I don't want to say "I told you so" but...
According to Clancy
"the board believed that it should back the judgement of former manager Nigel Worthington and did so, sanctioning player wages during 2005/6 which were only marginally lower than during our year in the Premier League".
As I may have said more than once - what more evidence do the board need that this policy
"We allocate the amount to be spent by the manager as he sees fit. Whether he chooses to spend it on one or six players, on free transfers or wages or loans is really down to his judgment. It is not the board's place to tell the manager who to buy and we would never dream of doing that."
is fatally flawed?
Granty is streets ahead of his predecessor as a manager but never again should the club jeopardise its future by failing to at least question the judgement of an ex-footballer.
posted by The King of Prussia @ 1:33 AM
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Take your point, but again, show me a manager who's prepared to be dictated to by his board over who he can and can't sign. That's not to say they shouldn't be in charge of SANCTIONING signings - of course they should - but most managers would walk away if they didn't have full autonomy, wouldn't they?
That said though, when Delia says things like she knows "nothing about football", it really worries me. Where are the advisers on the board who really know the game? Because if they're not there, we inevitably gamble everything on the judgement of the manager: which might well be horribly flawed.
Well if Worthington had walked away because hfull autonomy was removed from him we'd be £600,000 better off today.
Realistically given the vast sums involved it seems not unreasonable that the board should at least question the manager's decisions before sanctioning them - something which Doncaster says this board do not do.
Two examples: the decision to release Crow. Worthington must have had his reasons - I think the board should have asked what they were. Or the signings of Jarrett and Hughes. Worthington himself said, when justifying the decision to play "Makalele" in midfield, that Hughes and Jarrett could not play in the same team. Would the board have sanctioned the signing of Hughes had they been aware of that?
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