rss1969 wrote:You have actually strengthened my points but I am not going to list them all, nor quote as the resulting post becomes boring for forumers.
My posts are seen as negative and we are top of the table so will be deemed even more so.
A couple of key signings would strengthen our position but he will not sanction it. I am not a fan and not fooled by his PR, I am not alone in that opinion.
Anyhow, let’s keep this football up and hopefully our patience will be rewarded come May.
I don't necessarily think your posts are negative as such, I just think you're missing the point completely. It's not that he's being frugal and refusing to sanction it, it's that he clearly doesn't have the money - and if you really think spending money we don't have chasing dreams is worthwhile, clearly you can't have been a fan during the Ridsdale era. That nearly killed the club, and if you're honestly happy to risk that again, I'm clearly wasting my time.
He's invested in the club as a whole - he's bought the stadium back, spent money on the infrastructure and the staff after Cellino asset-stripped, revamped the academy, signed a fair few first team players (many who have been poor, yes), as well as hiring the most expensive manager in the club's history.
Radz is not an Abramovich or a Sheikh Mansour; he's never pretended to be. It's been very clear all along that he doesn't have a limitless pot of gold to throw around. He has, however, spent more money than he's taken out of the club.
He's made a lot of mistakes, no one is trying to deny that, but to give the man credit, he seems to learn from them. When he realised the managers weren't up to the standard, he didn't just go out and get a McCarthy or a Warnock, someone who knew the league, he goes out of his way to get one of the most revered coaches in recent history, spending huge amounts of money to bring him here. Last season he put undue pressure on TC and a new team, saying the play-offs were the absolute minimum expectation - he's kept his mouth quiet this year.
I think you're also forgetting that it's Bielsa himself who is saying we don't need three or four new signings, like you seem to think we do, to 'strengthen our position'. He wants a lean squad of 22/23 players - he doesn't have the room for 3/4 more, so why spend money on them? Bielsa is the one who has said he watched all our games from last season and was happy to work with 15 of the squad (BPF, Ayling, Berardi, Jansson, Cooper, Shaughnessy, Pearce, Phillips, Forshaw, Vieira, Dallas, Hernandez, Saiz, Alioski, Roofe) of the first team squad. He's brought in another 5 (Baker, Bamford, Blackman, Harrison, and Douglas), but lost Vieira, so already up to 19. He's brought Klich back in from the cold, finally seen Roberts in action, and is bringing Shackleton through. That's 22. To fit in with Bielsa's squad demands, we have maybe one more space.
Saying we need 3/4 more signings and claiming Radz is refusing to sanction them when the manager has insisted from day one he wants a lean squad of 22/23 players (2 for every position), which we already have, smacks of you trying to find a reason to blame Radz. If you want to blame anyone, blame Bielsa for not thinking we need these mythical signings - although given the start we've had, I somehow doubt anyone's going to be pointing the finger at Bielsa just now.
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Well put ANS.
