Why? How many reasons would you like my friend.
Financial we don’t seem to ever compete in Div one.
Then we sack the manager and the cycle starts again and so on.
I hope you understand where I am coming from with this.
Speaking to some Exeter fans on Saturday they now feel ready and stable with there club in the right place to go up and enjoy Div one. We are nowhere ready for the step up now in my opinion on or off the pitch currently.
Anyway back to the summer transfer window
The trouble with most lower league clubs is come the end of the season half your squad is out of contract, with the other half out the year after. This means it’s very difficult to stop players who have had great seasons getting picked off. You could offer lots of long contracts but that also brings problems with the possibility of large amounts of budget taken up by players who haven’t lived up to expectations and aren’t good enough but can’t be moved on.
Most teams are only as good as their last few transfer windows and the trouble we’ve had with our last couple of promotions is that we’ve followed it up with some shocking transfers, the strikers we’d signed last time in league one have proved not good enough for league 2 this year. Exeter can think they are as ready as they like but should they lose a few top performers and have a shocking window they are coming back down, while on the other hand if we went up and had a good summer window there is no reason we can’t stay up.