Mladen's All Stars

Slonina loan
Smith
Gauci - loan
Gent
Craig - loan
Farrugia
Lembikisa - loan
Roberts
Hourihane - Retired
Nwakali
DKD
Humphrys
Rodrigues - loan
Rodrigues

Little to no resale value whatsoever, technically some very poor players, Lembikisa and Rodrigues obviously can't be judged too early, I'd say DKD and in flashes Nwakali are the only positives.

Makes James Cryne look like Txiki Begiristain at City.

 

If Mladan goes, then I hope he is accompanied by Flatman.

 

James cryne brought some very good players to barnsley fc. Only when Conway took over the recruitment went downhill. I hear james isn't involved anymore.

 

Nwakali another very poor game today. Id just keep bringing him off bench because he's like chalk and cheese.

 

Flatman is the commercial side of things, the whole reason of a DOF was so they could have autonomy on everything on the pitch, I get the feeling this was entrusted to Sormaz to allow Nareev and JAQ to step back and be hands off owners entrusting the football side for Mladen to operate with a set budget and final sign off.

How wrong they were.

 

He wasn't alone. I like o keffe I think he's a good attacking full.back, hardly got out of his own half 1st half.

 

I think Mladen is as **** as everyone does but it's not solely his fault. We are still using the same James Cryne spreadsheet and model thats brought in dozens and dozens of players nowhere near good enough and there is a secretive recruitment team in the background who are clearly not good enough. I'd sack the lot and burn the spreadsheet

 

We're NOT using the spreadsheet and haven't for ages isn't that obvious or do you think Marc.roberts, Cosgrove, Humphrys Benson, oulare are from the spreadsheet

 

I thought we stopped using this mythical spreadsheet?

 

I wrote
We are still using the same James Cryne spreadsheet

You mistakenly took that as me saying
We are still EXCLUSIVELY using the same James Cryne spreadsheet

 

But Sormaz was called Sporting Director when he was appointed rather than Director Of Football 'cos he knows sod all about foitball

 

The approach we used when cryne was involved brought us some of the best players and recruitment we have seen. This is no where near that.

 

No chance. We have continued to sign the same inexperienced players with statistical potential as we always did. Only difference is we now allow the occasional player from outside the spreadsheet too but then again I suppose we always did. And I know it isn't actually a spreadsheet but it's easier than saying using James crynes software and dataset or whatever it is. If you think about it, why would we bin it off and yet still try to unearth some gems from under the radar? If that's our approach, which we all know it is, then it makes no sense to bin it off

 

It also brought in some of the worst in general but also a lot who the spreadsheet was right, did have potential and do become good players but simply weren't ready at the time. There's a chance this is the case with a few of our signings now but they aren't surrounded by better players which is the big failing and has been for some years

 

I'm not really sure what other approach we take. Buy young and potential, or scratch around for freebies. I personally think far far too much is made from this spreadsheet malarkey.

 

We were crying out for pace in the side & players to stretch the opposition yet we sign that lot. If Clarke does go at some point Mladen should have departed first.

 

My biggest problem with it is that I think we've used it completely wrong for years.

Im my opinion the idea is you buy young potential and put them on the bench, spend a year blooding them and making them better players then a year or so getting the most out of them and then sell them for profit. Problem is because we have no experienced players in place those who should be on the bench are in the first team every week getting found out which harms the club and the players.

There's also a bonkers reliance and favouritism of short term loanees at the expense of the very players we've signed to develop which I'll never understand. An experienced loanee yes, but often we sign an inexperienced on for a few months who we don't get the best out of and when they go back all that's happened is they've got experience at our expense while our own player hasn't developed at all.

 

Stop buying punts, there's a reason lots of clubs look at players with significant EFL experience

 

The approach we use now which is totally different to the one under crynes has brought us the squad we have now. Your saying the recruitment is the same as james cryne used its chaulk and cheese mate

 

Ok. I think it's very similar, you dont. That's fine