Where now? What do we do?

[Special Juan 28,772]

This thread needed to be opened as I think we now have a very serious serious situation at this club.

We haven't fell so low for many many years. Now bare in mind I have seen the early 80's, late 80's, 90's and to this day now. This right  now is nothing short of tragic, not just performances, not just results but how the fucking club is run from top to bottom.

Let's debate this, lets about what we are now, what we have sen and what we have become. Let your feelings go, let your mind type and let yourself say what you really feel.

CFC is rotten, what needs to change? for me it starts with the owners but the sporting directors are selling them down the river, the signings are garbage, the ideas are pathetic and the appointments are diabolical. 

Discuss

[YorkshireBlue 3,346]

20 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

This thread needed to be opened as I think we now have a very serious serious situation at this club.

We haven't fell so low for many many years. Now bare in mind I have seen the early 80's, late 80's, 90's and to this day now. This right  now is nothing short of tragic, not just performances, not just results but how the fucking club is run from top to bottom.

Let's debate this, lets about what we are now, what we have sen and what we have become. Let your feelings go, let your mind type and let yourself say what you really feel.

CFC is rotten, what needs to change? for me it starts with the owners but the sporting directors are selling them down the river, the signings are garbage, the ideas are pathetic and the appointments are diabolical. 

Discuss

If nothing changes next season and we still have FIVE fucking FIVE sporting directors, we will be in a relegation battle, we don’t need fucking 5 we need 1 competent SD, we need to stop this youth and only youth and need a mixture of both senior players and youth, this summer window is the only thing that will show if we have changed in terms of signings and managers, if it’s more of the same then we are truly fucked, this isn’t irreversible yet but it can be 

[Special Juan 28,772]

The biggest decision for me right now is not the manager, not the signings but who is in sporting charge first and foremost

[YorkshireBlue 3,346]

Just now, Special Juan said:

The biggest decision for me right now is not the manager, not the signings but who is in sporting charge first and foremost

As it stands do the club even know? When you have 5 chefs making one fucking soup who has a bastard clue what’s going on 

[Blue Armour 4,727]

It starts with the owners, but IMO a fallout like this is what it takes for these clowns to wake up and change direction.

I don't see the owners up and leaving next summer, but what I hope is that this season becomes a stain against Eghbali & his cronies.

This will hopefully force Eghbali & co to reconsider their youth-prioritized recruitment strategy.

I don't know if this means that Joe Shields & his Kinetic buddies will get displaced soon though. This season is a damning indictment, but I fear those parasites are going to stick  around for a while to influence recruitment.

Hopefully they (meaning Eghbali, Todd & the upper echolons) at least take the power of influencing team selection away from the directors and restore it to the coach. Whoever comes next. 

And speaking of who comes next, Rosenior and Callum are giving a first class demonstration of how a manager can make or break the team. Hopefully they will learn.

A lot of 'hope' & 'hopefully' in my post, but that's the situation we're in.

To make matters worse, the club is in massive debt and might not have the finances to make all the corrections needed this summer.

 

[Fulham Broadway 17,755]

But there has to be a will to do it.

ie are the venture capitalists really that interested in team success ? If not the rot from the top will remain, no matter what Directors of football they appoint, puppets that are constrained by AI and cashflows.

PL and Championship are littered with billionaire owners quite content to drive at 50 in the middle lane as long as they add to their fortunes.

If they have the will for success, like the custodians of Liverpool, Utd, Citeh, where the penny finally dropped that you need to get a good manager in, trust him, and give him the autonomy to get on with it - that would be a start