Quote Originally Posted by LA Bluebird View Post
Does every manager/coach sign players primarily from dodgy agents they have a long standing relationship with, even to the point of having their kids collecting a paycheck from the club?

I'm no fan of Vincent Tan, quite the opposite, but you can understand maybe why he's a little reluctant to put a football man in charge when the last time he did exactly that the football man pissed the entire Premiership kitty and parachute payment up the wall on utter dross and there's more than a few questions about whether it was all above board. We can't really make the argument both ways.
To a point you can understand his caution but any organisation worth it's salt doesn't abdicate accountability and give total autonomy especially one who has an outright owner - surely there are checks and balances in play to ensure things were done appropriately - the problem may have been no-one had football knowledge to challenge or counter Warnock - a little like an NHS surgeon having a debate about buying new life saving equipment with a hospital administrator - only one winner I would suspect

There is a middle ground that doesn't give total control to a football man or a cheap inexperienced option such as riza Hudson etc ( I would argue the catalogue of sacked managers isn't cheap as we must have been paying up contracts for 4 or 5 of them at the same time the rate we went through them - multiple people being paid for one person to do the job)

Which ever way you cut it there has been piss poor decision making for a long time and the only people ousted have been managers - they need to look higher up otherwise the pattern will continue as the hierarchy seems to excruciating slow learners