I remember posting around the end of Lope’s second season that I would give him one more to prove the whole Europa win was not a blip and he could get shit done. Well the team showed up for the first half of season three then it all went down the drain. I was almost certain that Lope would go and even Romano said it was in the works I was overjoyed, que two days later and it was said crisis talks had convinced monchi lope still had some tricks up his sleeve.
Fast forward to September 1st, the team has ripped its backbone out and onto its worst start in 41 years, the defense is gone and that’s the only thing I can conclude so far as all three games have been at 4 in the morning, but attacking wise I guess it’s the same, or worse.
It’s too late to do anything about the team in the current window, and it might take 2-3 windows to get it back on track. I really can’t comprehend how you can go into a season with 3 natural center backs, 5 central midfielders, 22 right wingers and 46 attacking midfielders along with 2 misfiring strikers.
With such a crazy team and stagnant gameplan we need someone to kick everything into gear. And for that Sampaoli is the one, his teams play crazy and he managed to field 5 attacking midfielders into a starting 11, I’ll take that. We probably won’t win anything of note and the games will either be thrashings or the end of thrashings but after 3 seasons of hum-drum football. I’d take that.
Sampaoli in, as long as he doesn’t bring Meza with him.
The stats are disturbing for Lope, 7 victories in 2022. With this season included it’s 7 wins in 23 liga games. If that doesn’t scream ‘Mayday’ I don’t know what does.
I’m not surprised anymore to be honest. The club’s standards have lowered beyond any imagination, so anything is expected.
Not sacking poor performing coaches with no signs of change, signing average (or below) and unfit or injured players, lack of proper transfer window planning - these are all signs of a poorly managed club.
Well the gun is now firmly trained on Lopetegui and we’ll see how long it takes for there to be a round in the chamber.
He’ll (deservedly) be the one who takes the fall, but Castro and Monchi are not without blame and with the lack of obvious planning for all outcomes for this window, they shouldn’t be surprised if and when they’re in the firing line. Monchi’s system looks as behind the times as La Liga.
Really good critique here. I do think Monchi has to look at the state of the system and see if it needs recalibrating. We got fleeced on pretty much every deal that wasn’t a free agent this offseason.
I remember the season we bought Bacca, Gamiero, Vitolo, Mbia, Marko Marin, plus Diogo and more… i was really hoping for this sort of impact! Not a good pre season at all. Above all i want to see us attacking again…
What are the chances Del Nido Junior or Senior are currently plotting a coup of the presidency? Will be interesting to see if there was any foul play behind the scenes this transfer window, eg. somehow holding up the finances to make Castro and Monchi look foolish? Anyhow, perhaps jumping to conclusions, but this thing has me so puzzled…
In other words, I’m committing the typical error of conspiracy theorists: when something doesn’t make sense to you, clearly there must be a conspiracy which explains it.
Conspiracies? Well I think so, everywhere basically. If we see an avalanche of moves today it will be suspicious.
Regarding Sevilla I think you’re right to have suspicions, we seem to be on a war footing with finances. Something going on. Maybe the board have accepted they’re going to have to pay Lope off. (Edit) Also, maybe we’ve been looking at players that turned us down because of the football. Maybe we were relying on passing the group stage of CL to heal the finances.
Del Nido Senior has been plotting for sometime. I think Junior sees himself as the next president when Castro is done.
With all of this, it seems that this club has probably stretched itself too thin with the infrastructure commitments, plus the higher salaries, the 6 million gamble on Tony, and then the poor Champions League finish last season.
You have to really question if the training facility and academy improvements are worth it. Yes, those can be amortized over years, but still, it’s a debt. When does the CVC investment kick in?
It cost a ton of money to run a successful club, we often limit our look at players, but the OC for something this size beyond the players has to be immense.
Monchi said today … The club has been taking in around €200m a year. This last season takings were €180m and expenditure €230m (a trading loss of around €50m). It’s routine that the clubs salaries and dues are around 70% of the income which in Sevilla’s case would be €140m but they were €175m.
I presume he’s talking (future) of what the loss will be so I suppose he’s referring to another loss in 21/22, a season that the accountants have not yet signed.
As for the training facilities investment, the outer areas were real shabby but there’s no signs of a return on investment. On the other hand if we could develop players like we did 20 years ago it would pay for itself.
