The attractions are obvious. Brentford fans, in the beginning, were very critical as any decent player was sold if there was a profit to be made. Slowly but surely, better quality players were bought to replace those departing - although the punts started costing money as they weren’t off the radar. No doubt they recruited some players that didn’t work out.
We’re at the stage now where, after one season of it, the fans are getting restless. This approach isn’t going to work overnight but fans are notoriously impatient.
I’d like to know what others think the approach should be.
I just posted this in the other thread but it kind of sums up my views on this..
I don't think the moneyball model should be completely disgarded either, i believe it is the right model to follow just in a completley different way to the way we approached it.
Bring in the right people to implement it, gradually over the next 5 years. Brighton/Brentford didn't try to do it all in the first season, which is pretty much what we tried to do. Just throwing it out now after 8-10 months of trying is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. If you implement say 20% of your player recruitment with that model in mind in year 1 and slowly increase over time, whilst still having the flexibility to bend the model when required, i believe the end result will be much more successful.
Key to this though is having the right people to implement it, backed up with some "football people" as part of the operating model.
I get that everyone seems to have been burnt by this experience and would prefer to bin it off and go back to the ways of before, but let's face it, we didn't do a brilliant job at that either, otherwise we would be in the Championship now.
