This is actually some decent journalism imo b/c it's very hard to look back in time with so many players traded for undisclosed fees and add up the money from the player trading model. The article suggests that there's an eight figure sum that's been generated from this player trading. That might have been re-invested in paying down Cormack Park and further investment, might be being ringfenced for the new stadium, might have been invested into commercial ventures.... we don't know.
What we do know is that the club has made a pile of money from selling our best players and our current squad are miles off it, and no youth player, aside from Jack Milne b/c we have an injury crisis in the central defence, gets a look in.
In my opinion the money needs to be invested on the pitch first and we buy players from the outside where they are materially better than what's available through the youth pipeline, and the youth pipeline should always have priority. When Cormack first arrived and opened Cormack Park and set out his vision, that was my understanding of what the process would be.
What we have now, I think this is the consensus even from the departing manager Stephen Robinson himself, is a recruitment crisis, we've got a bunch of jobbers who aren't even Scottish clogging up the first team, the likes of Lobban and Bavidge are on loan elsewhere, there's no one actually demonstrably better in the first team squad better than them, there's a pile of cash available to put to work on this, but the board and Cormack can't/won't.
For me this is something I find hard to justify in defending Cormack. Yes the commercials of the club are better, yes we have not just a proper training ground but a top level one at that, but if there's £23 million lying around in profits from player sales, why are Brad Lyons, Olusanya and Dan Happe Aberdeen players at all? Like I'd accepted it b/c it seems like money was tied up elsewhere and we needed at least a dozen new players and at the low end of the market that seemed to make sense. But it seems for want for spending a a few million that we do have on hand anyway we've recruited an eye wateringly bad squad of players, who unlike the last lot, don't even have the potential to be anything better than mediocre.
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This article in the Daily Record prompted me to create this thread: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/23m-aberdeen-transfer-chasm-exposes-37862611
This is actually some decent journalism imo b/c it's very hard to look back in time with so many players traded for undisclosed fees and add up the money from the player trading model. The article suggests that there's an eight figure sum that's been generated from this player trading. That might have been re-invested in paying down Cormack Park and further investment, might be being ringfenced for the new stadium, might have been invested into commercial ventures.... we don't know.
What we do know is that the club has made a pile of money from selling our best players and our current squad are miles off it, and no youth player, aside from Jack Milne b/c we have an injury crisis in the central defence, gets a look in.
In my opinion the money needs to be invested on the pitch first and we buy players from the outside where they are materially better than what's available through the youth pipeline, and the youth pipeline should always have priority. When Cormack first arrived and opened Cormack Park and set out his vision, that was my understanding of what the process would be.
What we have now, I think this is the consensus even from the departing manager Stephen Robinson himself, is a recruitment crisis, we've got a bunch of jobbers who aren't even Scottish clogging up the first team, the likes of Lobban and Bavidge are on loan elsewhere, there's no one actually demonstrably better in the first team squad better than them, there's a pile of cash available to put to work on this, but the board and Cormack can't/won't.
For me this is something I find hard to justify in defending Cormack. Yes the commercials of the club are better, yes we have not just a proper training ground but a top level one at that, but if there's £23 million lying around in profits from player sales, why are Brad Lyons, Olusanya and Dan Happe Aberdeen players at all? Like I'd accepted it b/c it seems like money was tied up elsewhere and we needed at least a dozen new players and at the low end of the market that seemed to make sense. But it seems for want for spending a a few million that we do have on hand anyway we've recruited an eye wateringly bad squad of players, who unlike the last lot, don't even have the potential to be anything better than mediocre.
Thoughts?