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Ron Gourlay is making all the right noises. - Salopbaggie - 08-03-2022
The Express and star are reporting that " Ron Gourlay believes Albion’s fans are embarrassed by their football club – with the new chief executive vowing to make changes that will see their pride restored."
The big change seems to be around recruitment, he believes that the transfer strategy and identifying players is one area where big change is needed and while they are not planning on employing a Director of Football in the normal sense, they are looking likely to appoint a head of football operations whose duties will primarily involve identifying players..
Gourlay believes the recruitment decisions should be made by committee, comprising of himself, the manager, medical, financial and administrative experts as well as members of the recruitment team.
“We have made mistakes in the past and we are paying for that at the present time. We have got to get a mixture of recruitment, medical, secretarial, administration, the football side and financial all having a say to make sure we bring in the right players going forward."
He is also saying that, one area of recruitment Albion desperately need to improve is identifying overseas players. Albion previously had a network of international scouts, but they moved away from that model during Tony Pulis’s time as head coach. (Josh fancy a job
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RE: Ron Gourlay is making all the right noises. - talkSAFT - 08-03-2022
It's promising that he's identified this huge problem we've had since Dan Ashworth.
Some of the Recruitment has been an absolute disgrace.
My mind won't allow me to name and merit the players brought in since DA, so......
Can someone list the Incoming players over the last 5 years (with Transfer Fees, but without the Salaries!!) and award marks out of 10.
My guess is that the average marks will be about 4/10.
RE: Ron Gourlay is making all the right noises. - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 08-03-2022
(08-03-2022, 17:16)talkSAFT Wrote: Can someone list the Incoming players over the last 5 years (with Transfer Fees, but without the Salaries!!) and award marks out of 10.
My guess is that the average marks will be about 4/10.
Feel free to supply the marks yourself.
Oliver Burke - £13.68m
Jay Rodriguez - £12.33m
Kieran Gibbs - £6.75m
Yuning Zhang - £6.48m
Ahmed Hegazi - £4.50m
Gareth Barry - £990k
Daniel Sturridge (L) - £2.07m
Grzegorz Krychowiak (L) - N/A
Sam Johnstone - £6.62m
Kyle Bartley - £4.05m
Conor Townsend - £756k
Tyrone Mears - free
Wes Hoolahan - free
Bakary Sako - free
Dwight Gayle (L) - £1.80m
Jacob Murphy (L) - £450k
Mason Holgate (L) - N/A
Tosin Adarabioyo (L) - N/A
Harvey Barnes (L) - N/A
Kenneth Zohore - £8.01m
Charlie Austin - £3.87m
Romaine Sawyers - £2.88m
Darnell Furlong - £1.53m
Semi Ajayi - £1.49m
Kamil Grosicki - £855k
Lee Peltier - free
Callum Robinson - ???
Filip Krovinovic (L) - N/A
Karlan Grant - £14.85m
Grady Diangana - £12.15m
Matheus Pereira - £7.43m + £720k (L)
David Button - £990k
Mbaye Diagne - £990k
Robert Snodgrass - £99k
Branislav Ivanovic - free
Ainsley Maitland-Niles (L) - N/A
Conor Gallagher (L) - N/A
Okay Yokuslu (L) - N/A
Daryl Dike - £7.77m
Alex Mowatt - free
Adam Reach - free
Andy Carroll - free
Kean Bryan - free
Matt Clarke (L) - N/A
Jordan Hugill (L) - N/A
Jayson Molumby (L) - N/A
RE: Ron Gourlay is making all the right noises. - Minizin - 08-03-2022
I think I’m right in saying that Pereira is the only one of those we made a profit on. That’s atrocious
RE: Ron Gourlay is making all the right noises. - Stairs - 09-03-2022
Wow what a list and I suspect very few 7 or more ratings.
Rumour is that Bruce is going to extend contract and could be a longer term manager, assuming he starts to get better results.
If the recruitment of players improves and performances on the pitch start to improve. Is that something we can tolerate.
Better football. A chance of promotion next season. Bruce in charge.
RE: Ron Gourlay is making all the right noises. - talkSAFT - 09-03-2022
Thanks for those very interesting stats, Ska'd.
Was thinking we could swiftly use those stats - then fans' marks out of 10 - to evaluate our Management's abilities. But you also need Salary cost etc, and Sale, to put anything into perspective.
eg BURKE:
Cost less Transfer Out: 13.68 - 2 (?? say)
Salary etc: (say) 3
Total Cost: 14.68
Marks out of 10: (say) 3
Value Score: 3 divided by 14.68 = 0.2
whereas GAYLE might score 8 divided by 4.8 (say) = 1.66
These stats mean nothing out of context, though, because you could mark DeBruyne with a 9 and divide by his costs of (I dunno) 45, and he gets the same Value Score 0.2 as Burke.
I'll stick to what I'm good at:
farting!
RE: Ron Gourlay is making all the right noises. - Blue Baggie - 10-03-2022
Talk is cheap, he has taken Dowling's original speech and repeated it.