Re: OTD 10 years ago
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Established managers are far more expensive, or are available because they are failures and keep getting sacked.
The majority of appointments you list made very reasonable sense at the time, bar the Westley appointments and some of those almost interim ones around Covid times.
We paid big money for Evans as manager because our FL status was on the line and relegation would have cost us millions, so it was money the board will have viewed as necessary to save us, but bringing him in goes against our norm, and us losing £700k in our first season back in L1 goes totally against our usual figures and shows why we normally go with less experience and therefore cheaper managers (and players, but having Evans as manager always results in clubs spending on players as he otherwise leaves).
Spending big on a manager will reduce our playing budget (or lead to large losses, which nobody wants) so I guess the argument is whether it is better to have a better manager with worse players or a worse manager with better players. Whichever route we go down will probably result in a similar season to what we have just had, with us doing reasonably but not setting the world alight, as has been the case for us most seasons, with the occasional massive flop and the occasional one where everything falls into place. That is what we are as a club unless we get huge investment or massively grow the fanbase.
Edited by Chuds at 22:13:28 on 21st May 2025
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