like we have said a million times, Tes.......the problem is at the top.
Dude, how does it change? It's like an alcoholic denying he's got a problem, nothing can change until he does.
Well nothing will change until Henry and Werner admit to what the problem is and install a group of people to totally run the club. The Glazers made sure that the same team at the top remained in place after they took over.
We need football people on the board, to advise the business brains on the subject matter that they've chosen to build a business on. A CEO, with knowledge, influence and negotiating skills.
It's hard to imagine how they could even go about selecting a manager. It's an amateur mistake to be impressed with someone do well after one season in the PL. Being impressed is fine and to a degree, understandable, but look beyond the surface and what do you find?
Maybe they thought, having seen Hodgson and Dalglish that experience was not the way to go, but not all experienced managers are like Roy, and most chairmen wouldn't touch a bloke who's been out of football for a decade or more, no matter how successful he'd been previously. Those two are probably the worse examples of an experienced manager you could possibly use and aren't representative of the likes of Rafa, Van Gaal, Ancellotti etc.
As I've often said a clued up CEO would have advised them to sit tight last Summer and wait for the inevitable to happen at Chelsea.
Why aren't the likes of Dein or Parry non-executive directors, on the board in an advisory position?
They know they know nothing of football and seem little bothered about immersing themselves in it to try and learn as quickly as possible, so it just exasperates me so much that they haven't brought in the required personnel to make their lack of knowledge a non-factor. It all starts with football, not money. The business aspect stems from the football, it's fueled and fed by the football, yet the board and senior administration simply doesn't reflect the fact that the business they are in is football.