Not Actually that Crucial a Summer as of August 2023...beginning to now think everything isnt fine!

Tete, Livakovic, and a proper CM ala Reider and we'll be doing well. Add a strong LB and another winger to that and we're laughing.

I like the look of the Korean winger but do really struggle to see where the DM fits in and gets any kind of game time.

 

The bloded is the crux of the matter here. We have a guy in place who has been involved in identifying and recruiting major young talent at the top level in Mark Lawwell, and that fact seems to be forgotten about?

It cannot be denied that our main recruitment strategy is, and should be, to find young talented players and bring them here with the view to help them grow as players and sell them on at a profit.

But somehow that acknowledging that FACT means you are against breaking the mould by going for a higher calibre/cost profile player? It's frankly insulting mate, it smacks as ignorant panic merchant patter like @themouth1888 has been spewing out for the last 3 weeks.

Again I think we should, and 100% WILL, be trying to bring in higher quality than we're used to, but it doesn't sit well that the recruitment team we've praised so much last couple of years is now all of a sudden not to be trusted.

Holm and Tilio are clearly players with big potential, just as Jota, Abada, Hatate etc we're, and they soon shut us all up.

 

It was so blatantly obvious, I can only assume those (normally level headed) posters taking it on a tangent were at the * bam up

 

It was just the twitter post that got me going to be honest. It ignores the fact we have brought in countless duds on the cheap over the years to go along with the gems we have found. There’s examples on both sides of the argument. I have no issue at all with who we have brought in so far, none whatsoever. I’m also not worried yet that we haven’t brought in any “big” signings. I’m confident we will, I just think it’s taking longer to get these guys in, which is expected.

There did used to be a band of posters, some who are still on here, that would point to what happened to the huns to try and defend the board for spending peanuts though. It was just weird.

 

Sign six argies of Bernabei quality or six Asians of Kyogos quality... hmmmm let me think about this one...

Someone's nationality has absolutely nothing to do with the individuals skills..

Seriously some of you need your heads checked... some of the * I'm reading is bordering on blatant racism...

 

Bed him in? Into what? Bernabei is * and I mean utter *.. after Guchi(injury * him) he's the worst signing Ange made.. we will never recoup that 3 million. Absolute waste.. but Hey he's Argentinian.. he must be good

 

But people aren't writing them off for that or at all. Also If you look at the list he provided, Juranovic was in the Croatia team with plenty of experience, Maeda had been J League top scorer, Hatate had won 3 trophies in the past 2 years and Dembele was an out of contract teenager who'd been banging them in for Fulham. None of the players signed so far have achieved what many of the signings he listed have. It's not about the money it's about seeing us improve our team straight away rather than bring players up.

 

Porto, Benfica, etc. have been doing that for far longer than we have, and have easier conditions for South Americans to adapt to, than Scotland. And even they have plenty of failures. Argentina and Brazil have loads of poor kids who go into football. Finding gems is actually hard.

 

What the * am i reading here

 

I know it's early but I feel as though we've been fed sound bites. "Big spend" etc etc. Yet we're here signing the usual 1-2m projects in hope they turn out good. I'd have liked 1 or 2 top qaulity starters and that was before the club flogged our diamond.

Hopefully things move on but so far I'm not feeling too optimistic.

 

He's not wrong

 

He is

So is it racist to say Scottish football is *?

 

Football is complex. The fact someone has ability doesn't automatically mean he'll do well in any league of the world. Japan and South Korea don't have the footballing reputation that Brazil, Argentina or Uruguay do, but Japanese and Korean players work better for us than players from South America.

The aforementioned SA countries have already been tapped up as markets anyway. We've made inroads in a relatively underscouted part of the world, and I'm happy with the approach.

 

If we find even one of those 6 talents from Brazil or Argentina before someone else does and he agrees to come to us, I'd be buying a lottery ticket, because it'd mean the stars have seriously aligned.

I know there was a chance we could've signed Rivaldo. I honestly wonder how he would have fared here. Juninho Paulista didn't have a great time (and he was Rivaldo's backup in Brazil NT IIRC, so not some nobody). The failures of South Americans don't make us an appealing option. Souza was someone who we want(ed) badly, but rejected us. Yan Couto- nope. There was a midfielder we were scouting in Brazil- he had Henrique in his full name I think. Nope.

Meanwhile, South Korean and Japanese players generally waste no time in coming here when we bid.

 

I don’t think it’s racism, just the unvarnished truth.

Asian players are improving. No doubt about it… but they’ve a fair bit to go before producing the calibre of South American nations like Argentina.

And it’s got nothing to do with race anyway. That’s just virtue signalling tosh… it’s the culture of high standards in the sport in that region historically.

This doesn’t mean we can’t sign Asian players that are better than some S. Americans. And we have.

I’d love to see us sign more S. Americans though. Always thought it was a market we have largely ignored over the years for some reason.