Is Hecky losing faith

Hecky has stated we're after more players, the club are trying to get players in, but the problem we have is that silly season has well and truly hit, and suddenly being able to afford players of the calibre we want is getting much much harder.

When you've middle of the road teams splashing 10s of millions on single players, that all cascades down to lower league teams wanting a million or more. Just because the price tag is high, doesn't necessarily make it a good signing.

You've also got the perennial problem of players and agents holding out to deadline day where money gets sillier still as desperation bites and their payout gets more lucrative.

Expect it to get even worse if Mbappe goes for crazy money as an 18yo, or Neymar, or both.

 

I just think that he's being straight and honest as usual. It must have been one of the most difficult of pre-seasons from a manager's point of view. I don't suppose that he would have chosen to see so many of the players he and the staff had nurtured move away as they have done, including his established captain and representative on the pitch. It can't have been easy trying to get in the target players to rebuild, but, in fact, BFC has done pretty well on that account, but it must be frustrating in not being able to bring together the complete squad for the warm-up friendlies. He must particularly want to be able to work with a full set of strikers and forwards and that is where the squad is not yet complete. It's understandable that he's a bit down when those final pieces are out of his control and taking longer than anyone might have expected. I hope that the club will show some real ambition in its pursuit of a full set of strikers even if it means pushing the boat out. No criticism of Bradshaw, Brown and Ugbo, but we do need strength in depth in that area. Transfer market has gone very quiet all round with the out of contract and pre-contract agreement players having moved already. Just need to pick/steal some good last-minute deals now and Hecky will be looking a lot more chipper.

 

I would say they are the Premier League club most similar to ourselves but he only mentioned attendances and I was using Bournemouth as an example of how daft that point was!

 

In truth attendances are fairly irrelevant unless indicative of a genuinely big club.
Fulham, QPR, Blackburn, Reading, Wigan, Bournemouth etc have all had attendances similar to or much lower than ours over the last 30 years. What's pushed them past us is injections of cash from rich benefactors.

 

Agree with all of that. That's why I thought it was a daft comment to say support someone with bigger attendances.

 

I don't think he/Hecky sounded too different to how he normally sounds actually. (it annoyed me seeing all the flies and midgies hovering around him though!)
He says he wishes we could play these friendlies every day and that shows how hard it is to make a new team settle in together in the little time we've got.
And it looks like Townsend could be going out on loan somewhere soon.

 

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