So is Webber is a genius or somebody who had a bit of luck and is now well above his station and thinks everything he touches turns to gold.
Because reports were that he'd slated our academy for not producing enough the other day, but if he understood the clubs history he'd know that 8 years ago we were on the brink of bankruptcy and had to take a £1m donation from a chicken farmer and beg for money from the fans....
... and in this window he has sold one of our academy products for £1m, and replaced him with another one of our academy products on a season long loan, who as things stand will be competing with another of our academy products who has had his contract extended by Webber this summer.
Today he's sold another academy product for £12.5m, who as things stand will be replaced with his twin brother who is also an academy product. And he's signed a left back of questionable quality who will be competing with another academy product who had his contract extended by Webber this summer.
So I think its a bit cheeky that he'd walk into a club with a Category 1 status academy, which his predecessors built off of the wealth created through their success, then cast a bit of shade on the record of those predecessors, a few days before selling a player for £12.5m who is the product of his predecessors reign.
Putting a few months of Moxey aside, I'm still very grateful for what McNally has done for us and Webber benefits from coming into a club which is in far far better shape than it was when McNally walked in, and he has a hell of a lot to prove before I'm going to hold him in equal esteem. He'd still have to achieve god-like status here to make me like him as much as McNally.... who put the wheels in motion on securing Cat 1 status in our very first season in the Premier League, after he'd made an excellent managerial appointing who managed to cobble together a squad for pennies without a single valuable player to sell to finance it.
I think you could quite easily argue that McNally's record of taking charge of a near-bankrupt club, taking us up two divisions to the Premier League, keeping us there for three seasons and then walking away with us having a Category 1 status academy and no debt dwarfs Webbers achievements in the game by some way, who so far has no promotions on his CV because for some strange reason he didn't fancy staying to spend £100m on quality players like Aaron Mooy and preferred to come here so he could sign a Middlesbrough reserve player instead.
Perhaps he wanted to come here because we have a Category 1 status academy (rhetorical, he actually did), which his predecessor built, because he didn't fancy trying to leave a similar legacy at Huddersfield.... well I'm glad McNally did.
Also worth noting that we actually lost a very good academy player as a result of the relegation that we saw pre-McNally, Dario Dumic, who is now having an excellent career and would actually cost a lot more to buy now than we currently appear to be willing to pay for a player.
Sorry guys but I don't buy into this personality cult, we're in Germany with half a squad, our best players are like rats jumping a sinking ship and even Farke sounds like he's pretending to be upbeat and optimistic now.
