It clearly has not occurred to you that, unlike football management games, you cannot just go out and buy whatever player you fancy.

 

You need available players that you want.  Available in terms of transfer window, a club that wants to sell and a player that wants to come.

 

Stone was injured on the very eve of the season, Blackwell only had a chance to find someone who fit the above criteria for a month in January.

 

I would suggest that in an ideal world he would buy in a balanced way to cover positions, ie a forward, then a midfield player, then a defender – or whatever.  In reality you draw up a list of players you’d like, and then try and get them as and when they become available.. that means sometimes no midfielders fitting the criteria are available during any one transfer window.

 

 

 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 May 2006 17:23
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LU] It seems to me..........

 

In a message dated 5/23/2006 12:05:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

that the people who play hell about our crap players (Kelly, Gregan, Butler,
Lewis, Crainey, Douglas etc.) are also the ones who say with the players we
had we should have gone up automatically.
Now you can't have it both ways lads.
Either half our team is shite in which case Blackwell did well to get us to
the play-offs or the team is so good that Blackwell's tactics fucked us up
and stopped us getting automatic promotion.
Which is it to be?
Incidentally, can you supply us with a list of which of our players are so
fucking good.

Well, first I'd point out that there's a difference between saying that the we should have gone up automatically "with the players we had" and saying we should have gone up automatically with the money we've spent. Personally, I think both apply, but bear in mind that we currently have SEVEN forwards in the first team squad: Hulse, Cresswell, Healy, Blake, Moore, Beckford and Ricketts, yet when our ONE right winger got injured, Blackwell complained that it screwed up his whole plan for how we would play this season. Maybe it would have been better to have four or five forwards, and two right wingers. Just a thought. (And yes, I know Beckford came on board late in the season, but there's still no reason to have six strikers on the books and only one right winger, especially when three of the strikers are classic "big men" who would profit from a steady supply of crosses from each wing.)

 

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