The owners always set the tone, the culture of the whole place has to stem from them. If they are distant and lacking any footballing strategy that will filter down. American owners often struggle with the ironically more right-wing mindset of European sports (no high draft pick if you’re crap...) but in the Glazers’ case they own a perennially unsuccessful NFL franchise as well!thebillfella wrote: ↑02 May 2019, 08:47 But surely that's the one thing ex players like Rio do know? The main problem here is not knowing how he would perform in the role as no experience to date but then again Ajax had the same thing with van Der Saar and Overmars.
Other than pulling money out of the club I'm not really sure how much input the Glaziers have tbh. Woodward still the main problem for me as he doesn't know what he is doing when it comes to football decisions. It's been 4 months since Mourinho was fired and a DoF was mooted yet still no appointment made and one now would be too late to influence the summer transfer window. Yet more incompetence from the Equaliser and further justification that he needs to be distanced from these decisions asap.
Ajax is currently showing us how it should be done - anyone that has s role making football decisions has to be an ex footballer and preferably one that played for the club and totally understands the club philosophy.
Good appointments below them can make a difference, but good people are less likely to come to somewhere that seems to be stagnating or declining. And surely there must be a breaking point where the finances go pear shaped due to failures on the pitch? When City shirts start to outsell them in the Far East etc...
