Sporting ambition versus Cash in the bank?

For anything.

For every Hatate, there’s a Holm and Kwon. For every Kuhn there’s a Tilio and Yang etc.

Even guys like Taylor. Aye he’s fine domestically (for the most part) but a massive weak link in Europe.

We need to be signing players with the idea that they can improve us in Europe. Not just against Killie, Hearts and Dundee United.

I couldn’t care less if the players aren’t at the club long. That means they’ve done well for us and been sold on. Great. But I don’t buy for a second that a hit rate better than 1 in 4, or even 1 in 3, isn’t realistic.

Let’s be honest. There’s not a chance people at the club expected players like Tilio, Kwon and Holm to smash it for us. They were signed out of hope as opposed to expectation. That mindset has to go.

 

Is this not what we are trying though? Lagerbielke, Nawrocki, Yang, Engles, Idah, Kuhn etc all fall into that category

Some work, some dont

 

I'm inclined to agree. Even relative to finances in Scotland. There is no reason we can't have an elite global scouting system that can unearth gems on a regular basis.

How, after the recent and historic successes of ex celts. Our club from the top can't see the benefit of going balls deep in scouting network to get those gems that can convert to £20mill plus sales more frequently for us is insane. There doesn't really seem to be much rhymes or reason to our scouting generally.

Although I will caveat that with, I feel like this early window is maybe a small sign in that shift and think that signings made so far, even though unusual with likes of Hayato Inamura. Does seem more considered and thought out.

 

Our club is run by parsimonious dinosaurs who can all peel an orange in their back pocket with a boxing glove on. No ambition or modern day thinking. It’s all about the the bank sheet and fleecing the support.

 

Agree there are 'no guarantees' on signings, it's down to quality recruitment and scouting.

However if you are willing to spend more and equally important, move quickly and decisively (no multi window monitoring or micro haggling) and do a great job selling the club - the chances of signing success and subsequently selling for a big fee increase massively.
This gives better chance of sporting success and so the upward cycle continues.

I'm not saying we shouldn't seek out bargains, like MoR and Kuhn - but it needs to be better balanced.

As mentioned by others - identifying players, we actually seem to be decent at.
But then the higher value players, we usually lose out on because we wait and wait for a bargain price then when it inevitably goes up because others are interested, we back out - and we could have signed them earlier for what is now, a bargain price.
It's a totally false economy.

I think overall, if we cut out the 'monitoring' bullshit and unnecessary micro haggling, waiting for sales before buying and then also acting decisively when we do identify a player - we would be in much, much better shape.
Easy to say, harder to do with the dinosaur blazers we have at our club.

 

I dont disagree we are signing more in hope than expectation but I think its underestimated how difficult it is for us to go out and recruit players than can immediately step up and compete in the Champions League. We cant buy proven Champions League players anymore. Theres always an element of hoping the player can make the step up.