Is the playing squad any better than under Fenty.

Quoted from aussiej

Fifa are the governing body of football and they give out annual player scores (data). Fifa 24 is this years data.

Quoted from Chrisblor

What on earth are you on about? FIFA 24 does not exist (the video game has been called EA Sports FC since last year) because the publishing company were no longer willing to pay Fifa to licence their name. Even before that deal expired the player ratings were made up by a load of nerds sat around in an office at EA in Vancouver - they're not 'scores' awarded by Fifa themselves ffs.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

The bit in bold, as much as it hurts to say it I'm not clear why getting involved in Town would be an investment you'd likely get an equitable return on.

Quoted from Poojah

Michael Jolley famously tried a similar approach at the start of the 2017/18 season, but had to abandon that plan pretty quickly as it became apparent that we either didn’t have the budget, or he’d failed to sign the players, to execute it.

It gets lost in the haze of what became a very weird period for the club and for the world more broadly, but he actually had a lot more success doing the exact opposite. Playing archetypal basement division football - get it in the channels, pick up corners and free-kicks, then get it in the mixer and onto the head of big James Hanson. It was a kind of poor man’s Sladeball, without the raw pace of Michael Reddy or the guile of Gary Jones.

Pretty it wasn’t, but it was at least relatively effective for the most part and had us in the play-offs come October, fresh off the back of a 3-1 win away at top of the league Exeter. Owing to a combination of a string of unfortunate postponements and Jolley pushing his own self-destruct button he only got another four games in charge, so we never really got to see how it would pan out, but I always thought it was a mildly interesting exercise in low-budget footballing pragmatism.

Still, Crawley proved last season, against the odds, that you can be successful playing attractive football with the right manager and approach to recruitment. In fact, they proved themselves to be miles better at it, when it mattered most, than the league’s flagship tiki taka outfit in BFS.

There’s clear evidence that it can be done. What I’m not seeing yet is evidence that we have the players to do it ourselves. Not worth getting too het up about that just yet, there are surely midfield and attacking signings to come, in some shape or form. Am I ever so slightly more nervous than I was a week ago, however? Yes.

Quoted from Mappers

The issue is as recently as the last few interviews (DN35)  they have doubled down on how 'suprised ' they were at the amount of work required at BP so that suggests either due dilegence was poor , they had the wool pulled over their eyes somewhat or that these problems didn't actually exist until further down the line after  the takeover .

It's up to people to make their own mind up on that 1 .

Quoted from chaos33

But you don’t know anything. Not really. Why are you making so much noise?

Quoted from Heswall Mariner

Ok - Grimsby is maybe a dump - but so is Wrexham with very little to offer to potential investors.?
There are many ex defunct/derelict commercial ports  around our shores that have successfully realised that there is an equitable return on investment.

Quoted from HerveJosse

Or it could just be that running an internet dating business and a commercial property investment business provides no more transferable skills to running a football club then running a fish processing factory.