Originally Posted by
osarusan
But what else can you do apart from choose a manager and have the manager sign players?
Do you mean that, if the people in charge had been more focused on the senior team, they'd have chosen a better manager...then I can see what you mean, but tbh, that's probably a case of them not being able to evaluate a manager, more than just being distracted by other things.
On the money spent on youth, again, I disagree to an extent.
Now, maybe people like the idea of cutting down on youth as much as possible to have more money for the senior team - that's fair enough. Money shouldn't be wasted, anywhere. But I don't think it's as simple as saying that we should evaluate the youth system based on the quality of player that emerges, and that if no good players are coming through, then it's been a waste of time. Is the youth set-up well run, and is money that is spent on it being spent wisely? If not, then maybe it's a question of waste, rather than the youth setup itself. But youth teams are naturally going to have periods when no good players come through. Everything could be set up just right, and still not get any reward.
But again, it's a question of priorities. What might have happened in Bruff, for example? And if we'd spent the money on that instead, and some local player had been snapped up by another LOI team/UK team rather than coming through our youth sustem, would we be saying that we'd missed an opportunity there?
I suppose the key question is deciding what are the things that the club really needs, and in what order. We are never going to get everybody to agree on that.
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