Which of the 92 football clubs in the English Leagues has lost the highest percentage of its 2023 2024 squad and also signed the fewest players in the 2024 2025 pre season?
You have got to love having American owners. Bradford City fans must pray thanks to the Football gods every night before they go to sleep.
Which of the 92 football clubs in the English Leagues has lost the highest percentage of its 2023 2024 squad and also signed the fewest players in the 2024 2025 pre season?
You have got to love having American owners. Bradford City fans must pray thanks to the Football gods every night before they go to sleep.
Shhhh. Careful or you'll wake up Westander. Even implied criticism of our owners gets his goat. Totally agree with you btw.
Which of the 92 football clubs in the English Leagues has lost the highest percentage of its 2023 2024 squad and also signed the fewest players in the 2024 2025 pre season?
You have got to love having American owners. Bradford City fans must pray thanks to the Football gods every night before they go to sleep.
Shhhh. Careful or you'll wake up Westander. Even implied criticism of our owners gets his goat. Totally agree with you btw.
Ah Northgate you know me so well! I have missed your always respectful cut and thrust but I really can't see what Davd is trying to achieve. Yes we have lost a lot of payers and yes we haven't got new ones in as quick as many of us would like BUT wagmi deserve huge credit for last year and to my mind deserve time to deliver this year and ensure we remain a league 1 outfit without the constant chipping away by so many on here. And yes we are a league 1 ream which much of the carping on here seems to have forgotten. Lets all puff our chests our with pride and enjoy the roller coaster of a new season with whatever it brings
Oh dear I think I've proved your point, still never mind !
Shhhh. Careful or you'll wake up Westander. Even implied criticism of our owners gets his goat. Totally agree with you btw.
Ah Northgate you know me so well! I have missed your always respectful cut and thrust but I really can't see what Davd is trying to achieve. Yes we have lost a lot of payers and yes we haven't got new ones in as quick as many of us would like BUT wagmi deserve huge credit for last year and to my mind deserve time to deliver this year and ensure we remain a league 1 outfit without the constant chipping away by so many on here. And yes we are a league 1 ream which much of the carping on here seems to have forgotten. Lets all puff our chests our with pride and enjoy the roller coaster of a new season with whatever it brings
Oh dear I think I've proved your point, still never mind !
Do you not think it’s a very risky strategy to break up a successful team and replace it with a load of random misfits? Or put it this way, what do you think is less risky: keeping the team that won promotion or replacing them all?
Ah Northgate you know me so well! I have missed your always respectful cut and thrust but I really can't see what Davd is trying to achieve. Yes we have lost a lot of payers and yes we haven't got new ones in as quick as many of us would like BUT wagmi deserve huge credit for last year and to my mind deserve time to deliver this year and ensure we remain a league 1 outfit without the constant chipping away by so many on here. And yes we are a league 1 ream which much of the carping on here seems to have forgotten. Lets all puff our chests our with pride and enjoy the roller coaster of a new season with whatever it brings
Oh dear I think I've proved your point, still never mind !
Do you not think it’s a very risky strategy to break up a successful team and replace it with a load of random misfits? Or put it this way, what do you think is less risky: keeping the team that won promotion or replacing them all?
I can't disagree that is ia huge risk Alex but keeping last years team wouldn't have cut mustard either.
Do you not think it’s a very risky strategy to break up a successful team and replace it with a load of random misfits? Or put it this way, what do you think is less risky: keeping the team that won promotion or replacing them all?
I can't disagree that is ia huge risk Alex but keeping last years team wouldn't have cut mustard either.
Im genuinely curious as to why you think last seasons team wouldn’t have done well in League One?
There seems to be this weird attitude from the apologists that last season's promotion-winning squad wouldn't be good enough for L1 - and they have no basis for this assumption. Yet they seem happy with the new signings and scattergun approach transfer policy this summer. They trot out the "well it worked last time, it will work again" line in reference to our owners binning off virtually the entire squad and signing a bunch of random L2/non-league players.
Somehow, SL worked his magic and got that squad performing brilliantly, and they only went and got promoted! So why in hell would you jettison the lot and start again from scratch? A ludicrous approach that only seems to make sense to "we know best" Americans, who clearly don't know best. L1 is a whole lot tougher to compete in than L2, our owners don't seem to have grasped this fact yet.
I can't remember the last time the players, the manager and fans were all so together, all pulling the same way and achieving so much. It was joyous being a part of that and watching the team do so well. How many of us couldn't wait to see how that squad would have performed in L1? Of course we will never know as we have clueless owners who still understand jack shit about football in England. Why would you sabotage your own team's chances in a higher division before the season has even started? One for the apologists to answer.
Spot on. The other line from apologists accepting of the break-up of the squad is that apparently we absolutely had to get rid of all the squad or else we would have gone bust.🙄🤦♂️🤣 (OK, I may be going a bit social media extreme there, but that's the flavour of the spin some have been putting on it).
Spot on. The other line from apologists accepting of the break-up of the squad is that apparently we absolutely had to get rid of all the squad or else we would have gone bust.🙄🤦♂️🤣 (OK, I may be going a bit social media extreme there, but that's the flavour of the spin some have been putting on it).
All you see on social media is people saying "trust the process". FFS. And that CTFC has always been a selling club. Yes, but not to the extent of selling virtually every player that gained us promotion.
"Let's see how the new players do in L1 before we start criticising them" they say. Which of course we all will do. Yet in the same breath they say that last season's (promotion winning) team wouldn't be good enough for L1 so it was right to get rid of them. Without seeing how they would have performed in L1. So hypocritical.
Some 'fans' still can't understand that you can criticise the club/ownership while still supporting the team. They equate negativity towards our owners as negativity towards SL and the players, when it clearly isn't. There's no helping those people.
Like a lot of us I would have liked to see what last year's squad could have done in L1. Would have hoped would stay up. I would have been happy with 18th, and not in danger. We could even have dreamed of higher. Unfortunately we will never know.
Now we need to put our faith in Scott and our new squad. Again hopefully we can stay up and would be happy again with 18th -20th.
However, I think a lot us would have been more confident if most of last year's squad stated together. I expected 2 to go elsewhere for more money, and probably sell a couple for profit, but not the complete overhaul we have seen.
The ‘it worked last time’ rebuttal that breaking up a winning team is a good idea is just ridiculous. You can’t compare last season to this coming season. We made a lot of changes when WAGMI first joined and coupled with the players we had under the last ownership, collectively they performed very poorly and almost got us relegated so of course changing an underperforming squad makes logical sense. Plus League Two is a much weaker league than League One IMO so the risk to overhauling the squad and bringing in a load of random misfits was a lot lower IMO.