[Albion] Is our recruitment overrated?

[Withdean11]

Well?

 

[Balders]

If you look at our net player spend - then it can only be a massive No. End of thread......

 

[zefarelly]

On managers. Yes

 

[BrightonLoyal]

Not at all, we have a good squad, unbalanced maybe but the majority of the players are good players. Just poorly coached and set up

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Not at all, but when we forget to do the basics in spending. Doing it from Front to back, instead of back to front. (defence to attack). Knowing full well, that Fabian likes to play a high line and have quick pacey centre backs, then this is what happens.

 

[BevBHA]

It needs a software update

 

[Soton Seagull]

Overall no. However we are struggling to get much value from the huge spend in the summer.

 

[banjo]

We got all the right players, but not necessarily playing in the right way.

 

[Normandy seagull]

Showing serious flaws- yes we’ve had gems but some poor choices also. We look bang average this season

 

[Weststander]

Players, absolutely. Not the data, but the decisions to stubbornly hold out at FB, CB and DM if all value boxes aren’t ticked.

The suits may love it, but the poor sods going to games since Dec 23 have watched an unbalanced team/squad that struggles to control games, that struggles to deliver wins. Definitely a huge regression since 2022/23.

One thing TB won’t like is plummeting values. Ferguson, Pedro, Estupinan, Verbruggen, JPVH …. £10m’s each the drop since their peak.

 

[southstandandy]

I'm not so sure.

Yes I was excited last summer with all the new arrivals, but only Rutter has looked fairly consistent.

Minteh cost a fortune and reminds me of Lua Lua (occasional brilliance then goes missing), O'Reilly looks out of his depth (so far), Wieffer is barely getting a look in, Gruda probably could do with a loan, Gomez is probably wondering why he joined, Barco hasn't worked out, Yalcouye, Cozier-Duberry, and Osman have all been shipped out on loan, and Kadioglu has been injured virtually all season.

At the moment it's fair to say recent recruitment has been poor, but obviously many will need time. It's just sad to see so little positive impact from so FEW of our new signings so far. Maybe it is a case of Quantity over Quality in the last year regarding recruitment.

 

[Balders]

Just to put a different spin on this, primarily because people's expectations are that they want everything "yesterday" these days and a £200m spend has to produce immediate results.

Chelsea spent nigh on a billion and for that first season they were a basket case, but it's all coming together now and they may even improve further next season - ours is an "Investment" as was Chelsea's - check out the definition of Investment ;-)

 

[Forster's Armband]

Showing serious flaws- yes we’ve had gems but some poor choices also. We look bang average this season

That's down to the coach.

Plenty of teams want Ferdi.
Atalanta wanted O'Riely
Gruda is a German under-21 and would have been in the euros squad but for unjury.
Wieffer is dutch international CDM
Rutter is quality and hardly ever starts
Newcastle were desperate to keep Minteh

FH is f**king it up at the moment. Badly.

 

[J2 DOG]

How much of the recent recruitment is from the manager? Gruda, and Rutter ?

 

[Littlemo]

Yes, a bit. Not always because we have obviously had a lot of gems but the more recent recruits like Buonanotte, Barco, Enciso, most of the players we’ve bought for this season - well they are away on loan, look like either getting sold or not really kicking on with us.

I am more worried that we’ve stockpiled promising kids and now can’t develop them well enough.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Ridiculously imbalanced squad, defence needs serious investment and we need to get a manager in whose not a clown. The rest will sort itself out.

 

[warmleyseagull]

I wonder at the wisdom of buying so many players at once. It would have been difficult for any manager to work out what the best XI would be, let alone one unused to the level of talent in his hands, and having to cope with so many injuries. That said, Bournemouth have coped with even more injuries.

For sure, none of the signings has really sparked. Rutter is probably the best but the others have much to do to prove the investment. This was a humiliating day - arguably the second worst in the club's history - but Forest have shown that you can shrug off a disaster and come back strongly. Brighton can too.

 

[The Fits]

No but we did unquestionably dropped a bollock last summer. We needed more defenders, more experience, more pace and more physicality.

 

[Hamilton]

People are mistaking our recruitment business strategy with our team recruitment strategy.

The former, no. The latter has not been as successful this season. Or has it?

 

[Guinness Boy]

If you’re talking about recruitment of players that will make money because they’re in a position that the data says will make money then we’re great.

Building a functioning football team? Not so much.