Great post. Very well put and something which has been said before, for those who attend many games it must be frustrating paying good money to see, players pr the team under perform, a different strategy may see us pay the 10 million on a striker and pay big wages, but then would we see, such an exciting group of players form in the under 23s and other things put in place around the club that is needed to be successful.weasel wrote:Far too early to be judging Orta's record. He has 2 areas to strengthen, 1 being the current first team and the other being the future side of things. For all we know all of the youngsters may become world superstars but impossible to judge any of them for at least 2 or 3 years and even then it might be too early for them.
The current first team is also tricky to judge because we have all seen with Weidweld, Cibicki, Alioski and Lasogga in particular they have looked great at times and awful at others - given a full season to acclimatise and they might all turn into excellent signings. Grot has been the only permanent signing (CBJ being a loan signing thankfully rather than a permanent deal) to have really failed to impress but he is still very young and has a lot of time still to come good. Klich is the only player that you could say has failed but according to many on here they think he is brilliant so they can't then have a go at Orta for signing him.
Yes it can be argued that he has failed to replace Wood and Bartley with like for like quality but have the right players been available that fit into our budget (both transfer fee and wages) - anyone can argue about a signing(s) we could have made based on the hindsight of them doing well elsewhere but equally we were linked with many players who have flopped regardless of previous pedigree. Our two best signings in recent times have been Jannson and Saiz and neither would have been on any fan's shortlist for signing (PJ being written off before we saw him as a typical cheap Cellino signing unable to get into the first team of a mid to lower table serie A side - and Saiz playing for a fairly much unheard of Spanish second division side and at his age why hadn't he been spotted by any club earlier?).
I don’t think many of us know what all the cost cutting to all areas of the club, has done to our prospects and what investments are needed to right those wrongs.
From following the club from a far, I get to see Leeds live 2-3 times a year and the handful of games live on sky, so when I watch them it’s a real treat and maybe rose tinted glasses appear!! So it might be easier for me to accept a slower stratagey to promotion, if I was a local lad with a season ticket I might have a different take.
