Perryqhill
Striker
Donald didn't give a fuck about our future he thought he'd be long gone by now.
I'm not sure Donald has much of a f***ing clue what he was doing. Obviously they wanted to flip the club in some way and there's been an awful lot of short term thinking. But then when trying to flip the club initially it was rumoured some of the reason it didn't happen was due to Donald wanting to stay on in some capacity. Then with FFP it looked like he'd still be in control, then he took the FFP loan.
It's almost as if the plan (as in Methven's Oxford messageboard comments) was minimal outlay, get promoted, instant profit and move on, but somewhere along Donald got involved with the adulation and the buzz of owning a club and it's been a bit scattergun, sometimes sticking to plan, sometimes doing his own thing.
Exactly what Southampton did in league one
Actually it's not. There's a bit of a myth that Southampton dropped down and reinvented themselves with kids - in truth Bale, Walcott, Kenwyne Jones and some others were long gone before relegation to league one. Then the first season down there barring Lallana they relied heavily on experience and players already on their books using only a handful of their own kids and that would have seen them promoted were it not for the points they were docked. Second season they used a few more of their kids like Oxlade Chamberlain but not loads, but the core of the team was bought.
The difference in the main was they actually gave their kids a chance, some looked superstars and as a result could demand good money, which was at times was reinvested. We have simply sold them early doors. I guess some of that is the way football is changing and the bigger clubs are actually looking to get more of these players in earlier being already aware of them, but we don't seem to have tried to keep them or develop them further and took the bigger picture.
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