Apparently AD was told he had to sell Sam Vokes so we could break even, and the offer was too good to refuse, so bringing crouch in on a free made sure we wouldn't get caught short. He was a 6 month insurance policy.aggi wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:25 pmOur plan of buying ageing players with no resale value, who plug a gap for 12-18 months always leaves you susceptible to things like this.
I agree with this but I wonder how you're so certain that Dyche hasn't been involved in, or possibly driving, this strategy? The Crouch signing for instance seemed to be down to Dyche.
I don't doubt that it came about as a strategy due to a limited budget but there would still have been the option of taking riskier, younger players on considerably lower wages and hoping they would develop into being first team ready rather than signing stop-gaps for the bench. Was it Dyche or someone else making that choice?
People keep thinking Mr Dyche wants all these ageing limited players, make no mistake about it, if he was given 100m he would happily spend it and I very much doubt he would be going for the like if Walter's, Bardsley, Crouch, Reid, Taylor, Wells etc.
We are going for these types of players because we dont have any real recruitment plan or money.
Look at what SD insisted on being done, training ground and youth set up fixing asap. He knew the club could continue as it had been.