e.g. I found the pictures in early summer of Martinez walking around a Florida street with our owner, during negotiations, as somewhat bizarre. What could yanks, who know nothing about football, possibly be asking a mid-table/relation fighting Spanish manager. What pertinent questioning could he do. Bizarre.
Firstly that he puts himself in a position to be photo publicly whilst carrying out negotiations for a prime employee and that it created the impression that he was at the heart of the negotiations, when as Dude says, how can he be?
Secondly, he's only capable of a 'listening brief' in that he can judge a potential manager's nature, air of confidence, body language, all those sort of things, but he can't conduct the negotiations, as what does he use as a yardstick to judge Martinez's answers against?
If they're still there, I can't see the Glazer clan conducting the negotiations and talks with Taggart's replacement, that will be Gill's brief and so it should he be. He's the CEO, he has to appoint the main football man as it's him who will need to work with the new manager and he who has to run the organisation that the manager plays such a massive part in shaping.