Sometime last year I heard an interview on TalkShite with Simon Jordan who spoke at length on the dangers of clubs with foreign owners with no football expertise at boardroom/senior level. He suggested that such clubs might be subject to exploitation by a wily, experienced manager. He didn’t mention any names but the inference was a certain English club who were and still are under achieving. He was making the case for a trusted Director of Football. What he said, unusually for that station, made a lot of sense.