[Albion] Was selling Sanchez the worst decision the club has made in years ? The Poll !

[Weststander]

19/20 Ranking: N/A

20/21 Ranking: 16th

Before the the 20/21 season, Sánchez had never played above the League One level. But in a little over a year as a starter, the Spaniard has been nothing short of exceptional. He has the best cross-claim percentage in the EPL and ranks among the leaders for number of sweeper actions per 90 minutes.

RDZ based his footballing decisions on the real time data in front of him, not nostalgia. Sanchez’s distribution was bottom drawer and he was no longer the PL leader at crosses.

 

[Seagull58]

RDZ based his footballing decisions on the real time data in front of him, not nostalgia. Sanchez’s distribution was bottom drawer and he was no longer the PL leader at crosses.

I agree. His performances deteriorated under de Zerbi.

 

[Zeberdi]

I agree. His performances deteriorated under de Zerbi.

Wasn’t it more the case that Sanchez had a steep learning curve when De Zerbi arrived? - they all did but especially in the role of the GK? - no longer a traditional GK role of being a stopper and launcher but much more footballing to do, playing the centre man for the possession triangle play out from the back - I always thought Sanchez wasn’t so much getting worse under De Zerbi but rather his natural style of play was having to adapt to De Zerbi’s style which he was struggling to do. Verbruggen and Steele were much more adaptable it seemed or at least more suited to De Zerbi ball.

 

[Weststander]

I agree. His performances deteriorated under de Zerbi.

RDZ came in and (sink or swim) overnight changed training methods, demands on players, tactics. Italian coaches can be hard taskmasters, perfectionists. I think Dunk talked about it after a few months, he thrived. That pressure isn’t going to work for everyone. I’ve a feeling that Conte and others before him parted ways with players they almost clinically fell out with.

 

[Seagull58]

Wasn’t it more the case that Sanchez had a steep learning curve when De Zerbi arrived? - they all did but especially in the role of the GK? - no longer a traditional GK role of being a stopper and launcher but much more footballing to do, playing the centre man for the possession triangle play out from the back - I always thought Sanchez wasn’t so much getting worse under De Zerbi but rather his natural style of play was having to adapt to De Zerbi’s style which he was struggling to do. Verbruggen and Steele were much more adaptable it seemed or at least more suited to De Zerbi ball.

That may be true but statistically it appears he got worse. That may have been, at least partly, a consequence of the team playing a different style.

 

[RandyWanger]

Interesting snippet from Shannon Ruth re Sanchez. "I think he only comes through at Brighton"



Worth listening to the whole thing if you haven't.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Did we ever decide what was actually the worst decision the club has made in years?

 

[Stato]

Did we ever decide what was actually the worst decision the club has made in years?

Putting flags on everyone's seat at big games. Always guarantees a loss.

 

[Gazwag]

Putting flags on everyone's seat at big games. Always guarantees a loss.

Putting clackers on seats an even worse loss

 

[timbha]

Interesting snippet from Shannon Ruth re Sanchez. "I think he only comes through at Brighton"



Worth listening to the whole thing if you haven't.

Thank you. Very interesting in its entirety.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Putting clackers on seats an even worse loss

Letting foolish Americans become fans and watch matches on telly for a lot cheaper than in Europe.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Did we ever decide what was actually the worst decision the club has made in years?

The POLE suggests that it wasn't.

 

[nwgull]

Did we ever decide what was actually the worst decision the club has made in years?

Was it not Poyet's decision to splash out on CMS instead of offering a more competitive contract to Glenn Murray?

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Was it not Poyet's decision to splash out on CMS instead of offering a more competitive contract to Glenn Murray?

Wasn’t that more to do with budgets and how they were managed back then. Effectively we had a transfer budget and a wages budget. We couldn’t offer Murray more wages as there wasn’t scope in that budget.

Now things are a lot more fluid and there isn’t necessarily two entirely separate budgets.

Whoever made the decision to not have any flexibility in the budgets (Ken Brown?) is probably responsible overall for us losing Murray at that stage

 

[stewart12]

Wasn’t that more to do with budgets and how they were managed back then. Effectively we had a transfer budget and a wages budget. We couldn’t offer Murray more wages as there wasn’t scope in that budget.

Now things are a lot more fluid and there isn’t necessarily two entirely separate budgets.

Whoever made the decision to not have any flexibility in the budgets (Ken Brown?) is probably responsible overall for us losing Murray at that stage

well possibly, but we signed CMS with competition from other clubs and I imagine we were paying him a decent amount- I can envisage a conversation going like "wages wise we can't afford CMS and pay Murray what he's asking" and in that situation Poyet pushing to prioritise CMS given that he was a big fan

I guess we'll never 100% know the truth as all parties seem to have their own version of events

 

[Flounce]

Putting clackers on seats an even worse loss

And employing a pre match opera singer takes it up one notch further

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

And employing a pre match opera singer takes it up one notch further

Opera Woman used to always spell the kiss of death to our play-off hopes and dreams. More recently, sending Kelly Somers along to fawn over one of our headline-making wonderkids for Football Focus seems to have pretty much the same devastating effect on that player

 

[Han Solo]

Did we ever decide what was actually the worst decision the club has made in years?

While I didn't agree with how the Sanchez situation was handled... selling him for £25m can't be the worst decision. If thats the worst decision, then we've won the league several years in a row.

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

Worst decision ever was to have a Player of the Season award.

 

[fleet]

Maybe 2 good saves and 1 major mistake leading to a goal in every match. Move on.