Vegas Claret wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 3:47 am
I don't know you so please don't take this comment personally as it isn't meant to offend......you seem to have lost perspective of who Burnley are and the size of the club. We are extraordinarily lucky to be in the PL, we are a mid to low end Championship club at best in terms of support - a few weeks ago we won at Man Utd, I grew up watching them win Champions leagues and us losing at home to the likes of Aldershot. A big game was a play off semi final against Torquay !
I'll take mediocrity in the PL over mediocrity in League 2 any day of the week.
No I haven't lost perspective. I want us to better and I believe we could do better if our recruitment was better. If we signed players better than we field now, players with more potential even, then we'd be over achieving even more.
I think we have a great manager who has been let down by poor recruitment recently. I'm sure we are trying to address it otherwise there wouldn't be changes with job roles or Rigg coming in.
I think all the bad signs are there to read in this interview, as others have pointed out in this thread.
I think it's about time we consider ourselves a good premier league team and move on from the old times. It's always good to never forget where you've come from but to use it as a reason for us to be content and to not to improve would be wrong. We aren't always the underdogs in games now and teams respect us a lot more than they used to. Football is no longer a battle of the big city teams like it was in the past and there's teams in the league now with lower wage bills than us. TV money this season will be a record high and the fact we support a team from a small town has little relevance like it once did. When we play each game we have the chance to win and take the game to good teams. Having the attitude of little old Burnley isn't going to help us achieve better things.
We have the opportunity the same as everyone else to increase our wage bill by 5% each year (ffp rule apart from newly promoted clubs) much the same as every team, even the very big teams. We have the same chance to make our own decisions, our own mistakes and our own fortunes when signing players.
Expensive mistakes like Gibson, who relatively costs us more of our transfer and wage budget than some of the poorest signings in the league would be no different to the likes of Manchester United's next 50 million headline flop.
I may be bold and upset people (and Vegas, this is by no means directed at you) but I also think our recruitment has lowered our chances of making further signings just because the next target is less likely to sign for us knowing they'll have to stay on the bench for a couple of seasons before they get a good chance.
Grimsdale wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 3:47 am
You do realise that so far we have had more wins, scored more goals and, if we beat Bournemouth, will have more points at this stage of the season than any other season in our PL history. So maybe we don't need to improve our starting eleven just yet, we just need players like JRod, Pieters and, yes, even Vydra, who can come in when needed and keep the momentum going.
Maybe we don't, but you can't tell me that we haven't tried to sign (and failed to) players over the past couple of seasons. It was blatantly obvious we tried and failed to improve our first 11. You may think that has worked in our favor but would you be thinking the same way if we did have better recruitment and would you feel the same way if we were further threatened with relegation? I didn't jump to any conclusions but you only had to read on here after the Everton game how doomed we were and how many believed we were in for the drop.
I want to see us bring in better players. We all know what Dyche can turn your average player into so imagine that it we start to recruit players with the potential to be better than who we currently have!