There's a few of us one here who haven't and long for the day when once again we had a scout or scouts who could actually pick a player.
The thing is Ed, we've made these points over and over on here since Henry, Werner et al arrived, and still nothing changes. We are so lacking in so much infastructure and expertise in too many areas.
Where's the football knowledge in the boardroom? The scouting at every age group from 1st team downwards is failing to find the players that other clubs manage to. Our transfer negotiations are a joke. The media handling and PR is non-existant. Likewise our influence within the FA's corriders of power, and we simply have no-one who knows how to handle the politics side of football.
Henry and Werner are baseball people, brought up with the game and not only have a knowledge of it there's the advantage for the Redsoxs of them having an emotional attachment as well as a business one.
With us, there's nothing approaching that. I'm not sure how far they'd go to 'really' learn about all aspects of football. If they can't summon up the enthusiasm to immerse themselves like they do with baseball, then they need to appoint a board and a CEO and a management structure to do it instead.
Ian Ayre is third division, on a good day. If they invested in the management side then all the money going through the club could bring a far greater reward than it is doing as we would be so much smarter about how we did everything. We would give off an impression of a well run ship, strong, efficient, respected, but we're not and we don't.
Do Henry and Co see it yet, will they ever or have they decided to 'try' to be successful on the cheap. Afterall, we're not a 'franchise' in their beloved baseball.
This is not a whinge about transfer 'spending' but rather a lack of 'investment' in the whole club structure that is required for a club to stand the chance of ultimately being successful.
I agree 100%
The crazy thing is that the appointment of Rodgers is a sound one if there's a DoF. He doesn't work out,
1 season is lost, but the club continues and the decisions have been taken with a strong eye on how they
affect the future of the club hence signing Allen, Dempsey and loaning Carroll are properly scrutinised, but
more importantly there's a firewall in place to protect LFC.
It's absolute madness, imo, when a guy is stepping up to the challenge of coaching a top club and then
additionally insists on and is given carte blanche to oversee all these other really important responsibilities
that require serious decision-making experience at the highest level.
What really annoys me though is rather than hearing announcements about appointments of important
people to senior positions this Summer from the FFSG (

) we've been treated to a serious of glib one-liners
and self-eulogising statements from the guy from Swansea FC.
Now we're supposed to enter the new season, full of blind-faith and if it doesn't work out be patient.

I'm rational (sometimes

) and reasonable enough to make the argument that:
a) There's no guarantee (obviously because the coach has no winning pedigree to speak of)
that it will work out.
b) Surely if it doesn't work out, we're in a worse position to that in which we started because all the
important decisions have been tainted by the guy who hasn't worked out.
FFS
