Have we peaked now Paolo is gone?

[dagrumpymunki]

I am fed up of him signing players who he then fell out with and shipped out for nothing or decided they werent good enough for the first team players such as Connell, Risser, Clarke, Coke, Comazzi, Esajas, Lanzano, Kerrouche, Cibbochi, Atiku, Boatang, Tehoue, Abdulla, Montano, Bessone, Martin & Cox.

Anyone that doubts the reality of this should take five minutes to visit the transfers page from last season on Swindon-Town-FC.co.uk and look at the list and see if any of you can even remember who all of them are; Ethnikos Piraeus anyone? Lander Gabilondo? No? What about Ibrahim Atiku, or Etienne Esajas?

There's about 35 players that came in last season alone, and less than a third of them are still with the club. When PDC was here about half of those that were weren't playing, some out on loan or rotting in the stiffs.

Of the players we paid a fee for:

Connell - £100k plus - released 12 months after being signed, made 23 starts
Luke Rooney - £100k plus - was out on loan and on the way out under PDC, has made 14 starts
Cox - £50k - out on loan 6 months after arriving and on his way to being released, started 2 games
Collins - £140k - actually still here, playing and scoring (HEY!)
Archibald-Hennville - £200k - OK he's had injuries, but he barely got a sniff when he was fit, 2 starts.

We're no quite QPR but then we didn't have the same kind of backing.

[pauld]

We're no quite QPR but then we didn't have the same kind of backing.

The comparison with QPR is probably appropriate, if you assume Di Canio learnt some/much of his management approach from 'Arry.

[wiggy]

Anyone that doubts the reality of this should take five minutes to visit the transfers page from last season on Swindon-Town-FC.co.uk and look at the list and see if any of you can even remember who all of them are; Ethnikos Piraeus anyone? Lander Gabilondo? No? What about Ibrahim Atiku, or Etienne Esajas?

There's about 35 players that came in last season alone, and less than a third of them are still with the club. When PDC was here about half of those that were weren't playing, some out on loan or rotting in the stiffs.

Of the players we paid a fee for:

Connell - £100k plus - released 12 months after being signed, made 23 starts
Luke Rooney - £100k plus - was out on loan and on the way out under PDC, has made 14 starts
Cox - £50k - out on loan 6 months after arriving and on his way to being released, started 2 games
Collins - £140k - actually still here, playing and scoring (HEY!)
Archibald-Hennville - £200k - OK he's had injuries, but he barely got a sniff when he was fit, 2 starts.

We're no quite QPR but then we didn't have the same kind of backing.

The lubricant bill for the reviolving door must have been huge!

Seriously though, this sums up my biggest reservation about PdC - his scattergun approach to signing players is/was completely unsustainable.

[Peter Venkman]

Oh yeah I forgot Gabilondo and for that matter Magera.

[fittons_coaching_badge]

Anyone that doubts the reality of this should take five minutes to visit the transfers page from last season on Swindon-Town-FC.co.uk and look at the list and see if any of you can even remember who all of them are; Ethnikos Piraeus anyone? Lander Gabilondo? No? What about Ibrahim Atiku, or Etienne Esajas?

Who?

[Peter Venkman]

Who?

They are a Greek football club apparently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnikos_Piraeus_F.C.

[Bob's Orange]

Who?

Pretty sure they are a team (Greek) so I assume thats a mistake.

[leefer]

Paolo was never given big money to invest in quality players.....that meant what money he spent(about half a million) was invested in players that were a gamble to sign.......he got rid of hell of a lot of deadwood when he arrived which is never mentioned by those who choose to slag him off.

Many of last nights side were languishing in reserve sides when Paolo signed them...Alan Mac,Ward,Foderhingham etc.

Foderingham alone is probably worth more than Paolo spent in his entire spell here....so to suggest his scattergun approach was a failure is wrong on two counts....one is that where we are in the league...secondly Collins is probably worth three times what we spent for him along with Fods,Devera etc means that the signing he spent a little money on certainly was good buisness.

Many of you forget that this was his first venture into management and yes harsh lessons were learnt at times.
As i say the last two matches show me just how much he got out of....quite frankly ordinary players.

How a group of fans can slag off a man who left his team on top of the league amazes me....astounds me.
He had his reasons for walking away....whether or not we as fans agree with that should not hide the fact that is when he left we were in our highest position for years.
And he has left a squad whos value is a lot higher in money terms than what he paid for by a long way.

[FreddySTFC!]

Paolo was never given big money to invest in quality players.....that meant what money he spent(about half a million) was invested in players that were a gamble to sign.......he got rid of hell of a lot of deadwood when he arrived which is never mentioned by those who choose to slag him off.

Many of last nights side were languishing in reserve sides when Paolo signed them...Alan Mac,Ward,Foderhingham etc.

Foderingham alone is probably worth more than Paolo spent in his entire spell here....so to suggest his scattergun approach was a failure is wrong on two counts....one is that where we are in the league...secondly Collins is probably worth three times what we spent for him along with Fods,Devera etc means that the signing he spent a little money on certainly was good buisness.

Many of you forget that this was his first venture into management and yes harsh lessons were learnt at times.
As i say the last two matches show me just how much he got out of....quite frankly ordinary players.

How a group of fans can slag off a man who left his team on top of the league amazes me....astounds me.
He had his reasons for walking away....whether or not we as fans agree with that should not hide the fact that is when he left we were in our highest position for years.
And he has left a squad whos value is a lot higher in money terms than what he paid for by a long way.

That's the first time I've read a post with a bit of sense and balance on here for a while.

[Ginginho]

Great post, leefer. Can't argue with any of that.

[pauld]

Paolo was never given big money to invest in quality players.....that meant what money he spent(about half a million) was invested in players that were a gamble to sign.......

The fact we spent nearly half a million on agent's (NB that's deliberately singular rather than plural) fees alone suggests he was given plenty of money to spend. If he didn't spend it on quality players, well.....

[Bukkake Regiment]

PDC didn't get us to the top of League One. He threw his toys out of the pram while we were in 6th place.

You are so bitter that it's funny.

[Bukkake Regiment]

disagree. He prepared the side for tranmere and his staff carried out his instructions.

Spot on.

[jayohaitchenn]

You are so bitter that it's funny.

How is stating a fact bitter?

[Bukkake Regiment]

Paolo was never given big money to invest in quality players.....that meant what money he spent(about half a million) was invested in players that were a gamble to sign.......he got rid of hell of a lot of deadwood when he arrived which is never mentioned by those who choose to slag him off.

Many of last nights side were languishing in reserve sides when Paolo signed them...Alan Mac,Ward,Foderhingham etc.

Foderingham alone is probably worth more than Paolo spent in his entire spell here....so to suggest his scattergun approach was a failure is wrong on two counts....one is that where we are in the league...secondly Collins is probably worth three times what we spent for him along with Fods,Devera etc means that the signing he spent a little money on certainly was good buisness.

Many of you forget that this was his first venture into management and yes harsh lessons were learnt at times.
As i say the last two matches show me just how much he got out of....quite frankly ordinary players.

How a group of fans can slag off a man who left his team on top of the league amazes me....astounds me.
He had his reasons for walking away....whether or not we as fans agree with that should not hide the fact that is when he left we were in our highest position for years.
And he has left a squad whos value is a lot higher in money terms than what he paid for by a long way.