Livinginhope

The TV rights cash, gate receipts and marketing revenue pouring in; our best player Bradley Johnson sold for £7m and not much paid out in transfer signings. So that excess comes into the club and probably gets paid to the shareholders - that I do not know but it is the lack of investment in a PL level team that I am critical of. If you want to share in the big spoils, you have to spend some cash and we did not.

p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; } given what has happened in the last 3 seasons, it is clear that something other than manager or player issues within the NCFC organisation was not working well; we the fans are stakeholders too and I for one would appreciate some honesty and transparency. Everybody now acknowledges that the transfer dealings are perhaps the most significant area where our efforts foundered. This is an area that has traditionally been cloaked in secrecy and whilst negotiations are ongoing, one can understand why but now that the wheels have fallen off our wagon, a light needs to be shone upon this area of NCFC. The role of the CEO: symptoms of a parsimonious approach are not hard to find. The team was clearly treated more as a cash-cow than a sporting endeavour and we have now seen the consequence. Do we need to limit the CEO to the role that is performed by such an office in other companies? Perhaps a better structure is required: let the CEO control the finances and house-keeping but no more and let us have a director or directors of football who oversee the footballing side of the club and particularly any transfer dealings.

Agreed: if we had the German national managemant team we would be above Leicester now with the same squad. It really seems as if our midfield is now very poor so although other departments look bad, they might not if we had players in the middle who can help defend and get up with the attack. This process started with the sale of Bradley Johnson but there are other inexplicable decisions taken each week. Why is Brady playing at full-back when he cannot defend very well but is excellent in any attacking role? Are Oleson and Wisdom still injured, as otherwise they clearly should be in or do we always have to move the team around in order to find a place for RM?