is minor if you look at the league.

There is an assumption that £30m gets you a better player. Time and time again it proves otherwise. (Joelinton, anyone ?)

Werner is an example at Chelsea. £50m+ and he has a worse overall record than Maupay.

I'm not convinced that transfer records are the best option. And anyway, Albion may not have the money at present. So be it. Folk need to stop seeing Bloom like he's Father Christmas and be thankful for what they already have.

The irrationality of mature football fans is something I just can't get my head round.

I don’t think anyone is demanding we spend £50m on a striker. Don’t patronise fans like that.

But we probably need more than a 2nd division Swiss striker and the club to say “we don’t need to sign anyone else”.

Fully behind Potter. But believe in facts, and the facts suggest we are making a ton of chances each game but our forwards aren’t clinical enough.

 

[Eeyore]

I don’t think anyone is demanding we spend £50m on a striker. Don’t patronise fans like that.

But we probably need more than a 2nd division Swiss striker and the club to say “we don’t need to sign anyone else”.

Fully behind Potter. But believe in facts, and the facts suggest we are making a ton of chances each game but our forwards aren’t clinical enough.

I didn't say they were. Although many do think that transfer records are the solution.

I have two much time on my hands these days, so here are the contract transfer costs (approx) of any player who has scored more than five this year:

 

[AmexRuislip]

Both. But, when you look at the amount to chances we’ve ballsed up, you can’t really blame that on Potter. He needs the backing to get a goal scorer in January or it’s going to be difficult to see us surviving the drop this year

We had a goal scorer, but he was loaned out to Watford

 

[Springal]

We had a goal scorer, but he was loaned out to Watford

Unfortunately time doesn’t stand still and at his age I’m not sure he is a goal scorer in the top 2 divisions

 

[AmexRuislip]

Unfortunately time doesn’t stand still and at his age I’m not sure he is a goal scorer in the top 2 divisions

I know, but its just so frustrating

 

[Seasidesage]

Had we signed Nunez things might well have been different but the facts are that currently Danny Welbeck is the only striker we have who looks capable of scoring. That has to change. I'd hope with the financial meltdown in the French league we might be able to attract a higher calibre striker than we might otherwise. We need to get Connolly and Zequiri out on loan to aid they're development which means we need to get 1 or 2 options in. I honestly think a guy who can get us 8 or so in the rest of the season we finish mid table.

We've played very few who have been better than us, but 15 shots with 3 on target is killing us...

 

[vagabond]

I didn't say they were. Although many do think that transfer records are the solution.

I have two much time on my hands these days, so here are the contract transfer costs (approx) of any player who has scored more than five this year:

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Wages is the issue unfortunately. And reportedly why we couldn’t compete for Wakins.

 

[sydney]

Points won in the last five games
Brighton: 3 pts
Burnley: 8 pts
Fulham: 6 pts

They are closing the gap.

(edit: five games not six, misread the table I was taking it from)

Burnley above us now .....our inability to take games off other teams has left us dangling in the shyte .

 

[um bongo molongo]

The difference between £15 and £30m is minor if you look at the league.

There is an assumption that £30m gets you a better player. Time and time again it proves otherwise. (Joelinton, anyone ?)

Werner is an example at Chelsea. £50m+ and he has a worse overall record than Maupay.

I'm not convinced that transfer records are the best option. And anyway, Albion may not have the money at present. So be it. Folk need to stop seeing Bloom like he's Father Christmas and be thankful for what they already have.

The irrationality of mature football fans is something I just can't get my head round.

If Albion do go down we have the reassurance that they won't become a basket case.

We’ll never know the ins and outs. But we certainly appeared close to signing Nunez and Dia (interest in the latter confirmed by the player himself). Either of whom would likely have us comfortably mid table by now. Who knows why we couldn’t get those over the line: algorithms, an abundance of caution re Covid, wage caps, an aversion to overpaying agents. All of which could be good reasons, but ultimately leave us where we are: a good side, who play nice football box to box, but with a powder puff attack.

But, even as a Potter fan, the manager has to also take some of the blame. Our utter s***ness at set pieces (attacking and defending) is the most damning indictment of poor coaching. I also think the random player generator nature of team selection can’t be helping.

 

[Ludensian Gull]

For me it's the managers fault. He needs to pick a settled side, and stick to it. All these changes each week is doing us no favours.