We've been highly critical of our managers on here and rightly so. The most recent glaring example, of course, was the 'brilliant' decision to alienate Morgan Whittaker before selling him for the derisory fee of just £1 million. Didn't ANYONE at our club see the potential of a player who currently tops the goalscoring charts in the Championship and whose valuation is now considered, in a few short months, to be TWENTY times what we sold him for.
There must be retarded amoebas on some distant planet with more intelligence than the collective brain-power to be found at the Liberty. And it isn't as if Whittaker is achieving success at a top club flush with quality players to help him. He signed for Plymouth Argyle for God's sake, a club, with all due respect, that's probably not as good as we are in terms of potential and past success.
There's an arrogance about football people, particularly among coaches/managers, an arrogance that irritates me and puzzles me. They believe that because they're lucky enough to be earning a living from the game, they know far more than those who don't. WRONG!!!!!!!!!!! That's a complete and utter fallacy and we see glaring examples on a weekly basis of so many who are strictly limited in terms of their cerebral capacity and ability to do their jobs.
Even the best can be guilty of making crass, totally erroneous decisions about the ability of certain players. In another post I commented that Chelsea were stupid enough to sell Mo Salah AND Kevin de Bruyne believing them not to be good enough for the club. What a bunch of dimwits!! What did that cost them long term? And you'd expect a club of their stature to be employing the best judges in the game. In reality, what do they know?
And Chelsea are still at it. I read today that they sold Nathan Ake to Muff for £20 million who then sold him to Citeh for £41 million. Today, Ake is valued at £51 million. But listen to this - the managers WHO DID NOT RATE Ake were, Rafael Benitez, Jose Mourinho, Guus Hiddink and Antonio Conte!!! These are TOP managers who should know what they're doing. Or do they really? They make mistake after mistake before getting sacked and getting another job that pays them millions more. Okay, I get that many clubs have advisers/directors dealing with transfers etc but many of them are as equally culpable as the managers.
But it's just not the selling of players where they make so many mistakes, it's also the buying of them. Time doesn't allow me to to go into this but just take Manchester United as an example of one of the many clubs who've paid vastly inflated fees and wages for bog-average players worth just a tiny fraction of their outlay. And as for Chelsea, they've paid the best part of a BILLION POUNDS to assemble a team of garbage players. I could go on.......
Bearing all this in mind, the football world would do us all a favour if they'd stop being so condescending, so patronising to their fans and others who do not work in football for a living. Remember that there is a far higher level of intelligence and knowledge outside football than in it. Remember that these fans will know a lot more about the game than you think they do. And remember that sometimes some of them will know more than you.
There must be retarded amoebas on some distant planet with more intelligence than the collective brain-power to be found at the Liberty. And it isn't as if Whittaker is achieving success at a top club flush with quality players to help him. He signed for Plymouth Argyle for God's sake, a club, with all due respect, that's probably not as good as we are in terms of potential and past success.
There's an arrogance about football people, particularly among coaches/managers, an arrogance that irritates me and puzzles me. They believe that because they're lucky enough to be earning a living from the game, they know far more than those who don't. WRONG!!!!!!!!!!! That's a complete and utter fallacy and we see glaring examples on a weekly basis of so many who are strictly limited in terms of their cerebral capacity and ability to do their jobs.
Even the best can be guilty of making crass, totally erroneous decisions about the ability of certain players. In another post I commented that Chelsea were stupid enough to sell Mo Salah AND Kevin de Bruyne believing them not to be good enough for the club. What a bunch of dimwits!! What did that cost them long term? And you'd expect a club of their stature to be employing the best judges in the game. In reality, what do they know?
And Chelsea are still at it. I read today that they sold Nathan Ake to Muff for £20 million who then sold him to Citeh for £41 million. Today, Ake is valued at £51 million. But listen to this - the managers WHO DID NOT RATE Ake were, Rafael Benitez, Jose Mourinho, Guus Hiddink and Antonio Conte!!! These are TOP managers who should know what they're doing. Or do they really? They make mistake after mistake before getting sacked and getting another job that pays them millions more. Okay, I get that many clubs have advisers/directors dealing with transfers etc but many of them are as equally culpable as the managers.
But it's just not the selling of players where they make so many mistakes, it's also the buying of them. Time doesn't allow me to to go into this but just take Manchester United as an example of one of the many clubs who've paid vastly inflated fees and wages for bog-average players worth just a tiny fraction of their outlay. And as for Chelsea, they've paid the best part of a BILLION POUNDS to assemble a team of garbage players. I could go on.......
Bearing all this in mind, the football world would do us all a favour if they'd stop being so condescending, so patronising to their fans and others who do not work in football for a living. Remember that there is a far higher level of intelligence and knowledge outside football than in it. Remember that these fans will know a lot more about the game than you think they do. And remember that sometimes some of them will know more than you.
