Re: Doesn't look good does it?
Posted: 22 Jul 2013, 19:09
So it's all going to be Hunt's fault when we don't win, he's to be our latest scapegoat, even though the much respected (so far) manager has been after him for ages anyway?
Aces, with all due respect, only recently you revealed you didn't even know we'd paid any money for Murphy, and earlier you replied to SMorientes's highlighting of things that GFH have changed for the better within that club with "I didn't know all that". If you're so ill-informed with highly-recent day-to-day events at the club, I imagine you saying you expected new club owners to only come in if in possession of X million of disposable funds to be much more wishful thinking than wrapped around factual context, and as such I must say I can attach little relevance to the thought.Aces wrote:I have to agree with isrodger, good post mate. Personally I expected between £5 and £7 million to be spent on new players, like I said before, anyone taking over such a BIG club like Leeds, should be coming in with SOME money to spend, £5 to £7 million is the least I expected, it doesn't mean we would be guaranteed promotion, but it would mean we were back in the game, it looks to be much the same as before to me. Hope I'm wrong, I'm sounding like a whinger. Lol
I personally think GFH are doing it the right way around in spite of what people are concluding this and that no money etc, there restructuring the whole club and their starting from the top down and filling in areas that the club was in the dark ages with they might be a banking institution per-se but there making the buisness aparatus now that should have been there, it's going to take about 2 years or so to see the benefits of GFH's tenure take shape.Bogdan wrote:Aces, with all due respect, only recently you revealed you didn't even know we'd paid any money for Murphy, and earlier you replied to SMorientes's highlighting of things that GFH have changed for the better within that club with "I didn't know all that". If you're so ill-informed with highly-recent day-to-day events at the club, I imagine you saying you expected new club owners to only come in if in possession of X million of disposable funds to be much more wishful thinking than wrapped around factual context, and as such I must say I can attach little relevance to the thought.Aces wrote:I have to agree with isrodger, good post mate. Personally I expected between £5 and £7 million to be spent on new players, like I said before, anyone taking over such a BIG club like Leeds, should be coming in with SOME money to spend, £5 to £7 million is the least I expected, it doesn't mean we would be guaranteed promotion, but it would mean we were back in the game, it looks to be much the same as before to me. Hope I'm wrong, I'm sounding like a whinger. Lol
Among all the talk of how GFH shouldn't have taken the job on, I am still not convinced of two things - that we would be happier with Bates still in charge, and that there is any sign of someone else willing to step up to the plate.
I love Leeds, but I don't live and breath Leeds, i gave my explanation about Murphy, i have never heard of him TBH, he played for Crewe so why would i ? the threads about .... Not looking good is it? It is early days I will agree on that, but at the moment it isn't looking that good, that's my opinion, not wanting to argue about it, but on the poll 50% think we will be md table at best, so i'm not on my own. I hope we go on a 20 match winning streak when the season kicks off, I don't care if we win every match in a boring 1 nil win game after game. Like I said, we are potentially one of the top ten best clubs in the country, anyone taking us over, I .... That's me, not you ..... I expected them to have a few million pounds to invest. If they haven't we will have to do the best we can with what we ave got and one good thing, is we have a really good manager, so fingers crossed we are on the up.Bogdan wrote:Aces, with all due respect, only recently you revealed you didn't even know we'd paid any money for Murphy, and earlier you replied to SMorientes's highlighting of things that GFH have changed for the better within that club with "I didn't know all that". If you're so ill-informed with highly-recent day-to-day events at the club, I imagine you saying you expected new club owners to only come in if in possession of X million of disposable funds to be much more wishful thinking than wrapped around factual context, and as such I must say I can attach little relevance to the thought.Aces wrote:I have to agree with isrodger, good post mate. Personally I expected between £5 and £7 million to be spent on new players, like I said before, anyone taking over such a BIG club like Leeds, should be coming in with SOME money to spend, £5 to £7 million is the least I expected, it doesn't mean we would be guaranteed promotion, but it would mean we were back in the game, it looks to be much the same as before to me. Hope I'm wrong, I'm sounding like a whinger. Lol
Among all the talk of how GFH shouldn't have taken the job on, I am still not convinced of two things - that we would be happier with Bates still in charge, and that there is any sign of someone else willing to step up to the plate.
I think BM like our past managers having been told little porkies about team funding. Like you say why didn't BM but his number one target 1st? If you hear his past interviews, he comes across full of confidence that his target list will be fulfilled and even had backup players in mind. Maybe it was GFH who thought it would be easy to off load our deadwood, so promised him more than they could guarantee.isrodger wrote:For all their good intentions, and they have made some good "easy win" off the pitch decisions, we can't get away from the fact that GFH haven't really got the funding to take the club forward. In terms of transfers like the signings of pugh, gray, varney, ashdown, Norris, Green ( a relative success), tonge & hall before him I can't help thinking the signing of hunt is a waste of resource. We have been desperate and I do mean desperate for pace, width and a commanding centre half for over a year now, but we sign another player who kind of plays off the point forward just like varney, McCormack, poleon, and arguably diuof. In critisism of BMc .....If our next acquisition is such a key signing why spend in excess the thick £1.5m on a player that adds little variety to our squad, ahead of getting your main man in? I am not having a go at the players mention above, it's just they are much of a muchness, squad players; not the type that are going to develop or feature in a top six side. GFHs funding of the acquisition of murphey was rightly lauded, but in fairness guys 3 or 4 signings of this nature is the least we should expect. GFH are a VC that came into this gig, with full knowledge of bates plunderings, sorry but making the best of a bad job really doesn't wash anymore.
I think you slightly miss my point ONS clearly BMc has a key target a wide man or centre half who can only be attained if wages are freed up. I am questioning adding hunt to the wage bill if other areas are more of a priority. If we had messi and ronaldo in our ranks I might question the acquisition of Neymar .... If we didn't have a decent centre half. The point about hunt and I haven't seen him play in a white shirt, is from what I have read is he could be relecanted in our squad by the likes of varney, McCormack, possibly poleon and diuof to lesser or greater effect. Whereas we don't even have one single winger in our pack.onenorthernsoul wrote:So it's all going to be Hunt's fault when we don't win, he's to be our latest scapegoat, even though the much respected (so far) manager has been after him for ages anyway?