03-05-2018, 18:42
Good recruitment is very hard if you are in a foreign land of players ........ and that's where Evo will be. Most successful managers have voices around them they can trust. Cowley and Cowley for instant. Klopp has two trusted lieutenants. Evo would hopefully have Llera ......... but I'm guessing neither of them know much more than me about the leagues they'll almost inevitably be recruiting from.
If we fill our team with EFL-rejects we'll be paying bigger wages than we should to players who may well find this division a struggle. Take a look at the team Justin Edinburgh was putting out for Orient, I don't think it would have been in the bottom six of Division Two, but they were just 13th in the Van. We'll need a team appreciably better than this season at much reduced cost from a smaller squad to succeed next season. That's a big ask from a manager new to management.
BY the way I think there are many more managerial skills needed than those you list needed to succeed at Chesterfield. This will be particularly the case if the ownership and administration of the club do not change. None of us really know the extent of the constraints under which Lester, Caldwell and Wilson worked and the frustration that created. Evo is doing the easy part at the moment, much as I like the man.
If we fill our team with EFL-rejects we'll be paying bigger wages than we should to players who may well find this division a struggle. Take a look at the team Justin Edinburgh was putting out for Orient, I don't think it would have been in the bottom six of Division Two, but they were just 13th in the Van. We'll need a team appreciably better than this season at much reduced cost from a smaller squad to succeed next season. That's a big ask from a manager new to management.
BY the way I think there are many more managerial skills needed than those you list needed to succeed at Chesterfield. This will be particularly the case if the ownership and administration of the club do not change. None of us really know the extent of the constraints under which Lester, Caldwell and Wilson worked and the frustration that created. Evo is doing the easy part at the moment, much as I like the man.