You keep spouting this shite man. Short has absolutely fucked us - he never truly backed a manager so that they could focus on improving us with real quality. Every year we were buying 6-7 players to plug gaps - 'squad players' that ended up being first team players - downward spiral into shit city. Managers were always having to be reactive.
At the end of the day the buck stops with Short who appointed the numpties who spent good, sometimes fantasic money on players that were either finished, second rate or mates. That is when it should have been stamped out.. Short has bank rolled this club for a long time but those appointment he made, again friends (A friend of his sons as an example), a newly qualified solicitor and an agent who really had no contacts sums it up as an abortion of a owner of our football club.
Again, that's the choice of the manager in most cases - wanting to throw out players who they couldn't be bothered to try to get a tune out of in favour of their own men. And Stoke did exactly what we should have done in that they basically stopped spending for 18 months after moving Pulis on. It was that breathing space that allowed them to go on and spend big money on a few marquee players. And strangely enough it's the weight of those marquee players that is dragging them down now.
If you look in the cold light of day, each managerial / DoF/Coaching appointment was wrong, one way or another. I'm one of those who looked ,for example MoN, through rose tinted spec. I always love MoN's style but I didn't see any of it at Sunderland. Bruce, European experience, not a clue on tactics. Poyet, tactical genius, so much so that we never attacked. Dick, well out of his depth in the EPL, Di Canio, went about it all the wrong way. Only Keane had any semblance of a plan.. Notice I've missed Moyes out.
Once he has capitalised on the sale of the remaining players Khazri, Lens, Koné, Dilabodji, N'Dong, taken the tranches of TV revenue and parachute payments ,say around December /January time i think they are due and paid down the debt further, he will sell to the first one that comes along
We can't just go out and sign any player we want tho we have to take who we can get,so how much money he gave us is irrelevant even if he gave us a 100 million there is no guarantee players would sign for us!!! We are feeding off scraps and paying over the odds for shite there is lads in the under 23s could of done a better job than pienarr etc moyes could of bough 3 ten million pound players used the kids to plug gaps then this season sign another 3 10 million pound players instead of wasting the whole f***ing lot on shit
But that's the managers choice nobody told him how to spend the fucker he could of bought 3 10 million quid players that would improve us and used like of maja to plug the gaps then this season done the same again that would be 6 10 million quid players over 2 seasons instead he spunked the whole lot
So the bloke who keeps appointing these failures and swapping from one model to another is blameless? He's the one common denominator in all of our failures
Most of the managerial appointments were welcomed by the fans, the only real blunder was bringing in De Fanti and trying to change the club's philosophy (if ever there was one).
'At present' basically sounds like we need to shift someone like Lens first
So short should actively interfere with and participate in player recruitment?
Ellis Short is never that, a mag, far from it. He has however made monumental cockups with his managerial appointments with executives who have given positions of which note have had the relevant experience.. If short had placed experienced people on the business side of the game, i for one am sure we would not be in the mess we find ourselves in now. If he ran his investment business the way he hfootballing people
I've worked wit ha few too , years ago. i find most ,all wind and piss. When the going gets a bit rough my experince is that they bail or try finding scape goats.. Only one I worked for , would I give the time of day to. He was the main man at McDermott Corp.
