Quote Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa View Post
Bothroyd played for England. A certain A Ramsey turned out OK. Ledley, Chopra, Koumas, McCormack, Johnson, Loovens, Reid, etc. The issue is that our squad was built with loads of stalwarts like Gunnar, Whitts, Ralls, Morrison etc who were top players at this level so they stayed and we never replaced them. Now we are left with the dregs though and our recruitment and coaching has been utterly abysmal.
We are talking absolutely ages ago for the group you listed and the more recent ones couldn't sustain us in the prem - the point I am making is this isn't all buluts doing this has been our journey for several years now hence why we have had so many managers due to poor decision making by the club and not just the carousel of managers we have had

It appears to me that no lessons have been learned so football executives with no football background have not improved us at all