Quote Originally Posted by Jammy89 View Post
I'm hoping that will change now Wilson is in and feet under table.

We can't habe another last summer again.
Indeed. The old saying 'The proof of the pudding is in the eating' comes to mind.

Through out December the targets for January were identified and as usual the agents leaked the info to the press.

Dayann Methalie, Kees Smit, Tiago Gabriel were 3 of the primary target.

From an uniformed (as we all are) point of view with zero connection to the club or decision makers this is how is seems to have played out.

- Wilson / Club identified the targets before the window

- Wilson / Club communicates interest with the targets agents and through intermediaries with the club

- Wilson / Club feedback

Methalie - surgery delayed the potential signing
Smit - declared he won't move in the Jan window. Jorge Mendez involved - big money, Summer Transfer saga
Tiago Gabriel - nothing clear regarding why that didn't progress / Dan Burn's rapid return to fitness

- The recruitment team including Eddie / Wilson / Club decided not to go down the list of targets to 2nd, 3rd, 4th choice.

Both the points can be true.

The club needs to bring in more quality. The club shouldn't just sign anyone.

As mentioned above, the transfers the clubs hasn't moved quickly enough in the summers previously to secure the top targets.

It makes sense not signing the lesser targets just for the sake of it. That being said, it only makes sense IF the summer business secures the top targets.

The noise around the money is just an excuse.

Signing in Jan or June is the same tax year. Talk of PSR restrictions is inaccurate. Kieran Maguire is the only person I believe when it comes to the finances of each club.

NUFC have a lot of 'head room' (another wa*k modern phrase. Shall we start a most hated modern wa*k phrases that are completely unnecessary as there are already terms for those things?) to sign players. Wilson has confirmed that, Eddie was confident ahead of the window that deals could be done.

That changed midway through the window as the reality of the challenges became evident.

Eddie's clearly involved in that decision, he's part of the team to make the decisions, collectively the decided that the players available were not worth the investment & wouldn't be the next step up in quality with the 'High ceiling' (another Wa*k phrase) have the potential to put the club on an even footing with the cartel.

He lives by that decision, he dies by that decision. The fanbase is divided between the rational and the uneducated.

I want my team to win the league. I want my team to win the Champions League. I want my team to win FA Cup and League cups every year.

I want my team to dominate & set a legacy of winning for decades.

We know why that isn't possible right now. All the restrictions, the Cartel ref bias, on and on and on.

Eddie himself is not the 2nd coming of Jesus, the man makes mistake, just like every other manager. Anyone seeing the challenges Pep is having at City right now? After all the money they've spent, the greatest manager of his generation is still struggling to get a tune out of them.

I don't like to compare but we be realistic. When the bed wetters point out what Eddie has spent and what Emre is doing at Villa that's all well and good but when the counterpoint to their argument is reflected using their own argument it's irrelevance to the same people.

You can't debate stupid. The Absences of fact is never an issue when it comes to the emotions of a moron.