So is our problem our scouts

We said this before the season too, it didn't happen.

 

We have to accept this is correct. We passed, financially, on Gomis, Payet, Ayew, Austin. Imagine that front four against Sheff Weds? We'd be looking at a repeat of SBR's first match against the owls!!!!

I read an amusing comment from one of the better journo's that Charnley is referred to as "Little Mike" at SJP, and not in an affectionate way. He's a huge problem, but his employer who is well aware of what is going on is ultimately culpable. Ashley needs to wake up and realise this cannot work; he has to sack Charnley, bin off his stupid football board and start from scratch and just stand the fck away from the football club, it's our only chance at salvation. His involvement is poisonous, his choice of staff dreadful; he has to be big enough to admit that whilst he understands how to make a shop selling fire-hazards and chinese child-labour produce successful, but in football he hasn't a clue. He needs to give everything, all control, to someone who understands the game as an MD and just let the rest happen.

 

This.

Ashley needs to appoint someone responsible for the day to day running of the club and nothing more. A proper football manager should be put in charge of everything football related and should be responsible for choosing the players to buy. The players that we have decided not to sell because of something as ridiculous as their age or the fact they perhaps wanted an extra 10K p/week is frightening. You get what you pay for in football.