It's not about whether or not Bona can be useful on the bench. It's about the direction we want to take.
1) keep Bona and do not get another ACM.
-Keeps us stagnant.
2) release Bona and sign an ACM that can rival Hakan for his spot.
-Raises the overall quality of the squad and it sets us up for options in the future. One example, just an example of this, is the ability to sell Hakan if great offers come (or if he simply just wants to go) a year from now and we would already have a ready player here. We wouldn't be starting from zero again because now we lost oir starter and Bonaventura is more or less finished.
The key to NEVER slowing down and to constantly move forward and improve, is JUST THAT. MOVE FORWARD. One of the reasons we went downhill was that we kept signing (or just simply retained and offerered new contracts to) back up quality players. Once our starters got old/left, we had no plan to move forward. There was zero continuity. We didn't think of tomorrow. So we started from zero.
Keeping Bonaventura here doesn't improve us. It keeps us stagnant. Stale. We need to improve. In any way we can. That can be
1) improve starters
2) improve bench
3) even if not immediate improvement, at least get younger so that there is a higher ceiling and possibility of improvement in the future
I'm not saying to do all 3. But do what we can, where we can. One of those things, two of them, all of them...whatever. Just don't stay stagnant. Bonaventura has reached the end here.
Having said ALLLL that....planning is the key to everything. So if keepong Bonaventura = more funds available for other key positions....then I would understand. We can't have everything, so sometimes we have to pick and choose.
1) keep Bona and do not get another ACM.
-Keeps us stagnant.
2) release Bona and sign an ACM that can rival Hakan for his spot.
-Raises the overall quality of the squad and it sets us up for options in the future. One example, just an example of this, is the ability to sell Hakan if great offers come (or if he simply just wants to go) a year from now and we would already have a ready player here. We wouldn't be starting from zero again because now we lost oir starter and Bonaventura is more or less finished.
The key to NEVER slowing down and to constantly move forward and improve, is JUST THAT. MOVE FORWARD. One of the reasons we went downhill was that we kept signing (or just simply retained and offerered new contracts to) back up quality players. Once our starters got old/left, we had no plan to move forward. There was zero continuity. We didn't think of tomorrow. So we started from zero.
Keeping Bonaventura here doesn't improve us. It keeps us stagnant. Stale. We need to improve. In any way we can. That can be
1) improve starters
2) improve bench
3) even if not immediate improvement, at least get younger so that there is a higher ceiling and possibility of improvement in the future
I'm not saying to do all 3. But do what we can, where we can. One of those things, two of them, all of them...whatever. Just don't stay stagnant. Bonaventura has reached the end here.
Having said ALLLL that....planning is the key to everything. So if keepong Bonaventura = more funds available for other key positions....then I would understand. We can't have everything, so sometimes we have to pick and choose.