Inaki is clearly a liability, I don’t care how fucking good he was at doing chucking balls at Martinez and Leno promoting a signing like Runarsson is a devastating blunder for a coach at the top level.
Then trying to go all in and pay £30m for Aaron Fucking Ramsdale… Jesus fucking Christ you’d have thought the red flags and alarm bells would really be going off right now
Looks like we are a club where people fail upwards. Vinai did a terrible job on commercial deals, club structure, etc., and got promoted. Inaki gets a reward for Runarsson by being fully entrusted to make a pick for approx. 30m.
Tbf Vinai was just the last man standing. I’m not sure it was as much of a promotion as it was the club literally having nobody else to handle it. The mistake was not conducting a search for someone better.
To be fair Ramsdale is probably an okay choice for number two. His club got relegated so it would be worth enquiring in the hope of picking him up for a fair price.
The talk of 30m bids being rejected and further bids incoming sounds more like paper talk right now, and it probably gets so much reaction and so many shares that they’d be stupid to not keep milking it.
Only when I saw new posts here did I realise I’d been living a life of bliss in which there hadn’t been any new chat about us signing this guy for stupid money.