The biggest f up they’ve made was keeping ETH on in the summer, this led to us buying his players yet again, Zirkzee, Maz, De ligt, another 100 mil spent.
INEOS have seen the error which was caused by Ashworth and fecked him off.
In terms of January recruitment, I think there aren’t many players available who would improve us who we can afford right now. I mean we can’t even manage a 5 mil loan fee for tel.
I think they are doing the right thing not rushing into things. This season is over anyway. All it’s about now is getting the players accustomed to Ruben’s system. There’s gonna be pain lots of it from now until the end of the season. But I feel it’s the right way to go.
By the summer Ruben and the Ineos will know who suits the system and is willing to adjust. The others can be phased out, sold from the summer onwards. This is when we can start our proper recruitment.
Ashworth wasn’t at the club at that point and it was Brailsford that pushed hard to keep ETH in the job even though Brailsford is not in any way at all a football man and his speciality is meant to be as a data crunching performance director and is a cycling coach who became close to Ratcliffe through the Ineos cycling team.
So we simply repeated the fecking mistakes of the past by allowing non footballing people to make the biggest decisions in Brailsford keeping ETH on and Berrada pulling rank and bringing Amorim in, we brought Ashworth in to be the “head of the footballing department” and then let Brailsford and Berrada pull rank over him and go with their choices.
Ashworth wanted Thomas Frank or Eddie Howe to replace ETH as Ashworth’s job was to assess what was needed, decide on a style of play, an identity and then implement that from the first team all the way down to the academy and set up our scouting network to find players to fit so all the head coach would do is coach the squad and pick the team and formation wise as well as PL experience wise he decided they were the best two choices to lay the foundations.
Berrada wanted Amorim even though he knew Amorim was married to 3-4-2-1 and we neither had the players to play that nor the money to bring players in for Amorim’s system to work, Berrada as CEO had no right at all to choose the head coach just like Ed Woodward and Richard Arnold didn’t either but pulled rank and convinced Ratcliffe that Amorim was the man.
That’s why Ashworth left as he’d seen Brailsford convince Ratcliffe to keep ETH on which was a massive and costly mistake as we then gave ETH another £180 million to spend then brought in RVN and Hake then just a couple of months later fired them all then Ashworth saw Berrada bring Amorim in against his advice and cost us a load more money so Ashworth obviously saw his job as pointless as he wasn’t listened to even though he was meant to be head of the footballing department and they were his decisions to make.
Where do you think we’re going to move players on to so we can bring money in to fund giving Amorim the players he needs to play his system ? Rashford on his wages isn’t going anywhere for £40 million whilst the likes of Antony, Sancho, Casemiro, Zirkzee and Malacia will at best cover their PSR book value and then there’s those out of contract like Lindelof, Eriksen and Evans.
Then there’s the money to fire ETH, RVN, Hake and all of the staff to be taken into PSR account as well as the money to bring Amorim and his staff in and that’s before you even look at the fact that we could only bring in a young left wing back from a relegation bound Lecce on the back of loaning players out to get them off the wage bill which allowed us to make an initial instalment payment with the fee for Dorgu spread over 5 years.
This idea that we’re going to do what we always do and spend £150-£200 million in the summer is unlikely as we’ve got low cash reserves and close to the limit for PSR and years of mismanagement have finally caught up to us, we’ve been using a credit card facility to fund our transfer business for a few years which should tell you enough about where we are now financially.
