MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
Brentford success in recruitment is because they pick players for a position, rather than recruit then try to shoehorn players into a squad.
Nuno could well have been a success for us if we recruited him specifically for his strengths with a clearly defined role in the team to make use of them. We didn’t, we just decided we needed tall fast players (Diakhaby, Nuno, Ameobi, Adomah et al) so signed him up on that basis.
The recruitment under Dane Murphy will likely be the former rather than the latter approach.
FWIW I think Nuno probably would offer us the same as Lyle Taylor on a much reduced wage in a Steve Cooper side but that again is me trying to find a position for him, rather than him being brought into the club for that reason.
The vast majority of footballers are very capable in the right circumstances. I often think about the advice someone gave me once - the failing of the employee is as much the failing of the manager. In the football sense this applies also to the senior leadership as the man in the head coach seat.
We sort of did need pace and power... but I'm not sure Da Costa is that. He's reasonably quick and reasonably tall but he's not like a Tyson or a a Jake Cooper is he? I'm really not sure why we were so drawn to him, according to reports we'd been chasing him for up to two years before he finally made the move. Weird.
Anyway, like you say I think Dane will be much more considered in his signings, and we'll be willing to look further to find them, and give chances to players from lower divisions in which previous seasons we may have assumed couldn't have made the jump because the gap was so big.