I can never get my head around why after getting the academy set up the scouting and recruitment was not as well. It must be a concious decision by SL not to do it. Is it because he is still desperate to be involved? It makes zero business sense especially with his mantra about the club being self sustainable.
Player after player has been signed. How much research was done on Nagy, Palmer etc etc. I think too often decent players have been signed with no thought on how they fit in the team or intergrate with the club. You would not recruit like this for any business unless you were desperate, or had another agenda. As a result we are back to having champagne lifestyle on a lemomade budget again. Under SOD and DM part of their remit was to cut the playing budget iirc? Pearson seems to have the same.
We have lots of players who are on good wages that aren't good enough and no one else wants. Piss poor recruitment and we have been here before many times. How can someone like SL (who is an astute businessman) fail to see it? In the grand scheme if things how much would it cost to set up a decent scouting network, DoF and associated systems, analysts etc?