The “Recruitment Team”

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Suddickbender

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How does this “Recruitment Team” work …………….

Does the manager give them a list of players he wants / likes and they go and sign them or try to sign them ?

or

Does the “Recruitment Team” search out the players available and give a list to the manager of targets available to him ?

Can anyone explain please ????

Thanks
 
Suddickbender said:
How does this “Recruitment Team” work …………….

Does the manager give them a list of players he wants / likes and they go and sign them or try to sign them ?

or

Does the “Recruitment Team” search out the players available and give a list to the manager of targets available to him ?

Can anyone explain please ????

Thanks
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It’s an interesting one that’s for sure.

We’ve been told that recruitment doesn’t change despite who the Head Coach is as they recognise a ‘Blackpool player’.

But it’s clearly not playing out like that as Appleton has sorted the loan signings out & we’ve gone from two unsuccessful striker searches in Bishop and Simms to now hearing Appleton say the Lavery to Millwall deal is dead as we have Madine and Beesley out.

We also like to offer random bids for a player that gets turned down and then go and do the same for another player.

Then you have the whole Brannagan saga.

Let’s be honest it’s a farce.
 
Until the people who are whinging about the players, the manager and the ’recruitment team‘ turn their attention to Simon ‘God’ Sadler, I’ll assume that they are simply natural born whiners
 
BlackpoolsFinest said:
Recently we've been identifying players who want a raise from their current club, then low balling an offer to them to get them a new contract.

It's a lovely way of helping players facing price rises in their energy bills.
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How do you know what the offers are or were?

Are you part of the recruiting team? 😳
 
voyeur said:
Has anyone here ever tried recruiting players for a Championship club on a bottom of the division budget? If So, coukd youb explain how you got on and what worked and what didn't?
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Have you ever organised a midfield to play in the championship? If not why have you been calling out Appleton on his decisions on that so far? Works both ways.

Seem to have moved on from the lge2 players at skint clubs who've had half a good season like Beryly & Beesley and back onto targeting players in the last year of their contract at the moment. But where their current club values them more for what they can do for their team than accepting a fee just to get something rather than nothing. So there's a brick wall being hit there at the moment from what is reported.

The typical loans you expect to see come in when Appleton goes into any club he's been at, and the only permanent in so far being a player deemed surplus so sees us as a better option than sitting in the reserves and is easy to get done without anyone blabbing it first. There must be more of those about who are getting to a point where some work is better than no work if all else is failing.
 
poolfc said:
Have you ever organised a midfield to play in the championship? If not why have you been calling out Appleton on his decisions on that so far? Works both ways.

Seem to have moved on from the lge2 players at skint clubs who've had half a good season like Beryly & Beesley and back onto targeting players in the last year of their contract at the moment. But where their current club values them more for what they can do for their team than accepting a fee just to get something rather than nothing. So there's a brick wall being hit there at the moment from what is reported.

The typical loans you expect to see come in when Appleton goes into any club he's been at, and the only permanent in so far being a player deemed surplus so sees us as a better option than sitting in the reserves and is easy to get done without anyone blabbing it first. There must be more of those about who are getting to a point where some work is better than no work if all else is failing.
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OK I haven't organised a midfield in the Championship. But Steve Thompson has and he agreed that the midfield was non existent at Stoke in the first half and that we struggled all game. And in the second half against Reading.
 
voyeur said:
OK I haven't organised a midfield in the Championship. But Steve Thompson has and he agreed that the midfield was non existent at Stoke in the first half and that we struggled all game. And in the second half against Reading.
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You're not Steve Thompson though so your own original thought was that things weren't as they should be against Reading before that and then to share it on here. The same as someone calling out the method of recruitment here and the people in charge of it if something feels a bit off.

Appleton himself said last week he wants his board to be more aggressive on transfers (in and out) which he wouldn't say if he thought they were getting it right for him so far.
 
poolfc said:
You're not Steve Thompson though so your own original thought was that things weren't as they should be against Reading before that and then to share it on here. The same as someone calling out the method of recruitment here and the people in charge of it if something feels a bit off.

Appleton himself said last week he wants his board to be more aggressive on transfers (in and out) which he wouldn't say if he thought they were getting it right for him so far.
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Yes I did have the original thought but I checked it with a pro before sharing it. 😆

Plus, we all get to watch the midfield in action every game and we learn about it. We don't get to watch the recruit,ent team in action.

Fortunately. 😆

Appleton saying he wants the board to be more aggressive means sod all really. It's just the frustration of a drowning man, perhaps.
 
I don't get all these people on here who say "what gives you the right to comment" or "have you ever been a coach" etc. This is a comments forum where people give their opinions about the team and the management. They don't have to have consulted with experts or have done the job being commented on. I vote in the general election. I haven't spoken to a party leader and certainly haven't been one!
 
Poolster said:
I don't get all these people on here who say "what gives you the right to comment" or "have you ever been a coach" etc. This is a comments forum where people give their opinions about the team and the management. They don't have to have consulted with experts or have done the job being commented on. I vote in the general election. I haven't spoken to a party leader and certainly haven't been one!
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It's just a way to try to shut down opinions that they disagree with and can't argue against.
 
I do think some of this ‘process’ is smoke and mirrors. It doesn’t make sense. Appreciate mistakes happen but still. Joe Nuttall… what was that about? And Critchley if we are honest was a late idea, there’s no way on Earth he was 1st choice. We had the whole ‘Ecky’ business - that’s not science, that’s knowing someone, which applies re Appleton too, so disingenuous to say there’s this mad process going down.

likewise accept you cannot land all your targets for various reasons but even me who is not by any stretch at the extreme end of the fan base would say the over selling of this system/team/committee needs to stop as it is frankly bollocks.
 
voyeur said:
Has anyone here ever tried recruiting players for a Championship club on a bottom of the division budget? If So, coukd youb explain how you got on and what worked and what didn't?
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Well, I wouldn't invest twice in one player. I wouldn't invest in players that were not up to it. I wouldn't dish contract extensions out on players who arguably aren't fulfilling their primary role.

There, the budget just doubled.
 
Macseasider said:
No but I would think that compared to many jobs in the world it's incredibly easy. Don't make out that signing football players is something akin to nuclear physics.
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The theory is certainly very easy, whereas the theory of nuclear physics is almost certainly more complicated…. As for practical application of the theory… Signing Football Players is way more complex.
 
Macseasider said:
No but I would think that compared to many jobs in the world it's incredibly easy. Don't make out that signing football players is something akin to nuclear physics.
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If t's incredibly easy then we must have absolute imbeciles involved.

Think again!
 
Poolster said:
I don't get all these people on here who say "what gives you the right to comment" or "have you ever been a coach" etc. This is a comments forum where people give their opinions about the team and the management. They don't have to have consulted with experts or have done the job being commented on. I vote in the general election. I haven't spoken to a party leader and certainly haven't been one!
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As long as everyone accepts that any opinions on here might be complete bollocks and can often be based on nothing more than guesswork, knee jerk reaction and a feeling in the water. And there is an awful lot of that on here at the slightest provocation. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no expert either and there’s lots of good stuff on here too - stuff that I both agree and disagree with. I just am a little tired now of the same cycle repeating where the rush to judgement and criticism becomes overwhelming.

And for the record I did try to recruit a championship midfield once. My mistake was I’m a manager at a financial services company and we just couldn’t make 4-3-3 work at year end.
 
Recruitment is obviously a complex business but you do begin to wonder just how we go about it.
I presume we identify a player we want and consider they might want to come to our club for either their own progression, playing in a higher league, or potentially more money or a longer contract?
We approach their club and state we are interested in said player, they say we want to keep him but what's your offer? We offer 1M big ones or thereabouts, they say no chance we value him at double or treble that. Do we walk away or increase our offer by 250k only to be knocked back again, and again.

Surely after our initial offer it should be clear if we are ever going to get anywhere near a realistic offer for the player. I understand that clubs are going to play hardball to try to keep their better players, but we don't half seem to fanny about to get nowhere.
 
Player values are clearly rising and the club is probably re-evaluating how they get the targets they want, the conversation will be, do we pay more, do we increase our budget to take account of the changed market, or do we try to find alternatives within our existing budget
 
voyeur said:
If t's incredibly easy then we must have absolute imbeciles involved.

Think again!
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It's incredibly easy if you offer the price they want and agree the players wages. I'm sure there is a little room for negotiating both and or consider add ons.

Lowballing the selling club on price and the player on wages will certainly end in failure.
 
Macseasider said:
It's incredibly easy if you offer the price they want and agree the players wages. I'm sure there is a little room for negotiating both and or consider add ons.

Lowballing the selling club on price and the player on wages will certainly end in failure.
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Yes it's easy if you have loads of money. I agree. Some people won't struggle to pay the leccy and gas bills this winter, it'll just disappear from their huge bank balance and make a very slight difference. While they lie on a beach in the Bahamas.
 
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