Good insight and review the current status. I agree with you that we are ahead of where a Liverpool were on a Like4Like basis. Patience is still required as there will be further hiccups along the way. Overall, I think we are in a better position than we were at the time of the takeover. Remove the deadwood, tick; Improve the football style, tick; Reduce the age of the squad, tick; Start, scoring some goals, tick. Yes everything is not perfect, but I don’t believe perfection was ever viable after two years and you have to make mistakes to learn from and move forward. As you clearly stay here and before the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle more than anything else is a sporting director. I still believe that with the right SD There is a chance that the current football management will work.
The point you maid about appointing Edwards and Klopp is exactly how i think and why i think this summer is so important. If we could appoint a top class sporting director to compliment but sit above Winstanley and Stewart to bring the experience of squad building. This coupled with setting a football philosophy to recruit for i think we are on to a winnner.
In my opinion also putting in a better coach is what we need to do. If you could convince Alonso De Zerbi or Almorim to join and be the manager of the club for the now and future we could transform and compete for top 4 and beyound from next year.
Some good points in here but 'One of the things we heard constantly during the Boehly / Clearlake takeover of Chelsea back in 2022, was how they wanted to model themselves on Liverpool under FSG.'
Unless im missing something i clearly remember the ownership talking about Brighton and / or Brentford .. and how impressed they are with them. Winning almost as much games as some other teams and very low wage bill / transfer fee / cost.
Never once they mentioned Liverpool.
They were so obsessed by the Brighton model that they went about turning the club into the 'Brighton of London'. Hired their coaches and their sporting director and here we are.
Liverpool started badly and then fixed up their transfer strategy by hiring competent people.... plus their owner does not poke his nose in transfer business like Eghbali does.. which ultimately results in us buying a Mudryk for 60m, Lavia for 60m and Caicedo for 120m.
Nkunku, Carney, James & Chilly new contract all came when Boehly was running the show.
It has been more of a shit show since Eghbali adopted his more 'hands on' approach. They would have been very very daft not to offer Colwill a new contract after his Brighton loan. The signings of Gusto, Badiashile, Palmer, Petrovic and Jackson deserve credit.
but overpaying for others and signing a dozen kids to stockpile talent have created more issues FFP and squad building wise. The team still lacks a striker, physicality and leadership... even after spending 1 bn. You can create a title winning team or close for that much.
Great article really interesting to read the comparison with Liverpool
Another absolutely fantastic article, from The Score. Genuinely, some of the best writing on CFC I have enjoyed, anywhere.
Good insight and review the current status. I agree with you that we are ahead of where a Liverpool were on a Like4Like basis. Patience is still required as there will be further hiccups along the way. Overall, I think we are in a better position than we were at the time of the takeover. Remove the deadwood, tick; Improve the football style, tick; Reduce the age of the squad, tick; Start, scoring some goals, tick. Yes everything is not perfect, but I don’t believe perfection was ever viable after two years and you have to make mistakes to learn from and move forward. As you clearly stay here and before the missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle more than anything else is a sporting director. I still believe that with the right SD There is a chance that the current football management will work.
Couldn't agree more with you on this!
The point you maid about appointing Edwards and Klopp is exactly how i think and why i think this summer is so important. If we could appoint a top class sporting director to compliment but sit above Winstanley and Stewart to bring the experience of squad building. This coupled with setting a football philosophy to recruit for i think we are on to a winnner.
In my opinion also putting in a better coach is what we need to do. If you could convince Alonso De Zerbi or Almorim to join and be the manager of the club for the now and future we could transform and compete for top 4 and beyound from next year.
Some good points in here but 'One of the things we heard constantly during the Boehly / Clearlake takeover of Chelsea back in 2022, was how they wanted to model themselves on Liverpool under FSG.'
Unless im missing something i clearly remember the ownership talking about Brighton and / or Brentford .. and how impressed they are with them. Winning almost as much games as some other teams and very low wage bill / transfer fee / cost.
Never once they mentioned Liverpool.
They were so obsessed by the Brighton model that they went about turning the club into the 'Brighton of London'. Hired their coaches and their sporting director and here we are.
Liverpool started badly and then fixed up their transfer strategy by hiring competent people.... plus their owner does not poke his nose in transfer business like Eghbali does.. which ultimately results in us buying a Mudryk for 60m, Lavia for 60m and Caicedo for 120m.
Nkunku, Carney, James & Chilly new contract all came when Boehly was running the show.
It has been more of a shit show since Eghbali adopted his more 'hands on' approach. They would have been very very daft not to offer Colwill a new contract after his Brighton loan. The signings of Gusto, Badiashile, Palmer, Petrovic and Jackson deserve credit.
but overpaying for others and signing a dozen kids to stockpile talent have created more issues FFP and squad building wise. The team still lacks a striker, physicality and leadership... even after spending 1 bn. You can create a title winning team or close for that much.