Do you trust AN over next seasons transfers?

[Wiz]

Its a resounding NO from me judging by his record here so far.

The money he's peed up the wall over dross (Brady aside) really alarms me, and imo, the Championship can be just as unforgiving as the Premier league.

When he does sign someone he seems reluctant to play them. The two over-priced, underperforming strikers he did sign won't see 30 again.

So do you trust him?

I know my answer.

 

[ZLF]

has he permanently signed a striker yet?    I admit the loan signing strikers have not set the world alight (i suspect its a reciprocal feeling from the club that mbokani doesnt want to be here next season);  while he has struggled to get the poor quality over paid strikers from previous managers of the books or make them work.

Brady has been great and it looks like Klose is coming good. Pinto simply too soon to say and young enough to improve but is a concern.    Mulumbu has disappointed, Dorrans slightly better, Wisdom a squad option only,   Naismith is the huge disappointment,  always a midfielder and simply has not looked fit.   Jarvis is one that everyone was happy to make permanent although he hasnt impressed since his injury.

It doesnt look good but the club having no recruiting infrastructure in place until mid summer was a timing disaster.      Recruitment is definitely a team effort nowadays so I would suggest we may have the same problems with quality recruitment next summer irrespective of whether AN is in charge or not - its the recruitment board (incl the manager) that should have your lack of confidence

A big summer for Les irrespective of the league we are in.

 

[Beauseant]

As ZLF points out, Neil isn't responsible for transfer decisions, there's a committee that makes them. The two factors that have had the biggest impact have been the late appointment of Lee Darnborough and the fact that we went up through the play offs which meant that plans couldn't be finalized until we knew what division we were going to be in.

Add to that the fact that the self funding finance model wasn't jettisoned until January and it's easy to criticize, but laying everything at Neil's door is both mischievous and unfair.

 

[Wiz]

As ZLF points out, Neil isn't responsible for transfer decisions, there's a committee that makes them. The two factors that have had the biggest impact have been the late appointment of Lee Darnborough and the fact that we went up through the play offs which meant that plans couldn't be finalized until we knew what division we were going to be in.

Add to that the fact that the self funding finance model wasn't jettisoned until January and it's easy to criticize, but laying everything at Neil's door is both mischievous and unfair.

But doesn't the buck start and stop with him?

After all, he seems to get all the credit when it goes right!

 

[KeiranShikari]

Neil should be hanged from the roof of the Barclay if we lose against Man City. 

 

[Bill and ben]

Does the committee system impose players on Neil or does he make requests that are then considered (at least as far as the first team are concerned)? I suspect the latter, in which case these are his signings and he must take the credit or the blame in equal measure.

Both this season and last his signings have been hit and miss.

 

[OldRobert]

As I understand from McNally's interview, AN has the final decision on all transfers so he must take quite a bit of the responsibilty imo.

As far as transfer plans in the summer being delayed because of the playoffs, surely a Plan A and a Plan B could have been implemented to cover both potential outcomes.  It does appear that nothing happened until the outcome was known leading to an unacceptable delay in getting players in, that's ignoring the fact that the new recruitment infrastructure for signing players didn't exist as I understand it, or maybe I have that wrong..

 

[Bill and ben]

Agree old Robert, we should have had two plans in place. Not knowing for sure where we would be is no excuse, there were only two possible outcomes not hundreds.

for not having a plan b the blame should probably lie with the chief exec. Presumably promotion didn't come entirely as a surprise to him. I'm sure an would have had a list of potential signings ( unless of course all of the scouting was to be done only after the englush season when no one was playing) and initial enquires could have been made.

of course the apparent inactivity over summer might have nothing to do with the play offs regardless of how convenient its timing might have been.

 

[Fridgeman]

Are you kidding ?

 

[Bill and ben]

Are you kidding ?

difficult to say. Kidding about what?