The bloke says the transfer committee will remain.
Ridiculous. How much more proof do they need that it doesn't work?
What do Gordon and Ayre know about the footballing side of player selection? Then there's the stats guy. You can't see how a player could fit the requirements or be well suited by looking at stats alone.
Going on stats, a player may look good playing in one team that plays a completely different way to us. Conversely his stats could be poor as he's not suited to or played out of position for his current team, but would suit us perfectly.
Fallows and Hunter wouldn't know the right kind of player if their job depended on it. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to as they're still in jobs.
We need a new chief scout, assistant chief scout, a better network of scouts and at every level and age group throughout the club. Then there's the academy to sort out in terms of coaching staff, as well as scouts as mentioned above.
Gordon and Ayre's input should be purely on the finance side. Whether we can afford a player and whether the selling club's valuation is reasonable. Even then, I doubt their capabilities on the second point.
With the amount of work required at the club, I'd have no problem if the new manager had some assistance in implementing all the changes and doing the recruitment needed. That could be done by a DoF type appointment - leaves the manager to sort out the first team, and concentrate on coaching etc. Whilst the manager, together with input (though no ultimate decision making power, or not at a level that vetoes the manager in any way) from the DoF, decides what needs changing. He wouldn't be tied up implementing it all.
Doing 'everything' as a manager used to do is far too much in modern football. Even Ferguson stated that if he'd come to the Mancs in the present, he wouldn't have been able to do everything he had back in the 80s.
Everything would be ultimately decided by the manager, but the implementation carried out by a DoF figure.
It might even leave the manager free enough to watch a few of the targets recommended by the scouts for himself, rather than relying on reports, stats and DVDs etc. Likewise take in more academy matches and see for himself again who's who and who's a possibility for promotion to the first team squad for himself, not just on the word of the academy staff.
Ultimately the manager is responsible for everything on the footballing side, therefore he needs final say, as it's only him that appears to pay with his job if decisions taken prove to be wrong. Full accountability and no shifting of blame around.
