Masters and Puppets

leslad · November 1, 2017

davek said:
It's amazing how many are still hanging on to the notion that someone other than the manager of a football club who has had £200M to spend since arriving here is responsible for this mess.

He planted that seed of doubt in the minds of supporters right throughout his time here that he had "nothing to do with transfers".

It was nonsense. He's an utter chancer who took no responsibility for anything while he was here. He was the anti-leader. Someone who demanded a lot of spending but somehow he didn't ask for anyone in particular, just some vague pointing in the direction of a player in a position we needed...which were apparently all #10s.

This crisis we're in: he owns that. that;s his doing. There';s plenty to round on the owner for but buying a load of dodgy players isn't one of them, and neither is telling £200M worth of talent to hoof the ball down field in training for the last two weeks he was here....or going on another holiday in the international break.

There's no ambiguity here. Koeman is the one who clearly carries the can for this calamity.

I agree with you about koeman. The players koeman wanted were terrible choices. He carelessly threw money away and also alienated and lost some of our own players in the process of doing that, as well as appeared to take very little responsibility for the business the club did. So he is accountable.

I guess what I was trying to suggest here though was that, despite koemans critical errors in the transfer market, Moshiri Bill and Steve Walsh must have all signed off on the deals too, despite any reservations they might have had, but also knew that ultimately they wouldn't be held accountable like koeman would. So, though koeman is directly responsible and it's his mistakes largely that are costing us, in my opinion the others are indirectly responsible too because they ultimately sanctioned the transfers and failed to challenge koeman until after the damage had been done.