Davefevs

If you let TWTD know I’ve registered and they activate me, I’ll add my thoughts tomorrow. No bed wetting, just a fair few facts mixed with opinions and viewpoints from people who know how he operates. No jealousy, just a bit of anger over how he operated and the poor position he left my club in.

I’ve registered. In for a penny, in for a pound -just waiting to be activated

The highlight for me was (paraphrased) - i had to call all my contacts to do these deals. Basically I read that to mean that they’ve recruited based on player agents rather than player fit to the plan.. Smells of brown envelope recruitment to me. Must stop getting so angry because he’s no longer here….but he’s left us in a shit position, and I can’t forgive that from a bloke who took £540k salary (wages and pension) from us in 19/20, and undoubtedly a similar amount last year whilst metaphorically ******* us over.

….and this For me is where you have your thinking all wrong, the horse and cart the wrong way round. If Cook is the problem, get rid of him, don’t lavish him with players. Or get players that Cook wants. As CEO you should be providing the checks that each signing meets the managers requirements? To me this is CEO failure and manager failure. Never in a million years can 19/20 players be a good window. Recruitment is not about volume….it’s about quality over quantity. It’s about a plan. Source: ITFC Analytics - I’ve added red shading to the new players. I still can’t get my head around that. Why would you sign Barry, Edwards then go and get Celina? This had the hallmarks of us signing Szmodics because we couldn’t get Palmer, then Palmer becomes available, so you get him as well. Do you honestly believe several of those players signed earlier this summer as first team regulars, and thought Ashton would be signing another in their position later in the window? Most of your signings will have signed expecting to play each week. Did Fraser sign expecting Chaplin to steal his minutes? What was the plan for Evans, Carroll and Harper if Morsy was genuinely the plan? The players themselves are in the main good players at this level, some very good, but it is gonna stink when you get a busted dressing room / training ground. Did you need to loan Dobra out? I guess time will tell, but I’d be horrified if we made that many signings. A cynic might suggest you let players go so the CEO could have his ego massaged by the thrill of lots of signings.

They are nicknamed the Biscuitmen! Gone to QPR hasn’t he? I guess EFL could refuse to register them, like they did with Brum’s Pederson. Im long of the belief that if you loan someone (say over the age 23) that you should pay their full contract costs. U23s should be about development and perhaps a percentage should be paid, e.g. 25%. Would make clubs think twice about hoarding.

Imagine Louie Barry and Aston Villa are delighted by this. Penalty clauses? Not first team players.

Irrespective of how big a cock he is, there is no recruitment plan that can be deemed good that involves 19/20 first team signings. It’s not like they didn’t have a group of players. Lets see how many are here this time next year. I see this as awful recruitment. Hope it goes horribly wrong.

Depends what’s in their contracts.

Just that he wasn’t a very nice bloke, treated youngsters like sh1t, through his toys out the pram re recruitment. I’d heard similar from another Pompey fans but not as damming / harsh.

His wife (ex-wife) has a company doing travel, house hunting etc for pro footballers….creaming money out of football. I’d love to see the detailed accounts of a couple of his other businesses. Id love to see the money trail of some of our deals over the years too! Very disappointed. Really wanted him here. Heard some shit from a Portsmouth fan last week re his time there, and don’t mind saying I was wrong about him….dodged one I think. What does it say for him that Ashton turned him down last summer.

Problem exacerbated by it probably being the most competitive Lg1 in years, stronger than 14/15, and that had some good teams in it. Big gamble they will gel….there are “teams” in Lg1 who will make it very tough for Ipswich….most of them will be raise their game against the so-called superstars.

Fixed it for you.

Not sure it’s hindsight, selling the CM you built a system around seemed a “bit” stupid at the time didn’t it?

Pack was a decent player for us, but James has those PL qualities that stand out.

Looking forward to Wyscout updating today’s fixtures. James should feature pretty prominently in terms of volume of actions.

Swansea and Coventry for two.

It won’t be him that gets the boot though….his mate Mike O’Leary is the Chairman and the link into Gamechanger, the owners. Is he so insecure he needs his name 3 times in the who’s who….Werhun twice….Rolls and Costin in there too.

As soon as some club makes a bid and he agrees to forego any wages obligation we have. I’d say Nige has made up his mind and it’s only the financial climate meaning he’s still our player.

For the first time we can’t say “why would a player choose them, it’s a sh1thole”….Edinburgh is lovely. Agree with pretty much all of that. Not so sure that Cundy would necessarily be on our radar this summer had he not been ours, think you’d be taking Gillingham’s style into account too. Might’ve been one to watch this season. But as you say 24 is no age for the type of CB he is, whereas Moore is very different. Moore has lost sharpness by becoming “bigger”. I suspect he’s quick over a longer distance, but it’s that short, sharp stuff he’s degraded on. I don’t see Moore coming back and playing a part, from what Nige has said about loaning our players out, this is a “I don’t need him” loan. Cundy is much more a Nige type CB….but he needs to show Nige what he can do once back in full training.

Agree. Was a kick in the teeth I can imagine.

We play 2 CBs, we have 3 bona fide (Kalas, Baker and Atkinson), plus (debate and discuss) Vyner and Cundy (who should be fit shortly). The Vyner - RB or CB - question is creating confusion I guess. so I don’t know the answer ???

No, got 2 years left….and a year option!

Will be interesting to see the breakdown, eventually…..might be a breakdown from Derby fans too.

They’ve certainly left it late in the window….to appeal would surely take them beyond the end of the window?

City up to 14th ???