[Albion] Paul Winstanley joins Chelsea as Director of Global Talent and Transfers

[Cowfold Seagull]

We're becoming Chelsea's feeder club.

It seems like we already are, in all but name. Makes one wonder who is next in line to be poached.

 

[figgis]

Must be honest, I’m delighted I was never fully on the Potter train now.

I was never on the Potter train ever and got a ton of sh1te for it. Palace, deluded, wind up , troll etc. I was having my opinion he was and still is riding his luck. Good riddance.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Disagree with that as I doubt Caicedo would join CFC direct as he would probably not get the chance, join us we will develop you and if you're good enough you can move on providing at the right price.

Personally I think CFC realised they lost the plot paying £97m for a useless forward and £60m for an unproven at a top team defender

I think what has put a lot of clubs off of signing players like Caicedo is the complicated player ownerships setups South American players often have. This is what stopped Man Utd signing him when he was on trial there. You've got to think if he was on the Man Utd radar he'd have been on most of the top 6 clubs radar at that time.

With Chelsea getting Winstanley they'd be singing someone with a lot of experience in those markets which may mean they aren't so put off that market any longer which could mean we will be dipping into the same pool for development players which makes it harder for us to recruit them in the future.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I think their goalies are better than Sanchez.

Yep me too. Sanchez is overrated by many on here, there l've said it.

A good keeper on his day, but has too many mistakes in him to be a really great one.

 

[Easy 10]

The only surprise to me is that it has taken until this season. Saudis first, Yanks second. It was always going to be like this. Just waiting for the inevitable Brentford pillage to come too. It is business. Identify talent, pay for it. We do the same but from a lower reputation pool.

I don't recall us ever, within the space of a few weeks *mid-season* stripping a smaller club of their manager PLUS their entire backroom team, PLUS their recruitment team.

You'd have to remind me when that happened.

 

[Swansman]

History rewriting day.

As if Chris Hughton or Roberto De Zerbi would turn down Chelsea.

Welcome to football. There's little loyalty. Ask Dick Knight.

 

[Sheebo]

I was all happy to begrudgingly clap Potter as he’s been the best manager we’ve had. But Bruno and Roberts tested me - this has finally made it clear they deserve a shit reception booooooo

 

[Bold Seagull]

I was never on the Potter train ever and got a ton of sh1te for it. Palace, deluded, wind up , troll etc. I was having my opinion he was and still is riding his luck. Good riddance.

And you’ve already turned on the new manager on another thread

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

I doubt it. A new owner without much football knowledge has just said “they’ve been doing brilliant, let’s hire all their staff”

It’s been mentioned before that Potter was going to be involved in the discussions about who to approach for the DOF role. So if they are appointing Winstanley it looks like they’ve sounded GP out for his view and this is very much on him.

 

[Bold Seagull]

I don't recall us ever, within the space of a few weeks *mid-season* stripping a smaller club of their manager PLUS their entire backroom team, PLUS their recruitment team.

You'd have to remind me when that happened.

I’d imagine had Di Zerbi and his 6 staff or whoever had come with him been at a smaller club and Bloom wanted them - we’d have done the same.

 

[Swansman]

So Potter wouldn’t have been involved in the decision to recruit his old colleague . In a Europe wide pool of candidates.

Irrespective of the job title.

Thought you were a firm part of the "Naylor knows everything" gang?

 

[Justice]

Must be honest, I’m delighted I was never fully on the Potter train now.

Me to never did take to him, some on here got brainwashed by him.

 

[Springal]

It’s been mentioned before that Potter was going to be involved in the discussions about who to approach for the DOF role. So if they are appointing Winstanley it looks like they’ve sounded GP out for his view and this is very much on him.

Or PW sounded out Potter after being leapfrogged by David Weir for our DoF role ?

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Or PW sounded out Potter after being leapfrogged by David Weir for our DoF role ?

I’m not quite sure how he was leapfrogged by Weir who was already in the Assistant DOF role before Ashworth left.

 

[chickens]

I appear to still have a shirt on my back. Perhaps Potter or Boelhy could let me know where I should mail it, since it’s clearly an oversight on their part.

 

[Springal]

I’m not quite sure how he was leapfrogged by Weir who was already in the Assistant DOF role before Ashworth left.

Weir was originally just the loans manager.

 

[Springal]

I’m not quite sure how he was leapfrogged by Weir who was already in the Assistant DOF role before Ashworth left.

Weir was originally just the loans manager.

 

[portlock seagull]

And to think he was precious about a few boos. When he returns I’d be more worried about rotten veg, coins and darts if I were him at this rate!!! Wouldn’t like to have a ST in the vicinity of the away bench this week…or bring a tin hat!

 

[figgis]

And you’ve already turned on the new manager on another thread

Where. Do you mean saying it was the same as Potter having 51 shots on goal and not scoring. That had nothing to do with the new manager.

 

[Pavilionaire]

The last time one of the Top 6 asset-stripped another Prem club like this was when Liverpool rinsed Southampton for Van Dijk, Mane, Lallana, Lovren, Clyne in quick succession having already had form with Crouch, Lambert and Oxlade-Chamberlain.

And it's not just us that's being f*cked over by Chelsea. Southampton only recruited their Head of Recruitment Joe Shields from Man City in July (having lost Martyn Glover to Leicester) and now Chelsea have poached Shields from the Saints after just 6 weeks. He's on gardening leave having had a tenure roughly equivalent to Liz Truss as PM.

Saints managed 4 consecutive seasons in the top 8 before the asset-stripping took its toll and in the last 5 seasons they haven't finished in the top half, averaging 15th spot.

I think the prospect of being asset-stripped in this way - season after season - is almost worse than being a yo-yo team between the Prem and the Championship.