Quote Originally Posted by WTF11 View Post
I'm suggesting that despite his unquestioned coaching capabilities (look at what he did with a middling squad in both 2018/19 and 19/20), he isn't entirely successful in terms of either loan players or permanent signings, the record would support that.

You mention just about the only successes achieved since he arrived at the club since June 2018 (although how you can put Casilla in that list is beyond me). There are literally scores of players that have been brought in never to be seen again before being transferred out, or played once/twice and then discarded (go to TransferMarkt, they are all there).

As always, when I post something critical of the club (in whatever area of its operations) I am accused of suggesting all is "doom and gloom", rather than voicing scepticism about the ability of our DoF to identify and acquire real quality additions to the 1st team squad, and of the coach to either challenge what Orta proposes, or identify the weaknesses in those proposed, the record in that area simply doesn't come close to the magic that Bielsa has worked with the squad he has.
We need better than Casilla for the prem and Meslier looks to have jumped ahead of him. For all his faults he was better than what we had BPF was more of a liability. I still don’t think Casilla is a shocker he is just prone to random lapses which can cost us but also has moments of brilliance. The point being that at the time we signed him he improved the squad albeit not as much as you may have liked.