Dyche’s teams have always had a number of experienced players in and around the first eleven.MACCA wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2020 9:26 amVery well put, found myself agreeing with a lot of that, many feel or can see the same of you.
Mr Dyche also must think similar as he regularly stresses the same thing.
Of course we cant go out and cherry pick every player we want, nor can we pay every asking price we are told.
However as we know that's the case, we need to concentrate our efforts in other areas or make the relative plans.
I've heard the line "every other club is scouting similar players as us" or every club has a profile on "nearly every player" if that's the case it works both ways, yes we will more often than not miss out, but also we should also pick up a couple a long the way.
Yes Mr Dyche has worked miracles with Pope, Tarky, Taylor but that was about 4 years ago, since our record breaking 7th placed finish what has been the plan, wheres the next Tarky, Pope or Taylor. Instead it could be argued we havent genuinely strengthened the starting 11, nor have we invested in players to develop.
It's been a case of plugging gaps with ageing pros or filling the bench with players who arent genuine 1st team players or ones with an eye on a year or two time like Pope , Tarky or Taylor.
As for the argument that "our scouting network is working and keeps us in the premier league" I'm afraid IMO Mr Dyche keeps us in the premier league.
Our failure to plan and land targets in the last 3 or 4 windows is coming back to haunt us, again which many including Mr Dyche predicted a couple of years ago.
When Pope was no 3 keeper nobody was saying he was the next Tom Heaton....just like nobody is really saying BPF is our next Pope now (but he could be)
As for full back he now decides to have an experienced player as cover. When we had Ward he had the up and coming young player as cover. I’m not sure we have had many (or any) positions in a Dyche team where they are both young players.
Tarks - I think our issue is that we need to get Gibson off the books and then it’s up to Dyche to decide whether he buys for the future a young player of a more experienced one....I don’t think MG will be telling him which option he has to choose.
Not sure after the season we have just had that we refer back to things getting a lot worse since we finished 7th. We got the same points this season than when we finished 7th.
I’m not saying we do not need players - clearly we do. And I’m not saying that Dyche is happy with the situation either. But I also don’t think our recruitment is anywhere near as bad as some fans think
....it’s difficult for all teams and we know that our owners do not have the riches to afford too many mistakes in the transfer market. I’m not sure there are many clubs in the last 7 or 8 years who have had as few expensive mistakes as we have had.