djemba-djemba wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 7:09 am
Do you think Dyche’s dickishness in the cups has any impact on potential signings? (Well, those very few occasions when a club don’t laugh at our pathetic offers and we actually get to discussions with a player?)
Definitely not cup runs whether someone signs for us. This is the list of priorities for anyone signing for us:
Cash
Likelihood of regular game time
Area etc
The first one is the initial problem, we pay less than most in the premier league. If you get past that hurdle and you are of a similar standard to what we already have what likelihood of regular game time do you have? Tarky was here a good while as an example before he became a starter and undroppable. Others have tried and failed, Kevin Long, Vydra, before that the likes of Sordell and Juke etc.
We are a victim of our own success when it comes to improvements to the team. The team has over performed in the league for a few years with gradual tweaks and reliance on a core nucleus of players. Players of better quality than we already have cost too much in wages and if they don’t only a very limited number want to come and sit on the bench for the first year of a 3 year deal. The regular game time is an issue and more of one when you do get a cup game and are hung out to dry with other irregular players (ala yesterday).
Players looking to come here under Dyche will know all this. It’s not like joining a car crash club which will overpay you and throw you straight in because you have Allardyce or someone like that in charge and he will be gone soon to be replaced by someone else... Being on the Burnley bench is not great for someone’s career. At least you have an immediate chance of first team football elsewhere. You can see this with how poor we are with loan players too.
TBH I don’t think the alternative ways are good for us but last night was very poor, giving the young lads no experienced onfield partnerships in a 5th round home tie. No point playing a stronger defence, midfield and left side in round 4 away to a prem team than in the 5th round at home to a lower league team irrespective of what games are coming up.
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