Originally Posted by navypie
Reply With QuoteThe constant focus on signing new players is symptomatic of the short-term, quick-fix mentality which has been in place at Notts for almost as long as I can remember.
Every time we get a new manager, the strategy seems to be to tread water until the next transfer window, at which point (we are told) the new manager will use his unparalleled array of industry contacts to bring in four, five or six brilliant new players, and we will start winning.
This never happens. What actually happens is that the new players are generally no better than the ones already on the books, and we simply end up with an even bigger squad of mediocre players, because understandably we struggle to offload the previous regime's brilliant new signings (who we now recognise as indistinguishable from the underperforming dross brought in by the regime prior to that).
Repeat this every six months for twenty years and see where you end up. It's often said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result...
Whatever happened to the idea that a manager's job is to motivate, organise and perhaps even improve an existing set of players?
