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The days of the all powerful manager running everything about the club like Fergie did is and has been dying for a while. We’re nowhere near the days of Miguel De Souza signing for “the fat man in a blue suit” and the sound of a gavel hitting the table.

I’m not sure I am wholly comfortable with it myself, but when you have multiple Billionaires owning clubs - ourselves included - can you really blame them for wanting their people involved heavily in transfer decisions reaching into the millions (or billions at the top of the game) rather than let a manager (who could be gone after 2 months of bad results) spend your own personal money without tight controls?

Because make no mistake - The players we have signed haven’t been signed with Wycombe Wanderers’ money. It’s ML’s money.

Footballs changed for better and worse.

WWFC has changed for better and worse.

Sam Grace's barmy army 💪

It’s should also be pointed out, that if you are in a position where you DID have that level of control (like I suspect GA and MB had just because of the relatively streamlined way we had to run things) and it’s then taken away from you, it’s completely understandable to feel slighted, or not trusted, or having your hands tied by your new bosses.

Still doesn’t mean you should change the entire approach you want to implement if one person doesn’t like it.

I’m sure ML would act if Dan Rice started to want to run things completely differently to ML and the rest of the leaderships vision.

This is a bit old fashioned. Schumacher at Stoke had a head of recruitment and a director of football, plymouth had both aswell. I would guess, that the majority of clubs have head of recruitment and many directors of football or to that effect.

The days of managers just signing players are long gone, They will be involved, and maybe get a veto, but clubs want what's best overall not just for a manager.

Bolton selling Dion Charles to Huddersfield this week surely discredits the suggestion that they don't want to sell Morley to us because we're a rival? I'd suggest that either the ownership wanted someone else (Westergaard) all along or the price they've quoted is more than we're willing to pay.

Been chatting to a Viborg fan about Magnus, he had this to say:

He’s a great box to box, really psychical and great tackling, he is also good on attack, most of his goals has been well placed shots outside the box.

I think it's a sad state of affairs that Blooms has gone, a needless departure. He deserved the respect and the responsibility to choose his own players.

Yeah, Rice could have made suggestions, but as for one set of folk recruiting and another set having to pick a team from the hand they have been dealt just doesn't seem right to me.

I hope the two new Danes do well and I hope we get a good new manager. But for the life of me, I can't see any self-respecting manager being happy to put their reputation on the line when they are not doing the recruiting.

Schumacher would be a great choice, not sure if he will want to risk his proven track record if he is not going to be given full autonomy.

I hope all ends well but at the moment, feeling pretty apprehensive about the future.

Nobby did all the graft though.

I think loan contracts have this specified individually, player joins on loan until X date with an option to recall between a and b, don't think it applies to all players en masse