Rovers’ recruitment has been so crucial

Adam VirgoBRIGHTON LEGEND AND TV PUNDIT

FOREST Green Rovers’ promotion to League One proves –a bit perversely – that money isn’t everything.What really matters is recruitment. When they were a National League team, Forest Green had a ton of money at their disposal.Dale Vince, the owner, is worth around £100m.But they consistently signed the wrong players. It was big names on ridiculous wages and it just didn’t work. Year after year, they failed to win promotion.It was only when Mark Cooper arrived in 2016 that a coherent recruitment strategy...

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