I don't think these things are related. The model the club is adopting is that players are bought regardless of managers. It's the manager that is selected to play to a certain style and get the best out of players purchased over his head.
You could tell from the nudge-nudge-wink-wink interviews Blooms gave through December he was keen to bring in Morley, yet instead a few Scandi lads are brought in. Nothing wrong with that, but as MB hadn't met the first before he signed, it's clear they weren't bought with him in mind.
Can I accept they are a significantly bigger club (although the gap has closed considerably over 30 years) and still retain my hatred? It's a scummy town, shithole stadium, unpleasant fans and they just nicked our manager.
If there is any hint of that I would encourage Matt to follow that path. Indeed even if he had quit he could have taken that path.
But of all the things people have suggested has happened but hasn’t happened, I suspect this hasn’t happened the most.
i mean, if you really want to come up with scenarios that weren’t anywhere near happening, technically speaking Dan could have gone done the redundancy route by declaring there will be no role as a First Team Manager anymore so that role is defunct, and put a Head coach role in instead.
I should be used to my phone's Search for a Tune function by now, but every time I stare at the result in complete shock as if Jesus had walked in and whispered it in my ear.
My broader point was that we’ve never been so well backed. Gareth must be gutted on some level. He shopped in the bargain basement for years. And the new owners backed Matt to the hilt with his signings and he delivered.
The Morley issue is complex. We may want him more than anything. Bolton have cash and Bolton have the player under contract. They hold the cards, depriving what they perceive to be rival of a superb player. Might be nothing anyone can do. At the moment of course. Still time.
Bolton selling Dion Charles to Huddersfield this week surely discredits the suggestion that they don't want to sell Morley to us because we're a rival? I'd suggest that either the ownership wanted someone else (Westergaard) all along or the price they've quoted is more than we're willing to pay.
I think it's a sad state of affairs that Blooms has gone, a needless departure. He deserved the respect and the responsibility to choose his own players.
Yeah, Rice could have made suggestions, but as for one set of folk recruiting and another set having to pick a team from the hand they have been dealt just doesn't seem right to me.
I hope the two new Danes do well and I hope we get a good new manager. But for the life of me, I can't see any self-respecting manager being happy to put their reputation on the line when they are not doing the recruiting.
Schumacher would be a great choice, not sure if he will want to risk his proven track record if he is not going to be given full autonomy.
I hope all ends well but at the moment, feeling pretty apprehensive about the future.
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I don't think these things are related. The model the club is adopting is that players are bought regardless of managers. It's the manager that is selected to play to a certain style and get the best out of players purchased over his head.
You could tell from the nudge-nudge-wink-wink interviews Blooms gave through December he was keen to bring in Morley, yet instead a few Scandi lads are brought in. Nothing wrong with that, but as MB hadn't met the first before he signed, it's clear they weren't bought with him in mind.
We are standing in the way of Low!
Can I accept they are a significantly bigger club (although the gap has closed considerably over 30 years) and still retain my hatred? It's a scummy town, shithole stadium, unpleasant fans and they just nicked our manager.
If there is any hint of that I would encourage Matt to follow that path. Indeed even if he had quit he could have taken that path.
But of all the things people have suggested has happened but hasn’t happened, I suspect this hasn’t happened the most.
i mean, if you really want to come up with scenarios that weren’t anywhere near happening, technically speaking Dan could have gone done the redundancy route by declaring there will be no role as a First Team Manager anymore so that role is defunct, and put a Head coach role in instead.
Yeah, that's fair
Give it up @Shev
Same people saying same things.
The Mountain is You by Chance Pena
I should be used to my phone's Search for a Tune function by now, but every time I stare at the result in complete shock as if Jesus had walked in and whispered it in my ear.
Are we? Maybe the offer has not been good enough.
My broader point was that we’ve never been so well backed. Gareth must be gutted on some level. He shopped in the bargain basement for years. And the new owners backed Matt to the hilt with his signings and he delivered.
The Morley issue is complex. We may want him more than anything. Bolton have cash and Bolton have the player under contract. They hold the cards, depriving what they perceive to be rival of a superb player. Might be nothing anyone can do. At the moment of course. Still time.
Have we announced our new manager Mads Blumveld yet?
Max Blofeld! Sounds like a bit of a mixed up villain?
Bolton selling Dion Charles to Huddersfield this week surely discredits the suggestion that they don't want to sell Morley to us because we're a rival? I'd suggest that either the ownership wanted someone else (Westergaard) all along or the price they've quoted is more than we're willing to pay.
I think it's a sad state of affairs that Blooms has gone, a needless departure. He deserved the respect and the responsibility to choose his own players.
Yeah, Rice could have made suggestions, but as for one set of folk recruiting and another set having to pick a team from the hand they have been dealt just doesn't seem right to me.
I hope the two new Danes do well and I hope we get a good new manager. But for the life of me, I can't see any self-respecting manager being happy to put their reputation on the line when they are not doing the recruiting.
Schumacher would be a great choice, not sure if he will want to risk his proven track record if he is not going to be given full autonomy.
I hope all ends well but at the moment, feeling pretty apprehensive about the future.