Mad Dog
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If I recall correctly, Berkoe is only on a one year contract, so there's a good chance, this season we'll turn him into a senior pro, then he'll b****r of to a bigger club.I keep hearing how we're not following the Lundstram/Ledson method of getting young players from PL academies.
Berkoe came through the Chelsea system, Elechie came from United.
We're following the same method, we're just starting earlier and saving a bit of money while doing so.
It's one thing bringing in youth, nurturing them to become full senior pro's and then, eventually, selling them on for a profit, but another thing entirely, when they b****r off after one season, as Whyte looks likely to do, and if Berkoe decides to the same, then its simply not a system that works anymore, certainly not in the effective way it did under Mapp, when players came here, and committed to the club on long term contracts, and stayed for most of, if not all of that contract, but when they b****r off at the first opportunity, you have to ask yourself, why?
I've tried to be patient, and to not get too negative or worked up about things, but it's becoming clear that there's something fundamentally wrong with how this current regime approaches absolutely everything, be it scouting, identifying targets, transfers, contracts, wages, tax, general communication, I could go on...
As I've said before, there have been positives, but far too few and far between.
I also feel I should add, as much as I've tried to give KR the benefit of the doubt, and do feel sorry for the guy, as he does seem to be dealing with a board full of morons, he himself has to take responsibility for the fact that when money has been made available to him, he has then gone out and built the most unbalanced squad of players that I've ever known us have in all my 35 years supporting OUFC, and he's done it twice, 2 seasons running, and thats simply not good enough, and although he claims to be a very experienced manager, personally I think he's been pretty naive to build 2 squads, 2 seasons running, overloaded with midfielders and wingers, and barley any specialist defenders or strikers.
I hope to God he and the board prove me wrong, and if they do, I will HAPPILY eat a huge slice of humble pie, but I'm afraid with the way things have gone with this regime, from day one, I am not holding out much hope.